Sentences with phrase «self than self»

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According to research commissioned by Upwork, more than one in three U.S. workers are now freelancing, and in the UK, government stats show that an increasing number of people are opting to be self - employed.

Waymo claimed in a lawsuit earlier this year that former engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files before leaving to set up a self - driving truck company, which Uber acquired soon after.

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

That may be one of the reasons many veterans opt to start their own business; in fact, a higher percentage of veterans than nonveterans are self - employed.

«You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine,» the self - made millionaire tells CNBC Make It.

The study's authors say that getting people to think favourably of your accomplishments might be better achieved «by modest self - representation, or even self - denigration, than by outright bragging about one's positive qualities.»

Starting a business isn't easy and while heading down the self - employed road may seem easier than other avenues, you will face challenges regardless.

Additionally, self - driving car technology will be so good that these robotic automobiles will posses driving skills that «will be indistinguishable from humans except that robot drivers will be safer and more predictable than a human driver with less than one year's driving experience.»

Inventor Joy Mangano has sold more than $ 3 billion worth of home products, including her famous self - wringing mop and non-slip clothes hangers.

For more than a year prior to a fatal crash in Arizona, Uber's self - driving cars failed more often, and more dramatically, than competitors» autonomous vehicles.

A new study says a fleet of self - driving cars would be far more efficient than a bunch of error - prone humans.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Waymo sued Uber in February, claiming that former Waymo executive Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files before leaving to set up a self - driving truck company, called Otto, which Uber acquired soon after.

Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR, is the flagship for the SpaceX vision of creating a permanent, self - sustaining human presence on Mars — and yes, the name connotes more than just «Falcon» to those inside SpaceX.

In most cases, the sketches based on the strangers» perspectives corresponded to more accurate and flattering depictions than those based on the women's own self - effacing descriptions.

Flombaum and Enbar, who self - funded the operation up to this point and who say tuition alone can keep the school easily afloat, say they want to work first on perfecting the methods their more than a dozen instructors employ before expanding to other cities or to online courses.

Function of Beauty usually focuses its marketing on its products rather than on people to avoid defining who and what is beautiful, because of the stereotypes and self - esteem problems that can create.

So while some of the elderly self - employed will be motivated by paying their bills, others may have decided to spend the years they have left working for themselves rather than for others.

In my observation however, there is a greater appeal among startups with a handful of employees rather than self - employed and freelancing professionals.

«Wastewater analysis,» Kelly explains, «can reveal the collective drug habits of communities, providing a more accurate picture than self - reported surveys.

For the «vast majority of candidates,» says Aiken, the intervention of a lawyer or bot is unlikely to do more than an accurate self - assessment using government - provided tools.

While many of those accusations are overstated, there is some evidence that millennials are more self - centered than their older generational counterparts when they were the same age.

Built correctly, a powerful entrepreneurship can average much higher returns for the self - funded entrepreneur than all but a very few VC - backed entrepreneurs.

Trust Administration Services, for example, managed $ 250 million in self - directed IRAs in 2001; that grew to more than $ 1.3 billion in 2006.

That's what Napoleon Hill preached in his bestselling 1937 book «Think and Grow Rich,» the culmination of his intensive study of more than 500 self - made millionaires.

Said another, «I feel especially self - conscious and more dysphoric about my gender than usual when I'm at the pool, as swimming attire usually covers less skin.

(When there's a gap it's almost always that our self - appraisal winds up being higher than the market value.)

Moreover, within conscientiousness are the narrower traits of self control and «grit,» which University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth has found to be more integral to children's scholarly success than IQ.

Self - proclaimed «wireless evangelist» Nick Hunn writes that «hearables» could be worth more than $ 5 billion by 2018.

As a result, California's DMV likely has more data than any other state agency on the safety and progress of self - driving cars.

Nothing looks more cheesy and self - serving than brands trying to take every single trending hashtag and relate back to themselves.

Hong Kong and Israel have more self - made billionaires than any other place, when considered as a percentage of total population.

Before self - driving cars can be deployed on a mass scale they need to be able to do more than recognize objects in the surrounding environment; they also need to be able to communicate with other vehicles.

Nest says that it started from scratch with this new model, to make it much more sensitive than the last one — including to detecting fires from different materials — and put it through laborious testing (the device also self - tests constantly).

Later, he added in an e-mail that «contracting preferences have the potential of doing more for the economic self - determination of our indigenous people than anything else Congress has come up with in over 200 years.»

What if the answer is the latest fictional bestseller rather than a self - help book that can boost professional development?

The self - serve latte bar is busier than ever and not well organized to handle flow.

Google disabled more than 23,000 self - clicking mobile ads in 2016.

His post goes on to list several techniques, including following your interests so that you enjoy the process not just the result of your efforts, focusing on self - improvement rather than external comparisons, and seeking empowering mentorship.

GV, Alphabet Inc.'s venture capital firm, offered up significantly less than half of its stake in Uber even though Alphabet's self - driving car subsidiary Waymo is suing Uber for stealing trade secrets.

Patel has predicted the ability of chatbots to take over search engines, and how they can be used as conversion - based tools rather than a self - serving tool for customers.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

This strategy also safeguards you from losing your thought leader to a competitor or another industry, which is far more likely than having to deal with an self - implosion or a scandal.

But Julka is more self - aware than most.

Rather than panic, Wojcicki reverted to her Wall Street analyst self, gathering vast amounts of information, certain a solution was hiding in plain sight.

The Shard and the 2012 Olympics show off a side of London that is self - consciously larger than life — with larger - than - life price tags.

(Roughly 140 million people have some sort of employment or self - employment, though millions of these earn less than $ 10,000 a year, so classifying them as «employed» is a bit of a stretch).

With self - organization, we've been able to scale our India - based development team from five engineers to more than 250.

As The Economist pointed out in 2006, when you look at the cream of capitalism's self - made crop, you are hard - pressed to find anyone who has «done more than deliver a speech at a business school.»

It taught me about self - confidence, about tolerance, about diversity, and I always felt like there was something more there than people were seeing.