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>he implemented HW2, which is thousands of dollars of hardware going into every new car regardless of whether customers pay for it

Seriously? Do you know the take rate of the option? It's been widely considered to increase margin, but if you have other sources, I'm interested.

>He sold shareholders on buying Solar City using fake solar shingles which don't exist, that was $5b+ flushed down the toilet.

That's false. The solar roof thing was accessory to the acquisition. More than a hundred have been installed and are being used as beta tests to improve it further. Since the beginning, Musk said the v1 should be considered like the Roadster 1, i.e not intended to be mass produced until v3 (remember "BlueStar"?)

As for Alien Dreadnought, he did say that wouldn't be possible with Model 3. So OK, that was one failed promise, but the Model 3 production and assembly lines remains one of the most automated one in the industry.

So for this one little think (which is more a name than a project), you conclude that Tesla is fucked. Okay.
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They're not changing whether you have to type it in. They're making it look like you didn't type it in when you did. This adds to the confusion you're complaining about, as the URL bar will look the same when you type in domain.com and it works as it does when you type in www.domain.com and it doesn't work.
I've been using https://www.mocky.io

Source: https://github.com/julien-lafont/Mocky
> Any CxO position at a publicly traded company is long hours

I don't think that's true at all. The CFO/CEO at companies I've worked at are not working 120 hour weeks, and they were publicly traded. If anything, they were there about 40 hours a week.
It would seem to me that a priority of the project should be built-in integration with Python or R. A high-level FFI of the sort.
You can read the directive itself: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Have you been in the area? There's no single family housing there at all for quite some distance (I'd say a few kilometers in each direction at least). It's mostly densely built-up with 3-5 story apartment buildings.
I run F# on Mac, Windows and Linux, and my iPad Pro!

Continous app [1] allows for C# and F# with an IDE, interactive programming (continuous update as you modify code appearing like Lisp live development), debugging, code completion, object inspection, and it compiles on the iPad (or iPhone), no internet needed.

It pushed me to stick to learning F# now given how seamless the experience is on the iPad Pro.

[1] http://continuous.codes/
When the only thing a group has to stand on is a slippery slope of their own invention, ignoring them is a safe option.

Then you open with a slippery slope, “Suppose a schism opens... the next step...”

If that next step ever begins to materialize that would be the time to worry. Paralysis of decency and standards out of fear of a possible slippery slope is the miserable status quo, and not desirable. If this... then maybe that... and possibly later... isn’t an argument, it’s a fallacy.
People aren’t the ones claiming the plan is unlimited, whatever that means. Are the ISPs confused?
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Wirth is one of the rare geniuses who can do the "Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." Just reading the code he writes make me feel slightly elevated.
So I wrote essentially the same chrome extension (albeit a different interface, which definitely allows for this vulnerability):

http://lettergram.github.io/AnyCrypt/

https://github.com/lettergram/AnyCrypt

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/anycrypt/hddfngccl....

It worked fairly well (haven't tested it in a bit), but I had to reverse engineer pretty much all the Keybase APIs at the time.

The thing is, the author is totally correct. I wrote mine as a proof of concept, and quite frankly was surprised that the Keybase chrome extension (even a year ago when I checked) had the same issue(s) my implementation did...

That being said, this isn't an "end-of-the-world" kind of thing, I think there are several easy solutions to this problem as the author pointed out. Personally though, only 3 people use my extension with me. I couldn't get anyone to use the Keybase extension.. so I really think they should just update that phrasing on their extension page (perhaps add a warning) and let it be.
Why wouldn't you build out the higher priced orders first?
"Shorts" didn't cause the CEO to invent a $420/share offer for the company out of whole cloth, nor did they force him to smoke a blunt on video. The mental gymnastics you have to do not see the red flags here, completely the result of the CEO's actions and mismanagement, is something.
Interestingly, in Firefox, you can type a word into the URL bar and hit ctrl+enter to add "www" and "com". Shift+enter adds "www" and "net".
Top paid utility app in the Mac App Store steals browser history
> EU Internet sales tax (Amazon)

This is the proposal that Amazon should pay tax where the goods are sold, rather than hiding it in Luxembourg?
Thanks for the local perspective.
You're right, because August is the month during which Tesla surpassed both BMW and Mercedes. We're in September so how can there be more than a month? Both BMW and Mercedes US car sales are falling hard: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180904005710/en/Mer..., https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180904005748/en/BMW...
The rigorous definition of infinitesimals is developed in non-standard analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_analysis

IIRC you define e such that e^2 = 0 and then normal algebra just works.

There is background work needed to precisely concepts but that's the gist of it (again, IIRC).
Remember that modern agriculture is very efficient from a land POV. Historically slash and burn or other techniques just chewed up farmland and led to mass deforestation.

