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And at 7 billion Elon becomes the god king.

At 15 billion people are wondering where all the cars are coming from.

At 70 trillions it’s pretty much just cookie clicker.
"hard work, delayed gratification, research, skepticism"

I feel like the best way to learn that is try it out yourself, which is what such magazines are encouraging no?
not just the developing world. there are large swaths of the US without decent broadband either. Also large areas with no internet whatsoever beyond satellite. (and I mean really shitty really expensive satellite)

ubiquitous internet will make remote weather stations, drones and a multitude of other things far more cost effective or possible. (especially here in Alaska)
Interesting that the Tesla doom and gloom article isn't pay walled.
The Bolt isn’t a sporty entry luxury sedan, Model 3 is pitched against BMW 3-Series.
Somehow "sci" still suggests "sci hub". Isn't that even more direct piracy than Kodi?
Grunts have to live with stuff because they have no other choice. Pilots are zipper suited gods whose complaints actually matter.

All joking aside, they have human factors experts work on the UI, and it must go through operational testing- passing isn't a requirement though- systems have been fielded with failing UI evaluations because they were super effective. But pilots still hate touchscreens even though a lot of thought was put into making them suck less.
T-Mobile (or their wholly owned metroPCS MVNO which rides the same network) has plans which are "unlimited" up to about 50GB/month of usage, for a lot less than $200/mo... It's not a lot, but can be stretched pretty far if you're willing to refrain from watching a lot of youtube and netflix video. It used to have a 22GB soft-cap limit after which it rate limited to 128kbps x 128 kbps, they recently changed it to 50.
If they’re failing to deliver any competitive advantages, why are there still no competitive cars available from any other company, or even just announced?

So far the closest thing is the Bolt, and it’s not all that close.
Hmm odd... Maybe motherboard dependent? I've never felt uncomfortable slotting RAM in.

CPU definitely... The modern video cards that weigh like ten pounds also give me pause. Not because slotting them is hard but because they sag.
If they can't do something basic like put the doors on correctly, how can you trust they did the complicated things right?
You are right. I am not stating a fact. It is my opinion that this guy is being used as a sacrificial lamb because I have seen things like this happen time and time again.

Also seems like a pretty big coincidence that the others sold off their shares immediately after hearing about the breach, but it was unrelated.
You'd have to put absolutely zero effort into researching their history and earlier leaks to come to the conclusion that they have anything to do with Russia. Even the crazy conspiracy theory that they are actually a CIA operation themselves makes more sense than this, and that one is pretty silly.
> Tesla high valuation is the only thing that has prevented it getting bought by one of the big car companies

I don't think so. Musk doesn't seem like the type of person to compromise on a vision for a (relatively) small buyout. He'd have probably declined if given an offer.
A key strength of the proposed network is its ubiquity, which makes it most competitive in un(der)served markets than in high-density cities. They can't just hover more satellites over Tokyo, so the service would inevitably become fully loaded there.
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Nope. It usually makes it worse.

The shape and the size of the antenna determines the narrow frequencies that can be received. An antenna is designed for a specific usage. If you pick a random antenna or change the size randomly, you are likely to get no reception.
The Bolt doesn’t have a decent long distance charging network.
It really is NOT. From what I've read prosecutors care a lot about their "success rate".

I think the consensus here is Equifax hired this guy to take the blame pretty much. That's why we call him the fall guy.

Look at Wells Fargo. Or even HSBC. Apparently, even Toyota tried to cover up its sticky accelerator? Don't forget about VW.

I think when something like this happens the CEO and the board must go to prison even if there is no direct evidence. You must take responsibility for the actions of your reports. I can't see things improving any other way.
For those that don't know about a money transmitter license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_transmitter

I had to do look myself to understand why selling a crypto filled USB stick would fit into the definition.
There are in fact not a dozen Chinese companies producing strictly EV vehicles at a higher volume than Tesla.

Fortunately China is no longer allowed to purchase consequential US companies. If Tesla were ever sold, it would go to a US, European, Japanese, or South Korean company.
As much as I love NECSI and Santa Fe Complexity Institute, the way the science is taught is a bit of a grab bag. Way too much emphasis on models that aren't widely applicable to engineering problems, like cellular automata.

Nassim Taleb's collaborations with NESCI are worth their weight, though, and W Brian Arthur out of SFI produces works that I consider actionable for CTOs to get a conceptual handle on their craft. UoM's Scott E Paige is also a good resource on Complex Adaptive Systems in a way that is more unified.
A couple decades ago I used to get legit offers from banks or financal institutions on other services or products they offered. They were legit, and sometimes even includes some minor bonus for being a customer (or at least they said so or something was there).

