The people who are going to be responsible parents look at their lives, their jobs, their finances and they thoughtfully consider whether or not they can afford to have children, and whether or not they can provide that child a good life.
On the other hand, all too many people 'accidently' have kids and don't seem to care about the consequences because they know that the social services safety net is there for them. And at the extreme end of the spectrum, you have mothers living in poverty who are literally using additional children as a way to 'earn' more income in the form of welfare payments. Thankfully, those situations are the exception to the rule, but they do happen.
I get multiple recruiters a month contacting me with decent job offers that align with my skill set. If I were looking to change companies and do the same thing, it would be a great resource.
I am only passively looking at this point though. And I am only interested in moving up, not laterally.
In the middle to late stages of my career with 20 years of experience. It might be different for people who are just getting started.
Unlike the author of the article, I do not just accept anyone who wants to connect. I only accept connection requests from people I have done business with, or want to do business with. I'd say a good 85%+ of the time, I am the one initiating the connection request. I deny most connection requests because they tend to come from people overseas who I do not know and will likely never meet.
I drive for Lyft from time to time. What surprised me is how many people use ride sharing to get to and from work. They are usually short trips that end up costing them ~$20-30 per day. I did some quick back of the napkin math, and spending ~$400 a month for transportation to and from work is a lot less than my car payment + insurance + gas + repairs.
At that point, I started extrapolating. If one person is spending $400, then three people are spending $1200 or four people are spending $1600. Given that kind of capital, I could see enterprising friends all pitching in to purchase an autonomous vehicle. Where it really starts making sense is when you can send the vehicle out to do ride share while you are working.
The article even mentions that the initial market for those vehicles is businesses. I can easily imagine a business of ride sharing with AVs. That's the low hanging fruit right there.
Granted, most people do more than just go to and from work with their cars. But again, what really surprised me was how many people in college and their mid-20s have no interest in owning a car. For some, it's a luxury that they cannot afford on top of student loans and all the other costs of starting up a life after moving out of their parent's house. For others, they just have no desire to own a car. They see it as an unnecessary expense.
The OP is asking for a top notch project team who only needs someone to help with implementation. I've been doing IT for 20 years at this point and my experience has been that well scoped, managed and executed projects are the exception to the rule. More often than not there is at least some, if not major amounts of "making it up as we go" taking place.
Any team that is competent enough to lay the groundwork already has people lined up to do the implementation.
Descent was the first game I played that made me nauseous / motion sick. It was the combination of those tight quarters and truly unrestricted 3D movement.
I think that's the point of this $27,000 option. They are testing the waters to see how many extremely stupid people are still out there and interested in throwing money down the SC hole.
I think it is a great strategy. It takes some real intelligence and drive to accumulate $27,000 in play money that you can spend frivolously on a "product" that does not have any real world value and does not even exist in finished form yet.
If they can scam someone like that out of that much money, I would say that is a pretty good litmus test as to how many suckers are out there in the general population.
You beat me to it. I have a really hard time feeling sorry for Yelp here.
Their business model is more or less built around high pressure sales techniques that border on extortion. Unless you pay them, good reviews will disappear and bad reviews will multiply. "You don't like the bad reviews? No problem. Just subscribe to our service, and we will help you with those."
You left out a very important variable in your equation. A single person can only be in one place at one time. A facial recognition system is everywhere.
For me, I think that there needs to be a limit on the extent of the investigation. To use the example from Washington County, the system was used to identify a thief. That is obviously a good outcome.
How many people who were not the thief, were investigated?
If during that investigation the police discovered one of those other people doing something illegal, would they then attempt to apprehend and charge that person as well?
Given the question above, it quickly becomes a slippery slope. Law enforcement effectively gets a pass to investigate EVERYONE. They get a free pass to say, "Although I was looking for Person A, I also observed Person B committing a felony, Person C committing a misdemeanor, and Person D doing something suspicious that might have been a National Security concern, so we referred them to DHS."
This is extremely wide spread. I think it is Google that is doing it.
It happened to my wife and I. We made one random mention of buying something for the house. The next time she logged into Amazon, she saw an advertisement for what we were talking about.
I drive for Lyft on the weekend and I have had multiple riders bring this up. I had one couple this weekend that mentioned it happened to them with Hulu, multiple times. They noticed that it takes at least 7 days for Hulu to "catch up" with what they were talking about. Their example was that they were having a party and the TV was on. They were talking about wanting to move, and someone randomly mentioned New Orleans. A single mention, everyone kind of laughed about it and moved onto the next subject. The next week, Hulu started displaying advertisements for New Orleans.
