Are you sure they also cannot READ English? Because READING is all you need to get perfect scores in GRE.

I have met plenty of Chinese who can't speak or write English worth squat, and can't understand English spoken by the average American such as in the movies (cuz their teacher back in China mispronounced most of the words), BUT they can READ just fine.

Reading is the only thing you can learn with only a dictionary and extreme discipline to study.

As Lotus had learned from Microsoft - "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run", it is ALL ABOUT THE PLATFORM.

If your revenue stream depends on someone else's platform, then that someone can kill your revenue whenever they decide to eat your lunch too.

If iOS succeeded in taking over 90% of the phone market, then Google's revenue stream from smartphones would be held hostage by Apple.

Do you think the fiasco was caused by bad science, bad journalism, or bad politician?

The case against journalism is straightforward: much of the news articles, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, journalists has taken a turn towards darkness. The apparent endemicity of bad journalist behavior is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, journalists too often sculpt facts to fit their preferred narrative of the world or retrofit hypotheses to fit their data.

Unlike journalists, however, science will always have to bow to reality. So, yeah, bad science practice will eventually run aground when reality hits, no matter how many epicycles one add to the model. But bad journalism will persists as long as it attracts eyeballs.

One has to wonder how you got hired in the first place.

Good, so BOE management is doing their job, making plans for different scenarios that might happen. With the current situation in Europe, some countries might exit EU is not a very far-fetched scenario.

Calling this the "equivalent of the Manhattan project" is a major journalist FAIL here. The Manhattan Project is to build the bomb, not to study the fallout that might come from one. If the Project Bookend is a plan to make it happen, then the comparison might make some sense.

Yeah, I know, we can't expect much from journalists writing click-bait articles, but it should be called out nonetheless.

For an AI with non-urgent cargo, there is no real reason to continue in a blizzard. Only human drivers worrying about being trapped have a reason to keep moving.

When a blizzard is forecasted to approach, all the AI trucks will just go some predesignated waiting spot and sit it out.

The same way how AI or computer currently deals with other things that are beyond their ability... either avoid it, or signal for operator intervention.

Wouldn't be hard to imagine a team of drivers sitting in a control centers around the world to remotely handle any call-for-help from the auto-trucks. They would be able to see and hear what's around the truck, plus any information they needed, from the cameras/mics/sensors on the truck. The truck can have loudspeakers so the operator can talk to anyone (e.g. cops and other drivers) near the truck. They can remotely drive the truck if needed. In the worst case, they can park the truck at the side of the road and send a truck with a real driver to pick up the cargo, then send the empty truck back.

Or, for particularly tricky pass and roads, auto-trucks just completely avoid them, leaving them for real drivers. For non-urgent deliveries, it would be cheaper for the AI to take an AI-manageable roundabout route than to use a more-expensive human driver through the shorter route. For AI with infinite patience, they could be limited to use roads that are safe for trucks. Even if that just works for 70% of all trucking, that would make economic sense. Human drivers can work on the remaining 30%, until the AI slowly improves and eventually take over more and more of it.

Just like how drones are being piloted. Humans can take over when needed, while the AI can operate the remaining 99% of the boring times. Doesn't mean fighter pilots are all fired, but there won't be as many needed.

So, as a former trucker, would YOU like to drive a truck inside the truck, with all the hardships on the road, plus the risk of injury and death from accidents. OR would you like to drive it from an safe, air-conditioned control center near your home, where you can easily take breaks and go home everyday after an 8-hour shift?

Get your head out of the sand. In many places around the world, having an employment contract is the norm for *everyone*, including the janitor. And most employment contracts stated clearly what would be the compensation (usually 1 month or more advance notice, or equivalent payment in salary) if one side wishes to terminate the contract.

It is *very common* for larger companies to have standard employment contracts with 3 months of notice for contract termination. If you are in a more important position, or have unique knowledge/skills, you could negotiate longer notice (e.g. I have seen people with 6 months in some case).

Getting half a year of pay when you got fired isn't bad, huh?

Because most CEOs are smart enough, or hired a lawyer smart enough, to make sure of that BEFORE he was hired.

You want a golden parachute? Then you fight for one written into your employment contract when you join the company.

Good luck making your would-be murderer understood that before you got killed.

A lot of mails out there is benign also, doesn't mean we shouldn't use envelopes whenever we can.

If only sensitive stuff is encrypted, it helps NSA to locate where are the sensitive stuff.

If this were true, we would be seeing a big market for trading-in old lithium batteries. Where can I sell/trade-in my old notebook batteries?

It is time to take your money and walk away for some time. Let's those fresh-outs burn themselves out, then you can either come back or work as consultants fixing their messes.