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The use of the word "crucified" probably speaks volumes about how some see Musk.
Do you think Tesla could have made it through production hell without Musk? Nobody knows the technical details of Tesla the way Musk does. Nobody would sleep in the factory like Musk does. Who else would have shipped a production line from Europe by air? The dude solves problems and puts out fires and keeps Tesla on the right path like nobody else. People like Elon Musk are not fungible.
There's even an (undocumented?) int 21h function to get the switch character, if I remember correctly.
Normally, when referring to public figures, you use their first name or just their surname. So, Trump rather than Donald. Not out of respect, but it’s just more usual.
And here I thought it was bad when they tried to get you to pay a few hundred more BRL up front for a trip from SP to Santos.

Also, nobody seems very clear on the point that the trip seems to include the toll you may face going between them. To say nothing of whether your driver has enough gas for this trip and needs gas money. That drive can be very interesting when you're going on fumes.

Yeah, it's interesting. I suggest carrying some extra cash (but not too much) if there are places you need to be. If it's something you can schedule, there are private drivers that cost a bit more but you can arrange things up front.
For brevity? Musk is shorter than Elon.
What interest rates do rich people like him get? Is the concept of charging interest still valid at that level or is it all bartering of favours?
yeah, The SEC charge probably harmed as many investors
The article is interesting, but not a new problem. Any technology can be used for good or bad (within a given morale framework). Yes, we should all keep it in mind, and ensure governments representing us regulate technologies, or do not use them for unethical purpose. The article doesn't even address this.

Unfortunately, the author writing 6 or 7 long paragraphs to build tension, repeating the same sentence for drama effect, to finally get to the the author's pretend shocking discovery that the DOD and its contractors are producing lethal technologies, ruined it for me.
The DOJ phase of this process begins now.

It could still be more than a speeding ticket.
You’re trying to define investors as only people owning Tesla stock. The SEC specifies the penalties will go to investors hurt by Musks actions, which I take to mean stock market investors who Elon targeted by using his position as ceo to spread information that he knew to be misleading in order to harm their positions. It doesn’t really make sense to try and define ‘equal justice’ from the vantage point of those people who were helped by the illegal actions in question.
Replying to self: I meant “unconditionally” as in without consideration of other factors — not meaning to imply that conditions should be attached to the money.
Informality also can imply disrespect, e.g. using informal 'you' in many languages for insults.
there are some additional container widgets than in the past that allows auto sizing and positioning. these are VBox HBox (for flex layouting) and GridBox. however someone successfully integrated bootstrap in his application using remi. personally I see it an unuseful complication. thaks to its lightweight infrastructure, a remi page occupy only few kilobytes.
If anyone wants to profit off this - buy TSLA calls!!! 290 strike price.
Interesting. Nice to know someone has used the 13" Onyx outside for work.

Curious - why didn't it work for you?
If you are okay with Google, you can do it on blogspot. It's completely free if you do it yourself, or inexpensive if you hire a consultant to help you with the set up to cut down on the learning curve and get something nice immediately.
Ditto for udacity. Although Peter Norvigs course is outstanding
There's two problems. First, there's a basic argument from the outside that you're fucking with historicity for no good reason other than that you think that you're more important than humanity.

Second, from the inside, this simply isn't how memes work. Memes are designed to propagate and survive on their own. If your ideas are at all good or interesting to society, and they manage to become memetic, then you have zero recourse, just as if you were Patient Zero for some new plague. You shared it, and unsharing is impossible, regardless of how moral you might believe unsharing to be.

Seriously, take some time and think about it: How many of your ideas and concepts are actually original to you? Almost none of them, right? And if you're honest with yourself, pretty much every concept seem inextricably linked to others. Really, what matters is the structure between ideas, and that can't be shared, since it's private to each person's mind.