In the meantime I'd get really bad offers (I want to say scam, but they were IMO deceptive) from other places (they were still legit financial institutions) for whom spamming me via mail wouldn't cost them much and they'd make plenty if I was dumb enough to take their offer.

Then I found I got the same, not a scam... but really bad offers from the places that I had done business with for years.

It really irked me when I'd get those fake check (actually a loan) things from a bank I'd been with for ages...

Eventually just said screw them and to a credit union who just keeps mailing me about local discounted baseball tickets. I can handle that.
> I don't think the market cap will fall anytime soon for this company.

Really? The stock is down about 20% since the beginning of this month. It already happened.

I want Tesla to succeed. I think the company has done a lot to make electric cars mainstream, at least in people's minds if not in their driveways. But I see no justification for Tesla having a market cap in the same range as GM, which sells 10 million cars per year, or Ford, which sells about 7 million cars per year. Tesla sells about 100k cars per year and is burning through money pretty fast. It might have made a positive contribution to society, but at the end of the day it's a money-losing company and the stock price is going to reflect that.
That’s a pretty lucrative skill though. Or was.
Apparently, though, he was not specifically told that Equifax had a data breach. He guessed they did based on a project he was being asked to drop everything and help out with.

It'll be an interesting case if he pleads not guilty.
LEO satellites will have the ability to adjust faster to changing conditions than GSO will. Packet loss need not be any worse than any other wireless system.

There will be some rain fade, but can power through that by increasing power and/or temporarily reducing bandwidth to prevent packet loss.
On the other hand, they do have some good stuff, too.

For example, their "Great Value" brand LED light bulbs have been excellent for me. They would be great at their normal $2 price for 8.5 Watt 800 lumens with a claimed 18 year life bulbs. I happened to get them when there was some sort of instant rebate going on (sponsored by my power company, I think) where they were $0.17 per bulb. I got something like 30 and replaced pretty much every incandescent I had.

Only about 12 of these are in places where I use them heavily. Of those, I've had no failures [1], and no noticeable apparent dimming over the first year. I also have some Cree bulbs with similar specs that are a year older and cost an order of magnitude more than the $2 Walmart bulbs when I bought them (but now are only about 4x as much). The Crees lost a lot of brightness over the first year, and 2 of my 4 died within a couple months.

[1] I'm not counting one that I dropped onto concrete in my garage when trying to screw it into a fixture in the ceiling. The bulb is plastic and was not damaged, but it broke something on the circuit board inside.
There are always rivets, nuts and bolts and other such fasteners. Products can be composed of interlocking parts (slid into place and then locked) so that stresses are dispersed w/o welding.

But perhaps a talk with someone who is or has been a welder might best boost your confidence.
You reminded me ... christ, can you imagine what a disaster an Apple car would have been had they continued pursuing it? Two companies competing in the same already-challenging space....
Maybe you just don’t want the pain of feeling like you wasted 100k.
This has absolutely nothing to do with your tendentious gender-virtuous criticism. That's way out of line. It would be just as bad, if there were an analogous boy's magazine.

The point is that replacing the idea of one's worth and potential - girl power/boy power, whatever - with shallow get quick money and get famous schemes is a negative.

Would you prefer children who dream of utilizing their potential to become great at something, like a career path, scientist, scholar, artists, farmer etc., or whose dreams are about becoming Youtube stars or selling crap to a bunch of people?

As for the general remarks on history, power is the only factor in ambition beyond survival. Material success is just one form of power. Fame is power + self gratification for the emotionally weak. Ephemeral fame and get money quick schemes are superficial and weak means to power.

On the other hand, appeals to a universal subject, which doesn't exist, references to human nature, which we can't even define as a term, much less define what the elements of it are, don't really work in a proper argument.
I would recommend you check out the reforge blog at https://www.reforge.com/blog
Gates was a business asshole too, from my understanding. I think you can find warts about any of the greats if you dig deep enough. Just like you can find things to dislike about authors, artists, musicians etc.

I don't know if that should discredit what they accomplish and give back altogether, that's an interesting conversation.
Sri Lanka is only the 51st "best country in the world" according to US News[1]. That's really not bad and not really 3rd world at this point.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/sri-lanka
Hi Tobias, Very elegant! Thank you for sharing it.
I was wondering if you could share a non-minified version of mindmap.min.js?
Since no one will ever find Kodi now that they have to type 4 letters instead of 4, maybe the devs should look into working on a new search engine.
Simpler is always better.
It's a little overkill to characterize this as "faulty" steering. Given that it's a durability issue. And in any case, they're being proactive. Not dragging their feet as manufacturers did over corroding Takata airbag units.
I took your "e.g." to mean inclusive of jq and Erlang, but extensive to the entire list. What I said applies to Erlang, OSes, and LISP, but maybe not to jq (I wouldn't know).
I really don't understand the amount of money spent on those tools. My cousin is a mechanic and has a $10K MAC tool box(similar to Snap On) - that's just for the box without a single tool. Apparently he has >$25K in total in his tool box. We really have it quite good in tech.
That is actually a counter-example, as many people make an effort to reduce the damage they receive from the sun.
Vehicles like the Prius have been around (and immensely popular) for a long time now.
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The value of BB(v), where BB is the Busy Beaver function, and v is the volume of the observable universe in planck length cubes, ought to suffice.

