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He was at Facebook since 2012... has got to be rich. I gotta wonder why not just retire completely at that point, or at least start your own company?

For those of us not in that situation it's a lot harder, especially if you want to work now so you don't have to work later and can retire asap.

Don't steal from rich people is the secret. Madoff made a rookie mistake.

> This needs to work on an intubated patient, and be able to maintain a sanitary environment, neither of which it'll probably be able to do to the extent required by health and safety regulations.

I totally agree with you... but in the case where there are no respirators available at all, I'd rather have a 10% chance of secondary infection or contamination than just die.

I don't see a device like this as being a replacement for a $50k computer controlled machine, but as a stopgap in desperate emergencies.

I'm impressed. Maybe those guys in Italy who 3d printed the valves can 3d print some of these components. I'm guessing the doctors there would be willing to try anything at this point.

If this gets extremely bad, many people will change their view. Unfortunately for them it will be too late.

Pretty sure we're being invaded by a trillion trillion invisible soldiers.

1 month salary for every full time employee is not anywhere near that. Especially capped at 1/12 of 100k/year

Honestly I'd like to see a 1 month quarantine, with the US government guaranteeing the wages of everyone in the workforce for that time. Something like 100% up to 50k/year, 75% of 50-100k, and cap it there. It would cost a few hundred billion dollars but it would keep the "I have to work or be homeless" people from being homeless and allow them to actually stay home for that time.

Flying cars are always poor cars and poor airplanes.

Should cars prevent people from running red lights? There are a few unusual circumstances when this is something you want to do intentionally and knowing the risks.

which tcp/ip? There would be 10, all with incomplete feature sets and poor reliability.

> Everyone I met at the onsite was kind of an asshole.

that was my google onsite experience in 2013. I haven't been back and wouldn't try again.

I agree with you. I think freeway travel can be 99% automated in the very near future. I also think that's where the MAJOR wins will come from. Long haul trucking can flow 24/7 at that point, with the drivers keeping their jobs and doing last mile delivery.

We've already seen this in aviation actually. AF447 is a good example of flying a plane into the ground because of reliance on automation and lack of experience hand flying.

There's a really great YouTube video called "Children of the magenta" that's part of a lecture the chief training pilot for AA gave about 20 years ago or so as part of their continuing education. He goes over incidents and situations and the essential conclusion is that pilots are getting too used to turning dials and flipping switches when in many situations they need to just take control and fly the plane.

The thing with other activities (diving, flying are great examples) is that when a problem occurs, you generally have minutes to analyze what's happening and decide on a solution. If my dive computer goes on the fritz, I can decide to immediately start an ascent, or go off physical dive table, or make an extra safety stop at say 20 feet just to be sure.

When you're going 45 in a curve driving along PCH, and a sudden fog bank obscures your cameras and LIDAR and the computer says "your controls, good luck!" you have maybe 2 seconds to react, if you're lucky. It might be a lot less.

Humans make really dumb decisions sometimes, but we are also outstandingly capable of reacting to novelty.

I've been beating this drum for years (but I'm a nobody, so it's like pissing in the wind):

1. Anything less than 100% FULL automation is MORE dangerous than manual driving, because the "driver" will almost certainly lack any situational awareness. When the need for manual intervention happen, it will be at the moments where you need maximum awareness and split second reflexes.

2. There are SO many edge cases and never-seen-before situations that happen when driving "at scale" that the automation features will fail unexpectedly and in strange ways.

3. G and Cruise might be exceptions, but most of the companies in this space are cowboys with reckless disregard for public safety and terrible "iterate quickly" coding practices.

4. At some point there will be an accident that kills a photogenic "middle America" person or people and at that point the government will crush this industry with regulation, with the financial backing of automakers, UAW, and other people who benefit from the status quo.

The only way 100% fully self driving cars will ever happen is for the infrastructure itself to be built to accommodate them. Mixing regular cars, parking, trucks, bicycles, scooters, pedestrians, dog walkers, hoverboards, etc all together on the same roads ensures that the problem is unsolvable.

I vote for that option as well.

So far, I have been killed exactly zero times in car crashes. All the empirical evidence tells me that there's no need to surrender control to a computer.

If I die in a crash, perhaps I'll change my mind...

This strikes me as Boeing lobbyists trying to pay people to create doubt. "Maybe it's not the plane, maybe the pilots are inferior to AMERICAN pilots, yeehaw!"

Do you believe this person suffered $60k in damages by not being able to buy a coffee?

What a joke... floundering company CEO added to successful company board. Really? Dropbox management is atrocious, they succeeded in spite of themselves.

You're right, it's just that the things I enjoy doing (and do well) aren't valuable to anyone else... golf doesn't pay if you're in the top 1%, you have to be in the top .001% :)

With the skills I have that do pay well, I'm not sure what role I'd enjoy. I always thought being a physical penetration tester would be amazing fun, but those roles usually go to ex military types, not random joes like me with no formal background. I like designing systems, but architects aren't really a "thing" anymore. Writing code all day long is drudgery now.

I certainly should get some help, I'm 99% certain I have unofficially diagnosed ADHD. It just seems like a lot of work figuring out what to do, and then I get distracted by something else I'm doing... heh.

It's like a brain dump from my head. I can 100% identify with everything this guy says. I've been fighting this since I can remember, certainly over 20 years. I thought I was the only one who never looked at grades/feedback/whatever.

I'd probably be a CTO or a successful startup founder by now if I'd had a solution early in life. As it is I've done OK but it's always a struggle because work by its very nature is doing something you don't want to do because they're paying you... and doing something I don't want to do is very VERY hard. Almost impossible at times.

If you're a teenager or in your 20s, try and get some help now so you don't toil in futility for the next 20 years. Trust me.

Well, those are 2 of the 3 reasons I got a surface instead of a new MacBook when my 2013 finally died. Regular USB was the 3rd (and least important)

I have an Audi S8, and it's "holy fucking shit" fast... but the exhaust is so quiet :( It's quite an engineering achievement actually, that big V8 is moving a ton of air. I wish they hadn't done quite so well.

> And when I say lead, very often you may not have formal hierarchical power over the people that you need to influence; but instead of you have to pursuade them to share your vision and go along with your plan.

This is the worst part of the whole gig frankly. It's an awful place to be, all the responsibility and expectations but none of the muscle.

Kinda like IBM, no one ever got fired for using an 8 foot rod in a situation where a 5 foot rod was to code.

Unfortunate about SWA, but united is and for 20 years now has been trash anyway.

Doesn't this mean it should either be broken up or nationalized?

"developing a procedure to send counties regularly updated lists of felons on their rolls who have unpaid fines and fees, but it has no timetable as to when it will be ready"

Oh, I know when it'll be ready. About 2 weeks before the election, just in time to purge voters without giving them enough time to do anything about it.

I'm not the type of person who makes things happen. Especially if I can now fail in a public and embarrassing way having told people my plans.

If I keep things to myself I end up generally doing better.