Anyway, if this doesn't sway you, I'm okay with it; you're purely a fabrication of my imagination.
Why do you populate your personal details in the “thing” you don’t understand and have no control over in the first place?
Thanks for the anecdote, baby.
I hope you will feel ok with remi. ;-)
Perhaps it's more accurate to say he's driven, no nonsense and shrewd?

Yeah. Of course he wears his ego proudly. You don't rise to that level without above average chutzpah. But I think that's more a side show than the featured event.
Elon is more common than Musk, so if anything, it’s more vague who you’re referring to. Though I don’t think either would be unclear on a post about Elon Musk.
Shitty vodka is so cheap and easy to make, you would think it would be better to just produce the vodka as close to the point of sale as possible
The DOJ could still fuck his world up, like with Elizabeth Holmes after her SEC settlement.
I haven’t been following crypto currencies for a while, but isn’t most produced with renewable energy already?
It's particularly relevant to Apollo considering Werner von Braun. In hindsight, it looks less urgent because we didn't do a lot with the intervening years.. but it could have been different.

Not sure why people downvoted my question, it's an interesting line of inquiry. Maybe they don't know their history.
When Is the Safest and Accurate Time to Invest in Cryptocurrency?
90% of articles talking about a "tech prodigy kid/teen" in the headline just aren't worth reading.
Elon Musk and Tesla to pay $40m to settle SEC case over tweets
Embed a script to sell life insurance to your users
> Lots of companies are making cars without anywhere near the same levels of fanfare.

Could that be because almost all of those other cars are utterly unremarkable?
"It is with a heavy heart that we report that Tidal is good now"
actually there is already a lot of loans against the company, I don't think you can leverage to infinity.
Basically a speeding ticket.

Which is really all that was needed anyway. The whole idea of forcing him out as CEO, issuing a ban on being a CEO/Director of a public company, etc., was pure over-reach from the beginning.
There was never any chance Musk would have been banned from running public companies. If the SEC had wanted that, they never would have offered a settlement in the first place. They were just playing hardball to get a deal.

There was too much hysteria in the coverage of, and reaction to, this whole affair.
They don't advocate having no roads and transit...just being more cautious about expanding whatever infrastructure you already have. They are a foil to the idea that infrastructure expansion is always an "investment." Their emphasis is on maintenance and staying in good financial shape so that you can afford to replace infrastructure when it wears out. It's actually not a very radical position which is why they're able to draw crowds in red and blue places both.
Now that's an entertaining thought. Why not just set fire to all the company's assets right now and be done with it? 'Serious executives' are who you bring in when things are running smoothly and there's not much to screw up. Someone like Elon is needed to get it to a more stable point both product and revenue-wise.
A couple of months back, everybody went ballistic when the EU GDPR declared IP addresses as "personal data". Can't recall any posts/articles that were actually defending this GDPR provision—if you can point us to one, I'd love to read the counter-arguments.

So I believe that there is a consensus that using IP addresses to improve search results would be fair game for DDG. It's also consistent with the DDG promise: "we don't track you".

OTOH, not using them has only marginal effect on user's privacy: (a) DDG doesn't serve ads anyway, and (b) the metadata of user's online activity are still available to three-letter agencies to analyze.
Exactly like Apple didn't need Steve Jobs. Except they did.
Torrents are only 15 years old?? Wow, I could have sworn they came before that. I feel like I've been doing torrents forever.

Windows XP is older than torrents, but in my mind it feels much newer for some reason. I wonder why.
And enough firepower to pulverize a planet, when does bitcoin get that like the USD?

Full faith and credit of the US government
Everything I could find says the board asked Thiel to come back, not Musk... In fact, supposedly they fired Musk and hired Thiel back while Musk was flying internationally, and had announced they change at CEO before he landed.