Consider Vermont, which was basically clear-cut in the mid 19th century.
Big topic with plenty of proposed answers, none of which works particularly well. There is a summary of common ones here:

http://www.economicsdiscussion.net/foreign-exchange/theories...
There were many things, perks had been removed over night due to new ideas within the finance team, a lot of the team realised they were being grossly underpaid, and finally, those who were close to their colleagues were left without those they could count on in and out of work.
This is such bullshit. They call it a "trade off", but a trade off between what exactly? On the one side there's a non-trivial number of negative consequences to this change, and on the other hand, the maintainer person literally is unable to give any other reason besides, "this isn't information that most users need to concern themselves with in most cases".

No other reason given besides that very vague assumption about .. I'm not even sure, say if most users need not concern themselves with information that isn't there, does that mean they would otherwise be concerned about it? And what does that mean? And how is it bad? And why don't you just say so?

I'm calling bullshit. If there is a reason why they decided this, it is not that. My bet it's something political.
Part of the German economic success story has been keeping housing cheap, so they can keep pay down, so they can export. As soon as housing prices rise, pay rises, and the story falls apart.
Well if they only cycle to zero then they'll just come back up again just as fast, so that seems not so bad.

Article 13 is hardly an attack on Github, even if it may affect them. The EU loves US money and tech, and is happy to keep it (it seems it's happy to stay too). I'm totally against this proposal, but not because of anti-regulation dogma. That's rightly unpopular in prosperous and socialist Europe.
I remember back when Yahoo Answers was the go-to for crowd-sourced Q&A. Nobody was getting payed and most answers were absolutely terrible.

Then Quora came out. Nobody was getting paid but suddenly experts were answering questions in their field.

Wonder if there could be a Quora for MTurk
That's a nice clipboard manager! I like the password mode.
Here's my attempt at a clipboard manager for programmers. https://github.com/DOKKA/MultiClipboardDeluxePro
Not at all. Free storage and free image upload don't have a business model, it has no revenues stream while it has high infrastructure/bandwidth to cover.

Taxis apps are a very solid business model. 2 digits commission for every ride. There is hardly any costs or work involved to match a guy with a nearby taxi.
It makes me sad that a lot of the privacy are as damaging as the thing you are trying to avoid for no reason. Examples:

- With right clicks I want sites to be able to supplement options but the only options are "complete replacement" or "no modification at all".

- I don't want to disable sending MIME information when I paste to prevent a site from being able to block me from copying.

- Why do I have to make the url unreadable to have special characters emphasized?
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> Switzerland has a population density of 196/km², Manhattan has a population density of 25,846/km².

That would be a valid argument id Switzerland had worse connectiond, but apparently in spite of all the challenges the service is far better.
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This is exactly what I fear: everyone outsourcing their filtering to a handful of big companies.

These companies will then have the definitive say on what is posted online and what isn't. The Chinese will be jealous of our new censorship machine.
> First off, the Article 13 in question was already rejected once by Parliament and is expected to be repealed against (but it doesn’t hurt to be cautious, good on Mozilla).

As they say, don't count your chickens before they're hatched
In my experience, let go is a euphemism used to avoid saying if they were fired or made redundant.
Isn't this sort of what the investment firms "dark pools" are doing? not executing order in the public market but in their own private market?
"If you don't want your Tesla slamming on the brakes on a highway at 80mph, don't buy a Tesla."

You must own a lot of Tesla shares to make such a ridiculous statement.
hired: "Wall Street veteran Marc Mezvinsky (husband to Chelsea Clinton) as vice chairman."

who had already lost a bunch of money on Greece and enjoys skiing. An example of failing upwards.
Same with Chelsea Clinton who seems like a decently intelligent, nice person, who has had to put up with lots of ugly attacks...but who has had positions handed to her, not unlike other connected kids of Washington/NYC elite.

Not people you want in SV if you are assessing tech startups. Now pulling off a BioTech scam? Then yes.
Can you back up that lynching/WhatsApp with some numbers or statistics? Riots used to happen left and right in India for before 90's. A famous politician or actor died, a politician resigned or doing protest, religious demonstrations etc. Lot of the city will be closed. This situation got a lot better after economic liberalization and what followed. Is there a reversal to this trend that you are talking about?

https://twitter.com/ShamikaRavi/status/1034116009794392066
I really like that animation graphic, it’s really strong. but on mobile it’s on the bottom, maybe it should go to the top?
Hi, feross. This is great and you're great. Before this, I was importing my Midi files into Garage Band (which doesn't work great.) Thanks!
The US NHTSA and state regulators have allowed Tesla to continue to offer Autopilot, therefore I believe your argument to be invalid (versus that of domain experts), although you are entitled to your opinion.

