Does the US approach mean countries like New Zealand need to stay isolated until a vaccine is found? Or would herd immunity eventually eradicate the virus in US?
A company of this size? Just 10 or 20 times I'm guessing, which really doesn't seem like a high multiple. This is why laws are required to correct the incentives here.
If they truly believe that the autopilot driving is safer than unassisted, they might reasonably consider it an immoral act not to ship it. Given the number of lives lost in auto accidents every day, the issue is not as clear-cut as you're suggesting. It's a real-world trolley problem.
High test coverage is mainly useful for code that will be worked on by more than one person, so it makes sense that you wouldn't want to add it to your personal projects. Doesn't mean it's not worthwhile.
Thai also: there are 19+ vowels but they all sound only one way wherever they appear. Sometimes if I don't know how to pronounce a brand name, I'll try to find their Thai packaging and read it there.
Unfortunately they do have some loan words from Sanskrit that are irregular, and the system for writing tones is needlessly arcane (there are 3 arbitrary classes of consonants that you just have to memorise, and the tone markers change meaning depending on class)
IME Slack at big companies has mostly been a ground-up initiative by engineers that were sick of important discussions happening in long email chains. It's strange to read that network effects or entrenchment made Slack so huge when 5 or 6 years ago they didn't exist :/
Assuming no slowdown from all the context-switching (a generous assumption), and equal sized features, splitting the team would make the high priority feature take twice as long to deliver.
At the same time, if it comes from a place of genuine concern, even unnatural communication can be empathetic. I once asked for help on an online forum, and one person responded with something along the lines of "I don't know how you feel, but if that happened to me I'd feel terrible". In the moment, it felt very carefully crafted, but the care with which the words were chosen really amplified their impact to me.
It's very common in rural Asia. Users share apks via P2P file sharing. Typically one person in the village will set up everyone's phone for them. Usually with all apps preloaded, but they're actually quite savvy about adding and removing apps once they get going, since they're on phones with such low internal storage. If you want to make it into these markets, you need to make your app side-loadable
Well, someone making a naive guess at where to put a solar system relay might think to put it in the middle, maybe around Mars or the asteroid belt? This shows that the best place would be around Mercury and maybe 2 more at its Lagrange points to get around the Sun. It certainly made me think about something I hadn't considered before, so I'm glad to have read it
Ah, I understand now. As some anecdata: here in Singapore (a country I think is renowned for it's multiculturalism, but correct me if I'm wrong), practically every important form, from opening a bank account to renting a condo to filing taxes with the government, requires me to select my race from a list of "Chinese", "Malay", "Indian" or "Other". In Thailand, it's normal for people to specify their race and religion on their resume.
I'm really struggling to understand your first sentence. Are you saying people generally aren't racist outside the US? Because my experience has been very, very different (and that's as a white male)
Some enigma operators had flourishes that the code-breakers could pick up on. Starting or ending a lot of messages with "Heil Hitler" was also a factor IIRC
Yes but the inverse isn't true either: removing anonymity doesn't cause everyone to trust each other.
If you don't have trust, or you're not sure, an exercise like this is a good idea