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Why should it be valued on a revenue multiple similar to a tech company? Tesla has gross margins more similar to other auto manufacturers.
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App stores are lucrative and all, but there's just not that many cars compared to iPhones / Android phones to sell apps to.
Vim has it https://github.com/skywind3000/vim-quickui
> it's tech types who make the decision to use GCP or not

Perhaps at startups. At big companies, the call is made by directors and VPs that are well fined by sales people - and that's where the real money is.
Wait if I browse Amazon Japan will I find like, different and better things?
Maintaining the status quo is an incredibly valuable position for democratically elected politicians to have. Joe Biden’s entire campaign is built on “I won’t change anything except spruce up the ACA a bit.”

Representative democracy involves various groups focusing attention on one issue or the other. When it comes to things like drinking water or food, people’s fear of “impure” food can cause public panic vastly out of proportion to the actual problem. Nobody is thinking “hmm, would I give up stain resistant carpets and clothing and non-stick pans for a negligible lower risk of getting testicular cancer?”

PFAS are, at this point, a cause for study, not a cause for dramatic action: https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/p...

The two most studied, PFOA and PFOS are no longer produced in the US. The others are not well studied:

> But the health effects of the PFAS chemicals used instead of PFOS and PFOA are less known. As these newer chemicals accumulate in the drinking water in some areas of the U.S., scientists and state officials are trying to determine how they affect humans. At least some of them can be eliminated from the body more quickly than PFOS and PFOA and may be less toxic, according to DeWitt—but they still might cause problems, she cautions.

PFAS chemicals have been in wide use since the 1950s. Clearly they are reasonably safe. The question is whether the potential health benefits of reducing their use outweigh the cost of losing their advantages.

Here, there was no “cover up.” Nobody was hiding the measurements of the levels of PFAS in water systems. The question was whether the DHHS should issue a guideline that would set the PFAS target at a level 1/10th as high as what is present in many public water systems is not something that necessarily should happen. After all, how are they deriving that guideline? When you have exposure dependent chemicals, you can’t set the limits at the lowest levels where no harmful effects are detectable. (Remember how everything in California has a cancer warning?) There needs to be a global optimization process that balances benefits and costs. In that context, it was entirely reasonable and proper to refrain from setting such a guideline at this time.

(PFAS are just one example of things that trigger a panic completely out of proportion to actual risk. Another example is alcohol during pregnancy. The medical community in the US has taken the position, with the support of the government, that the only acceptable level is 0. That is even though women in Western Europe routinely drink moderate amounts of alcohol during pregnancy, with seemingly little ill effect.)
While Portuguese and Spanish have completely different words. Somewhere the chain was broken.
I think they're arguing that the real contribution of home ownership is the incentive to regularly invest in an appreciating asset, not the fact that the asset is a house. I don't think they're arguing that the incentive is irrational.
Wow I had no idea.

Here's a link that talks about makers of outdoor gear and their relationship with DWR. http://www.detox-outdoor.org/

It doesn't look like there is a lot of choice. Maybe I'll just stay wet :)
Biometrics are good for usernames but not passwords. It's much harder for someone to get something out of your head than cutting off your thumb. - and as playeren says, it's impossible to change it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4396831.stm
> If you are a value investor, the right thing to do is to just not invest in it.

I'm not sure how you got your conclusion out of what I said.
I think SuperCharger is the biggest lock-in right now, but the future is surely public fast charger networks, so I'm not sure how long this will last.
Some thoughtful consideration of corporate welfare:

http://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/corporate-parasites-ho...
That's my wife's current objection to buying an EV: after a quarter-million miles, a Tesla will still be running fine with no reason to replace it (vs an ICE trying to self-destruct).
1. Yucca mountain is not operational, and has had no federal funding since 2011 [1].

2. Even stripping away regulations and environmental requirements, wind and solar are still cheaper at sub 2 cents/kwh utility scale, having no marginal fuel cost. China has set their nuclear price floor at 6.49 cents/kwh [2].