There is no way that Autopilot is worse than human drivers: https://i.imgur.com/au8A1o3.gifv
Interesting result:

> With up to around 50%-60% fat in the diet, the mice ate more food and put on more weight. However, at higher levels of fat they gained less weight. A mouse eating 80% fat in its diet increased in weight by about the same amount as one eating 30% fat. We don’t know exactly why, only that on these super high-fat diets the mice consumed fewer calories and didn’t gain as much weight.
> Specs wise, Taycan and EQC are essentially matching a 2016-era Model S / Model X and will be available about 2 years from now.

A 2016-era Model S is very, very similar to a 2012 era Model S, and a 2019-era Model S looks a lot like a 2016-era one with a less-safeguarded but comparably capable cruise control added on. The Model 3, as far as I know, is similar but hopefully has less technical debt.

As far as I can tell, Tesla leads in four respects:

- A good drivetrain. It’s impressive to build a reliable <300lb motor-and-controller-in-a-box that outputs up to ~400kW and is efficient at a wide range of operating points. But everyone else will get it eventually. As far as I know, it’s not actually that hard.

- A willingness to put monster screens and few buttons in a car. It’s unclear that this is actually a good thing. Certainly every other major manufacturer could follow suit if they wanted.

- Cruise control that claims to self-drive. Enough said.

- Cachet. Teslas are sexy.

- Superchargers. This is a big deal. The technology is boring. The fact that they’ve built and deployed a bunch of them is important.
Oh well then I guess high speed braking maneuvers on a highway without user input are just fine then.
Regulators.

Apple's iPhone strategy allowed them several controversial moves, which might have caused massive fines if enacted with larger marketshare. E.g. restricting browser engines on iOS vs. simply bundling browser with Windows in 90's/early 00's (I don't remember / can't find now info / date of the ruling now).
Oh, ride sharing (and file sharing) are valid business models. It's just that competing on price alone means that some companies will take a loss.

When I interviewed for my current job, (corporate file sharing,) the founder and CEO was very aware of this. He used the terms "race to the bottom" for companies that compete on price. Then, he explained that we had to focus on solving real problems for our customers that our competitors didn't solve.

7 years later, our cheapo competitors are out of business and we're a leader. This, in part is because we offer a feature set that no one else offers.

What does this mean for ride sharing? It means that Didi needs to stop discounting its services and offer features that their competitors don't have. They might have to offer features that the rest of the market thinks are crazy; but crazy enough that Didi's chunk of the marketshare just won't choose the competitor.
Unsung? He won a Turing award.
+1 for mb.

I tried using wiremock for mocking HTTP requests to our microservices' downstream dependencies. Rather than using a standalone wiremock server, we used the java lib. Periodically the connection would drop and our tests would fail. Switched to a standalone mock and haven't experienced this issue since.
I don't like encouraging mucking around in about:config, but I might as well mention this one. If you don't mind your window losing vibrancy and rounded corners, you should be able to significantly improve battery life on macOS by setting "gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque" to true. This makes WindowServer stop drawing whatever is behind the Firefox window.

This bug tracks the proper solution: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
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Sure, but the study places the "pivot point" much back in time in the 7,000 to 5,000 years ago range (probably give or take a thousand years):

>"I noticed that methane concentrations started decreasing about 10,000 years ago and then reversed direction 5,000 years ago and I also noted that carbon dioxide also started decreasing around 10,000 years ago and then reversed direction about 7,000 years ago," says Ruddiman. "It alerted me that there was something strange about this interglaciation ... the only explanation I could come up with is early agriculture, which put greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and that was the start of it all."
Tesla's liquidity issues are completely overblown. Nevermind that their cashflow and spend numbers are improving. People also tend to overlook the amount of investor liquidity we have in the market. SoftBank has a $100bn fund. Saudi's have a $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund. I believe the UAE have something similar as well. Raising a couple billion dollars in this environment would be extremely easy. Especially when you have a backlogged demand on your product and the product has a 20% gross margin
The alternative is to simply look at longer time horizons.

In the 1990 you could have beaten the market by simply realizing that the PC was going to explode into an everyday item and simply focused on buying and holding the sector vs any one stock. That's not going to see huge daily gains, but on the backs of huge successes like Dell it could easily have turned ~100k into retirement money in a decade.
If only shift would override userselect: none; as well
They weren't effective. The same has already been implemented through a loophole with Canada (CETA) so US companies can already force their lower standards on us through their Canadian subsidiaries.

Simple distraction and switch and playing into the mindset that Canada has somehow ties with Europe and is therefore 'good'.