Knowing that, it would explain his tendency to make sudden pronouncements and try to stay at the office/factory at all hours.
Has it really been that long since the fall (at least of major popularity) of Napster, direct connect, Kazaa, lime wire, audio galaxy etc? I believe (please correct me) that both Blizzard, Microsoft and many other major software firms distrubute software using BitTorrent, in addition to all Linux distros.
I follow this stuff pretty closely and I haven't seen any mention of him making a stand and saying he'd never settle. All I've seen is an article referring to "sources" that said he or his team rejected a specific settlement. Can you point me to your source for the claim that he'd never settle?
It's astounding to me that BitTorrent isn't used more often for media distribution. There are entire industries built around distributing content from huge datacenters, and meanwhile the economics of distributing something through BitTorrent are exactly the opposite of how things traditionally work - content is easier and cheaper to send the more people are interested in it!
I was just using the default mode. I've only used ddg once, so I should have no settings.
I couldn't tell you what interest rate he's likely to pay but in general in this situation, there is interest. Whoever lends him the money has their own cost of funds and admin costs to cover at a minimum, even if they view repayment as close to zero risk because the collateral is very good.
Napster/Limewire predate it a bit.
I have a screenshot somewhere of my XP machine running DU meter & Napster to show off my brand new, 2nd in my county, cable modem pulling 400KB/sec. I felt like a God.
Very glad you pointed this out - having hit the page using the browser on my phone, it totally wasn't obvious to me that the marketing text was a live editable instance of the tech.
I always call it the hamburger menu, especially when doing tech support for everyone.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Your implication is the investors worth protecting are those with long positions"

Maybe there should be a bias towards those who benefit from the continuing viability of the company and maybe not.

But in this case, I suggest it's moot just because the damage to longs appeared to be significantly greater than the damage to shorts and it doesn't counterbalance anyway.

The penalties seem arbitrary to me. Transferring several million (or billion) dollars around as they are doing doesn't seem to rectify in any way the purported injustice to shorts. The whole episode drove down the stock quite a bit, so longs have suffered a lot, shorts have suffered somewhat, and the government collected a commission. Nobody has had wrongs rectified, and it's unknown whether prying Musk away from Tesla is a net gain.

Personally, I was neither long nor short TSLA at the time of the tweet, and I don't think short sellers are inherently illegitimate. However, I think the existence of a public company generally serves a social purpose and long investors are not quite symmetric with short investors. If, in general, there is a dispute where you can apply long investors' concept of fairness, or you can apply short investors' concept of fairness, it kind of makes sense that what damages the company less is probably the right answer, barring something like Theranos that shouldn't exist at all.
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine
I'm genuinely confused why it wouldn't. Too many arguments in programming deal with bikeshedding like camel case vs underscores. Why not eliminate the debate by agreeing it doesn't matter one bit?
You can send money with no fees with zelle instantly and fdic insurance is free. The dollar is going to outlive bitcoin as you have to pay utilities with the dollar and without utilities bitcoin is useless! Bitcoin has become the ultimate heist, just own the exchange and disappear! And con the public to make customers whole? Sorry charlie dodd frank forbids that happening with actual legitimate financial institutions. They will bail in instead! So nothing at all changes! The bank robs you just like bitcoin exchanges do all the time!

So then which would you rather have in a depression? The kind no one ever thinks will show up on their watch?
He will stay on as CEO.
FCC?
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I love BT and think it's great, but I always wonder:

Is it a net (for the bandwidth of whole internet) gain? I believe the major advantage is to transfer the cost of distrubutio away from the original host and distrubute it among those downloading IT. Does it reduce bandwidth used appreciably or just shuffle it around?
The general consensus is that Tesla experienced production hell solely because of Musk. Moreover, their impending cash crunch is also due to Musk rushing through things rather than stepping back for a minute to spend quality time figuring out the details.

