dripton

December numbers will be available in a couple of weeks, and then we'll know for sure. Model 3 numbers have ramped up in December. In 2018, unless Tesla has serious unfixable production problems, it won't be close. I don't know how many Model 3s Tesla can make next year, but I know they can sell them all...

https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/ says Tesla 40812, GM 38699. That's with only 712 Model 3s sold. If the 3 ramps at all, it will not be close.

Edit: GM 38699. I initially missed the 179 CT6s, 21 Spark EVs, and 17 ELRs at the bottom of the table.

The safety benefit is from the automated emergency braking system, which Tesla has coupled with the Autopilot package. It's not from Autopilot itself.

I was talking about the issue of the rose-colored view of America in the middle of the twentieth century. My point was that even if America in 1960 really was better than America in 2017 for uneducated white working-class men, that's a pretty small segment of the American population. Our country, while from from perfect, is significantly less racist, sexist, and homophobic than it was then.

Also, does that include black men? Gay men?

I married a woman who definitely filtered based on earning ability. Not in terms of "must be a millionaire" but in terms of "must have some evidence that he will be able to hold down a steady job." I'm pretty sure that if at some point in our relationship before we got married I had decided to permanently quit working and play video games all day, she would have broken up with me. I think the majority of rational women who are not independently wealthy do this.

In fairness, she also imposed these rules on herself, so that she could take care of herself and any children in the event something happened to me. (She works part-time in a highly paid field. Partly because it interests her to work, and partly as an economic hedge -- we don't really need her income now, but if something happened to me, she could switch to full time and support the family.)

It's economically rational to want a spouse who can earn money. It's not necessarily gold digging.

As someone who's always been employed, this confuses me. How do the permanently unemployed afford video games and drugs, in addition to rent and food? Sponge off their parents? Their partner? The state? I'd love to see a real study.

That is beautiful, but I need more data.

1. Do project managers, product managers, etc. count, or only real managers with teams reporting to them?

2. Do urinals count, or only real sit-down toilets?

The word "reputable" does not match the rest of your post.

A Tesla can do 150 miles without needing to charge at all.

I live 11 miles from work. I live in a hot state. I bike to work. I take a shower when I get there. It's not a problem.

I know not every office has a shower, but many do. And requiring the others to have one would be a pretty small thing.

That tenure report looks pretty useless. You can't tell how much of it is not hiring, and how much is people leaving. Any metric where Kodak is #1 is probably not a metric that indicates good places to work.

Looks like both cars have a stop sign, and this one got there first.

Unless foo.txt is too big, in which case, bam, out of memory.

I put swimming lessons in a different category than other activities, because being able to swim can save you from drowning. (Whether 2 is the right age for your kid, I don't know. But I'd like to see all kids get them at some point. I got them in elementary school, during the school day, and I think that was a fantastic use of tax dollars and school time.)

My wife and I were not big activity pushers. Besides the swimming lessons that I insisted on for safety reasons, our kid did some gymnastics, and some music lessons. Didn't really like either, and we let her stop doing both.

They're not tens of watts. More like 3W. See http://www.nabendynamo.de/produkte/son_28_en.html

If it's not enough to bother a human cyclist, it's not enough to bother a horse.

>There was actually an alternator system attempted in the last five years,” he says. “It worked about 60 percent, but it never took off.

Generator hubs for bicycles are mature technology at this point. Including capacitors in the taillights so they stay on when the bike is stopped. Buggies could easily adopt them, but I guess it's not worth the bother if batteries mostly work.

Pickup / dropoff at nearest non-goofy intersection.

You need a rear brake for two reasons. One is redundancy: if the front brake fails, you want another option, even if it's not quite as good. The other is spreading the braking heat over twice as much surface area on long fast descents. (Some tandems have a third brake for that reason.)

I've seen the combination of a coaster brake and a front brake on some kids' bikes. I believe the thinking is that a coaster brake is friendly to novices, those with weak hands, and those who knock their front brake out of adjustment and don't know how to fix it. While a front brake gives riders who can actually get above 12 mph some actual stopping power for safety.

"we did have a few niggles about how it had been assembled which much to our amusement on our first test ride the handlebars went one way while the bike carried on going straight"

This is enough reason not to buy a bike from a non-bike store, unless you have the skill to reassemble it yourself.

It's true, but you can turn that stuff off.

You want to turn off things under Privacy like "Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors", "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar", "Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google", "Use a web service to help resolve spelling errors", and "Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google." And not login into Chrome.

The problem is that even if you tell all your employees what to disable, some of them will probably not comply. So a truly paranoid IT team might want to make their own fork of Chromium with those features removed.

I don't see anything particularly rude about this statement. I think you're overreacting to something that isn't there.

Anecdote: My current employer, which has employees in many locations, pays the same position differently by location. HR told me that Silicon Valley and Manhattan are both above Seattle, and that the DC area is at the same level as Seattle.

Sure, I've done it. But you're competing with a lot of people, so you'd better stand out.

In this case, it wasn't that the company wanted to pay me less for the same job because I was remote, rather than in SF. (Though some companies do that.) It was that they only allow remote work for a few positions, which happen to be lower-paying. They want to keep "core engineering" local, for communication or whatever. I can't really argue with that -- it's their company and they can run it how they want. But I'm sure not moving to SF and doubling my cost of living for a job that pays largely in lottery tickets.

I've gotten two solid leads leading to interviews through "Who's Hiring" posts, but didn't end up taking either job.

Company 1 wanted me for a remote position, but wanted to pay me about half my market rate. This is a casualty of the salary dance -- everyone is so busy hiding their numbers that sometimes you get too far into the process before you realize there's no way to make the numbers line up. If they'd listed a salary range on the original post, or I'd given a salary range in the initial contact, it would have saved everyone time.

Company 2 brought me in for an interview, then went silent for a month, then re-contacted me to resume the process after I'd already taken another job. They're a small security startup, and were really busy due to a security emergency that flared up while I was interviewing, and I slipped through the cracks. Understandable in that case, I guess, but good engineers are rarely on the job market for long, and if you're not able to focus, you will have a hard time hiring them. (Unforgivable in a larger company that has full-time recruiters and HR people, which doesn't mean it doesn't happen all the time.)

I'm a few years younger than you, and I also walked to kindergarten. Except I did it alone. Not a problem.

A lot of widely-used cryptography relies on factoring large numbers being difficult.

Tinder is Trent in this protocol. As long as both Alice and Bob trust Trent, that works. But Trent can cheat.

That gag order looks unconstitutional to me. Has it ever been challenged in court?