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I could see that for a small company. For a company of Google's size and wealth, it simply doesn't make sense not to pick up a good candidate even if you don't need them right away.

In any case, it did drive home the point that Google would never see me as anything but marginal and expendable, and I realized that there were other places where I could really matter.
Yes it's always amazing how these new environment skimp on debugging support. After all that's the activity most of us doing real software spend the most time on, and no, no amount of "safe programming" will avoid debugging. I guess debugging is just not cool.
Absolutely.

But if we assume that, the question for investors is "will it dominate the high end with better margins like iPhone does, or will it dominate the high end with better margins like Porsche does?" Only one of those outcomes justifies a $100B valuation.
> Telsa apps/games

This is the only thing that remotely justifies their current valuation.

If you expect them to crush it in China + monetize their install base via creating an app platform for 3rd party apps + get to self-driving.

People forget that EVs are going to likely be on the road a lot longer than ICEVs, due to lower wear-and-tear. Past battery capacity degradation, there isn't much to break.
Our household came from driving BMWs, MBenz and Lexus cars/SUVs. Now we are an all Tesla household. The gas and maintenance savings are huge benefits.

The Tesla Reddit forums is also filled with many owners who share the same sentiment.
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They used extremely broad keywords and phrases that are by definition expensive to bid on. For example, one of the terms in the screenshot was "bass lessons".

What is that? Bass guitar or bass fishing? If this were a real business, not only would you be overpaying due to poorly phrased, non-specific ad title, you'd also be hit with Quality Score penalties by Google if you had too many users clicking through in search of bass fishing lessons and exited the page when they realized it was bass guitar.
I don't look at my house as an investment as much as it is an inflation hedge. We bought our current house in 2010 when prices were low due to the great recession. Our mortgage is $835/mo (15yr mortgage). If we were renting now our rent would be ~$1500/mo for a comparable house in the same area. And our mortgage will be paid off in about 3.5 years as we've paid some extra on the principal over the years. Yes, there's still property tax and repairs but those are built into rental prices anyway. I also don't have to worry about having to move if the landlord sells the place I'm renting. I like the area and don't plan to move for a different job anyway.
The gross margin for hardware is calculated as revenue minus COGS - literally the parts, assembly, packaging, and distribution. Software is considered an R&D expense.

A 30% COGS is a benchmark for most hardware products and how much you can invest in software depends on how expensive your product is and how many you sell. Since Apple sells a lot at a premium price point, they've got a lot more room in their budget for software R&D. Capital equipment like cars, machinery, power plants, etc are a whole different beast however.
I've come to think of this as "the ancient world bucket brigade".
I'd add shorting is expensive (borrowing fees or volatility premium on options) and more complex (margin/option approval etc). Plus the old adage that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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yeah but the policy is sold to the driver not the car. You need a risk profile of the driver.
The following is entirely my opinion, and not based on empirical evidence, with that said...

I think the issue is that a lot of people don't believe they have a choice. When you are getting hired, make a point that you are not willing to work more than 40 hours a week (unless as completely necessary such as an actual emergency which requires your intervention), but for the hours you do work, you will put in your best effort. You're signing a mutual contract, not indentured servitude, serfdom, being "sold", etc.

It would be plain foolish not to hire someone like that (if they did in fact put in their best work). For some reason everyone thinks they have to be a slave to their company, but any company that recognizes their employees wishes will be able to reduce turnover (which can be very expensive) and in-turn have a higher morale which can improve performance.

I also think that parents are not teaching their kids good skills. I don't recall my parents saying anything other than "work hard" and "do your homework". They didn't tell me how to navigate the real world after school, I figured it out on my own. I learned how to find a company that not only wants me to work for them, but that I'd like to work for them as well. What questions to ask in the interviews, what signs to look out for that raise red flags on how employees are treated, how to research companies to see what the employees say about it and what benefits they may provide.

As a result I probably don't make as much as I could be, or I'm not as far in my career as I could be. But that's okay, because I get to go home at night and not worry about work, and spend time with my family. I also have the option to move jobs at will at any time, for any reason. I was in a job once that wasn't the perfect fit, and found an even better job as a result of the experience I gained working there for a fairly short time.

I love my job now, and I don't know what I would do without it. I'm very lucky that someone has put in the thousands (or hundred thousands, millions, tens of millions?) of dollars to create a business that is able to take advantage of the skill I have without me owning my own business.

