In my experience? Yes they do. they also hire a bunch of incompetent ones. its a crap shoot.

This is so very true. Learned this the hard way a few years back... It's very rare that stock options are worth anything.

because computers.

Eh, a little bikeshedding makes everyone feel included. I'm all for it.

Correction noted. Thanks!

My mortgage costs more then my disposable income. Disposable income is what's left over after i pay all my bills, right? so comparing my mortgage bill to disposable income is a fallacy at best...i can choose to allocate more funds toward my mortgage or more towards being 'disposable'... It all depends on lifestyle.

You're wrong. A railgun uses a magnetic field as the *source* of the kinetic energy instead of gunpowder. you could, feasably, have a railgun slug that carries an explosive payload. after a railgun projectile leaves the gun, it behaves just like any other projectile. parabolic trajectory, affected by gravity and aerodynamic drag, etc.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/re... -- resource for the above quote.

"run assays on disposable plastic cassettes with pre-loaded reagents"

There is some material cost to actually *using* the thing. It's unclear what that cost is, but there are disposable materials involved.

I've lived in a suburb of NYC, had friends live in DC, and currently live in Pittsburgh. I have experience with all three. Pittsburgh is the worst place to drive and navigate (geography-wise), with DC as a close second.

That said, NYC has worse traffic than either of the other two contenders.

I bet the refresh rate is terrible...

AI and Autonomy are two (very) different goals. Autonomy is very feasable in the next ~10 years. AI is not. Luckily, AI is not a prerequisite to autonomy.

I'm just curious here, what damage have these companies done to the internet?

The non-google, non-facebook, non-twitter internet is still there, and it's bigger then it's ever been! we're having a discussion on it right now!

I think it's incredibly naive to think that this has nothing to do with North Korea. It's extremely likely that this group of attackers is North Korean, and just as likely that they are under the North Korean government's employ. Also, they threatened attacks on movie theaters on american soil. The fact that the movie playing would be (distantly) owned by a Japanese company is irrelevant, the American moviegoers are the ones that would suffer.

That said, I think canceling showings of the film sends a shitty message, and sets a bad precedent.

Or render at that resolution, the input doesn't have to be video :)