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Tesla owners are known to be willing put up with things other car owners aren't. I don't want to fool around with a touchscreen in traffic.

Not really, it's a very old observation. For example, Cicero observed that " whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves " And there are …

Glassdoor is only useful when there are a significant amount of negative reviews for an employer. It means that the employer is bad, so bad that they don't care enough to pay a fir…

Total health expenditures have skyrocketed[1] along with the amount of hospital administrators[2] over the last few decades. This particular hospital is unlikely to have escaped th…

The worst is the blog spam that reaches the top of Google's search results. I don't think it's a coincidence that those poor quality results are given precedence when they also hap…

Automated bureaucracy without a means for recourse is nightmare fuel.

Rich people can afford to insure and rebuild on disaster-prone, but otherwise highly desirable, property. I lived near a barrier island that would get hit with hurricanes each seas…

> For instance "requests" vs. "aiohttp". "asks" implements a requests-like interface over asyncio/trio.

Also, assume that states have access to root certificates.

You don't believe Democrats because they compromised with Republicans to get a bill passed? If you recall, Republicans used the filibuster in the Senate, which meant Democrats need…

> I do not want to write a "service" that has some "only run once and then discard" flag or whatever. Then just use cron.

Amazon is AliExpress with a domestic retailer's markup. At least with Walmart I know that when they stock something on their shelves, they care about liability and bad PR.

Very few problems are solved by simply ignoring them. General awareness of a problem is needed to mobilize political action. If the solution to the problem is political, awareness …

> Merely being aware of some tragedy occurring far away doesn’t do anything. The first step on the long road of change is acknowledging that a problem exists. Just because you can'…

AI is gradient descent?

For reference, 80% of antibiotics used in the US are used in agriculture [1]. Animals are fed antibiotics to prevent infection, but they’re also fed to animals as “growth promoters…

> Either they were sold a dream by a company making bogus claims, or they just don't give a shit about false postives in the slightest and they use it as justification to randomly …

Wait until you need to deploy to a platform that doesn’t have a precompiled version of a dependency uploaded to PIP. Docker shines in that regard.

A few years ago Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay all successfully kept engineer pay down through anti-poaching agreements[1]. Unions provide checks an…

> With the previous generation of MagSafe/MagSafe II power supplies, if the cable gets frayed, you have to replace the entire power supply. If the MagSafe connector gets hosed, you…

Best Buy’s USB-C offerings are lacking and almost entirely Apple related. What other stores will I have to avoid if I buy a MacBook in 2019?

Consumer desktop apps? Maybe. Enterprise, industry specific and desktop apps for professionals? No.

That's a strange claim without any evidence to back it up. It's the first video on their "Autopilot" page. There's absolutely no mention of features that don't exist yet in the vid…

That's a stretch. The video is directly under the headline of "Autopilot". Absolutely nothing on the page suggests that the video is demonstrating features that don't exist yet. Bo…

Weird, when I go to Tesla's Autopilot page[1], I'm presented with a video demo where the driver has his hands off of the wheel. The video has the following caption: > The person in…