Lastly, people are easy to be bitter and resentful. I'd hate to look back and feel like I was taken advantage of for the majority of my life, or missed out on important life events for a job that didn't matter.
Any manufacturer can tap into those, the charging patents were all released for free. The last thing the EV market needs is the balkanization of charger networks; it's all the same electricity.
yeah, it's not like they came up with the first vector-based mapping and door-to-door directions or anything like that. Just some simple HTML stitched together /s

Also, get your facts straight. Citysearch and Zip2 are not the same company.
There are significant demographic issues to account for, especially when looking at such high level statistics. Your breakdown also doesn't take into account the inverse land-use factor. High density in one location allows for lower density elsewhere, with additional environmental effects.
IMO vanilla Half-Life 1 is still amazing. Every gun, every enemy has a unique idea to them and requires you playing differently. HL2 kinda streamlined that aspect in favor of “cinematic” presentation which was built around a graphical wow-factor that’s hard to replicate today. HL1’s gameplay is still fresh. In fact, because it was in development for (over?!) 10 years, Black Mesa suffers from a similar “1,5-generations behind” vibe, visually.
> Homeowners want their home prices to rise in the way anyone wants any investment's value to rise. But it doesn't mean they don't have other reasonable concerns.

I'd like my car's value to rise by restricting people from bringing new cars to town too.

If you read the special report and associated opinion piece, a major point of it is that treating a home that you own as an 'investment' rather than something that you consume has been a colossal problem for many places.
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That is a fair point. Mobileye will offer competitive products to all makes at reasonable prices in the very near future. I don't think Autopilot will be a major differentiator for long.
GoatCounter author here: doing some form of session tracking is on the roadmap; check back in a few months. The project is still quite new, with the first "real" release only being last week :-)

As for Fathom, I find that last "since that people are confused"-comment rather funny, since their messaging on this has been confused for almost a year, haha
I suggest we keep this thread on the topic of NeXTSTEP.
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man pages are first-party, are they not?
I don't seem to be the only other person with problems - and considering I can get useful FPS out of HL2 and other modern titles (or decent fps when it's virtualised) I really don't think it's a hardware problem.

See https://steamcommunity.com/app/70/discussions/0/257985440075... or search for "half life windows 10 fps"
How is Tesla worth more than Ford? Their F-150 alone outsells all Tesla models combined
Exactly the opposite!

For one, Germany too had a representative system and elites governing. So what happened there wasn't some issue with "direct democracy" and tyrannical masses that a representative democracy would stop.

Second, even within Germany's non-direct-democracy system, the masses last voted for the various parties in 1933 in iirc, the Holocaust started much later, almost 8 years later. In fact, masses wise, Hitler didn't even democratically won 1933 elections. The last time the public had a chance to say anything, was a referendum in 1938, which wasn't on that matter at all (and which result was tampered by the party anyway -- there was "widespread intimidation of voters").

Hitler's Germany is hardly a case against direct democracy and the "tyranny of the masses". If anything, if people voted directly, Hitler might not have even gotten in power -- and his actions would be much more controlled and constrain, as in a direct democracy (ancient Athenian style) people decide for all matters, and can vote someone out of office at anytime, they don't give a blank check to some "representative".

And of course, the same horrible crimes could happen in the total opposite of a direct democracy, a downright dictatorship. And indeed, they did in Stalinist USSR or Maoist China.

So, thus far, we've ruled out representative democracy (Hitler), and dictatorship (Stalin).

Maybe direct democracy looks better now?
Erm, I know what present value is. The discount rate for Tesla is not 3%, unless you think it's a risk-free asset (it's not).
3d for reading PDFs ? I would keep using Okular, that is blazing faster.
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I have the app and now exactly how it works. That's why I replied. I can even do a screen recording and show you, if you want.
ARR is not a synonym for "revenue." Tesla's total revenue was $6.3bn for the last reported quarter, an annual run rate of $25.2bn. That's all sales, nearly all of which are sales of new vehicles.

Sales of durable new vehicles does not fit the definition of "annual recurring revenue" by any stretch of the imagination. ARR is valued highly because it implies steady revenue from each customer. Less the churn rate, it makes for a super steady long tail of cash flows. Once you've made a sale, you can count on that sale again the next year, and success of new sales builds on that existing base of recurring sales. These kinds of revenues tend to be more resistant to recessions, changes in preferences, etc., versus churning through new customers every year.

Car companies are the exact opposite. Sell a car? Great, you have to sell another car to someone else next year just to tread water. Your customers don't buy new cars every year. Maybe in five to ten years they'll come back to you.

That's why ARR is worth so much more, and why a durable goods maker does not get a high valuation because of their ARR. They're different business models.

In short, one can't justify Tesla's revenue valuation multiple based on multiples of ARR subscription companies.
If apache licensed code had contributers, can the code be relicensed with a restrictive license and attain full ownership of everyones work?
If all they did was produce cars, then yes, the valuation wouldn't make sense.

But you're completely ignoring their solar panel and battery production business. Those two things on their own will make them a powerhouse in the upcoming renewable energy industry. Solar panels on residential homes with batteries for storage/backup + utility level solar fields with utility level battery arrays = a massive business on its own.

