Isn't that what this really boils down, not some bullshit about masculinity? Women watch soap operas because it's more exciting than their boring life, men play video games so we can be greater than the insignificant little peons that we are. And in porn the most beautiful women will perform for you even if you're fatter than the marshmallow man and uglier than a troll. We have immersive enough solutions that the body is fooled to play out almost all its chemical registry with endorphin, adrenaline, dopamine and so on letting you fake all the excitement and rewards as you slay imaginary dragons.

The problem is that it's addictive and desensitizing, if you're on a constant rush of awards and achievements and level-ups and whatnot then real life is a real downer. Not entirely unlike how I hear people on drugs describe coming off their high or how fat people act when they come off a sugar rush. So through a combination of actual reality check, batting outside your league because of failed self-perception and being poor at handling disinterest or rejection the result is often a painful face-plant. Once bitten, twice shy so you rather watch porn and play video games than try again.

I don't see how two of them should be meaningfully counted under any circumstances. They could just have it drive itself out of the parking lot and let a human do the rest, the autonomous system would never be at fault. If the car's not driving, it's just a plain old ordinary human-operated car. You don't count the miles, you don't count the accidents.

Actually only about 90% of accidents are attributed to driver error, the rest is mechanical failure like a tire blowing out or environmental like a tree falling across the road. And there's solo accidents and chain collisions, so it's not given that there's two parties involved. I don't know what the percentage is, but it's probably not 50%.

In theory or as in a representative sample of the driving population? I'm guessing it's pretty hard to get a good answer to what we would do. At any rate, my prediction is that we'd do better with one less fleshy driver instead of one more.

But this is exactly why a zombie site doesn't do any good. You need somebody to be your heir, which goes beyond simply the funds to keep the lights on. If you don't have any line of succession set up, make arrangements in your will to add a message to the site saying I've passed, here's a zip of the entire site, if you want to carry the torch feel free for your own name under your own domain. You can't just offer free money and a domain name, somebody will just take the money and use the domain for squatting for ad revenue. Or you could go the formal route and establish a trust, but I imagine that's overkill and the trust manager will take a fair chunk of cash for that.

It's already the default, at least in the US any "work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment" belong to the company. That generally means anything done as part of your work duties or using company resources including but not limited to your working hours, computers or intellectual property. The courts will generally side against you if you come up with a solution for something that's naturally related to your job duties too, you can't research the problem at work then go home and write down the solution claiming it was independently developed.

He might be good friends with his boss, but his boss is probably going to send this to legal and from there it can go spectacularly bad. For example they might start to think he's disloyal and holding back things or stealing ideas to put in his own work for his would-be contractor life. I wouldn't try pulling off a stunt like this unless I'm prepared to be fired and anything you do make on your own gone over with a fine tooth comb. It might also go over a lot nicer than that, but I'd rather build a nest egg and take my chances as a contractor. What he's doing now seems high risk compared to that.

Probably something to do with average winnings/hand, playing more hands with the total winnings not increasing much makes the significance weaker.

Ah, I thought RAID1 would warn you somehow of bit flips which I assume would be the way heat-deteriorated storage would show up. Guess it won't, you'll need ZFS or something like that.

Bring laptop with SSD to Death Valley, leave it in the car stuck in the sun and go hiking. How long until your data is in trouble? However, I just looked at the specs for the Samsung 840 EVO, since it was the first to pop up:

Temperature
Operating: 0C to 70C
Non-Operating: -55C to 95C

I would assume the 95C is with data? It would be a rather small caveat if the drive survived but your data was fried.

Uhh... doesn't that mean that the RAID controller has to wait for the HDD on every read/write to verify it's the same as on the SSD, so effectively you get HDD performance?

Actually it's more traditional mass production at work, I do have a friend that works in the construction industry and modular housing is the big thing. Like for example bathrooms are fairly expensive with membranes, heat cables, tiles, plumbing and whatnot, the smaller ones just come on a trailer from a low cost country. Just hook up electricity, water and sewage and you're done. In apartment blocks they sometimes do whole apartments this way, for more custom buildings there's wall modules and such. Less and less is actually built on site, at best it's assembled.