It's amazing how they get away with these things.
There's a difference between a publicly traded company and the most talked about publicly traded company.
I have lived in NYC since long before Uber and co were on the scene. I used to call a car service switchboard and give them my location and destination and they'd have a car there in 5-10 minutes max. They'd bring a car seat if I asked. The driver would get my number and call me if he was stuck or couldn't find me. Price was reasonable, drivers were pros. It was literally just one lady answering a phone. And now Uber/Lyft/Didi are employing like 10,000 highly-paid developers and providing a marginally better level of service. The biggest value-add by far is that they have a consistent name and brand that can provides drivers anywhere instead of having to pick a car service off of yelp. It's mind-boggling how over-engineered these businesses are in order to justify their status in Silicon Valley.
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That's how Star Citizen is doing their planets; different procedural biomes that an artist can take and brush around to quickly build a whole world with details that you can walk around, but they can also zoom in and move rocks, make lakes, place structures, and whatever else. It's a much bigger scale than an artist could design by hand, but we're not at a point where an algorithm can fill a universe with memorable landmarks.
> It’s relatively unconmplicated to get rid of large swaths of forrest without having to have access to modern industrial tools, you just need to put some good old physical work into it.

Merely killing off predators like wolves will contribute to deforestation, because runaway deer populations will stop new tree growth.
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Yes, but with all the cross-references and legalese specifying which level of government is responsible for enforcing each piece of the directive, the actual regulations can be hard to extract for an untrained reader.

Hence my request for an objective summary.
timing attacks, maybe? a script could make a request and measure the response time to heuristically determine whether a given resource is cached locally.
I have an archive of about 3600 MIDI files I collected from 1997-2004. I don't know if it's of any use, but here we go:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mqI7d6kd3zOIZ2VjbKaeu3f6u3a...

Most of the file names are wonky, but I think the artist and title information should be inside many of the files.

There should be some files in there that are long gone from the web, some I know are from amateur or unknown musicians. But as I said, the filenames are a mess, so yeah.
Good grief that's a long list. I'd rather just use a browser like Brave with privacy and ad blocks enabled by default.
Answered: why objects in augmented reality appear to float
Why does Europe dislike American tech companies? Seems like they are want to file antitrust or try to regulate against American tech heavily.
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Personally I don't do this and here's my trick. Just remember how much you hate reading that junk, and then think of your poor followers who don't want to read that junk either. Then just keep scrolling instead of clicking the share button, it's that easy.
Thanks for the clear explanation. Would it not have been more accurate for the author to have stated then that "the measures taken by the IETF in TLS 1.3 will work, although with some caveats"?
National and state data from here: https://stateofobesity.org/
58 PERCENT OF TECH WORKERS FEEL LIKE IMPOSTORS
And most CEO positions don't involve you smoking a joint on air during those 120 hours either.
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I made those notebooks that can execute OCaml locally in-browser: https://louisabraham.github.io/domical/

What do you think?
>>The Google Campus is intended to be a magnet for annoying young entrepreneurs whose IT-sweatshops (“start-ups”) promise to deliver new ideas to Google’s company business.

Those are some pretty emotional words, but show how much in a bubble we tech people might live. Curious if anyone knows more about the movement behind this, I doubt it's a majority opinion of the public?
You know that you are literally falling for all the PR moves tesla made in the last year? The whole tent thing to get the quota up or delaying deliveries so they can ship a lot of cars in one month or the going privat stunt. I don't mind if some little startup wants to pull shit like this but Elon really thinks he can outsmart everyone with stuff like this and it gets annoying real fast.
I wish I could be around to see the world in a hundred years or so. Since reading Factfulness, I've really gotten into a natural-progression mindset for nations/regions. Once modern economics sets in, certain things start changing very rapidly. Many countries today are going through what Europe and America went through in the 19th century through WWII - massive improvements in education and wealth and public health, massive decline in birthrate. And it's happening far faster in some places than it happened in Europe. For example, it took England 95 years to drop its birthrate from above 6 to below 3. Iran did it in 10 years. (Iran's birthrate today is lower than Europe.) China has increased its per capita GDP about 15,000% since 1952. That's just mind-boggling.

As Hans Rosling points out, Sweden in the 19th century was worse off than most of Africa today - birth rate above 5, 90% illiteracy, 20% of the population actually fled to the US to escape famine. And a century and a half later... they're Sweden, the most civilized country in the world.

It's just a matter of time before this catches up to the Middle East. There's no reason they can't be as wealthy and stable as Europe, it's just going to take a few generations. After all, the Levant was once the center of civilization - more than once.
It would be like learning BASIC.

If I had an opportunity to do Real Work in BBC BASIC I would jump on it