People make the mistake of comparing them to GM or Ford, when in reality they're the equivalent of General Motors + General Electric.
Which doesn't impact code pulled prior to the change. License changes are not retroactive.
Idk why you’re being downvoted. I can confirm- bought in the Upper East Side of NYC 5 years ago. Appreciation wouldn’t offset closing costs and fees when I wanted to sell last year.
Flagging this submission as the software is suspicious and likely breaks ToS. Additionally, the author changed licenses recently in an attempt to rewrite history.
The Model-X is really like a mini-van. High price, but similar functionality. Seats five adults + two kids. Maybe Tesla will drop the price over time. I think Elon Musk built it as the car he would want to take his family around in. He later said he regretted building that model as it took too long to develop and set back introducing the model three by a year or two.
They left out the note on the first page of the memo that says "CAUTION: a Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation (TECLCON) is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion."
> How did you make that giant leap? Subjective doesn’t mean irrelevant, it means everyone has their own opinion on it which makes it quite relevant.

Relevant to what? If objective and subjective ideas are both relevant, why even bother pointing out that it's subjective?

Subjective ideas aren't admissable as evidence in most debates. Whether or not you intended it, when people go through the effort to say an idea is subjective, it's usually because they're trying to cut down the validity of that idea. So if that wasn't your intent, maybe you should have been more clear.

> Your tangent was difficult to follow on the sole basis that Google is no different than any other entity. The US government is evil because we don’t share the same goals. Vegans are evil because we don’t share the same goals. Football players are evil because we don’t share the same goals. I can go on but you should get the picture by now.

No, actually I don't get the picture. Yes, anyone can label anyone evil.

> At the end of the day, you should understand that businesses exist solely to make money. If they didn’t make money, they wouldn’t have investors. Without investors, most businesses would not exist. Without those businesses, we would be objectively worse off.

Actually, that's not objective, that's subjective. I don't agree that the world is better by having a huge amount of private data centralized under Google's control.

(Incidentally, see how saying that's subjective sounds a whole lot like saying it's irrelevant?)
The skyscrapers themselves are pretty eco-unfriendly as well, frequently built as essentially a giant greenhouse with heavy heating & cooling loads to maintain comfort.
If you have, or can get, a copy of the code that was released with the old license, you can use it under that license.
This was indeed the joke I was aiming for - though in reality it was probably as funny as coldtea thought...
Unreal also came out before HL in 1998. And I think it looks, plays, and sounds better. The only things HL does better is scripted storytelling and realism.

Unreal is a game I enjoy today and will probably play again sometime this year; HL's linear scripting is something I only need to see once, and its realism hasn't aged so well.
Depending on which solution you use; some of them are just a few KB, which is not so much.

Doing log-analysis has its own drawbacks: not everyone has access to them, bot traffic will be a lot higher, and certain information is hard to access (like screen size). You can't always "just" use it.
Yeah, Apple has targetted 40% for a long time and tends to stay pretty close to it. Tesla has often said that their target is 25%, but they've rarely been able to hit it.

OTOH, if they were able to get margins back to 25%, these valuations would start to look a lot less crazy.
Both what I said and what you said can be true simultaneously. I have been increasingly down on Cloudflare because Cloudflare is cutting me out of an increasingly large portion of the web.
The bay area is such an outlier that I almost feel like it should be exempt from broader 'housing cost' discussions. Fixing the bay area housing crisis is a whole other set of concerns.

No one in our area wants more office space. I don't know that there's much of a demand for new office space, the buildings we have are full of vacancies.
All those countries had either dictatorships or representative democracies, and masses that give representative a "blank cheque" to do as they please for N years, and where elites lord over those people.

The very opposite of a direct democracy.
One of my favorite deeper dives into 'traffic':

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/3/16/everyone-knows...

Some key points:

A well connected grid is more robust to failure.

Allowing people to, say, open businesses near where people live lets everyone drive less - or maybe even walk or bike! But this is by and large no longer a 'done thing' with big american suburbs.
I also think that the lack of community interest in GNUstep was a missed opportunity. More of my thoughts on the matter can be found at http://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2019/06/some-thoughts-a....

With that being said, GNUstep is still being worked on. It’s currently roughly compatible with Mac OS X Tiger’s version of Cocoa. While this is far behind macOS Catalina, I’ll be honest and say that Mac OS X Tiger with some security updates can hold its own against modern operating systems. There’s even a fork of Firefox called TenFourFox that’s available for PowerPC Macs running Tiger.

