Trained humans working as a group with weapons, facing animals that have not seen humans before, is a completely different story. There is a reason African animals survived along humans while the story is different else where
All wild animals are stronger than they look. Humans are comparatively weak.. most of us can’t fight a deer. Monkeys are intelligent. They are aware of leverage and potential danger. They jump on people, chase, scratch and bite them
But there is demonstrable research done inside FB that indicated the harmful effects it had on society. WSJs FB Files has done a good job showcasing that research. There are knobs they can control that could reduce anger and thus engagement, but they have dialed them up. WSJ wrote about that too. FB philosophy is more engagement, however they get it.
Not true. Australian aborigines split off 40k years ago. Now, if somehow we interbred with all of them, so that no pure aborigines are left, in a 100 years we move the line to a date that resembles what you suggest. We have to do that every remote tribe on earth. Or if for some reason they are killed.
Because, you undervalue your time, you open yourself for abuse. May be that project that is behind can be done by you after work, as you sometimes do work then anyways. I have seen some managers who are acutely sensitive to this and repeatedly use this to their advantage while charming the underlings. Next, being on call means it is difficult to plan that long vacation, or a unplanned night of shit faced drinking with your buddies, or unable to sit with your kid in the night when she is sick. A perspective of life as unpredictable events helps reinforce this idea. You are, with out compensation making life predictable for others while making it less predictable to you. Third, your mental and physical health. Sleep disorders because of restlessness, groggy mornings and the stress that comes with normal working hours will take a toll over long term.
Yeah, not to mention electric cars are going to be made with even less energy like cold pressing the entire chassis from a sheet of metal, higher density batteries and recycling older batteries, where as gas cars have been the same in terms of mpg.
Reader mode on the article reveals the content. Your answer is on point though. WSJ a few months published a piece saying that electric cars have to run 20k miles before they take over ICE vehicles in emissions(less that is). This piece is just scaremongering though. It keeps on repeating in several ways that making electric vehicles is energy intensive
[1] is not a good measure, because of low income subsidies not everyone qualifies for. I live in the Bay area, and I pay 35-41 cents/kwh in summer. Now if I charge during the nights with the EV plan, I get preferential price of 14 cents/kwh but that makes my day time use (for other things) that much more expensive. Sorry, I didn't mention I drive a long range model 3, and quoted the price for it, not the parent's mid range.
ok. These things have been discussed on reddit/twitter the last 3-4 years over and over again. Tesla has sold a decent chunk of cars now, from which you can do meaningful projections on it's fire safety.
From Tesla's website (https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport)
"From 2012 – 2020, there has been approximately one Tesla vehicle fire for every 205 million miles traveled. By comparison, data from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and U.S. Department of Transportation shows that in the United States there is a vehicle fire for every 19 million miles traveled.
In order to provide an apt comparison to NFPA data, Tesla’s data set includes instances of vehicle fires caused by structure fires, arson, and other things unrelated to the vehicle, which account for some of the Tesla vehicle fires over this time period."
Haha. Having Hertz as a customer is a huge validation for Tesla. It means other rental fleets will be asked questions about electrification. It also means a bunch of people will test drive Teslas - people who wouldn't otherwise look at it. The car sells itself, because it is great.
I own a model 3. The car has no presence. It doesn't feel special, like a 50k car should. Having said that,the interiors look good as new 2 years later, the autopilot is great for commute, the audio system is great, and it feels like this is what future would be.
A little bit of reading and broadening your horizons is what you should do IMO. Because it doesn't seem like you know what you want, and neither do the people suggesting you what to do. Find things that draw you in, generally like having a significant other or a love, or a passion.
It is a truly difficult process. No wonder people end up in the wrong jobs, have regrets etc. In any case, strengthen your position financially, as there will always be a need for it, even if you don't need it now.
There are truly 1 or 2 things most people will be successful at. It is worth trying to figure out what those are, for being successful in the wrong thing is not worth it.
The article is light on criticism about Apple. Usually what happens to these people is they go out all guns blazing, spend a lot of time, figure how to do stuff the hard way, feel temporarily in control and then face death by a thousand cuts or decreased productivity. It is the case with 90% of the users. For most people, computer is a means to an end, which Apple understands spectacularly well. It gives you 5-star hotel like experience with its products. Is everything perfect? No. Does it make mistakes? Yes. There is no progress without mistakes, unless you allow many many years for ideation. Apple strikes this balance spectacularly well, they are mostly at the forefront of tech, meanwhile giving users a fantastic experience. It is Ritz Carlton of computers, you stay there, do your business, expect mostly everything to work like a well oiled machine, and you go home without sweat after finishing your work. To write 3 or 4 subjective opinions about Apple and dismissing it tells more about the author than Apple IMO.
Most people outside US use public transportation. It is good way to kill time on commute. This is why bigger screens became hugely popular over time. Even in US, the subways are full of people looking at their phones with earbuds
Leaky abstractions in not well thought out solutions caused by exponential growth in computing is the issue. Rich Hickey's "Simple made easy" talks about this very thing.
> I can honestly say that the two BEST engineering managers I ever had were people that could not have written a line of code to save their lives
This is some truth to this. On the other hand, there are a lot of dumb-ass power wielding managers who think technical chops are low level stuff and look down on the engineers. The second group outweighs the first by a factor of 3 at least