I hope you didn’t want a number you could actually figure out....
Schedule is a big part of what he's forced to talk about these days...
I would usually agree with you, but cockroach is so new, I doubt they have any type of fixed price. They probably work it out on a 1-by-1 basis.
Super fair point. I agree with your nuanced perspective, thanks.
The best you can physically do is about 2 ms more lag than the fastest ground based system, and that's assuming you're only adding in the transit time from ground station -> satellite -> user.

So it possibly won't be a killer for video conferencing, but keep in mind that the USAF's current system for drone video has 2 seconds of one-way lag. There's three orders of magnitude between what we're currently doing and the physical limit.

SpaceX's system will undoubtedly be better than what is in use today, but even with two orders of magnitude improvement (a HUGE improvement) you're looking at adding 20 ms of lag on top of what you'd already have.
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The article lists Elbit (an Israeli company) as the touchscreen provider.
*Scape goat
Recurring revenue - launch the satellite constellation once and generate monthly subscription revenue potentially running into billions of dollars a month.

Manufacturing limitations & launch pad availability, once they are resolved (along with launcher reuse) will lead to a point where there is not enough demand to fill the launch roster. This internal demand will help them fill it up.
Thanks for clarifying that. And that's great that those DB downloads are available. I didn't like the idea of scraping the data in the first place so never went that route.
Kodi pirates did not destroy their reputation. Every semi-open platform has pirate users. Those that created piracy boxes and put the kodi logo right next to pirate services and legit services that addons enabled the piracy of probably contributed though. But most, if not all these boxes run kodi on top of Android, and their reputation hasn't been sullied from this.

I think Kodi could partially mitigate this issue by selling clean kodi boxes. I still don't know where I can buy one.
They’re not designed to run 24/7 but they don’t have an issue with it. The GPU and the card itself have no issues running continuously.

The biggest problems come from the fans running continuously and getting worn down, and the coolers are by far the easiest part to replace.
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Don’t most C-level execs typically trade on a preset schedule to avoid insider trading allegations? In fact, I’m pretty sure that’s why you never here about them insider trading their own stock.
> I want to live in the future (even if the products are still in beta!)

Now we're getting in to why traditional automakers are 'stodgy' and 'risk averse'.

I do agree that there is a lot that can be improved in cars, but a ship software at a million miles an hour approach seems like the kind of practice that will end up externalizing the costs to the rest of us.

Edit: I'm gonna leave this up, but it doesn't really reflect the friendly tone I'm trying to put across - I've enjoyed this chat.
Yeah, I hope he fights the charges just so I can selfishly see how it plays out. It seems there is a strong paper trail of execs intentionally keeping ying out of the loop. If that's the case, and he figures out that everyone is just acting weird, it doesn't seem so straight forward that he was trading with material information.

If I work at Amazon as a lowly sde and see Jeff bezos fuming in a conference room with the chief privacy and security officers, and I assume Amazon had a data breach and sell my stock, did I insider trade?
I hadn't seen that before - I really need to brush up on my jQuery!
- Make a great affordable electric car

- Mass produce it without flaws

- Dont run out of cash.

Pick two.
Thanks for recommending stuff no one else did.
They’re hard to find for a reasonable price. The GTX 1070 had a launch price of $380. The cheapest one currently listed on PCPartPicker is about $550.
Now when you hear crunch, it's coming from the flexing motherboard that's mounted on just 2 raised screw holes.
Warranties not covering bent pins is standard. You damage it, your fault.
Further consolidation is very unlikely to reduce prices.
The SEC complaint linked at the bottom of that page[1] literally has a minute-by-minute account of how the CIO of Equifax's US information systems business unit was told there had been a major incident, started Googling about the stock market's reaction to a previous breach at Experian in 2015, and then an hour later sold all his shares for $950,000.

Maybe the CEO broke the law too, but the CIO left a clear trail of evidence. He is neither a little guy nor a fall guy.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-4...
It's baseless to say that they are equal; the employer obviously preferred someone else. Why should we discriminate against people based on nationality? We get a more competitive, more efficient, more productive economy by opening it to more people.