What I personally believe is that GNUstep needs a suite of compelling applications in order for it to be more strongly considered. There are a lot of GTK and GNOME applications, and there is also a compelling collection of QT and KDE applications, but where is there a GNUstep web browser, office suite, image editor, photo library manager, etc.? GNUstep is less compelling in a world of GTK and QT apps. But if more GNUstep applications were written, then that may convince other developers to put in the work necessary to create a desktop distribution based around GNUstep and it’s applications. I was impressed by the now-defunct Étoilé project which attempted to revamp GNUstep in many ways.

Anyway, I still think GNUstep has some potential, and there’s a window of opportunity for the project to gain more support, especially in an era of increased disappointment over Windows 10 and macOS.
You try to separate the price from the benefits of the neighborhood, but I think it's the same thing, home price reflect the inherent value of the good and of its environment. The question is : does the environment of the house belong to the homeowner or not ? This question is reflected in Ricardo's point of view on rent ; for Ricardo it should not, and the price of the naked land value should be heavily taxed, only the utility value should be yours.
All three of these points are either outright wrong, or misleading.

1. Nevada has a operational storage facility that has space to hold ALL of the waste for the entire United States. It has been rated as stable by geologists for at least the next 700,000 years. Nuclear reactors produce 1 barrel of waste per year. That is an easily manageable quantity.

The reason they are not holding more is purely fearmongering polits, it's neither a scientific nor an engineering problem.

2. Nuclear power is not cost competitive because outdated and overzealous regulations and litigious environmental organizations. China, for example, is building 24 state of the art reactors, at a fraction of the cost that western countries are building them - for the exact same internationally approved design. Reactor construction is regularly delayed by local political litigation.

This is like pushing someone off of a cliff and then accusing them of being clumsy.

3. I'm not sure what you are comparing to in this point. There is currently NO renewable power plant capable of producing baseload in the quantities we need to avert climate change.

If we spent the next 2-3 decades averting climate change by building nuclear power plants, we would be smart. There are currently ZERO renewable projects for building baseload.

EDIT: You added some points about renewables storage - the costs of running a grid on 100% renewables with 100% storage capability far far exceed the costs of nuclear power. When you factor things like transmission losses of 35-45%, January solar production at 10% June levels, the intermittent nature of wind power, and the critical requirement that baseload be met 99.95% of the time - you quickly realize that there are absolutely no storage solutions that can get us to a 100% renewable grid (or even a 50% renewable grid).
ICE autos are locked into three near-monopoly supports:

- Manufacturing scale is enormous, with vast supply chains and deeply ingrained middlemen & unions locking in prices.

- Sales is via local monopolies(-ish) which dictate what models & variants of a few brands are available & manufactured.

- Power comes from an infrastructure of commodity stations which are not controlled by vehicle manufacturers.

Most EVs are a modification of this: made by the same few brands, defined & sold by the same few dealers, powered by a mundane infrastructure of independent power suppliers.

Tesla has transcended this model:

- Manufacturing is extremely concentrated & efficient, built ground-up in-house.

- Sales is online to-your-door. The few showrooms are just that: show rooms, letting you experience a couple premium builds. (I expect one benefit of self-driving is your by-credit-card purchase will literally deliver itself; ~$0 delivery cost.)

- [Inter-]national "supercharger" network assures you can go anywhere; owned by Tesla, it is optimized for the vehicle and cuts out independent business' cut of profits.

This is huge.

Apple succeeded in large part because it's a one-stop-shop for personal information tools; the entire ecosystem is owned & optimized by one business, keeping TCO relatively low yet profits for that business high & sustained. Not beholden to anyone else, Apple can perfect a few devices for a total 24/7 user experience.

Tesla is following similar: I can tap a couple buttons on my phone and a car will appear a couple days later, having extreme longevity & desirability, powered mostly at home and nationally by cheap & optimized chargers - with no third-party overhead & complications. That vs the EV I last had, involving needless extra costs & confusion from a dealer, unable to fast-charge, and otherwise (while nice) failed to go above-and-beyond.

Eagerly awaiting Cybertruck.
Doesn't GNU still scoff at man pages and foist texinfo? Honestly who wants to waste their time with roff etc?

The focus has been making it easier for the developers to write literally anything. One thing uses sphynx another uses man another uses doxygen or what the hell ever. Users aren't developers. This is why everyone ends up on google and ends up on stackoverflow or random blog or watching youtube.

The barrier to entry is much lower with some simple markdown thing. Hell, I was thinking about how to abuse this thing to make my own notes about commands.
In 2008 Volkswagen was the highest valuable company on the planet due to a massive short squeeze. Something similar seems to be happening right now with Tesla and it will be interesting to see who is on the losing side this time. In 2008 one German billionaire lost all his money and committed suicide.
man pages sometimes have an EXAMPLES section, may be at some point these could be merged (both ways?)
Awesome. It looks like for the shell commands it uses content straight from TLDR, right?

e.g. http://cht.sh/tar