3. I do not want nuclear reactors built to Chinese standards in my first world country.

4. Storage and renewables aren't an investment, operational, or proliferation risk.

EDIT: Transmission losses are minimized with renewables, as generation occurs closer to load centers. Not so with nuclear. Also, storage costs will continue to decline as EV battery manufacturing scales up (see: Tesla's Hornsdale Power Reserve). Nuclear is a solution looking for a problem, when renewables, transmission, storage, and demand response can meet market needs faster.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/china-energy-nuclear/update-...
Personal attacks and derision of my point of view were what I experienced right before being called a troll and banned.

Its unfortunate that some social spaces are uncomfortable with divergent viewpoints.
You can probably use the "tracking pixel" method with at least some analytics tools. This is a very old which probably predates even the invention of JavaScript.

Basically, if it accepts a GET with query parameters, it should work.
I figured it was another short squeeze. Probably coupled with automated trading.

Observed short interest over total outstanding seems like the kind of thing an algorithm could target, as it makes the stock more sensitive to moves, no?
| making it harder for investors to dump their positions in a moment of panic

On the flip side, it also makes it harder to sell when it is booming.

The potential return is intrinsically higher from 0 to 1 for PE, than it is from 1 to N in public markets
I don't think it's a leap. It's the fundamental idea behind the corporate jargon. They didn't just say they want a diverse team because their users are diverse, they explicitly said that to empathize well with their diverse users they need a diverse team. I find that notion quite reprehensible, but it's parroted so much these days that most people now just accept it as somehow self-evident.
Once your house is wired for the charger, how hard/expensive is it really to swap it for a different one?
and because it doesn't work on windows
Great article in general, but this is absolute gold:

"Before you rush to embrace the microservices paradigm, I offer you the following rule of thumb: if two pieces of information are dependent on each other, they should belong to a single server. In other words, the natural boundaries for a service should be the natural boundaries of its data."
I think you mistook his point. He's not arguing that Apple didn't acquiesce to the FBI, he's just pointing out how ridiculous the idea is that Apple reached out to the FBI to discuss future product plans (which is what Reuters says happened).
Freeman's Mind uses Half-Life: Source, which is Half-Life 1 ported (no new models or textures) to the Source engine (which was the one used for Half-Life 2). Half-Life: Source was released at the same time as (or right after?) Half-Life 2 in 2004.

Black Mesa is a recreation of Half-Life 1 in the modern Source engine completely from scratch. I've followed its development for over a decade and have been consistently impressed by how good it is. They just released the last couple chapters too, so now's a great time to try it out.
But lower than before that. It's a "rotated hockey stick" curve.
A lot of outstanding debt?

Student Loans. You need to make as much money as a doctor to afford housing. So did everyone become a doctor in the past 10 years?

Personal Auto Loans, although this seems rather localized.

Business Loans used for stock buy-backs, so executives could pay themselves a nice bonus. Can some of these businesses really pay back those loans?

Municipal bonds used for funding construction in areas with no economical viability.
Does Porsche have domain expertise in launching vehicles into orbit? Do you not think that the cross pollination between Musk's ground breaking companies won't give him a competitive edge against incumbents?

I don't think anyone realizes just how significant it is to have Silicon Valley know how in this industry where the visionary is an engineer and not a traditional CEO salesman.

It defies common sense that people question this so much. It's so obvious that Musk is disrupting all of these industries at once and breaking new ground daily.

I think, judging by the downvotes of my above comment that people are jealous or envious of Musk and they will always have a negative reaction to his success.
When your stops are 15-20 minutes instead of 5, every small reduction is even more critical.
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Whenever a customer experience a new paradigm that makes sense, the old habit seems so outdated and inconvenient.

Just imagine yourself not having to go to a gas station to fuel for a year, because you can charge at home every night. You wouldn't want to go back.
>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.

I think it's pretty similar to most other places that were built low density that now have high demand. We need to change the rules to allow high density, and we need public transit.

>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.

I... kinda do? back in the days after the crash, I would rent industrial spaces as workshops for my business. I had 1/4 of an industrial condo down the way from the hacker dojo at one point. It was a lot of fun, and only possible 'cause there was a lot of space and it was cheap. I mean, yes, yes, I should have bought. but my point is just that having space is... pretty nice.

