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I'm not sure I'd agree with that at all. On the surface of this planet software is used to simulate hardware as it's much quicker to iterate on a design.

In space, however, you can only run the hardware in it's destined environment once. Software is critical to the design process regardless of the HW costs.

To play devils advocate I guess you could argue that Facial Recognition is passive. Finger print, and by extension palm, requires proactive participation of the user.

I.e. you choose to hand over your palm to be read, you do not make the same choice in Facial Recognition scenarios.

The leadership, the 'feds' (FEMA) and the states are three separate entities.

The virus doesn't respect state boundaries. While you are not wrong wrt to Fed & State duties - if the leadership is going to take a 'wartime' stance then it needs to message to that effect.

The CEO of my company does not tell my team how to deliver product. However, if there's a disconnect between what they're saying and what we're trying to accomplish there is a morale problem.

I am not talking about division of responsibilities but more the underlying tone of how to respond to the problem. We are not getting a clear, consistent and decisive message from the top in the UK or the US. How individual state in the US respond is regardless. A fish rots from the head down.

You are not wrong with respect to healthcare but leadership comes from the top, more so when this is not a State specific problem. Just listen to the Governor of NY plead for help. State's can chose to ignore the president but if the want help from the Feds (FEMA etc) then your point is moot.

> the reaction of most of my circle 100% of the people approve of the government action.

It helps that you have a leader that articulates the scale of the problem and is clear about what measures are being put in place to deal with the situation both tactically and strategically.

I don't want to politicize the conversation, HN is not the place for that, but it's striking how the different management styles in say NZ & IRL differ from the UK & US and how that is helping people deal with the crisis.

In the US for example, individual Governors (aka Team Leads) are taking up the slack where the CEO is not equipped to deal with the scale of the problem. But fundamentally in a pandemic (aka extrinsic force) what counts is trust in leadership, what Ms Arden is demonstrating. Good luck, stay safe.

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Domain expertise is a finite resource and couple that with the fact the automotive manufacturers are not adept at higher level software development (as opposed to embedded)

I'm not surprised companies like Ford have continued to push out dates

I think the opioid epidemic is pretty much tied to the over prescription of opioids and the abusive practices of opioid manufacturers.

Psychedelics have been banned long before the epidemic started, additionally, countries that also have a ban in place do not also have epidemics.

I appreciate the text below the graph was probably written by a non native English speaker but can someone please decipher this..

Question 2

However, as a reminder, CDC always recommends everyday preventive actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory viruses, including: Wash your {{ ... }}.

(a) hands, give every bite a chance to keep your nose open

Question 3 Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains {{ ... }}.

(a) antifungal immunoprecipients, not salt; run an inflatable swimming pool

Question 4 Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and {{ ... }}.

(b) neck, especially when wearing your shoes

Question 7 Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw {{ ... }}.

(a) your hands up, arms, hands, face

Question 8 Clean and disinfect frequently touched {{ ... }}.

(c) tissues with dental iron

Military service is mandatory in Switzerland

You are conflating quite a few different things here and leaving out some key players at the same time.

NASA & ESA are not the same as Boeing & Airbus

Launch vehicles are not the same field as "space travel"

Spinning up entities like JPL is a non trivial matter in either civilian or commercial domains.

Spreading the engineering challenges across a wider array of organisations would not expedite their solution imho. Just thin out the available resources.

I think the broader point to note here is that it's relatively easy to build simple machines. It's hard to build reliable complex machines.

I would certainly trust a low end Ford Focus, more so than even a low end VW Golf / Skoda Scala.

As soon as you move into premium models both the American and European manufacturer start to show their weaknesses compared to the Lexus/Acura/Infiniti/etc brands from Japan.

It so bad, it's a running joke [1] I think low-end Fords (i.e. simple) are the only US car I'd consider and even then, their transmissions are suspect.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSBsq6HBBzw

My 16 mile commute is quickest on my ebike.

Car = 35-40 minutes on average, sometimes more.

eBike = 30-35 minutes consistently.