What I found interesting is that they said Hulu is not at all subtle about it. They will just spam the same "targeted" ad over and over again. Like a switch gets flipped. It goes from never having an ad about whatever key word was hit on, to seeing it extremely frequently.
I would be interested if anyone else with Hulu has had similar experiences. Anyone?
It is not clear whether or not those accounts are the free accounts, or if they are paid for.
I switched from Drive to Dropbox a while ago. I wasn't cool with having a fair amount of important data locked up in a 'free' solution that could be turned off at any time. I'd rather pay the couple of dollars a month for Dropbox.
Gee, does that surprise you? They are being investigated by the FTC and who only knows how many private practice lawyers looking for a pay day on this one.
It would be stupid for him to apologize or offer any sort of statement that could be construed as culpability.
Am I the only person who thinks that this is going to be used by kids wanting to make games about shooting up their schools, or even worse, terrorists planning attacks in major urban centers?
The Army already has their own game, so it's not exactly far fetched fiction at this point.
He may be an idiot but looking at this from a SIGINT point of view I have to ask myself: Why the hell did they arrest the guy? If they had a lick of sense they'd have flipped him, spiked the phones with some innovative spyware...
IANAL, but my suspicion is that there are too many legal complexities involved in doing that. They would be tainting the evidence or something similar.
Just look at all of the blow back over the Playpen operation and the spyware that was used there.
That's the difference between law enforcement and the military. With law enforcement, there has to be some chance, however minute, that the actions taken are being done to eventually prosecute someone.
Making Linux distros available is all about Azure. MS wants people to use their cloud platform, and they have acknowledged that there are more than Windows Servers on the internet.
If you look at all of their current marketing materials, they are taking the Big Tent approach to IaaS.
You can run the numbers for yourself if you want. "Work Miles" are miles with passengers in the car. "Total Miles" are miles that I drove that day with the app turned on.
Here is the spreadsheet that I sent to my tax guy for 2017
One thing worth noting is that I got all of my "Tax Set Aside" back. I had been setting aside 50% of what I earned for taxes because Lyft 1099s the drivers and does not take any taxes out.
YMMV - I'm at about a ~30% tax rate from my primary job (earning over $150K / year) so that likely played into how much of the Lyft earnings I got to keep.
Thanks for the tip. I will have to ask my CPA about that next year. I am with State Farm and they just had to attach a rider to my regular policy. As long as 50% of the miles that I put on my car are related to Lyft, I do not need a separate commercial policy. The rider was pretty inexpensive, ~$10-15 / mo IIRC.
That $75-100 is raw income. They 1099 the drivers. I was setting aside 50% for taxes out of an abundance of caution. I got all of it back, but I am not certain on what the breakdown was. I have a regular job as well, and I have a CPA who does my taxes.
In the last two months I averaged about 675 miles per month. I usually only drive on Friday and Saturday nights. Of those miles, ~45% of them are 'work' miles with customers in the car. The rest are just me driving around.
I usually keep driving. I drive for fun, not because I am trying to optimize my payout. I will choose a destination, like a place to eat dinner. Then I will drive there and get whatever rides I can along the way.
My perception is that I get more passengers when I am driving. That is purely subjective though. I do not have any metrics. The perception of time is likely different when I am parked and reading a book, versus driving around.
I drive for Lyft sometimes, but the pay is similar. I earn anywhere between $8 and $20 an hour. Mostly it averages in the $10-12 range. (In the Portland, Oregon area.) I have only been doing it for a few months. I have talked to some guys who were doing it when ride sharing first came to the region, and they said that they were making around $800 a night on the weekends. I pull around $200 for ~6-8 hours on Saturday. Any other night I am lucky to get between $75-100.
I do not understand how people can try to make a living doing it.
I do it for a few reasons. I like to drive and talk to people. It gets me out into the real world and off of the computer. I also appreciate that I can write off car maintenance, tires and things like that. I would also be able to write off my cell phone, but my main job already pays for that.
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"My kid is totally not addicted to video games. Look, he plays LOTS of them!"
The people who are going to be responsible parents look at their lives, their jobs, their finances and they thoughtfully consider whether or not they can afford to have children, and whether or not they can provide that child a good life.
On the other hand, all too many people 'accidently' have kids and don't seem to care about the consequences because they know that the social services safety net is there for them. And at the extreme end of the spectrum, you have mothers living in poverty who are literally using additional children as a way to 'earn' more income in the form of welfare payments. Thankfully, those situations are the exception to the rule, but they do happen.
