1st Gear: You get a bailout! You get a bailout! Everybody gets a bailout!!

If all the automakers were gone, I’d start by making brown, manual wagons. And I’d run them on a car-treadmill for at least 75,000 miles before they hit the showroom floor. Spilling some stuff in the cabin is a small upcharge.

On a data science & analytics virtual meeting about COVID-19 earlier today, one of the numbers that stood out to me was the rate of doubling of cases. South Korea took the charge to stay home seriously, and flattened their curve (no new cases) in short order. And as much as I distrust China for the way they’ve lied…

This is what happens when you incorporate NASCAR technology into your platform

You know what’s more astonishing than an 80% dive?

It’s an interesting take, to be sure. We already live in a giant welfare state anyways, so I’m not necessarily opposed to UBI. But the real concerning thing to me is the skyrocketing national debt/deficit that nobody talks about. We’re at $24+ trillion and counting, and nobody seems to care. At a certain point our…

But taxes on whom? I’m not opposed to increasing taxes on the uber-rich (i.e. those who make more than a couple million per year, in my opinion), but there are only so many rich people in the U.S. The math doesn’t equate either— if you only tax income, much of their wealth is held in non-cash assets like stocks,…

Where does any of the money come from? Taxes.

I could do my job from home full time but I also like my coworkers too much to do it anything more than part time. I also don’t like being alone with only my cats for 9 hours a day. Those fuckers constantly look like they are planning my demise.

Disagree 100%. I’m working from home but normally work from an office. There is a lot to be said to being in the same place physically as your coworkers. Human interaction is a GOOD thing and should be encouraged. Ad hoc encounters, spur of the moment conversations, going out to LUNCH FFS, are things that cannot be…

Those work-from-home jobs will return directly to offices after this crisis is over. The reason? Employers don’t want to pay someone a full salary for 2 hours of work. I grant you that not all days are like that, but having been in an office environment before there is a lot of time wasting from employees in an effort…

We have yet to see how well those work-from-home jobs do as WFH though; lots of folks don’t handle that well, and lots of managers don’t either. Plenty of us that slowly go insane doing it that way too, even if we’re effective at it. There’s value in face-to-face interactions you lose purely WFH; how do we find the…

I don’t disagree, but those people are now heating and cooling a larger house/area for just 1-2 people during the day now. (*assumption is that others also set their house warmer/cooler when they are at work, would be interesting to see the actual energy deltas both ways)

I loved when he was taking on the second squad with the axe and three of the guards just straight-up run away, with him yelling “Oh, come on!” after them.

Great. So you’re allowing the game AI to learn and adapt to player strategies, in order to beat them. How long until they decide that an optimal path to beating the player is one where the player is no longer breathing, and thus, unable to enter controller input. Nanoseconds? Femptoseconds?

In 2018 the Swine Flu infected 60,800,000 people in the US and killed 12,496 people. A lethal rate of 00.021%

If the big 3 have proven anything over the past several decades it’s that they are agile and can adapt quickly. Also, water is in fact not wet.

It’s a very annoying and stupid thing Tesla is up to. I mean if it’s on a car when being sold, taking it off later amounts to theft. The argument that it’s a software and is licensed to the first owner doesn’t hold water.

I wonder if that’s Teddy in there.