Comment Re:they will keep selling them (Score 1) 251
The same thing that makes me think Tesla can build a car that lasts... they won't because they don't have to.
The problem is that the evidence points to the contrary. Teslas do last. They had some problems with wishbones and some suspension issues, but that's something you find with other manufacturers too, and later model years heavily improved on that.
Where I live you routinely find Teslas with more than 200,000 miles on the odometer still going strong.
Comment Re:UTC (Score 1) 105
Comment Re:UTC (Score 1) 105
Comment Re:UTC (Score 1) 105
Comment Re:Take Spain as an example. (Score 1) 151
I wounder if AmoredDragon can come up with a similar slur to Douchelanders for Austria.
Comment Re: Voters! (Score 1) 31
They're not going to have a social security card or state residence either.
Foreign students need a student's visa, or to be more specific, an F-1 visa for colleges and university. And before they get that, they have to bring equivalent documentation to the U.S. embassy in their home country or country of residence.
Comment Re:"We're looking for what's verifiable." (Score 1) 60
Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.
Comment Re:keep your hands off my (Score 1) 60
If it doesn't, it has no real value.
Comment Re:"We're not really looking for what's true," (Score 2) 60
Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.
(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)
Comment Wikipedia has a vast number of errors. (Score 1) 60
The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.
Comment Coding interviews are a waste. (Score 1) 152
Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.
I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.
The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.
Comment Re:It's only missing one thing... (Score 1) 101
Comment This has been around a while (Score 4, Interesting) 144
The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.
It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.