People like Musk aren't just replaceable, they should be replaced so soon as possible to lookout the damage they do.
Many ISPs throttle you when they see BitTorrent activity. It isn't a commercially viable transport.
At the very least he is a one person marketing machine making people buy pricy cars by a very new car brand using only his twitter account and his personal brand (and shooting one car at mars).
Quick googling got me a VW ad budget of more than $6 billion. $40 million is nothing compared to that.
> Spotify

Maybe I'm just a freak or something, but I've been pretty happy as a monthly-paying Spotify subscriber. It's not my impression that the ad-supported version of Spotify is the "core" product.
DDG is far from perfect in this case, but at least you can refine the search per website without having to add a keyword to the search. By the way try doing some search for programming languages that choose a poor name for a bit of a laugh (I am looking at you Rust and Go).
> Musk is a great startup CEO. But what Tesla needs now is an enterprise CEO.

I guess that’s the new meme about Musk now, but I see no reason to believe it. Plenty of startup CEOs have done well after their companies became enterprises. Larry Ellison and Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are obvious examples. So is Steve Jobs, who came back to Apple after a decade of absence and rebuilt the company.
Why? Because some high powered adversary is spying and decrypting all your internet traffic to find a passphrase you may or may not use in its entirety?
I'm using pobox.com and pretty happy with it. I have the mailstore account which is $50/yr so about $4/mo.
You are probably talking about data loss. That's what online backup is for. My recommendation to non-technical people is to do what I do: have one four-word password that unlocks the computer, their password manager, and the online backup. Typing the password every day to unlock the computer makes super sure they won't forget it.

But yes, not letting people reset their computer by accident is just good user interface.
I mean, if you stop using their website wouldn't it be a good thing for bandwidth heavy sites like YouTube? It's kind of like a restaurant showing you the door and then saying "I didn't want to eat here anyways."
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Not sure about many, but most ISPs in the world definitely don't throttle torrents (or you for using torrents).
As far as I heard, he is already heavily leveraged against his stock in multiple loans that total into the billions. And his side of that deal just lost quite a bit of substance due to TSLA shares losing value, with a lot more of largely empty space (= high premium assigned to the stock price by investors due to perceived potential) to possibly fall until the bottom comes.
I wouldn't feel very realised if I was hired because of my skin colour.
> "The Fanimatrix" is a fan-made, zero-budget short film set within the Matrix universe, specifically shortly before the discovery of "The One" (i.e. the first "Matrix" feature film). It tells the story of two rebels - Dante and Medusa - and of their fateful mission onto the virtual reality prison world that is The Matrix.
Interesting question! Yeah, nostalgia or... inertia maybe? I think the original synthetics were developed as “legal highs” and thus filled a particular demand for “smokable leaves that get you high” as a substitute product for weed.

And when you think about it there are practical advantages.

The form factor is not bad, compatible with your existing lighters, papers, pipes and so on and takes up “the right amount” of space (harder to lose but still concealable). Lungs are an excellent drug delivery system. You can also use it out in the open since there are existing (legal) things it could be.

You could distribute it “pure”, but it would be a lot more fiddly (tiny bags) and require a fragile (and suspicious) glass pipe, lightbulb, alufoil or what-have-you. Harder to maintain for your “addict on the go”. From a marketing perspective, much more threatening (crack/meth associations).

“Injectibles” have similar (but worse) downsides.

A pill, or snortable powder could work? Probably these do exist already - lots of dodgy pills around, some of them are bound to have these actives. Generally slower onset though and less of a high than smoking the same thing. Also somewhat different market.

Have not seen synthetic edibles or oils but no reason it couldn’t be done.

If you were going to “startup the heck out of it” you would probably go for some kind of juul-like vape. Subscription, of course....
I think it has a bad name and torrent traffic often gets blocked or throttled. I think with some rebranding it could be successful.
Bah, I almost talked about what would happen if you did this on a sphere. Yes, there is an assumption that rotations and translations are commutative and associative. We're so used to this that our intuitions sensibly hide it.