And at least according to my friend though he might be somewhat biased but he's done both, the modular builds have fewer faults. Instead of unique builds depending on the job performance that day the modules have strong consistency and a pretty decent QA system. Even though the deliveries are more standardized the buyers are usually okay with that, just like there's a limited number of car models usually you're fine with getting one that suits your needs. What you need carpenters/plumbers/electricians for is now often aftermarket repairs/changes, not construction.

Huh, what? Project managers are typically generic drop-in process experts with PMP/Prince2 certification, there's usually a business analyst or reference group that are the subject matter experts. You might say project managers would do better with domain knowledge too, but that's ofte not the case unless it's just a side job to being the one designing/implementing it.

That's not really how it works, I don't know anyone who outsources one position. You make an assessment of your onshore team, you make an assessment of the offshore offering and you either do it or you don't. It doesn't matter if you're the star of the team or the glue that keeps them all together, if you're kicked to the curb it's all of you or none of you. Even if you're kept on you're just there to smoothen ruffled feathers until the offshore team are the ones running it, your new job is to be their coach until you've made yourself redundant.

For example, thought it's not outsourcing as such my government recently decided to move certain public offices out of the capital. This is a political move far, far above the individual employee and they do expect some competency will be lost but it's still going to happen. Individual skills will not protect against this, only practical or legal reasons why outsourcing is unfeasible. Any sensitive data for example is usually a giant PITA to move out of your jurisdiction to workers who aren't bound by your national laws. More practical reasons can be because you're working too close with the clients, they need on-site availability, it integrates too closely with hardware or anything else that makes on-site presence necessary.

Sadly this is a kick in the nuts to remote workers, as much as I'd really like a job I could do from anywhere I know then I'd also be in intense competition with the whole world. Because the value of my work doesn't come down to any of the above really, it comes down to supply and demand. Of course you can't expect massive demand but a stable niche you know they'll need for a long time where only a few can meet the requirements is usually a very safe spot. Like my current job I can't do shit from home, it's quite inconvenient but hell will freeze over before it's outsourced to India.

I'm not so sure it's about "growing out of it", it's mostly about who really means it and who just kicks where it hurts. The latter is "just" part of bullying and could just as well be that you're fat, skinny, tall, short, glasses, freckles, divorce kid, clothes, anything really. Those who really divide the world into superior and inferior remain bigots, those who just did it to harass mostly grows out of it. Or graduate to internet trolls, where there's apparently no age limit.

But it does mean that people moaning about today's youth is a useless indicator, like a broken clock is right twice a day. In fact that's giving it more credit than it deserves because it implies a situation we know is true once in a while. I can cry out about unicorns every day, it doesn't change the probability that there really is a unicorns. Mostly because there's no proof that unicorns exist at all. Has there ever really been a generation that's been so much terribly worse than the last?

I'm afraid most my primary sources are in Norwegian since I live in Norway, but I can start here. On average, women have an income of 326400 NOK and men 487800 NOK so about 67%, unfair right? Well, first of all 5.6% less of working age are in the workforce (77.1% vs 82.7%), I can't be bothered to cross-reference with medical or unemployment data but it's mostly stay-at-home moms, not that they're unable to work or unable to find work. In addition 34.7% of women work part time compared to 13.9% of men and without having the exact data here also overtime is male dominated.

Together when you plug those into the facts and compare full-time equivalents to full-time equivalents you find females make 87% of what men do. Breaking it down further this study (PDF) show that women prefer lower income, more risk adverse educations. This is also reflected in that the private sector is 36% women and the public sector 70% women, which generally is safer and pays less. In the study they find:

So now you're down to about a 3% unexplained difference. Now I'm entering a very touchy subject which I can't properly back up with data but my guess it's primarily maternity leave, as in Norway you have a total of 52 weeks, usually split into 42 weeks maternal leave and 10 weeks paternal leave and on average 1,78 births per woman. It makes some employers reluctant to hire women around 30 as they can't ask about such things and despite formally holding a job it's going to have consequences for experience and promotion opportunities. I know it would for me if I took that much leave.