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That gets tricky though, Can tradespeople can use their vans to do their food shopping? Can private citizens become a painter/decorator so they are then allowed a vehicle? Can a private citizen have a vehicle if their sister is disabled?


Government can issue permits, on request. If requesting a permit can be done through an app or website, then this could even be feasible on a per-case basis. E.g. plumber needs to visit the city, requests permit, then drives to client.


Oh boy another regressive poor tax that eats into my time and earnings just so I can do my trades job


Doesn't have to be expensive or time consuming, could be something you fill out in 10 mins and drop in the mail/submit online. IRS already knows you are an independent contractor so that could be your verification right there.


Usually depends on the type of option. If they are 'double cliff' then the employee stock option will vest automatically, if they aren't then the emplyee will lose them.


I've never heard the term 'double cliff' before, can you explain?


I think they might mean "double trigger" acceleration, where the options vest automatically on change of control.



I highly recommend Homage to Catalonia if you liked Animal Farm. It really explains how Orwell became disillusioned with communism (while fighting for it).


Thats a quite simplistic way of interpreting.

He fought for socialism and he stayed a socialist - but he became a enemy of Stalinism.

The brotherhood and spirit of the socialist militia he was in, he praised as real and something he never experienced before or after.


Simplistic yes, but also true. He became throughly disillusioned with socialism because he felt that someone like Stalin would always take control of it.

My interpretation was that he was always anti-authority, but his experiences led him to believe that an authoritian figure will always try to grab power and it doesn't matter what `side` they say they are for, power is their aim.

True he liked the spirit of his socialist militia but by the end I think he felt its spirit had been crushed and abused by others.


...cockpit, displays, controls, ejector seat. Designing it so the G-Force won't squash the pilot, strengthening the weak and vulnerable cockpit.

Supporting both seems wrong to me.


Though given we don't have full pilot replacing AI yet it might be an acceptable compromise like the way current self driving systems are mostly bolt ons to regular vehicles.


Foxconn, SAP ? These are good examples aren't they.

Edit: Not nvidia. Realised OP was asking for None-US companies


I have used this pattern too. I like it.

One small problem is that depending on how your threading and cache works it might be possible for the cache to be cleared after the contains call but before the get.


Or for the put operation to finish first every time on development machines and only sometimes in production, thus creating a very tricky bug.


Catch 22. - I can re-read that over and over laughing at the silliness of their situation.

Also If you enjoyed Catch I recommend Vernon God Little


Errr, They (probably) did that a few weeks ago:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43443271


several conventional luxury cars already have this feature - they detect crashes and call emergency services.


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