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Tesla had ~$2.5B in the bank before the capital raise, and are going to be receiving a multi-hundred million to $1B payment from Fiat Chrysler (https://www.ft.com/content/7a3c8d9a-57bb-11e9-a3db-1fe89bedc...) to offset their emissions. They have plenty of money in the bank for the foreseeable future, but they won't if they don't cut their expenses or increase sales. To me, this just looks like a company exiting startup wild-west spending and maturing into a full-fledged company with hard-set processes for company expenses.

That's a staunch overreaction. You're correct in saying that you can equate Tesla's auto-steer and adaptive cruise control to the autopilot in an airplane, however what you fail to account for is that in an airplane operating on autopilot, the pilots are still required by law to be attentive and paying full attention to the system. This is very similar to how Tesla portrays current-generation of autopilot. Sure, their marketing team does state that all cars are capable of self-driving (i.e. they have the required hardware bar HW3 processor), but they never state that current generation cars are self-driving currently. It's on consumers to understand this difference and pay full attention while driving. My mom was a flight attendant on a major U.S. airline until a few years ago, and it wasn't uncommon at all to hear of a an autopilot system malfunctioning ever-so-slightly in that it steers slightly off-course due to a miscalibrated sensor but, since the pilots are actively paying attention, this error never puts the lives of those onboard the plane in-danger. I would say that Tesla's software should be held to the same standard, in that the operator is required and absolutely needs to pay full attention to the system, but there is no need for Tesla to "disabl[e] autopilot on every single Model S and Model 3 sold until the issue is found and fixed"

You can have Adaptive Cruise Control without Auto-Steer enabled but it's not possible to have it the other-way around.

I have a Model 3 and have gone on multiple long-distance road trips (>1,000 mile) with it. It's an absolute pleasure to drive with AutoPilot. Plus, most people already stop every 3-4 hours for bathroom/food breaks anyway, so if you use the in-car nav system (Google Maps), it will make it so those stops are at superchargers. The supercharger stops are almost always in high-density places with plenty of restaurants and usually are ~30minutes which I've found is the perfect time to do all the bathroom/food purchases you would need for the next leg of the trip. Plus with Supercharger V3 rolling out in the next few months, those stops will shrink to just 15 minutes for 80% battery.

This is actually not true. Smaller cable companies (so anyone smaller than Comcast) traditionally make very little if any profit on cable TV. The entire cost of the cable TV package is made up of the licensing and distribution fees charged by the studios. A (will remain) unnamed provider in the northeast region actually looses money per cable TV subscriber so they can stay competitive against Comcast. They're very excited for the day they can drop their Cable TV packages entirely and solely become a pipe.

This is an extremely naive bunch of statements. For side projects where there is only a single developer, it's not a matter of "not caring" but literally not having the time to do these things. Putting an archive system into a service may not be as easy as a DB query. It could be pulling images out of a file storage system, generating thousands of PDF documents or a million other ways data is stored. I hope you can realize that oversimplifying every application to a DB query is just absurd. Add on top of that, now the developer needs to support an entire separate system for pulling data out in addition to whatever the project is meant for. What if this system breaks? Does the developer have to guarantee uptime for this system?

Also, I fail to see how not having time to build an archive system equates to the developer not storing their data securely? That's just an accusation you decided to make which is irrelevant and accusatory.

The point of this post was to show an easy way to ensure you're compliant in 15 lines of code. Building the archive system and associated subsystems will be more than that, without question. Just because you don't like this solution doesn't mean it isn't a solution.

Google has said numerous times they don't want to get involved in any further steps of the job applicant process more than they are with this search tool.

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A natural language home automation interface to control all the electronics in my home.

Pro-tip: You can generally take any paywall blocked article, copy the URL into the Google search bar and click the first-result to get a non-paywall blocked version. Works for NYTimes, WSJ and a few others I can't remember.

Two solutions: Wit.ai for the natural language processing aspect, and then Alchemy's API for the sentiment analysys. Combine those together and you have exactly what you're looking for.