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> Model S has been out since 2013 and there’s still nothing as good on the market from any other manufacturer.

Sales of the S are flat and the profits hardly make a dent towards my suggested $5 billion earnings.

> They have a huge head start

In some areas.

Hybrid cars have much of the same technology and no charging station limitations - they compete with full electrics. Hybrids sold 4 million in US 2016 compared to Japan's 5 million sold.

> To say nothing of their charging network and the issues legacy brands will have fighting with dealers.

Sure, but it looks like Tesla needs say 10x more sales to get $5 billion earnings. Another competitor only needs to deploy a little faster to catch up.
From paragraph 60 in the filing (emphasis is mine):

"As explained to OAG attorneys by Respondents' counsel. Bitfinex and Tether have also used a number of other third party payment processors to handle client withdrawal requests, including various companies owned by Bitfinex/Tether executives, as well as other 'friends' of Bitfinex - meaning, human being friends of Bitfinex employees that were willing to use their bank accounts to transfer money to Bitfinex clients who had requested withdrawals."
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Looks like boilerplate that probably gets attached to every press release.
I don't think that's something that is easily predicted. But I remember when the notion seemed ludicrous, and now it doesn't seem that way at all.

That alone should deeply worry us all.
Really interesting comment! I tried to use JavaFX a while back and was really put off by it (whereas I've had good experiences in Swing).

Some issues (it's been some time so memory is a bit hazy):

- Lack of good documentation, both official and alternative (ultimately found a good reference book).

- Lack of customization on some widget, even compared to Swing (remember being really disappointed at how hard it was to modify the built-in tab-view).

- I really don't like the built not-quite CSS. Remember having trouble finding documentation for it. Also why a different language and not just code — like for the rest.

- Was really put off by some parts of the API design, even compared to Swing. Something that I remember is that there was a half-baked support for "theming" that isn't really usable nor used.

- This is much more debatable, and I won't wish ill on people who dismiss it, but it feels like it's completely out of the zeitgeist. I don't know if people doing unsexy jobs use JavaFX, but very people talk/write about it over the internet. Compared to Swing, the dearth of resources is staggering. It also created a lot of FUD that you can easily find if you google a bit. Don't use Swing cause it might be deprecated in favor of JavaFX (unlikely?). JavaFX hasn't really been updated nor hyped since Oracle took over, it's just rotting. IIRC it's not even bundled with the VM anymore, which is more headaches for distribution.

Only exception: https://tornadofx.io/ has some love in the Kotlin community.

- You have to link to different JavaFX jars for different platform, which makes any kind of Maven (etc) based dependency management a nightmare.
> which helps Facebook in a minuscule way.

Contributing to firefox, openssh, wikipedia and the linux kernel also helps Facebook in various ways. Should we stop doing that?

React is an open source project. Facebook did right by it (unlike other open source projects coming out of FB such as Flow). I find this hardline stance kinda ridiculous when it's one of the rare good things to come out of Facebook. It should be encouraged if anything. But even if not, it is a standalone project and a very good model example of how companies should release stuff as open source, so not contributing to it "because it helps Facebook" is completely missing the point of what open source is.
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Philosophically, these are mobile versions of chromium OS - where gui is handled in js/html and kernel is Linux.

2019 is the right year for this attempt, given the advent of:

1. service workers

2. Cache API

3. Web notifications

4. Web sensor APIs like WebUSB...

5. WebAuth

6. WebAssembly

7. Progressive web app support ..

When Firefox had a go at this in 2012, the web ecosystem didn't have the listed above features. Mozilla was a little early to this game
In Regions Hit by Recession, Gen Z Is Turning Out to Be Frugal
The desperate race to cool the ocean before it’s too late
They bought the old NUMMI factory that used to make GM and Toyota cars. It was active right up until they bought it in 2010 (they announced the sale a month after NUMMI closed) so my guess is they were able to accelerate early progress because of that purchase.

In the long run, I'd agree, the expense vs. reward calculation doesn't make sense now. But GM and Toyota successfully used that plant for something like 30-50 years before that and there was a whole community of auto workers living around it, so I'm not sure I'd say that was poor judgment for them at all.

Nobody expected housing prices to go up 100%+ over the last few years. 2010-2015ish was a real estate boom period for Valley workers if anything. You had post-recession housing fire sales; AirBnB wasn't big enough yet to incentivize empty houses; Google, Apple and FB didn't quite own the entire Menlo Park->Sunnyvale corridor yet; etc. Good times.
We're apparently talking about two different subpoenas.

CFTC subpoenaed Tether back in 2017: See eg https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4hW_8L...
> white, with no letters in the inside slot

You can identify it by the lack of identifying marks.
Why such an extreme comparison?