I get multiple recruiters a month contacting me with decent job offers that align with my skill set. If I were looking to change companies and do the same thing, it would be a great resource.
I am only passively looking at this point though. And I am only interested in moving up, not laterally.
In the middle to late stages of my career with 20 years of experience. It might be different for people who are just getting started.
Unlike the author of the article, I do not just accept anyone who wants to connect. I only accept connection requests from people I have done business with, or want to do business with. I'd say a good 85%+ of the time, I am the one initiating the connection request. I deny most connection requests because they tend to come from people overseas who I do not know and will likely never meet.
I drive for Lyft from time to time. What surprised me is how many people use ride sharing to get to and from work. They are usually short trips that end up costing them ~$20-30 per day. I did some quick back of the napkin math, and spending ~$400 a month for transportation to and from work is a lot less than my car payment + insurance + gas + repairs.
At that point, I started extrapolating. If one person is spending $400, then three people are spending $1200 or four people are spending $1600. Given that kind of capital, I could see enterprising friends all pitching in to purchase an autonomous vehicle. Where it really starts making sense is when you can send the vehicle out to do ride share while you are working.
The article even mentions that the initial market for those vehicles is businesses. I can easily imagine a business of ride sharing with AVs. That's the low hanging fruit right there.
Granted, most people do more than just go to and from work with their cars. But again, what really surprised me was how many people in college and their mid-20s have no interest in owning a car. For some, it's a luxury that they cannot afford on top of student loans and all the other costs of starting up a life after moving out of their parent's house. For others, they just have no desire to own a car. They see it as an unnecessary expense.
The OP is asking for a top notch project team who only needs someone to help with implementation. I've been doing IT for 20 years at this point and my experience has been that well scoped, managed and executed projects are the exception to the rule. More often than not there is at least some, if not major amounts of "making it up as we go" taking place.
Any team that is competent enough to lay the groundwork already has people lined up to do the implementation.
Descent was the first game I played that made me nauseous / motion sick. It was the combination of those tight quarters and truly unrestricted 3D movement.
A VR version of Descent would be interesting...
I think that's the point of this $27,000 option. They are testing the waters to see how many extremely stupid people are still out there and interested in throwing money down the SC hole.
I think it is a great strategy. It takes some real intelligence and drive to accumulate $27,000 in play money that you can spend frivolously on a "product" that does not have any real world value and does not even exist in finished form yet.
If they can scam someone like that out of that much money, I would say that is a pretty good litmus test as to how many suckers are out there in the general population.
You beat me to it. I have a really hard time feeling sorry for Yelp here.
Their business model is more or less built around high pressure sales techniques that border on extortion. Unless you pay them, good reviews will disappear and bad reviews will multiply. "You don't like the bad reviews? No problem. Just subscribe to our service, and we will help you with those."
You left out a very important variable in your equation. A single person can only be in one place at one time. A facial recognition system is everywhere.
For me, I think that there needs to be a limit on the extent of the investigation. To use the example from Washington County, the system was used to identify a thief. That is obviously a good outcome.
How many people who were not the thief, were investigated?
If during that investigation the police discovered one of those other people doing something illegal, would they then attempt to apprehend and charge that person as well?
Given the question above, it quickly becomes a slippery slope. Law enforcement effectively gets a pass to investigate EVERYONE. They get a free pass to say, "Although I was looking for Person A, I also observed Person B committing a felony, Person C committing a misdemeanor, and Person D doing something suspicious that might have been a National Security concern, so we referred them to DHS."
This is extremely wide spread. I think it is Google that is doing it.
It happened to my wife and I. We made one random mention of buying something for the house. The next time she logged into Amazon, she saw an advertisement for what we were talking about.
I drive for Lyft on the weekend and I have had multiple riders bring this up. I had one couple this weekend that mentioned it happened to them with Hulu, multiple times. They noticed that it takes at least 7 days for Hulu to "catch up" with what they were talking about. Their example was that they were having a party and the TV was on. They were talking about wanting to move, and someone randomly mentioned New Orleans. A single mention, everyone kind of laughed about it and moved onto the next subject. The next week, Hulu started displaying advertisements for New Orleans.
What I found interesting is that they said Hulu is not at all subtle about it. They will just spam the same "targeted" ad over and over again. Like a switch gets flipped. It goes from never having an ad about whatever key word was hit on, to seeing it extremely frequently.
I would be interested if anyone else with Hulu has had similar experiences. Anyone?
At the same time, I'm meeting more women than ever who are into porn, both consumption and production.
