I'd agree but these are on public roads paid for by taxes; they need heavy regulation if it shows significant improvement towards safety. I'm not either in support or against this proposal but if they can show data backing this idea, I'd likely agree with it.

Once driverless cars become standard things like the steering wheel will become a thing of the past as people will want to shift towards more convenient and comfortable setups. A driver's license will quickly become a thing of the past and trust me, very few people will want to drive manually when they can be watching movies, surfing facebook, etc all while laying on their recliner.

I've just started learning C++ and C++11 makes things so much easier and they add desperately needed features such as threading and smart pointers which reduces the need for including more libraries. If anything, C++11 simply expands the standard library to include more functions that you'd otherwise have more difficult solutions for or have to include libraries for (such as BOOST, from which many features come from). I love what they are doing with C++11 and hope that the next major update includes even more features to make it an even more complete language (such as Python, which has countless standard libraries, far more than C++, that no one seems to be complaining about).

If source code was written in human language I'd agree.

The whole point of this article is that you burn out and become unproductive if you bust your ass, pump out all your work in 5 hours, then are expected to keep that going for another 5 hours, rinse and repeat everyday for the rest of your life. Humans are complex machines that don't have an on and off button; you have to consider the human element as a core part of productive output.

They are doing it to increase revenue/future profit. This is a long term strategy, don't be fooled into thinking they are doing this to be charitable. I think it's great because it means they will have more money to invest in infrastructure in the future.

It makes it much more difficult, since cheating to get a few points is a lot different than cheating 10-20 points to pass. The end result is that cheating will have much less impact on the results.

The problem is if one of those sources no longer exists. Now you have a trusted news source stating something as fact with a source from another trusted new sources but no way to actually verify the origin of the source. This results in a lie on Wikipedia transforming into an unverified claim that may not be able to be proven true or false, giving it much more legitimacy than before.

China taking advantage of outsourcing afforded it the ability to provide rural workers with low wage factory jobs. As more rural workers transitioned to these factory jobs, a middle class started to develop. This eventually led to internal demand for the products they were producing (since you had enough people with low but decent wage jobs), which ultimately results in China having a strong enough middle class to create jobs for their own demand, not just the demand of other countries. China is arriving at the point where they can start manufacturing higher end goods/services that can be sold within their own country, just like 1st world countries.

He used it correctly in other parts of his statement. What likely happened is that he just had a typo and does know the correct meaning.

You don't need a profit to benefit your investors. As long as your company grows in value, all those who own a share in the company see their own value also increase. Amazon is likely only around because of their long term strategy, which has afforded them the ability to remain relevant through fast shipping, large selection, and their media presence.

Heaven forbid other people who happen to be from different countries compete for your job, right? I have no problem with immigrants and others coming to our country to earn a living. You have to remember, these people will be using their skills for American companies, their salaries for American taxes, and as an added benefit, they can help themselves and their family to earn a better living (which yes, is a good thing because they are humans, people just like us). I have family in China that benefit strongly from outsourcing and I'll be damned if outsourcing hasn't brought hundreds of millions out of crippling $1/day poverty. We work in a global economy now, your cushy jobs with little competition no longer exist, and I feel no sympathy for you losing that.

It amazes me that people need to realize that skillset is just one factor in compensation. There is a reason why even lawyers can have a hard time finding a good paying position; it's because they, just like programmers, have to compete for high paying jobs. More competitors means more selection and less monetary incentive required by the employer to hire people.

While it is good to change something if need be, it can be very detrimental to be overexcited, ready to change everything to how you see fit, and end up causing a lot more problems that solving. On the lower levels you'll especially see this with power hungry over ambitious managers who take advantage of their role to completely change how things are done, regardless of whether the old way actually worked. The best way to "shake things up" is to slowly transition and test your new ideas so you don't create a mess in the process.

I wasn't aware of the soul as being defined by that, at least for Christians/Jews the Bible barely makes any mention of its properties. Considering the "soul" is metaphysical, the explanation can be simply explained away as a supernatural copy of our state of mind that is restored after death in a new supernatural body. Who knows though, I sure as hell don't know anything about souls and to discuss it is pure guessing.