Does the Television industry hit too close to home to not use as an analogy instead?
RedHat: The Open Brand Project
Yes, I guess so. I suppose I'm startled that someone would write such an elaborate article about such a remarkably specific situation without some intent to make a general statement, but whatever floats his boat I guess. You're definitely right that interacting with C++ outside of C++ (unlike the C ABI) is painful even before Qt's weird moc stuff gets going.
Switching to Blink would be a huge undertaking, ditto for moving off classic Gecko.

Mozilla ditched Firefox OS & Thunderbird over the huge amount of work that would need to be redone to move to newer Gecko (as Servo components were ported over and swapped in via Project Quantum), but that would likely be less work than getting Blink to be responsive with minuscule amounts of RAM, then go app by app and optimize the crap out of it (which Mozilla had dozens to hundreds of devs doing for Firefox OS while they were developing it).
Seems like a tough sell to find enterprise architects that want to screen full-time, but maybe it would make more sense to someone that actually liked interviewing... or, as you said, maybe you could just pay them enough!
> Most of the complaints I have heard are about the developers using their position of power to push their own political agenda.

If a developer is the authority on a package, they should be able to do what they want right? Not sure why this is a bad thing, people can fork the project if they don't agree with the changes. Or just use previous versions.

What's the alternative? A single authoritarian political agenda?

> A lot of people moved to the faster alternative yarn, this caused the NPM developers to rain in their bull.

Yarn is just another CLI tool, it doesn't have its own packages and connects to the NPM repository.

Also, it's now extremely hard to remove or change a version of a package on NPM...
As a total outsider it was my impression that Brendan Eich was one of FirefoxOS’ biggest boosters and when he got kicked from the company for other reasons instead of promoted from CTO->CEO, the project lost its backing.
Buying and selling illicit products on the internet.
Tether functions as sort of the reserve currency of crypto. Many exchanges don't even offer fiat money or banking connections - to use them, you have to send Bitcoin in from another exchange or a personal wallet, then you can convert it into Tether or other altcoins. People who are "getting out of crypto" by selling Bitcoins because they think the price is gonna drop oftentimes are actually buying Tethers. When 80% of crypto trading is denominated in your currency, there isn't really a bottom to fall to.

To actually exit Tether, most of these people would have to buy Bitcoins or another cryptocurrency accepted by most exchanges, register for the account verification processes there (every exchange that handles fiat money has the same KYC procedures as banks, i.e. take a picture of yourself and your driver's license and wait a couple days while an employee manually verifies it), transfer your Bitcoin to the other exchange, sell it to USD, and then move it out to a bank account. That takes time and a lot of hassle. We'd expect to see a rise in the price of BTC at USDT-based exchanges as Tether holders need to convert to Bitcoin to get out, along with a fall in BTC at fiat exchanges as they sell that Bitcoin. To some extent this is happening (Coinbase Pro's BTC price is almost $100 less than Tether-only exchanges like Binance or Bitfinex), but it's less severe than I would expect from a true run on the bank. Most Tether holders probably figure they'll take their chances because the hassle of getting out is worse than the possibility of losing their investment.

Reserve currencies can go a long time before people finally run for the exits. The US dollar hasn't been backed by anything since 1971 and is still ticking strong.
Looks like the last shakeout, not a big deal to anyone who didn't trust tether to begin with:

>"OAG does not seek lo enjoin or interfere with the orderly operation of Bitfinex or Tether' s legitimate businesses. if any. including orders by legitimate traders on the Bitfinex platform, or legitimate tether holders, to redeem their tethers for dollars. Indeed. protecting legitimate traders using the Bitfinex platform. and legitimate holders of tether. primarily those residing in New York, is why a preliminary injunction is necessary now to preserve the status quo pending the completion of OAG's investigation."
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
The threat you mentioned is still there in the shape of an automated nuclear response system. It is just a matter of time until it malfunctions and kills us all.
I'd be very curious to hear what you think of the interleukin 17A and 23 blockers, like taltz and tremfya. They're being sold as miracle drugs for psoriasis, but how sure are we that they don't somehow screw up your heart or bones over the course of 10 years?
How well did it work out? For complex viz/performance specifically.
Everyone agree's that tether should have a 1-to-1 backing.

The delicious irony in it all is that the money in your bank is backed by about $0.10 for every dollar they owe savers.

I hope for the day when people expect the same of the banking system that underpins the whole economy.
Simply by looking!

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> But neither does profit motive.

Sure it does. Developing a cure for 100 people will generated far less profits than a cure for 100,000 people.

It's why you see cars get better every year and constant attempts to appeal to the widest customer base possible. (That didn't happen with Soviet built cars, which tended to never improve.)

As for advertising platforms, the customers are the advertisers.
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It is impossible[0] to fulfill the deal since those mummies are information-theoretically dead[1].