I do live in Portland, Oregon though so my sample population is likely skewed from the 'norm' for America.
I have a bin full of 1TB USB 3.0 drives.
As naïve as this might sound, I have a lot more peace of mind in Dropbox. If I experience a drive failure, I lose what is on there. They have SANs.
TBH, I am saving up for a 4 drive Synology NAS. With 4TB @ RAID5 I will get 12TB of storage. That's more than enough for what I am backing up.
I'm not so worried about shadow bans of my spread sheets and family photos.
If they start banning VeraCrypt containers, then I've got a real problem.
It is not clear whether or not those accounts are the free accounts, or if they are paid for.
I switched from Drive to Dropbox a while ago. I wasn't cool with having a fair amount of important data locked up in a 'free' solution that could be turned off at any time. I'd rather pay the couple of dollars a month for Dropbox.
Gee, does that surprise you? They are being investigated by the FTC and who only knows how many private practice lawyers looking for a pay day on this one.
It would be stupid for him to apologize or offer any sort of statement that could be construed as culpability.
Am I the only person who thinks that this is going to be used by kids wanting to make games about shooting up their schools, or even worse, terrorists planning attacks in major urban centers?
The Army already has their own game, so it's not exactly far fetched fiction at this point.
https://www.americasarmy.com/
He may be an idiot but looking at this from a SIGINT point of view I have to ask myself: Why the hell did they arrest the guy? If they had a lick of sense they'd have flipped him, spiked the phones with some innovative spyware ...
IANAL, but my suspicion is that there are too many legal complexities involved in doing that. They would be tainting the evidence or something similar.
Just look at all of the blow back over the Playpen operation and the spyware that was used there.
That's the difference between law enforcement and the military. With law enforcement, there has to be some chance, however minute, that the actions taken are being done to eventually prosecute someone.
..shocked I tell..
Wait, no I'm not. This thing is the boondoggle of our generation and has been since the beginning.
If the legislature gave two shits about the citizens of California they would cut their losses and scrap the project. They don't and they won't.
Making Linux distros available is all about Azure. MS wants people to use their cloud platform, and they have acknowledged that there are more than Windows Servers on the internet.
If you look at all of their current marketing materials, they are taking the Big Tent approach to IaaS.
You can run the numbers for yourself if you want. "Work Miles" are miles with passengers in the car. "Total Miles" are miles that I drove that day with the app turned on.
Here is the spreadsheet that I sent to my tax guy for 2017
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uhw8...
One thing worth noting is that I got all of my "Tax Set Aside" back. I had been setting aside 50% of what I earned for taxes because Lyft 1099s the drivers and does not take any taxes out.
YMMV - I'm at about a ~30% tax rate from my primary job (earning over $150K / year) so that likely played into how much of the Lyft earnings I got to keep.
Thanks for the tip. I will have to ask my CPA about that next year. I am with State Farm and they just had to attach a rider to my regular policy. As long as 50% of the miles that I put on my car are related to Lyft, I do not need a separate commercial policy. The rider was pretty inexpensive, ~$10-15 / mo IIRC.
I have issues. Says the guy posting as AC trolling people on the Internet.
Right back atcha buddy.
That $75-100 is raw income. They 1099 the drivers. I was setting aside 50% for taxes out of an abundance of caution. I got all of it back, but I am not certain on what the breakdown was. I have a regular job as well, and I have a CPA who does my taxes.
In the last two months I averaged about 675 miles per month. I usually only drive on Friday and Saturday nights. Of those miles, ~45% of them are 'work' miles with customers in the car. The rest are just me driving around.
I usually keep driving. I drive for fun, not because I am trying to optimize my payout. I will choose a destination, like a place to eat dinner. Then I will drive there and get whatever rides I can along the way.
My perception is that I get more passengers when I am driving. That is purely subjective though. I do not have any metrics. The perception of time is likely different when I am parked and reading a book, versus driving around.
I drive for Lyft sometimes, but the pay is similar. I earn anywhere between $8 and $20 an hour. Mostly it averages in the $10-12 range. (In the Portland, Oregon area.) I have only been doing it for a few months. I have talked to some guys who were doing it when ride sharing first came to the region, and they said that they were making around $800 a night on the weekends. I pull around $200 for ~6-8 hours on Saturday. Any other night I am lucky to get between $75-100.
I do not understand how people can try to make a living doing it.
I do it for a few reasons. I like to drive and talk to people. It gets me out into the real world and off of the computer. I also appreciate that I can write off car maintenance, tires and things like that. I would also be able to write off my cell phone, but my main job already pays for that.