The fact that there are hidden assumptions doesn't invalidate the proof, though. There are always hidden assumptions. Even if I give you formal axioms to reason with, you need a system in which to interpret those axioms.
>It seems to me that the people most effected by this will be people who actually want to reach you - Friends, family, work associates. They’ll have to jump through an extra hoop until they’re on your whitelist.

Fair point. In practice it has not been a problem. If I really want to get emails from them, I can always add them myself if they do not want to go through the trouble. On the flip side, If someone I know isn't willing to spend a minute once in their life to get access to me, it does send a strong signal on how much they value knowing me.
"Re-enable tracking" 100% chance of ... CBS! :D

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There are some crimes that are so blatant, public and obvious that the regulators _have_ to punish you, as any other option would make it look like the regulators were so ineffectual and weak there were effectively no rules.
Who's to say you aren't?
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I would assume yes, but he wouldn't be eligible for either of the two new independent board seats and can't keep the chairman's seat, so for him to remain on the board would require one of the existing board members to give up their seat to him.
Remember times when a thing like this would cause an outrage?
I'm not sure deterrence is applicable. Someone commented in an earlier thread that Musk is slightly bipolar/manic at times. Fining him is not going to deter him from having symptoms, nor will letting him go encourage another person to have such symptoms. Your theory seems like spanking your child for catching the flu.

Of course, it might be that his tweets are being considered in the larger context of recent irresponsible tweeting by those in power, and thus from the perspective of enforcement it looks like a rising tide.
We only had dial-up, but I "borrowed" an EGPRS phone from work. 177.6 kbps (I think) felt more than you could ever need! Making it work in Slackware Linux was a challenge.
Asian American, please!
Obviously it’s possible to maintain public transit under some set of political sensibilities and structures; it works in Europe and Asia. But if any place in America would be willing to address mismanagement (meaning terminate the careers of the politicians who allow it), it would be New York. De Blasio just got re-elected by a wide margin.
Actually, most of the stolen gasoline is purchased by gas stations.
I do agree with the comment on needing a way to specify a topic, however, in my experience of 4-5 years on DDG, I have nothing but grief with Google search. It tries too much to guess what I am looking for on the internet and ends up being unhelpful and frustrating.
Good point, the independent investors could make it more likely he be removed if he continues to be erratic. And Blackrock did propose having him step down as chairman.
The history of Joost is instructive. The cost of making swarming really work is now higher than the cost of CDNs. Octoshape seems to still exist in some form but I don't know if it still uses P2P.
If heroin and morphine were legalized, it could revitalize the Midwest farming economy and prevent deaths from adulterated drugs.

Clearly there is a big market for these drugs, so that commerce might as well be part of the local economy instead of the international black market
I am using Firefox with AdBlockPlus (older version that supports the -->), and one extra add-on called "Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus" [1]. This extra add-on doesn't block, but merely hides bits and pieces of the page. It mostly use it to cut-out/hide all "Related/Suggested" columns and tables, so when one article loads, I only see that on the page and nothing else.

[1]: https://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper
Dog mode
If the military is really about defence, it has no business in foreign countries whatsoever.
World of Warcraft used torrents for update downloads right up until they replaced that with the new combined updater app a few years back.
Someone like Rick Wagoner? (CEO of GM 2000-2009)

I get what you're saying, but choosing from "business as usual" automotive industry leaders has a spotty track record.

Particularly where innovation is concerned.
It might actually help a bit as he seems to be burning out from “120-hour work weeks” (https://entrepreneurs.maqtoob.com/why-elon-musks-burnout-is-...)
Generally it’s easy to win small transaction disputes. It’s the larger ones where your credit card company starts to no longer care about you.
I've worked at companies that are more traditional and run ASP.NET classic on Windows or Azure App Service (which is effectively Windows).
Do they turn off the ads if you pay? Many sites don’t offer a no-ad option at any price.
Visual Studio is lovely to use, it has aged well.
While I agree with your comment, I have to say that xkcd does not have ads.