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The layman abstract is basically what cable news has turned into their business.

"Forget trying to understand this issue, let us explain how you should feel about it!"

It will immediately be abused. Still, probably better than the current situation.

The funny thing is, growing up, construction is awe-inspiring.

In my last position, I worked across the street from where they were putting up two buildings. We'd gawk over how brave they must be to be up that high on the rafters.

His strategy is to fix the issue quick, and to prevent people from capitalizing on these opportunities to sink his company. You don't think Ford is throwing money at anyone who will bad-mouth Tesla?

NHTSA will spin their wheels for a year on an investigation, and accomplish absolutely nothing.

I agree that there are concerns. I just don't think any of my concerns ever start with a news article. Every time I read an article like this, and think "Oh no, a legitimate concern" it ends up being overblown.

If this layoff article ends up being a legitimate source of concern, it'll be the first time out of like hundreds of articles a month.

And yeah, I'm with you on the state of driving implementation. I think the criticism that calling it auto-pilot is misleading is a legitimate concern, for example. I would call it co-pilot until it's fully automated, and call it auto-pilot once you can take your hands off the wheel. That would be consistent with the naming-scheme they have chosen, wouldn't diminish brand value, and would be more accurate.

But again, it's just every time I read one of these articles, the comments are saturated with anti-Tesla hate that is either coming from Russia, Big Oil, or some day-traders trying to bring the stock down $10 so they can buy a turn a quick profit for the day.

Few and far between. Whenever I hear this, it's always "oh, they take subsidies".

The only ones I've heard that haven't been trolling are concerns about their financial reports, which are always "concerns about financial reports" with no additional information.

Ok, go ahead and be concerned that the stock is inflated. It's not a real conversation.

Like, for example, look at what happened last week. We were bombarded by an avalanche of negative Elon/Tesla articles. It was consistent. "Tesla Factory is HELL". Like, I must have read "HELL" 3 or 4 times last week. This followed by a failed coup attempt to oust him from the board of directors. Turns out that there were billions of dollars invested in shorts that Tesla stock would plummet.

There was a coordinated effort to tank Tesla and oust him as CEO last week that failed. The result was that stock spiked and the short-sellers lost like 1.5B.

This is the kind of shit that goes on week after week with Tesla.

No one considers Elon Musks Twitter to be unbiased, real news. Stop trolling with false dichotomies.

The problem is that most unbiased news sources have been corrupted. Reddit has fallen, and hackernews is about all that's left. That means that the trolls have begun showing up here.

Trolls have gotten more skilled, and are able to convert new trolls without people realizing they have become trolls. You just have to get people angry a few times, and they'll do anything you want. Once they've calmed down, they'll continue doing the same thing for the sake of consistency.

Musk has pissed off the media by calling them out on their lack of ethics, so a storm is coming for Musk that will look very similar to what happened to Gamer-gate when they called out the media. The media literally branded them as women-haters with zero evidence and it stuck.

Misleading in that, when you hear layoffs, you immediately think "financial trouble" because that's usually the context that you hear about layoffs.

These articles you hear about Tesla are sometimes factual, but they're not published because they're factual. They're published to do damage and affect stock prices in a way that make specific people rich. It's the equivalent of playing poker, and affecting your neighbor's hand by distracting the dealer.

Every week there's a god damn article about Elon's "fall from grace" (what?) or about how he's trying to prevent unionization (you mean the fake unions that Ford has been trying to start, but workers aren't interested in?) or about subsidies (which are still a fraction of oil subsidies).

As a result, he made the mistake of criticizing the ethics of the media. So start expecting him to get the Gamer-gate treatment as the media pile on him even harder than before with fabricated news.

Every time I read a negative piece about Elon or Tesla, I worry "oh shit, is this the one?" and I look into the article and it's absolute bullshit. At this point, even if I read an article and it appears to be factual, I'd say the burden of proof is on the naysayers, and not on Musk or Tesla, given past performance.

Looks like the 9% were mostly management in redundant roles, not production.

100% of the articles I have read about Tesla have been completely fabricated hit-pieces, or like this one, completely misleading. I think that at this point, they deserve the benefit of the doubt unless you're willing to actually read the article.

Your comment seems like trolling.

I'm making a huge gender-related assumption here, but I think you're making a good first guess at what she'll be interested in regarding front-end and design.

People who are more social (and women tend to be more social) are going to enjoy the kind of programming that interacts with people more (front-end, design, html, css, etc). People who aren't very social and are more withdrawn will enjoy the problem-solving of back-end and middleware (java, python).

There are tools to help you pick colors if you're not the designy-type (https://coolors.co/ combined with MatrialCSS or Bootstrap). If you are the designy-type, these tools just add to your toolbelt.

If you live outside of the US, you should look at Vue instead of React or Angular. Vue is far more popular outside of the states. The popularity of Angular and React is pushed by Google and Facebook more strongly in the US.

Another way to tinker is to get a Raspberry Pi and try to think of something you want to do with it. Do you want to control some smart bulbs in your house or something? Make some kind of toy for your kids? Great, do it in Python!

You have to have something you want to solve to give your wife the energy she'll need to see this through. If it's purely academic, she'll lose interest like most people.

Note: I read the article wrong, and read "raises the opportunity cost" as "raises the opportunity".

I thought I was refuting the point, but in fact, agreed with the point.

Whoops!

Yeah, I read that wrong. Whoops

If you drive down my friend's neighborhood in North Virginia, you see house after house of moms with law-degrees, math degrees, engineering degrees, most with Masters, who said "fuck working" after 5-10 years and decided to become stay-at-home. All with substantial student debt that they didn't work long enough to justify.

