Convenience, speed, and technical difficulty (for the typical person, not HN reader). Definitely, I've faced this problem. My photo and video library on Google Photos is now much larger than the free space I have on any device. The hassle of downloading in chunks, just to re-upload (and heaven help anyone on an ISP with data caps) is huge. It's also probably very slow - consider the bandwidth between an Apple and a Google server - most likely in the 10Gbps range? Compare that with an average person doing 50Mbps down and then 8Mbps up. For a 500GB library that takes _hours_.
As I read it, the amount they were spending on the ads themselves was more than the converted revenue from ad clicks. While the decline was probably (guessing) not linear, spending more on ads led to less than proportionally more revenue. If that had happened I can imagine calling that negative ROI.
This is terrible advice, and simply wrong. I lived and worked in Germany as a self employed person with primarily one client for 2.5 years - along the way I properly maintained my business and taxes in a good and legal standing. I am not an accountant or a lawyer, and this is not professional advice. What the commenter here is referring to is a specific situation called "Scheinselbstständigkeit" which roughly translates to "fake/sham self employment". If you work as a contractor for just one company for a long time the tax office can audit and determine you're really an employee. This is not a simple decision however and many factors go in to it. Also, the decision is made by your regional tax office and they each have their own standards. In Hamburg for example, I was told it wouldn't even be a question until 4 years time. Even then there are a lot of additional circumstances which must be taken into account. Ideally the self employed would form a German LLC, (GmbH) and make themselves an employee of the company. The best advice, as always, is to speak with a locally certified professional! and not strangers on the internet.
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We’re building self-driving cars and they’re on the road right now driving around San Francisco and Phoenix. I’m an engineering manager on the Embedded Systems team which has a wider scope than you might first think. We work closely with the hardware, security, safety, frameworks, and fleet operations teams and span through FPGA logic, embedded OS, device drivers, first layer application code, embedded software deployment, vehicle start-up, and hardware-in-the-loop test rigs. Our code runs all over the car from custom devices (ECUs) to the high level brain handling higher level functions. We have a ton of open positions which are funded by both real dollars (salary) and equity and want you to help us work on this rewarding and highly visible challenge. Your work will be the foundational software upon which the rest of Cruise builds. If you want to audio/video chat or have any questions you can reach out to me directly by email - jm.fischer@getcruise.com. If you’re ready to apply you can send me your resume or use the careers website http://getcruise.com/careers.
Within the constraints of the technology (e.g. >2GB files) isn't FAT32 already this? I can plug it into my Apple, Windows, and Linux devices and it will just work.
Would have worked in 2000; nowadays, files >2 GB are an everyday occurence. (And don't even start with "but multiple-files archive"! This is not 1995, either.)
Reactors are often quoted in MW-thermal vs. MWe (electric). They also mention there are 2 steam turbines. Here's my analysis.
2x 380MWt. They have two for redundancy. Then 1x 380MWt, assume 33% conversion efficiency => 125MWe.
80k SHP implies after losses, guess 85% conversion efficiency, 80k/0.85 HP to MWe ~= 70MWe. Which leaves 55MWe left over. That's still a lot of power, but it puts this closer to realistic I think.
I will ask the ignorant question, why Kaizala and not MS Teams? It also has groups, DMs, picture messaging, office integration, etc... I feel rather overwhelmed lately with all the various messaging options on the market with the same company often having multiple solutions.
I don't work for Microsoft, so I couldn't tell you why. From what I understand though, (I haven't used Kaizala yet, but use Teams at work) Teams uses AD, whereas Kaizala only needs a registered phone number.
> When we predict the price won’t decrease for select itineraries booked between August 13 and September 2, we’ll guarantee the price won’t drop, and we’ll refund you the difference if it does.
When I read that I assumed that they want to observe the effect this guarantee has on pricing by changing people's booking behavior. Doing a time-limited study seems like a good way to do that.
Is there any benefit to having those specialized developers create frameworks or libraries in Userland which other developers can leverage? This way they remain the interface to uncooperative hardware, but the code is in Userland so the bold folks can try their own approach.
Seastar.io is another one, it's an async engine that utilizes all of the cores in a modern system and is the heart of Scylla's DB. However, it's complex to use it correctly
