I suppose claiming ESP is real is like claiming cold fusion is real. You better have some damn good proof because there have been a lot of shoddy claims that didn't hold up in practice. So has this been replicated by outsiders based on his paper?
I personally am extremely skeptical. If we did discover something like ESP is possible, it would be the biggest discovery so far this century. It would open up possible consideration of religion, and all those people who claim to astral travel, could any of that stuff be real? It would be cool and scary. But naw, it's got to be bullshit :-)
You are wrong about them being limited to right at the border. There are many border patrol stops way north of the border, south of Tucson, all areas around Tucson. These are at the least dozens of miles from the border.
Man, I sure loved _Heavy_Metal_ when I was a teenager. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, fed all my nerdy escapist fantasies. And you know that first scene, when the scientist comes out of the space shuttle in a corvette and flys down to the ground? That's what I wanted to be when I grew up.
You are arguing that we should just hire anyone regardless of tech skills if they can carry on a conversation? It takes years to do learn how to do actual complicated programming. I think we need to screen for both tech skills and soft/people skills. I always strive to do both in my interviews.
I strongly disagree with your statement. Many people in India and China would be happy to have cleaner skies. Especially in China, they know that they have too many polluting factories, and their economy has gotten to the point that they can afford to have treatment of the exhaust - but many companies pay off regulators as that is cheaper than treating their waste products.
Some of the very poorest of the poor would be more open to dirty industry so they can have a more affluent lifestyle, but it is not something they all want. And in the US, we didn't have people willingly trading off more pollution for better jobs - there just wasn't an easy way to stop the polluters.
Mel Brooks is probably our greatest American comedy director and writer, at least in the second half of the 20th century he's in the top handful. Who comes to mind, Blake Edwards?
Wow, there's an amazing amount of down voting in this article. Is that because people hate tesla? I don't get it. I once bought an suv. It had a problem soon after I bought it and got service for a while and i didn't have a car. It was frustrating. It wasn't a tesla by the way :-) They didn't offer to give me a loaner during that time, but I was pretty young and not aware that was a normal expectation. Eventually my car was repaired, but I was out several weeks of use of that car.
Moral of this boring story - things can break. The car company won't just give you a new one. They will try to fix your old car. Tesla sells things, and they can't just give you a new one when it breaks.
What libertine thing are you referring to? Equal rights for gay people, women making the same wages as men for equivalent work? I'm from a southern state, and I hear a lot of grousing about uppity women and black folks (and people don't use words as nice as that). They want revenge. That's the kind of thing that I see people complaining about liberals. And that kind of behavior is ugly and unneeded. I can think of things that appear as silly to me, like safe spaces, trigger warnings, but I've never encountered such things in real life.
I didn't think the article was so scathing. It was very inside baseball from my software engineer basis, hard to understand what he was getting at. On the other hand, the article about axovant (the $5mil cast off drug they spun into a 1.x billion dollar company and it apparently doesn't work), that article was persuasive that I should short this. How come the axovant stock hasn't collapsed.
You can opt out of them storing data about you. Even if you are the only car at a supercharger, it slows down the rate as your battery fills to protect it. It charges as max power (120kwh) when your battery is pretty low. However, the net effect is vastly faster than all other battery charging systems. Leafs lose range quickly if you charge them with chademo a lot, because they never cool the battery down to keep it from overheating during charging.
One big reason is people want their original battery back after swapping. We have all been trained that we are taking care of our batteries on phones or AA at home. The tesla should take care of batteries and they are basically swappable without issue. But this isn't how anyone thinks of their battery.
It's still free if you bought yours. They will keep this lifetime free thing going if you buy before January 15th. Only 2 more days! Mine is free forever. They just keep adding cool stuff making me wanting to buy a new one.
This post is misleading or just wrong. Perhaps the author is stuck on the word "predicting" as in I figured out soon there will be an accident using magical AI techniques.
As the author says, the tesla saw 2 cars (things) in front of it, the one farther ahead rapidly slowing down, the one directly ahead was very likely to need to slow down to avoid a crash, so the tesla slowed down. I don't understand the issue using a word like 'prediction', but it did slow down ahead of time, because it noted the situation and computed a likely future state.
Computer searching has already removed the need for the huge historical cases where a large group of lawyers and pa's would search through old emails and docs to see if they could find something about a big case. Now that's generally done by computer searching. You can call that AI if you have a need to, but the trend is clear - white color work that is easily automated will become more efficient, leading to fewer workers in general.
I've never understood why more people don't ask for the interesting, fun, challenging stuff. I've always done that, and been glad I did.