That, and at work I'm crammed into this open office; they allocate more space to my car in the parking lot than they allocate to me - I think we'd all enjoy a few more sqft.
Somewhat recent Android versions have work profile which at the very least gives you a sandbox for all apps you want to be isolated from the main profile. Unfortunately, all those work profile apps still share data between themselves. Maybe it was improved lately.
What on earth did Rust copy from Python, toolingwise?
Would that be similar to how you've "stolen" and re-licensed code from Instagram-API-python[1]? I don't see the MIT licence with Lev Pasha's copyright notice in your repo anywhere.

Your code[2].

Their code[3].

[1] https://github.com/LevPasha/Instagram-API-python

[2] https://github.com/instabotai/instabotai/blob/132adf6b166c22...

[3] https://github.com/LevPasha/Instagram-API-python/blob/cf0fe1...
I'm not sure my terminal (VT420) will be able to keep up with this.
Even better is to stop buying from Amazon in the first place.
Re the waste problem being overstated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwY2E0hjGuU

https://www.dw.com/en/what-to-do-with-nuclear-waste/a-167558...

Interesting tidbit:
"The German Atom Forum, comprised of all German nuclear power plant operators, intends to pay as little as possible for storage and rejected shouldering costs for the new site search. In their opinion´”there is no legal basis" for them to pay and all costs should be "financed by taxpayers."

Also, how long did it take to clean up after Three Mile Island?
(hint: the cost was estimated at $1b)

Yes, Nuclear power plants for commercial power generation are done for and rightfully so.
Too dangerous, too expensive. Not only building them but de-constructing them and dealing with the waste.
Yes, plus one of FF's upgrade slipped in the change that ignored your setting on "allow unsigned extensions" which broke a vital UX app I had been maintaining after it got abandoned (pentadactyl: I had gotten so used to clicking links from the keyboard that it was really frustrating when I suddenly couldn't; fortunately there have been similar projects since that carried the torch).

I mean, they said they gave long notice for the change, but I didn't think that a browser that "empowered users" and "gave them control of their machines" would ever do that. I mean, if every change has to be approved by Mozilla, why not just shrink wrap the browser and make me get it from Microsoft at Best Buy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taGARf8K5J8
Sales seems an odd metric, since there's a big difference between high and low margin industries. But I suppose it's somewhat reasonable within an industry, especially when one is trying to compare an established company with one that is so busy growing that nobody expects its profit and loss this quarter to tell you much about the long term. Interesting, thanks.
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I agree with paying journalists for their work. but, They never provide a means to pay for the content of just the one article. I don't want a new magazine subscription everytime I surf to a new link. So, forgive me if I don't have much sympathy for a news organization that refuses to get up to date with how the internet works. The internet is on demand. If you want people to pay, it should also be on demand. Not, ohhh now you have to pay 200$ for a year long subscription just to read 1 little article which I was only going to look at for 60 seconds anyway.
They also had several megabytes of RAM.
>Tesla is the Apple of the auto industry.

As far as I am aware, none of the Tesla, even in perfect form, are as well built as any of the state of the art luxury cars. Compared to Apple, despite all its criticism and flaws, still has some of the best built Smartphones, Laptops, Desktops and Tablet in the industry.

Not entirely sure about Software, If it is internal uses, I would argue the biggest competitor to the Software system isn't from car manufacturers, but from either Google or Apple's CarPlay.

For something like Autopilot? Other Cars manufacturers have had similar system that is on par with Tesla if not better.

So apart from Charging station, which so far no government nor its competitors has managed to built any decent alternative. Tesla doesn't seems anything Apple like, it doesn't have a moat around it.
Cities Skylines for example. Funny enough it's available only as 64 bit, but Steam says won't work on Catalina.
A 2x4(x1) lego brick (3001) weighs around 2.32 grams. Inflate it to 3 x 864 pieces and a good estimate is 2kg but based on the visible elements I'm betting more like 1kg.

Like, those 2x2 tiles (3068) are 0.5g each, those 8x3 flags (35252) for some of the PV panels are 2.75g each etc.
I find go doc, go fmt, go vet, gopls, etc to be much more undervalued than the compiler itself. I use these supporting tools much more frequently than I invoke the compiler (yeah they're related...) but TBH the huge selling point when I point people to Go is the developer support and ecosystem.
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle here. Yes, Cloudflare could do a bit more to predict this, but I don't think it's as trivial as you make it. The routing between you to a site through Cloudflare includes a lot of complex interactions.

