> These folks halfway across the world aren't bothering, nor do they actually threaten my freedom in any way shape or form.
As a counterargument, you can't know that. It seems like this argument could be restated as "I don't trust the US government to dispassionately determine who is a threat and even if they were a threat I am not in favor of killing people as a response." Which seems fair but the world is a complicated place and there are justifiable uses of drone strikes.
> the world is a complicated place and there are justifiable uses of drone strikes
Herein lies the problem, different people and groups see different actions as justifiable or not. Drone striking the hell out of a country half way around the world has very debatable justifications. And what throws a lot of shade on the justification is when the country doing the bombing goes on to ally itself with with countries that are, from the point of view of the justification, no better or worse than the one being bombed.
It's hilarious and probably terrible for society that you can sell your company but still control it. The most powerful companies become even less accountable to anyone. If you buy a share in an active business, sure the amount of control that share represents was factored into the share price. But it is still slightly absurd that these companies with zero accountability are allowed to be traded on public markets.
I’m rather happy to own shares in companies run by the founder with ambitious growth over those run by a career CEO who wants to grow revenue 5% y/y and nothing else.
While it’s true CEOs left unchecked engage in “empire building”, it’s also true that shareholders tend to suffer from short term thinking: money now is better than money later. The result is a lot of short term investments and a lack of 20 year planning.
> There have been a total of six deaths related to Autopilot misuse over 3 billion Autopilot driven miles by the fleet. Humans are terrible at risk management.
Or, humans rightly assessed that despite marketing to the contrary autopilot only really works on the easiest part of driving (highway miles) and still managed to kill 6 people.
The things the ceo proclaims on stage and in the press are marketing -what it’s sold as.
A click wrap legal disclaimer after you already purchased the thing is in no way what something is sold as. It literally can’t be - because you have already bought it.
Based on Tesla’s valuation and their autonomy license revenue (publicly available in the financials), I don’t believe your assertion is borne out. Customers and investors are confident in their autonomy aspirations, based on the data available.
Because he was a schmuck on a bicycle exploring a region more than twice the size of Texas, and not an actual journalist? Seriously, the OP was from freaking buzzfeed and it still listed the research team. These are not equally valuable accounts.
I think treating it as a job where 75% of the salary is experience is probably the right attitude. FWIW I worked with a lot of grad students and anecdotally saw the best outcomes from people who within 2-3 months of showing up knew exactly what they wanted to do, were in the lab 10-8 to do it, graduated in 4-5 years and immediately got top-tier jobs.
I knew people who spent (7, 8, 9, 10, 11) years as a PhD student and they sure didn't seem happy or end up particularly good places...
AAA gamedevs (and even C- gamedevs) generally use gaming engines (Unity, Unreal, etc). They don't write direct Vulkan or GL. Practically only the Engine people need to care about Vulkan's complexity.
Besides, while the boilerplate for Hello Triangle is indeed very big, it makes a lot of stuff easier to express on top of it. GL may have a much smaller Hello Triangle, but you have a lot less control over it, way too much stuff happens under the hood. And regardless, if all you want is to animate a web page with fish on an aquarium you really should be using GL instead of Vulkan.
If they'd done this right at the PY3K transition and only allowed the function-call-without-parenthesis syntax for `print` calls it could have been a good idea. But now that the community paid the decade-long price to get print as a normal function why backtrack?
Weird, as anecdotes go I've always thought the signal iOS app was very polished. I just checked three of those issues (camera access, shared links, search) on an iPhone 11 Pro Max and I wasn't able to reproduce. I suspect Signal may not have a QA group large enough to test on every phone/environment.
As a counterargument, you can't know that. It seems like this argument could be restated as "I don't trust the US government to dispassionately determine who is a threat and even if they were a threat I am not in favor of killing people as a response." Which seems fair but the world is a complicated place and there are justifiable uses of drone strikes.