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> Uber is fortunate if they come away from Russia with anything

"Uber will invest $225 million and take a 36.6 percent stake ... Yandex will invest $100 million and own 59.3 percent"

If they are paying twice as much as their partner for a minority stake I am pretty sure they will not be coming away with anything.

I think Google should allow neutral public access to their 100,000 mile private fiber optic network.

That would really send a statement that they were serious about network neutrality.

Everyone is a "troll" when they are suing you. When you are suing other people they are thieves stealing your innovation.

These lawyers are doing great work by creating a market that allows innovators to profit from their work even if they don't have the capital to commercialize their innovations themselves.

The incumbents can cry about this but even if they have never sued anyone for infringement their valuations are still based on their portfolios and they still use the threat to suppress competition and when they are over a barrel for cash they will monetize those patents either themselves or by selling to another "troll."

Individual software engineers who invent new technologies deserve to get compensated the same as anyone else for their inventions.

"Source" as in producers - the energy they produce is used by the entire world.

> There is no conspiracy

Aren't corporations, by definition, a conspiracy to make money? Conspiring to make money is what an investment bank exists to do. It would be dereliction of duty if they weren't conspiring to make money.

If it prevents you from making money it is still a problem.

If you develop for something that is not ad based you need to be aware of and test for these issues.

The stickers are there because they sell these things on store shelves to people who actually care about the hardware they are buying.

They aren't that hard to take off.

I was just thinking that journalism needed less on the ground reporting and critical thought.

More mindless aggregation and repeating of existing data custom tailored to the views of the people reading it is really whats missing.

So, totally worth it ($120 billion) for a 0.01% reduction in global ghg emissions.

Sorry, I was just making fun of the tendency for commercially interested parties to push their products as energy solutions while not asking the kinds of questions that you are.

The problems with this article are legion but what I want to know is what the real contract terms were?

I know Musk promised the 100-days or free thing, which makes a nice headline, but I really doubt that is what the actual contract says.

I may be wrong but would be very interested to know.

What about the environmental costs of these batteries? Have reserves been made for the cost of safe disposal?

If you say that one technology is environmentally destructive and must be replaced but never bother to evaluate whether or not the replacement is actually better this just makes things worse.

In reality it is Google, Apple, and Microsoft who decide what web technologies will be implemented and users who decide what browsers to use.

Pretending like the W3C could actually change anything by not ratifying this is ignoring the reality of the marketplace.

Talk to a lawyer or accountant about that.

I have done a handful of side projects that have lost money and lots of side projects with time spent on something that has not be productized.

I don't really thing you should do a side project with the anticipation of making money.

My focus on side projects is doing R&D and building skills or tools that will pay off in my paid work. From that perspective I don't really consider anything I have done to be a "loss."

I do open source but only to demonstrate something I plan to sell later or to establish ownership of IP.

Spending money on R&D is a great investment since you can deduct on taxes and get an automatic 30% return. That is much higher and guaranteed return compared to "investing" in stock market.

Gitlab is great. It took 5 minutes to install and has run flawlessly since.

I was blown away by how complete, fully featured, and easy to use it is for a free product.

"preemptive self-defense" ftw

I do. Facebook peaked and is decline in its early markets but still very strong and growing in other parts of the world.

Interesting question is do they actually make any money in emerging markets and are those billion users actually an asset.

They are much better but they are still basically the same designs as the late 90's.

A lot of things have improved but most of the problems are things that were recognized before and still aren't perfect.

They still need to get smaller, lighter, higher resolution, faster refresh rate, 4-8X GPU power, and wireless, but in another decade they should be awesome.

What is the difference between being depressed and "feeling" depressed?

What is the difference between being schizophrenic and having the "opinion" that Satan speaks to you through your neighbor's cat?

Mental illness is defined by what a person feels and believes.

What you feel and believe is subjective but you can objectively establish that a particular cluster of subjective feelings and beliefs is abnormal vis-a-vis a populate.

Then when you ask people the same questions and their cluster of responses fits the abnormal definition you can objectively say that they have a mental illness.

The objectivity does not come from the doctor observations or patient self-survey, it comes from the study that created the questions and proved that a certain score or cluster of responses is statistically abnormal.

That is a good solution for kube thanks for the reference.

My situation is a bit different: hosting a bunch of subs on the same servers.

With one wildcard I have one server conf with one cert and use the hostname to rewrite each request to the correct directory.

If I did a cert for each sub the nginx conf would need 1000's of server config blocks each with its own cert. I haven't tested, so maybe nginx would handle this just fine, but it is easier to just go with a single wildcard and not worry about it.

As far as I can tell there is no security advantage to having multiple certs instead of one wildcard since I would have all the certs on the same server anyway but if anyone knows of any I would be happy to hear.

A doctor administered evaluation or a patient self-survey is just as objective as any other test.

These tests take a measurement and based on peer-reviewed statistical studies make a determination as to whether or not the measurement falls into a pathological range.

This is exactly the same as measuring blood pressure or cholesterol. You read a number and decide if there is a statistically valid correlation between that number and an identified disease.

Sorry, I should have been more precise: they are both recognized as treatable illnesses by the health care professionals, the government and insurance companies.

In the sense that you can go to a doctor, get diagnosed, get treatment, get that treatment paid for by an insurance company and get legal protections under laws applying to health care they are "no different."

Since we are talking about how corporate HR policies apply to mental health and not the philosophy of medicine I would argue that these are the similarities that actually matter.

Don't think you are smart. Remember that you are average and that for everyone who you might think you are smarter than there is someone else who is equally smarter than you.

You will move in the direction you face. If you look down on people your skill will diminish. If you look up to people your skill will improve.

Be a dilettante. Do general study of many different fields but recognize the limitations of your knowledge and show the appropriate respect to specialists and experts in their respective fields.

Pay close attention to your errors. Do root cause analysis on every error you make and formulate a plan of action to avoid it in the future.

Analyze your own habits and the habits of your peers. Seek to adopt practices that work for others where possible but only if they prove to work for you as well.

Absolutely. I use a wildcard for this and doing a cert for each sub would just be a lot of hassle and potential for things to go wrong with no security benefit.

Medically speaking a mental illness is no different than a physical illness.

Mental illness does not have to be severe just as physical illness does not have to be severe.

Sick leave policies typically only require a doctors note/visit if you are absent for multiple days.

Taking a single day off for mild mental illness, something like elevated stress levels causing anxiety that interrupts your sleep, seems perfectly consistent with most of the corporate sick leave policies I have read.

I was being serious even if it came off flippant.

There is no way to be 100% certain of your security with a system as complex as a computer so if you need 100% certainty then you have to assume you are compromised, even if that is a very low probability.

I just assume my system is hacked at all times and act accordingly.

That is the only truly secure practice.

"After delivering 25,051 vehicles during the first quarter" ... they delivered 22,000 vehicles in the second quarter.

That sounds like a 12% decline to me. It sounds like a 12% decline to Goldman Sachs. I am not sure what you call it.

I think Tesla's and Elon Musk's response of publicly attacking this woman almost certainly indicates that they are at fault.

If this woman's claims were false they would do best to keep quiet and wait for the legal process. They have a huge advantage with both the money to pay lawyers and many fawning media outlets willing to support them so if they were in the right they would be guaranteed to win if they just waited it out.

Going on the offensive is dangerous because it makes them look bad and draws more attention to the story.

Attacking this woman would be very stupid unless they are actually in the wrong, in which case it makes perfect sense as an attempt to intimidate other employees into not speaking out.