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Racism in auto manufacturing seems to be as rampant as sexual harassment and discrimination in tech. Without even trying that hard:

Ford: https://www.hometownstations.com/news/ford-employees-say-rac...

GM: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/us/gm-toledo-racism-lawsuit/i...

Toyota: https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/news/toyota-says-it-no-...

Honda: https://www.courthousenews.com/honda-plant-accused-of-tolera...

That being said, this isn't the first time in the last few years there's been a suit against Tesla. Either this isn't been a focus for management, or their remediation has been deficient in preventing this sort of toxicity from flaring up out in the open.

Does the word "long term" have no meaning, then?

I agree it would be better to say "within the few 2 decades" or slap a timeframe on it. But this characterization is silly.

At Google there is a peer bonus benefit. You can peer bonus someone for doing something awesome. Each peer bonus is $150 before tax. You can list your peer bonuses on your promo packet. You can give as many of these out as you want ... within reason. Sometimes at Google they do something called a peer bomb, where many people will peer bonus a single person.

Whoa, taxis showed up 2 out of 3 times for you? The official study has it at 49%:

https://archives.sfmta.com/cms/rtaxi/documents/2005TaxiAvail...

I even remember when the number was lower ...

Saw a lot of speculation about what ISIS does or does not do without actual links. Here are a few good ones I've seen in the past:

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/isis-opsec-encryption-manuals-...

This podcast was pretty good. ISIS were using a Turkish Dropbox like service to move files ... except the service was actually based in France, something a whois on the domain could have easily detected. Fighters have also geotagged tweets/instagram/Facebook posts, which led to a drone strike:

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/62-decoders/

So ... they're both more sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec. And less sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec.

I've been using this on Android for weeks. It's super fast, blocks a lot of annoying ads (think jumpy mobile overlays). No bookmarks or tabs, so if you're looking at a recipe for a dish you're making, there's always a chance it gets wiped. Just use Chrome for that. Highly recommend.

What's up with reductionist posts like this every time a company announces layoffs? Scaling out a global business takes a lot more work than it does to run a no-SLA side project. And you hire people to build out businesses that don't yet exist. When you've overreached, or targets are consistently not being met, you re-org, or, if that isn't possible, you scale back.

> I lived a couple of blocks from Uber's HQ's on 10th/Market and I went to lots of meetups there. People I met were happy and proud of the company.

I'm not really sure this is a good measure of the toxicity of a company's culture, since it's not even close to a fair sampling of the people there.

> It reminds me of Thomas Edison sabotaging Tesla, and yet, here we are, on A/C.

Dangerous position to take. This is pretty much saying that the ends justify the means, given enough time. That because winners write history, that in the moment, doing whatever it takes to win is more important than operating ethically.

This is incorrect. Ask anyone who has had an insider peek of any on-demand company's finances. The largest cost to all of these companies is employee acquisition, which continues to rise.

Take your own advice and do the unscientific thing of talking to the drivers. How many of them are new? How many are old? Surprising how many of those fall into the first category.

I chose to read this author as someone who very much believes in the black-and-white lines of the letter of the law. He's an interesting guy, for better or for worse. On the one hand, he's the guy who is willing to put his own name on the line to take on Facebook and Google (while consulting for Microsoft) on privacy as well as search result neutrality:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-12241395

But he's also the same person who used his knowledge and position to bully small business owners. If he's done it once, he's probably done it more than once:

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/13/370347429/outrage-over-chinese...

Do we apply this logic of "it was rooted in illegality, it can never be legal" to undocumented immigrants?

Ah, yes, @dpp, creator of the Scala web framework Lift:

https://blog.linkedin.com/2009/06/15/video-linkedin-scala-te...

(Video is offline)

To which Twitter's Nick Kallen replied on stage, incredulously, "... I don't think that's correct."

> The deal will mean the Pebble stock held by employees is worthless, two of the people said. The money will instead go to debt holders, vendors, some of its main equity investors, and Kickstarter refunds for the Time 2 and Pebble Core orders, the people said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-07/pebble-sa...

