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Comment · 8 years ago
Let's play with statistics:

Scenario 1: 100 human drivers drive some distance. 2 bad drivers caused 150 accidents and both died in their last fatal accidents.

Scenario 2: 100 self-driving/autopilot-enabled cars drive the same road for the same distance. Everyone has one accident and one of them is fatal.

Statistical numbers: Self-driving/autopilot-enabled cars cut both the accident rate and death rate by half. Death rate per accident is reduced from 2/150 to 1/100.

Conclusion: self-driving/autopilot is better.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
It is the same government because you will still be caught for discussing the TianAnMen square event in public. It is still a taboo topic since 1989 and nothing on this matter changed so far.
Comment · 9 years ago
I am a Chinese and I am curious starting when we had net neutrality? Every major sites has to pay all major ISPs to connect into their network so that all ISPs' customers can access the site. When you rent a server, you need to make sure that the server is connected to at least two of the major networks otherwise ISPs will throttle traffic from other competitors. It is also true that connecting servers outside the country is terribly slow if it even accessible
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
In short, there is no guarantee. Any message could be deleted at any time for no reason.
Comment · 10 years ago
I think they are different topics under different environment. Software changes, a lot, over time. You can hardly recognize a software's source code if you don't touch them for a decade. The features changed, new features added, old features deprecated, etc. On the other hand, over the life time of a person, their DNA will not be changed dramatically. What their cells need to do is just an exactly copy of its genes. There won't be a case where one person needs to grow a third arm, while in software world, we constantly change requirements.

Software evolves more like the evolution of a species: Small changes over time to adapt the ever changing environment.

Comment · 10 years ago
Nice work! But you may want to remove src/#lib.rs# :)
Comment · 10 years ago
Are you saying that Kubernetes only supports GCE? AFAIK, Kubernetes could run on many (any?) cloud or even bare metal machines.

Disclaimer: I used to work on Kubernetes and its related projects.

Comment · 10 years ago
Here is a similar product from Motorola several years ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Atrix-4G-Android-Phone/dp/B00...

And there's a laptop dock sold separately

http://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Motorola-Retail-Packaging/dp...

I had the phone but had never used the dock. Not sure about the experience, but it's a cool idea to me.

Comment · 10 years ago
I think the segregation you were talking about might be attribute to the first generation of immigrants. NYC and many other places have a longer tradition of accepting people from other contries. Many "people in color" in those cities have been there for generations. But in SV, many tech engineers are not born and raised in America. They tend to hangout within their own group for obvious reasons. Compared with NYC, SV has just started to welcome people from other countries.
Comment · 10 years ago
> One senior, Sarah Jones, ... “There are not a lot of people of color in the Valley—and that, by itself, makes it kind of unwelcoming."

This statement may be true if "people of color" means African American. Otherwise, it is just not the fact. I do think, through my personal experience, the Valley is probably the most diverse place that I have been. I've seen people all over the wrold here: Asian, Latino, European, etc.

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