Another answer to your question is, so that Americans can get jobs in other countries.
One thing that I can't get here - this guy knew it's insider trading. Being CIO, he must have known there's a law against it. Did he expect to get away with it just because he's a CIO, like other Equifax high-levels did and like politicians and Congressmen routinely do? Did he somehow miscalculate, or is he kind of lightning rod so that nobody could say that there were no prosecutions, and in the meantime he'll be compensated for whatever fate he suffers?
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But if you wanted a comprehensive type system then why not Scala.

You get similar syntax to Swift whilst leveraging the best server side libraries available on any platform.
> Scape goat*

"Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame" [1]. Ying's blame is merited. What happened here is multiple people may have violated securities law and one has been charged. We don't know yet if it's one period or one so far.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating
A little over a year ago Tessa stock had fallen from 280 to 150. +/- 20% is fairly normal for the company. If it falls to say 10 billion that's a major crash, until then it's hard to say how meaningful the week to week changes are.
Seriously. Their battery manufacturies are amazing.
> Swift outside of Xcode hasn't been the best of experiences even on macOS.

Even _in_ Xcode it's quite horrible. Only supporting the one major version of Swift bundled with Xcode and forcing old projects to upgrade? Horrible.
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> It drove me through 220 miles of rain including torrential downpours yesterday

This sounds terrifying. Why did you trust it enough to experiment with your life?
Yes, they do - the problem is when they schedule sales after being made aware of insider information but before it is released to the public.

Obviously a CEO will have knowledge of some things that won't me made public during a scheduled stock sale, like upcoming product roadmaps that may not be released yet, etc. It's impossible to completely avoid this, but scheduling a sale after a breach or major security vulnerability in your products is discovered and well before public disclosure is not okay.

I'm glad this Equifax exec got what he deserved, Krzanich should get the same treatment.
A big issue around Tesla is hype. Don’t get me wrong - FOR Tesla it’s great (boosts demand, brings in investment money) - but for those of us watching, it makes it hard to see what’s going on.

To be honest with y’all, I have no clue how amazing or horrible Tesla is doing. Headline after headline just pumps the hype and makes connecting the dots and fitting real performance into a context harder and harder. I do get value from others’ speculation as it helps me see things from new perspectives, however each new hyped story seems to obfuscate what’s really happening.
It's also one of the most entertaining landing pages ever.
I agree with everything you wrote. The switchblade case sounds interesting; I hadn't heard about it before, but that certainly makes sense.
Did Elizabeth Holmes manage to cash out from Theranos?
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> Tesla is failing at manufacturing

This is especially confusing because, of all industries, the general public knows the most about manufacturing excellence when it comes to cars. There have been tons of books written about Toyota, and we've even seen the birthplace of auto manufacturing crushed by that manufacturing prowess. It's practically a religion.

Why didn't Musk learn from all that history?
It's worth noting that Walmart already has some sales agreements with Humana. My in-laws, for instance, have a Walmart-Humana Medicare part D drug plan.
Doesn't the government have full access to such stuff already. I think these kind of stories exists just to obscrure that fact.
I only spent a bit more than half that on a CPO Model S, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. If you have the means, I highly recommend it. By far, my favorite car having owned several Corvettes, an SLK 350, a luxury pickup truck, and a Subaru STI.
While disappointing and costly for Tesla, thankfully a power steering failure isn't typically a big deal, safety-wise.

If you've never driven a vehicle without power steering: it's marginally harder to turn the wheel, which really only affects you in parking lots and making turns from a dead stop (as is mentioned in the article).
If you think that's true, you should check out all the glowing write-ups of Theranos, Amazon (specifically Bezos), and Microsoft (specifically Nadella). The coverage isn't/wasn't universally good, but I think we do get a pretty good picture of most tech companies from mainstream media.
It's an interesting question, as even with the insight that everyone is "acting weird", he would have still been trading with more info than the average investor.

OTOH, many execs would be privy to more info than the average investor as a matter of course, and we certainly don't prohibit them from trading.

So, where is the line drawn?
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Amazing website, I'll have to keep talent.works in mind next time I'm looking for a job!
Not a landing page but generally good advice here: https://goodui.org
Not if there is only one parent, or the other parent is a full time student.
Not the organic, gluten-free, free range, cageless red onion.

You want to use the GMO round-up ready, depleted soil/less nutritious [0] factory farm, antibiotic, growth horomone, pesticide laced, persistent organic pollutant laden yellow onions.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
thank you, you write what I was trying to say but was ultimately not clear enough in expressing my thoughts. I don’t understand why people think that because something is good at approximating values that it necessitates its truth or existence.
It's a lot harder for a company to die than people think. Aol is still around. Bankruptcy is, by design, not a death sentence, and Tesla can always use that escape route if they need to.

For now it seems that investors will continue to pour money into them and they won't need to.