I made the mistakes of backing a number of smartwatches on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. The Pebble, for its faults, was still the most stable, polished item out of all the crowdfunded items I've ever back.

Separate note: I don't crowdfund anything anymore. Learned my lesson.

There's a lot of disinformation about martial arts in any online discussion, especially because people are obsessed with determining which martial arts is "the best". That's a sort of reductionist argument that never takes into context the history of each martial art and why/where it is effective or ineffective.

Let's start with some history: Judo was never heavily practiced historically, because you had a sword. Judo techniques were used as a last resort in case you lost your weapon. In a society where the peacekeepers carry weapons, you are at a serious disadvantage with any kind of unarmed combat, be it BJJ (which I practice, for sport), Muay Thai (which I practiced briefly and is effective in 1:1 situations in a stand-up and clinch), even Krav Maga (I tried this), or Chinese martial arts.

So here's an argument for why certain martial arts are "better" than others, depending on the situation and the era you live in:

Kendo/sword martial arts - you are likely going to war. The Chinese martial arts fall under this category, where you can quickly use certain forms to train thousands of troops at once to be "more ready" in general warfare than your enemy. Your troops will have slightly more conditioning, and practicing forms lets you have a 1:many trainer to student ratio. Even if the martial arts are not the best for close quarter 1:1 combat, or ground fighting, it makes no sense to spend time training your troops for these situations if the odds are VERY stacked against them in a wartime situation.

Krav Maga is a great martial art to teach for modern, urban self defense because the movements are basic. If you might end up in a bar fight, for instance, Krav Maga teaches something called stacking, where your goal when you have to maximize your chances of getting away from multiple attackers is to quickly subdue one attacker, then using head control, using that attacker's body to defend your own while you create space so you can escape. There are more advanced techniques that teach knife or gun defense if you are caught off guard, but it should be noted that you are probably at a disadvantage unless you are highly skilled if someone with a weapon attacks you! Training Krav Maga takes a bad probability of survival and turns it into a less bad probability.

Back to Judo: judo and karate took off as effective when peacekeepers could not carry weapons, and had to learn to effectively do their jobs without weapons. The key here is that society had to chance so that weapons were only carried by the warrior caste.

Filipino martial arts - unarmed, sticks, knives. No swords or spears, because this isn't what they went to war with. Surprisingly effective now, because you are likely to have a cane or umbrella, and you will have a slightly better chance defending yourself against a knife attack, which a modern attacker is more likely to have than a sword or a spear.

Now where does Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which many people talk about, fit in? Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is an extremely effective martial art for one-on-one, unarmed confrontations. For children, if a bully throws you to the ground and gets on top of you and starts to hit you, you can escape and get away. If ONE PERSON attacks you in public without a weapon and you both go to the ground, you can probably subdue or escape if you have practiced BJJ. If two people attack you, or if it's one group on another group, BJJ is probably not so effective. I saw a version of MMA on TV that was effectively a 5v5 team fight, and it quickly turned into who could tap or KO a another member first, then it became a 5v4, and 5v3, and so on. The effectiveness of BJJ in group fights is greatly diminished - now we are back to martial arts like Krav Maga where you might have learned to group fight or even the Chinese martial arts.

BJJ and Muay Thai have really taken off because of MMA/UFC. The rules used to heavily favor BJJ practitioners, who in that particular environment, thrive. Karate practitioners were not traditionally used to ground fighting, and the Jiu Jitsu fighters would stick to their strategy of taking someone to the ground and quickly submitting them. UFC is a 1:1, no-hitting-eyes-or-neck-or-groin fight. No stomping. In the early era of UFC, there weren't any rounds. This GREATLY favors BJJ practitioners, who can simply hold someone indefinitely on the ground and tire them out. If you've never grappled before, even if you are in great shape - HOLY MOLY prepare to get wiped out in minutes.