[0] assuming the arrow of time is irreversible
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death
Some say that this is what the world will become.
Agreed that as a unit prefix which is prepended for an abbreviation within the audience here, it's a bit of a go to. But with the number 4, the connotation wavers on first sight, even here due to AV biasing at play. Let alone the phonetic fun that combination yields.

Sorry as I spent most of the day pedanting over UI's and clearly not switched out of that mode - my bad. Sorry.
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It's appalling, but given the recent incident of the American government's safety agency asking Boeing, "would you say your plane is safe", and Boeing saying, "yep! this is just like our old 737, no need for retraining!", I hardly feel like we can cast aspersions on Germany in this regard.
Yea having a productive day is the best way for me to not feel stressed after I leave work and a great way to have bullet points for my resume.
I think there are different kinds of BSer that people meet and that in a lot of cases they are just bundled together to facilitate our understanding of why they exist.

In reality, a lot of BSers are a byproduct of the environment society has created. In my opinion, two main factors come into play: information asymmetry and base expectation. I'll exemplify a single test case with multiple potential outcomes:

Consultant demos a solution and he believes he can deliver X item by Y date.

- He may truly believe that, even though he may not be accounting for factors that are outside his control

- Teams and society have always found a need to have someone(s) take the lead. Since folks have limited intel while having the need to guide others, they will sometimes wing it

- He may wing it because if he doesn't and says he is not certain, it becomes unacceptable to the other party

- He may bs because nobody has raised his lie before and if they did, the individual still found value in acting that way in the long run.

Sometimes we may not realize, but our actions or lack there of can have a direct impact on how others are incentivized to act
I happen to just so have a limited supply of cryptographically signed numbers. I'll let you be the first one in on 'em. I'm selling them for $10,000 a piece.
I worked for a period of my life (around two years) a sustained 100+ hour workload (real work). I literally did nothing but work, eat and work, and sleep seven days a week. The only times I didn’t work was in the bathroom.

I didn’t get physically ill or burn out, but I slowly started to drift away from reality. The quality of my judgment calls started to decline and while never doing anything outright crazy, I did and said things that in hindsight were very strange.

One of the side effects of this is I had no idea what happened in the world in that time. To this day I am still learning about historical events that happened in that two year period that continue to amaze me.
>Why would you expect a machine to be able to handle scenarios that humans cannot handle?

That's exactly my point. Isn't that what Tesla is trying to do with FSD? It's trying to train a machine that will have to make ethical decisions.

How do you factor legal liability for a machine in the same way you would with humans in the same scenario e.g fatal accidents?

This is somewhat like the civilian version of AI military drones one day making automatic target selection.
Yep claims he has to work till 8pm and work on weekends, but it's all due to his work habits of not doing work in a concistent manner
Some kinds of work are easier to do than others. At one point, I decided that 60 hr/wk of active work seemed the approximate sustainable limit for some typical mix of both hard&easy work, over a period of weeks or months. But even if you can schedule the hard&easy parts for fatigue, 60 hr/wk still has extra costs (e.g., stresses to health, outside relationships, outside activities, internal morale as people get irritable).

I've also done my share of all-nighters and 80-hour weeks, and it's rarely/never worth every hour. I've learned to manage projects and tasks better.

I also have some sense of how performance degrades severely by the 30 hours awake mark, and a sense that there's a ramp up to that impairment before it becomes obvious.

Most recently, I advised a developer to try for 40 productive hours of work per week, and to emphasize being sharp and non-fatigued for any task that would benefit from that. Almost all of their work required them to be sharp. Keep the 60-hour heroics in reserve for emergencies only. (Or for occasional easy flow work, like sketching out a UI skeleton in some new framework. But don't work all night on something easy, and then throw off your sleep cycle for a week when you need to be sharp for harder stuff.)

(The last time I did a weekend work marathon, which required some meticulous reverse-engineering-ish work that I think was already the work-smarter way and couldn't be sped up further, I imagined the focus and pace of an astronaut who was calm and all-business about solving some critical problem in time. That was both inspirational and also set a simple internal watchdog on my mood and how progress was going. Had I been burning stressful 60-hour weeks for months before, I might've been too fatigued/stressed to pull it off without error or poor decisions. Had I not had much experience with working long hours, I might not have appreciated how much discipline they require, and the costs.)
> yet happily use their Open Source code

It's not their code. Linux didn't come from a company for example. The list goes on.

The amount of code they give back is peanuts compared to the amount of code they benefitted from to build their businesses. No need to feel guilty whatsoever to use it. Also totally fine to point out the parasitic players.
> I actively avoid products/brands I've seen in ads because I assume that if they need to market so hard they're probably not very good.

