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The professors ruining the students' life through traumatic actions done to the students, right? I'm sure that's what you meant.


Honestly, it works both ways, unfortunately.

But an open door can protect both parties.


What's the traumatic action here? A female student not being able to force a professor to change a grade under the threat of being called a rapist?


Rape and sexual assault come to mind, since that's what happens far more often than blackmail for petty ends. Plenty of studies have shown how bunk your claim is. It is a sexist conspiracy theory.


That's absurd and offensive on a lot of levels... The thing anyone in a protected class wants is to not be judged on that as a factor one way or the other. People working at Uber are "struggling" because their perceived ticket to the stars is looking kind of bad; they wish there were getting offers left and right for working there, because plenty of people get jobs on the basis of their last company.

You get judged in interviews, and it is a best case scenario if it is over recent stuff you had control over.


I don't care of they're struggling with or without quotes.

What sucks is sweeping generalisations. Which is exactly what is going on. I'm pretty sure most people went were because of tech challenge and/or money. Not because of chasing bro culture or possibility to offend coworkers.

From what I read about Uber, it looks like most people were not happy about what was going on. There were a small amount of assholes (which exist in any company or community). The problem is that management is OK with assholes and give them a pass. However, all the good folks are thrown together with few assholes.

P.S. I'd be happy to see Uber gone. I'm not using it on principle for their "disruption" mentality. As well as the rest of "sharing economy".


A lot of TNC drivers have cameras pointed into the car, some (but not all) with signs indicating the passenger is being filmed. It is even more standard in real taxis. The expectation of privacy is more that such footage in any of the mentioned circumstances would never be released unless it captured someone committing a crime or something similar.


Bear Stearns didn't fail due to fraud, it failed due to not adequately tracking and assessing the risk of its assets. It is worth noting that there have been serious allegations made a few weeks ago against Snap that they are lying on the S-1.


Link?



This last presidential race more or less started 2 years ago. If he were to run for President for the election in 12 years, he'd more or less start running in 10.


This story is about extreme storms. The example storm mentioned from 2014 occurred in the worst of the drought, caused all kinds of issues, but it didn't fix anything. Both future droughts and more extreme and frequent pineapple expresses can co-exist because of climate change. MIT et al. shouldn't have to explain that in every press release made involving the climate.


Thanks for this context. I and others in these comments were under the misapprehension that this meant the drought was gone. See what I mean?

I feel you made the case for explaining it to the audience even stronger.


Here is a link to the drought map for the West Coast.

Comparing December 27, 2016 to December 29, 2015.

Drought is significantly improved over that time period, but still quite severe in Southern California.

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/MapsAndData/WeeklyComparison.a...


Uber has the garages for both Otto and these cars on Harrison, between 3rd and 4th streets, on the side of the lanes headed to I-80W/101S. When they need to park either, particularly the semi-trucks, they get people in vests to come out, stop traffic for pretty much all lanes of traffic, and slowly park their delicate vehicles.... Glad to see this story.


Trump is also unique from pretty much anyone else in government with regard to conflict of interest law, as is part of the discussion now. Given the term mentioned was two years for Zuck, he couldn't be president and remain in control of Facebook.


The Manhattan Project had nearly unlimited resources at a time of scarcity, and it took enormous engineering risks. The risk component is something easy to overlook, but these were enormous infrastructure projects by any standard done at scale without much chance to prove them, and they were accomplished in incredibly short time-frames.

Could you imagine someone building a full-scale, power generating fusion reactor off a new and untested design in a about a year? More to the point, could you imagine someone funding that?


Soil liquefaction is the real risk during earthquakes. Clay absorbs the energy and shakes a great deal more, and the soil can potentially destabilize further and allow structures to sink in.


For anyone not familiar, this is an effect where if you load wet soil just right it will break the structure of the soil grains and turn into a fluid. Demo here, you can skip the first minute if you're short on time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X9-4tWpMCo

Wikipedia has more information and some good photos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction

It's a really cool and equally terrifying phenomenon if you're used to thinking of the ground as a solid object. Plenty of videos on YouTube as well.

EDIT- Here's a car that sunk into the ground, which then resolidified around it: https://youtu.be/2WoKu5VxKgs?t=50

http://izismile.com/2012/08/31/christchurch_liquefaction_26_...


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