The reason - bikes can 'filter' up to a set of lights, whereas a car in heavy traffic might take 2 or 3 rotations of the light to make it through a junction.

This is a net sum loss. We, the species and the Our ecosystems will lose on the whole.

The 'we've always had climate change' argument is bogus. It's the rate of change and the multitude of system's abilities to adapt.

Life will go on, but not as we know it, Jim.

Apples to apples here. My '16 leaf was 15K after generous incentives and it only gets 120 miles on a very good day.

An argument could be made that it is not in the spirit of HN.

And Mitch McConnell recently argued the exact opposite. When asked he said (paraphrising) "Why would we increase taxes when the economy is doing well, why would we want to hurt that growth?"

The mind boggles.

I'm having a very hard time following your logic: Apple charges lots of money on commodity parts because they don't want users getting, as you say, "f'ed over"

There is a healthy after market ecosystem primarily because apple charges so much. Not the other way around.

Furthermore, in the video on the ifixit site, the blogger replaced the battery with a genuine secondhand apple battery and it would not recognize it.

This is predatory behaviour from Apple on its consumers.

TCLs are 'dumb' tv's with a Roku built in. They're quite popular so I might be missing why these are to be avoided and/or network disabled and Roku over HDMI is preferred?

I'd love to but I'm on the East coast, put my roots down here. Thank you though!

He does, he's married to Tim O'Reilly's daughter and now runs an incubator that could be viewed as a grown up version of Zero Prestige

https://otherlab.com/

I used to Kitesurf with these guys when they were still at MIT. Awesome bunch.

[edit] apologies, I thought you were talking about the Zero Prestige founder and now realise you're talking about the parent's anecdote. As someone who builds his own kitesurf gear, electric vehicles, maintains an old house and has a wife & two rambunctious boys - it's totally doable.

I have shown the '7 minutes of terror' video every time I go in to my kids school for the Hour of Code events.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1090

I gives me the chills every time I watch it and is a great starting point to talk about how software / engineering can solve cool problems. I also like that it has both men and women from various ethnic backgrounds.

Another video I've started showing is the Human-Machine brain implant helping this quadriplegic control his arm again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6oNoLWcDqw

With that all said, I show these specific video as they are enabled with the tooling my company produces and I think that's an important part of the message as it helps connect the dots between the presenter (me) and the uses cases shown.

Good luck!

I have a zipline in my back yard, when I first put it up it was roughly 80' long, my kids were 4 & 6 and I would manage them because (a) be a parent and (b) they were careless/clueless AF.

I extended the zipline to 200' this spring, it goes over about 50' of water. They're 6 & 8 now, they hook themselves up and do all the safety checks I showed them once. Literally once.

They also have full access to my workshop, they respect it and ask before cutting off their fingers.

I think we underestimate the young mind's respect for responsibility when we give it to them. Conversely, if you protect your child from everything, they do not develop the skills that ask inherent questions such as 'how can this thing I'm about to do grow wrong? What is my plan if it does go south?'

It would imho. If the plane is in a failure mode, the user would search the UI specifically for error messages.

As a UXer I would _assume_ error messages would be in a consistent section of UI real estate. However, even if this is not the case I would expect both experience and training to mitigate the "can't find the error message among all das blinkenlights"

I wonder if something was lost in translation, if that read " it strips away the illusion" then the component of pretending in this type of play makes sense.

I guess much in the same sense that people would probably not be amused if you ran around a Comic Con telling everyone this is just make believe.

I wouldn't worry about over fishing Salmon, the vast majority are farmed now. You will know when you pay for wild Salmon.

Same is true for a number of other staples: Tilapia, Shrimp, Catfish, etc.

That said, similar to land based CAFO's you don't really want to know what they're fed (o;

I appreciate you're trying to be glib. However, up to level 4 autonomy I'm not sure I understand your point? Even the most optimistic people agree level 5 vehicles are multiple 10s of years away.