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Why do they not need the safety driver? i’m sure google can afford them. i just don’t see the benefit of no safety driver. especially living in mountain view and seeing the recent tesla crash.

removing a library? you can remove 100 usages of it but not until every single one is gone can you remove it.

put another way: you can have one item that is 5 days of work but really critical and another that’s 2 days of work but way less critical. If you have 2 days to work on tech debt, you basically are forced to do the 2 day one. especially since you are evaluated on what you finish, not how much you worked towards some long goal.

yeah but it wasn’t in the cultural zeitgeist to care about these. Now that it’s popular, many people will want to virtue signal and leave the company so others see how much principle they have.

i think it’s genetic drift

startups also pay insane rent for their offices

huh, my battery runs down, GPS breaks, and software gets too slow for the aged harwdware after about 2 years everytime.

One thing that concerns me is the security concerns with the export function in GDPR. So now a hacker can get in and just export all my data in an few minutes so that changing my password won’t lock them out?

well specifically for my school there were a lot of classes that we took freshman and sophomore year that weren’t offered at any CC. Therefore students had to go back and take those cs courses.

This is essentially what AP classes are, is it not. If you go to a decent high school and take a good amount of AP’s it will keep you busy and challenged.

I like CCs but there are definitely some downsides to consider as well: (speaking from california perspective)

- Our cc’s are all impacted and getting the classes you need is nearly impossible. Many people end up taking 3 years to graduate.

- When you do transfer to a bachelors program, you’ll find that your cc was missing a lot of the pre reqs you need for your major (depending on your major). I’ve seen a lot of cc students at UC schools have to go back and take freshman and sophmore level classes. (total could end up taking 6 years overall)

- All the other students when you transfer are already friends and have relationships with the professors and local businesses. Whose going to get the prestigious research position, the new guy or the one whose been bonding and proving themselves to the professor for 2 years? Same goes for internships.

- Who you spend time with shapes who you are. If you are a bright individual, it can be frustrating or depressing being around some of your peers in CC. My girlfriend took an online cc class where they had to submit a paragraph to their class forum. Two students literally copy and pasted her response word for word.

weird how hedge funds are evil yet everyone’s with bezos owning wapo with his monopoly and 300million dollar contract with the CIA

i didn’t know there were people who thought iran rigged the election? are we off russia now? people know trump hates iran right?

i never owned one but i really liked their idea of having apps display some data in the tile without having to open them up. Really sad that other phones haven’t learned from this.

just use lambda :D it’s a good in-between

i think there is a natural barrier for these paths being too hard and too mathy for most people. people have known for decades that engineering is a good path.

so easy to dismiss something by calling it a "conspiracy theory". The only conspiracy is by the FBI on the American people, with their warrantless surveillance. How about the fact they lie around 100 pct of the time about these matters?

yes your freedom wouldn’t be here if we weren’t drone bombing weddings of goat farmers in yemen (the poorest people in the world). Or maybe if we weren’t setting civilians on fire in laos or cambodia or bombing pharmaceutical factories in Sudan. Where would our freedom be without that?

you already lost this game when you had to go back to ww2 for a just war.

no. he knows it’s harder. but it’s worth it for him to sell your data and abuse his users.

they had to have the tool for gdpr. not because they are good guys

yeah. they start and run successful small businesses across the country. making millions of dollars. Outside of engineering and accounting, very few professions need math.

so true. STEM master race.

that's why anyone can just sit in a history or physics graduate level course and be fine because they don't build on each other.

Organic chemistry would never depend on bio or chem 1.

however, if you sleep through algebra 1, its not used at all in geometry so its fine. And neither are used in discrete math.

such a bubble..

what if i told you most students don't learn anything past algebra anyway?

hm, that isn't what i said. You were ranking them relative to eachother and i said people might disagree on the relative rankings. I said that "people may disagree that math and english are more important than history and science". You responded as if i said "Math and english aren't important". Those are two completely different arguments.

yeah unless they spent it, or hid it, etc... just as easy to get that cash back as it would be to get the criminals private key.

hm, that's very debatable. alot would contend history and science are core but others aren't. I've heard many complain that they never use math in the real world. I think math is core but the problem is its very opinion based. I don't see how other subjects don't build on each other.

yeah that’s also why cash and gold are worthless XD. who in the world would take cold hard cash or gold bullion in exchange for goods??!! you can’t reverse it!! and guess what, someone can hold a gun to your head and take it.

why should the state have any claim to my property? that’s your best argument. regardless, i’ll answer your question.

blockchain are immutable and public. therefore the government can’t be corrupt and steal/funnel people’s property like they do in the real world now. we can all scrutinize the transactions.

hm anyone know if they are salted as well?

had a non-tech friend recently message me this (about brian acton from WhatsApp tweeting against Facebook):

"so dumb. of course the founder of a competing company would criticize them"

i don’t like articles like this because it discounts the effect of actual luck. An open mind isn’t going to help you if a family member is sick and you have to take care of them instead of going to college.