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chronic7ulon My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

Travis is walking away as a multi-million dollar man. This is whether you root for Uber or not.

chronic7ulon Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

I went back for a PhD. I know a lot of people can't do this, but this is the reason why there are few AI specialists. You just can't become an expert by reading blogs and even research papers online. You need the full specialist environment, from discussions outside the bathroom to the drawings on the whiteboard.

chronic7ulon Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.

Correct. This is why you see almost no billion dollar "tech" companies coming out of Scandinavia or Europe in the past 10 years. The places with so called, work life balance.

chronic7ulon Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

ML engineer is a programmer usually with a BS in CS, sometimes a MS. They are, in the end, only an engineer.

The AI scientists, those with work in computer vision, natural language, and audio, developing novel networks and training methods, make at least $500K/year. I've been a data scientist and the pay (and work content) was a joke. I switched to AI and damn, work makes you think and you get paid like a mid-range NBA star.

chronic7ulon Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events

Racism is not illegal.

Even if it was, citizens of China and Europe (e.g. France) are far more racist than the United States and no law can change that.

chronic7ulon Antarctica Is Melting, and Giant Ice Cracks Are Just the Start

> They might be happy to get about Dutch style, on a bicycle. To most Americans that mode of transport is unthinkable for things like shopping or bringing up a family, but the Dutch do it.

Unfortunately you lost nearly all your credibility by using the Dutch as a positive example. The Dutch economy is overwhelmingly based on the extraction, production, and export of natural gas, chemicals, and fuel [1]. This doesn't seem environmentally friendly to me.

No matter what law you pass or what incentive you give, recent college grads (I'm a liberal from Berkeley, myself) will find a way to maximize my utility at the expense of the environment. Corporations do this and so do millions of people around the world. Even the Dutch are not immune.

If you want to truly save the environment, go work in battery science and solar production. Because right now, even in HN's beloved Scandinavian countries, oil and gas remains their number one industries. The Norwegians especially know this and are milking it for all it's worth. How will you convince them if you can't convince me - someone not distracted by the billions of dollars involved with oil and gas drilling?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Netherlands