Interesting that you say this. I find that I tend to have a similar belief. According to what I know about economics, advertising is supposed to be an effective way of signaling product quality, because the return on investment is greater when new customers will be satisfied and thus purchase the good multiple times. I'd attribute this difference to the inaccuracies and simplifications of economics, but I find it fascinating that a group of scholars believe something opposite to my (and your) experience.
> "find a technology, build a solution, work out who has a problem it can solve"

Sadly, I feel like this could be used to describe most applications of "blockchain technology".
A RESTful service for obtaining holiday data
As long as there's value in a 1-to-1 USD-backed crypto, more tethers will created. The barriers of entry are relatively low and someone is bound to get it right eventually.
The headline is that Tesla posts "big quarterly loss" and the cause of this is "sales lag". And the article provides information to substantiate that, including a link to Tesla's report:

https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/b2218d34-fbee-4f1f-ac95-05...

> Deliveries of Model S and Model X declined to 12,100 vehicles in Q1 compared to our two-year run rate of roughly 25,000 units per quarter. This decline was mainly caused by weaker Q1 demand due to seasonality, pull-forward of sales into Q4 2018 in the U.S. due to the first scheduled reduction of the federal EV tax credit in Q1 and discontinuation of our 75 kWh battery pack. We also had a mismatch between orders and deliverable cars. For example, due to adjustments in pricing mid-quarter, the take rate for the performance versions of Model S and Model X increased faster than we were able to supply
iFixit Pulls Galaxy Fold Teardown at Samsung’s Request
> Pinterest is a visual search engine, not a social network.

That's exactly how it was promoted by major general news portals in Poland few years ago - as an amazing site where you can "pin" images to your board and see what others pick. I did tested it for a while but in comparison to microblogging platform like tumblr or soup it was way too chaotic in displaying content and navigation, so I left it without regrets.

In last years it become an annoying element of image search results in Google; it still seems to be sucking out images from other sites either by bots or with human help and pretending to be the source of searched image (which in some cases means it steals the views), and whenever you want to see image you were looking for, it asks you to sign in by dumping curtain over the content blocking it.

I don't see how this service can be useful to anyone but s. media influencers and those who naively believe they joined a cool site who does some great thing providing "inspirations".
I'm gonna guess they've already decided on the new logo and branding because of this, which says the new will be revealed next Wednesday.

https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/04/25/red-hats-signature-f...
There's a huge difference: Yes, the bank only holds $0.10 in cash, but at least in the US, the F.D.I.C. backs up every dollar in your bank account up to $250,000. That's a major reason the reserve banking system functions.

If there were an F.D.I.C. for tether then I'm sure people would have different expectations (and likewise, if there were no F.D.I.C. for the US banking system).
Most people would rather want this because you don’t have to bear the consequences. To simulate the experience, I suggest you start using a censored Bing exclusively while dialing down its search relevancy 30-40% for a start. Make sure you also realize the political reality that your rulers would rather go North Korea than giving up censorship.
About inconsistent state, take an altitude meter for example, in an airplane setting, it's better if the altimeter restarts, then having it show the wrong value.

For bug prevention I like defensive programming, checking for "impossible" conditions that should never happen. And always exit if the unforeseeable occurs.

The most effective way to prevent bugs though is probably to keep that program small and comprehensible, and that's easier with a high level language.

The static type checking is just one of many ways to prevent bugs. Personally I rather want the dynamic features. And I add checks at critical intersections, with human friendly errors. And do other automatic tests.
We had to pick something that was "good enough" for compression time/size, as well as easy for our customers to download/view if they wish, on any OS. Zip being supported in every popular operating system, and the average user using Windows being able to right click -> unzip, was the primary reason for choice.

There are of course significantly faster and more efficient compression formats like LZ4 which would be ideal if we were solely using the data internally in managed environments, but we offer these backups as downloads to our users, some of which aren't very technically inclined and still need to be able to access the files easily.
How about the Dissenter extension: https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1116357643172491266.
I think one of the issues is that the Prius starts from $30,000 here - which is quite a lot - and a lot of cheaper, but still economical cars are available for much less.
The lesson will never be learned.

The Ponzi scheme is as old as money itself. It’s never gone away. The one thing that crypto currency truly has revolutionized is the Ponzi scheme. You can do it any number of ways, add any number of twists, and do it over and over again. With crypto you don’t even have to be subtle. When the pot gets big enough you just outright steal it.

It’s possible that Satoshi himself will try to liquidate his stake at some point, crashing BTC itself and make off with a cool billion. Who knows. That might have been the plan all along.
If memory serves, IBM had a lot of good engineers on Linux back in the day & I think they were responsible for doing a lot of the hard perf. work on multi-CPU scheduling.
No way. This stuff was created to be the wild west. Let it keep failing until people come to actually understand the risks and learn the appropriate amount of trust, and then for companies find ways to become trustable.
I happen to have a modicum of sense, and realize Tesla has some serious management problems, but why is ordering machinery before having a location finalized nonsensical? It's not like this stuff is in transit or they need to buy any land.