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I know it's protected information, but I am curious which types of fraud these amounts are awarded for. There seems to be lot of unpunished public examples of securities fraud (MLMs, cryptocurrencies, legislators dumping or buying stocks at convenient times, etc).

I've noticed a related effect, where every problem discussed in a retro has a "process" solution, because the team's own processes are the only thing the team can fully control.

This can lead to both a constant churn in processes and a piling on of additional processes, which bog the team down with an explosion of on-call-like rolls that get rotated through team members.

I used to help teach kids (12-16ish) how to code.

One thing that we always did towards the beginning of a class was an exercise where we tell them to write down the steps to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Then we'd literally get bread, peanut butter, and jelly, and follow their instructions to the letter. No one ever adequately describes the process: "put peanut butter on bread" - With what? the jar is closed, I can't! etc.

You might argue this introduces too imperative a thought process - but it gets the "computers do exactly what you tell them to" idea across very well.

Since I didn't see this elsewhere - client certs have privacy concerns, because by the time you've done your handshake the other side knows exactly who you are. This pretty much rules out always-presented certs. Because of that, you would need to manage the certs more directly, and then you get into all of the UX issues around managing certs.

I think the McDonalds of the future may look more like a vending machine than a restaurant. Of the the things you listed, only "test a burger patty for the correct internal temperature" is actually related to producing McDonalds food, and that is certainly automatable.

But that aside, if all that's left is basic cleaning then McDonalds could simply contract a cleaning service. I'd guess that a single team could service at least 10 fast food restaurants a day. And then how many years before running the cleaning service only requires one person?

I really appreciate this description. Always nice to see the "actual" definitions instead of "it's like a thing you can map over."

I initially had problems understanding monads in Haskell having come from a math perspective.

Where I live there is a minimum fare of $75 imposed on Uber cars leaving from the airport. I took an Uber there and had a great, simple experience ($34 fare) but had to take a taxi back when returning from my trip.

The cab was falling apart. One of the doors didn't open from the inside. The axles made horrible, periodic thunking sounds (I'd guess the CV joints but am no car expert). The engine light, the wheel stability light, and the SRS warning light lit up the dash. The cab driver drove 10-15mph over the speed limit and nearly side-swiped several other cars. I asked to pay with a card and was met with a grunt of disgust, even as I added a standard 10% tip.

I understand there are some regulation issues related to Uber in many cities, but given the experiences I've had, I can't wait to be rid of taxis.

I should add that in London I had the opposite experience, where the standard cabs (and official app) were fantastic, but Uber was price gouging during a tube strike.

One of the many good points that Lanier made was that there is not currently an inevitable, moore's-law-like progression that will take modern AI methods towards the "superintelligence" that is meant when AI is discussed as an existential threat.

Coupling that with the fact that any AI will be limited by its human-defined interface leaves me pretty unconcerned about AI, even if we ever figure out what truly makes a conscious, intelligent being and determine how to replicate it fully in some other medium.

That said, I appreciate Bostrom's work as a philosophical rather than practical matter.

I enjoyed reading it - it's amusing and some of it resonates with my experiences.

...But I don't think it's great satire, for the reasons you point out.

I think its ubiquity is important (installed by default on most non-Windows machines, at least in my experience) combined with the simplicity of running a python script.

Now that Microsoft is supporting non-Windows with .Net core, C# is more attractive. That said, if I was thinking compiled Python with static typing my mind would go to Go.

Lots of options!

I'm not an expert, but there is some evidence that nicotine alone can lead to heart disease.