Many of you may disagree with some of the details of my interpretations, but the general spirit of my argument is this: different martial arts thrive in different eras because society changes. Claiming one martial art is better than another without adding context is disingenuous.

There's a circle here that you left out:

More riders = more drivers. More drivers = more riders opening that app first. I have personally learned to check Uber first before Lyft because I know Uber drivers are closer and the fare estimate will be lower. Uber's advantage is their institutional experience pushing competitors out of markets they want and their cutthroat attitude.

The Roman government at least paid for the bread and circuses, right? They didn't ask the populace to pay for the right to pay for circus season tickets ...

N=~10, my friends are about 70/30 Uber/Lyft usage. Sometimes one will have lower surge pricing. Some have Lyft for Work and that drives a lot of usage. UberPool for longer rides with no time urgency that would otherwise be much more expensive than $7.

I'm not convinced CIOs are thinking about Reader or Wave. Before entering a big deal, it would make sense for people to read the deprecation policy. Unfortunately, the Cloud Platform deprecation policies are unclear.

The terms of service (https://cloud.google.com/terms/) point to the cloud platform deprecation policy (https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation). The Cloud Platform deprecation policy points to the product launch stage page (https://cloud.google.com/terms/launch-stages), which points back to the "deprecation policy" section of the terms of service!

As a CIO, I would be most concerned with the ecosystem and availability of talent. Google have done a good job trying to reuse some of the same tools and ideas like reuse boto, but writing scripts for their cloud platform vs. AWS is still as different as English and Dutch.

michaelochurch is many things, but I don't have any doubts in my mind that one of his talents is writing a lot, and writing it really fast.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/

Wait, really? Maybe if you come from writing Bash scripts.

An Apple Genius at an Apple store told my in-laws to kill their apps. Wish I was there in person to law down the law on that guy.

I suspect this isn't as big of a deal as you think it is in terms of making Android more successful. I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice, I'm just saying: why should this be a priority in the grand scheme of things? A better programming language doesn't make the Android APIs easier to learn in the short term.

I get the sense that what is going to Swift great isn't going to be that it's better than Objective-C. CocoaTouch is still hard to learn. It's the tooling that can be built around it. The playground is a good peek at some of the things to come.

Because The Wire is not about instant gratification. It's layers on layers that pay off in multiples by the time you're into the later seasons. Even season two, by far the weakest season, is a total treat the second time you watch it and know what you're looking for.

Questionable - remember that interest over the life of a 30 year loan often dwarfs the principal itself. Depending on how long you live at a place, whether the price goes up or not if you sell and various sales costs, your tax "savings" from deducting mortgage interest might only be a small discount on getting screwed in general.

That's worse than disheartening to me. That's straight up disgusting. I haven't seen the threats yet but it doesn't surprise me.

My gut tells me there was probably sexism at GitHub, drama with founder's wife, AND she was probably not blameless either in this whole mess. It was disheartening to me to see people rally to her on Twitter and immediately cry for the sacking of GitHub before any facts or concrete allegations were made by anyone involved, her especially. That's the stuff angry mobs are made of.

I agree that Valleywag was more neutral, but I disagree that the quality of Valleywag has gone up. Does anyone remember the old Owen Thomas/Nick Denton era of Valleywag, when they would actually get insider scoops? Sam Biddle and Nitasha Tiku are nothing more than glorified repost kids trying to squeeze out pageviews.

This is something that works in theory, but not real life. Internet is becoming a utility, and most people only ever have experienced one utility in their life. People in the SF Bay Area choose between AT&T DSL and Comcast cable internet - two of the WORST providers, ever. Verizon FiOS eats both their lunches, yet, nobody rabble rouses to ask for fiber in that area. If people in Silicon Valley won't even pressure their politicians (there are FAR more urgent issues), why would people in other areas with far more pressing economic concerns?

A blue light is also good for dealing with jet lag. Here's one from Philips that has a rechargeable battery and is portable:

http://www.truesunmedical.com/blue-light/53-philips-golite-b...