The number of women who WANT to work is a lot lower than everyone wants to admit. And when they see the option to leave the working world, many of them take it. So much education that just gets wasted when they realize that having a career is not nearly as fulfilling as they have been led to believe.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, my first thought would be "sweet, we can afford a third kid!"

I think that things are hard for different reasons. Nothing will ever be easy. If you believe life will get to the point that it's easy, you've got things wrong.

"Jobs for women are higher-paying and more satisfying than ever before, and that raises the opportunity cost of having large families"

This is not true. Depending on the wife for income prevents her from focusing on having a large family. Without the assistance of a grandparent or some expensive nanny, this tends to limit the number of children in the family to 2 or 3.

Also, women working has driven the price of houses up, so it's difficult to get by with one working parent now. Women have less of a choice to work now, and more of an obligation.

This doubling of eligible workers also drives down the salary of everyone, making men pull in less money, further forcing women to work whether they want to or not.

Not to mention how expensive large vans/suvs are to actually drive them around.

I feel like AWS and the Cloud in general have to be helping with this issue, because people no longer need to lock down individual IPs or ranges of IPs to get work done. Without the need to lock down an IP that you may or may not need to use, and with load-balancers that are able to expose boxes on a private subnet, the demand for IPv4 should be going down.

I f*ing hate clickbait titles more than anything, AND THEY PISS ME OFF!

TL;DR; - You get more fault-tolerance with a large number of smaller engines

Every week there is a hit-piece on SpaceX, or Tesla, or Musk. Very rarely is the article grounded in reality. It is usually easy to prove the article false within 5 minutes.

I'm not even going to bother to read anything from Buzzfeed. There is almost no chance that any real reporting was done for this article.

This is true. The engines overperformed and they're going a lot further than they meant to. This is better than anticipated news.

It's only bad if you're REALLY focused on the Tesla "going to Mars", which it was never really going to do, because it would need to slow down once it got to Mars to stay in orbit around it. What we've done is prove capability. Getting to Mars is 100% possible, and we've also proven fault tolerance ... that is, we have enough fuel to spare that we can make correction-burns if necessary during the trip to Mars.

First, not saying I believe that these guys are legit, but "thermodynamics" is a noun. Thermodynamic energy is a type of energy, like chemical energy is a type of energy. There is also nuclear, stored, potential, light, kinetic, and I'm sure I'm missing a few.

These are all basic physics concepts. These guys are claiming to be able to store the energy as thermal energy, and then get it back out at 70% efficiency without much degradation inside of 25 years.

All these ideas are plausible from a physics point of view, but I don't buy this simply because it requires an efficient way of converting heat to energy. If this existed, it would already be a holy grail for other reasons. Being able to turn the waste-heat from an engine back into more energy efficiently would be incredible. Right now, to get energy from heat, you typically need the heated material to be near something that's very cold, and you use the difference in temperature to get energy out of it. Or you boil water and spin turbines. It sounds like MAYBE that's what these guys are doing, if what they are claiming to be able to do is legitimate.

This is objectively not true. Women played a role. They still play a role. They didn't rule anything. It was the Wild West, and it was ruled by anyone who was willing to take a chance and succeed.

This rewriting of history, to make it look like men conspired against women to seize control of technology, is weird as hell. If you view the world this way, you're probably not a very easy person to deal with.

This is a garbage article. Every time some emotional person writes crap like this, it converts someone to the alt-right. This is viewed by the right as evidence that the "left will eventually eat its own".

A bad advocate undoes the work of a good advocate. Bill Nye doesn't really use scientific methods. His last show was a mess, because he made assertions he didn't back up.

Bill Nye has done good work on the past, but he is undoing the work he has done lately.

How does this compare to pi-hole?

I was going to say the same thing you said. Angular/React routing, if done correctly, don't have those problems at all. If you let the SPA framework do your page-changing for you, open-in-tab and history still works. If you do amateur stuff like, you bind a button to a function, and the function does an document.location.href update, then you're going to have some weirdness.

My biggest problem with SPA the last time I did it (a year ago) was optimizing it for search engine crawling.

I think like, with most things, it's all about the tradeoff.

I have one in my house in the living room. It basically exists to have an easy way of turning on Spotify. We don't have sensitive conversations in the living room. If someone were listening, they'd mostly get me scolding my children and asking what's for dinner. The might also steal a token to connect to Spotify. My AWS account isn't linked to the same account as my Alexa, and requires TFA, so that's safe.

I wouldn't put this device in my bedroom. I also was less interested when my kids were young enough that I might actually have a sensitive conversation anywhere. I'd considered putting one in my tv room to control the tv, but that's about it.

I don't regard the Alexa as a greater vulnerability to my house than my phone, and I already accept owning a smart phone. I am concerned about the same things you are, but I view it as more of a trade-off than a simple "just don't do it!" attitude.

When a millennial does something I hate, I tend to not want to blame them directly, so instead I attribute their behavior to a sort of group behavior. When they do something I like, it's easier to attribute their behavior to them as an individual.

I've noticed this tendency for people these days to just refuse to do work they don't like. They expect to be doing the interesting work that is reserved for people who have earned it. I tend to attribute this to millennial and their sense of entitlement. I've also seen some really driven millennials who get a lot of work done on their own initiative. I don't view them as typical millennials, but rather, as individuals who have rejected the entitled behavior of the standard millennial.

I don't know how true any of that is. I was born in '80, and my generation is entitled as shit. It just feels like, as we were realizing the lie of how entitled we were told to be, that the subsequent generation fell for even worse bullshit than we did.