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I wonder how are they going to fuel up self-driving trucks? You can not drive 2100 miles on a single tank of fuel.

Well, Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin is so far behind that they haven't launched anything to the Low Earth Orbit yet, and as far as I know they don't have plans to launch to LEO for t…

Except for saving human lives in emergency situations. I doubt the self-flying plane would land in the Hudson river and saved all the passengers.

I had similar experience at salesforce.com. Now I call it "failure to on-board." Partially my fault, partially theirs.

Actually, this is exactly how transactions in Oracle work. The difference is - one db server (Oracle) vs. distributed system (Google)

Infinite scrolling is what I hate most about Facebook UI.

Oh yeah, I remember all those Morning Stand-Up Comedy Meetings at Salesforce.

It would be very helpful if the article would mention, 114% of what exactly is the household debt. 114% of annual income, perhaps? Anyway, it looks like we are looking at few more …

Cool!

There is a novel by famous Russian writer, Pelevin. It is called Prince of Gosplan (Принц Госплана), written in 1991. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86_..…

Ok, so let's say SOPA is implemented and my Internet provider is blocking some sites through their DNS server. Who would stop me from using another DNS server (located perhaps in R…

Good point. I learned to dance tango in similar situation. And I never danced anything in my life before that. I'm approaching the magic 42 number of my age.

I've been a Netflix customer for over 5 years. To me, Netflix is a company that does DVDs-by-mail well, and also trying to grow online streaming. Online streaming as it is right no…

Social Security and Medicare are different from Medicaid and military budget, because they have different funding. Social Security and Medicare are funded by payroll taxes. Medicai…

I've been a Netflix customer since 2005. Last time I tried to use their "streaming service," it demanded that I use IE instead of Firefox to watch a movie. I never tried it ever si…

My friend was let go from Goog ~ 3 weeks ago. Was classified as "underperforming," put on PIP, worked his ass off while on PIP, and then fired without any severance. He was with Go…

The biggest economy in the world is European Union, not US (as measured by GDP.)

Here at salesforce.com (the company that does cloud computing/saas for businesses,) we have the data loader tool that customers can use to download all of their data locally as oft…

If Perl is ok, you can try these: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Bayes&mode=all