The captcha page, sure, maybe. I can't think off the top of my head what would happen on that page that wouldn't be related to Cloudflare/reCaptcha. I yielded that is a decent feature request. But plenty of actual interstitial pages served by Cloudflare aren't necessarily caused by Cloudflare. Like the fact you get a Captcha at all isn't Cloudflares choice most of the time, it's the site owners. And having support@cloudflare.com on that page would 100% cause people to write in saying they don't want to see captchas. That's not the appropriate party to reach out to requesting to stop seeing captchas for a specific site. Now, SOMETIMES it's an automated incident because of your IP, so then you DO want to reach out to Cloudflare.

Same with 500 series errors. Sometimes it's the website not responding, but sometimes it's Cloudflare not interacting properly.

So yeah, I think the truth of the matter is in the middle here. In terms of priorities, I have no doubt this is pretty low on their list. Why would it be any higher when they serve the technical purpose they were created for? The rest of that is QoL with minimal impact on customers compared to many other issues that go wrong with the network that have considerable impact on customers and visitors.
I'd check your filters - EasyPrivacy has -google-analytics- blocked in the URL

I got to it by adding the following filter

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> With it often comes property taxes. There's the time and cost of maintenance. There's the friction of being able to easily relocate for a better paying job.

As a renter, you may not pay directly for property tax and repairs, but they do come out of your rent, unless your landlord's business is unsound. Maintenance costs the renter time and hassle too, although depending on the work done, perhaps less.

Certainly, relocation friction is higher, although some turn that into an opportunity to be an absentee landlord in a way that's more satisfying than subletting.
Details of their deal with bing is unknown. It could be that Microsoft is giving it for free or they may have even better terms. There is zero transparency.
Debian has a package "tldr" implemented in haskell, that's under 1 MB. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tldr

I just found that and installed it after reading this thread. It looks like on first run, like "tldr tar", it calls "git clone" on some repo. Thereafter, other incantations like "tldr grep" use the already local repo. And the repo can be updated with tldr --update. Seems very fast.
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I didn't say that it was the only way to do it. What I said is that the US is currently more democratic than it ever has been. Obama, and later Trump, are the most truly democratic presidents we've ever had. They were chosen by the people, without regard to the traditional elite process that more or less determines the nominee.
> 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.

People always say this, but I'm a bit skeptical. I own a 13 year-old Toyota with 200k+ miles on it, and the things that break are more like suspension parts, wheel bearings, etc. I think drivetrains are pretty reliable at this point.
Pretty much. Link to probably the first article I saw using it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20673409

> It’s the same thing, recognizing that the MITM is neither male, nor human at all.

I don't see why this is important for a technical term. People hear the term as a slug, a group of words, not as discrete ones. No one actually pictures a man or anything else in the middle upon hearing the term. The difference is that the purpose of language is to communicate with others, and everyone understands man in the middle. I look up the "alternative" and get more results for "Henry the Hugglemonster" than I do for network traffic interception.
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The article has three sections: building Go, package management, and vendoring. The first is irrelevant to almost everyone. The other two are terrible. If that's supposed to be singing Go's praises then I think it says a lot that wasn't intended.
Could you please elaborate on the last part?

In a typical web API you don't want each request to spawn a thread, at most a green thread. (at least if you have traffic that requires you to have more than one machine) As I understand the term "green threads", they are scheduled on standard "worker" threads. Synchronous functions will block green threads and this way block the underlying worker thread. If you have green threads, then you need asynchronous functions. (which in Go are just the default, so you spawn a goroutine - or more - per request, without thinking much about it)

And I do actually disagree about the general purpose language part. I think that only really performance oriented languages (like Rust) should go the way of sync/async distinction. Because there's hardly any loss in async-everything otherwise.
Didn’t quite a lot of the NeXTSTOP code form the base of OS X? AFAIK many functions in macOS and iOS still have the prefix “NS”, which is part of that heritage.
Charging network matters. Else EVs will never be a consideration as a primary car. Ask any Tesla owner and they will tell you (even though usage is occasional).
This is an excellent teaching resource. I really like these sorts of well-written, short-but-not-too-short deep dives on accessible topics. It's a great way to help students learn how to read math and build up confidence in their ability to learn on their own.
Looks like Half-Life: Source to me. It's a remake of the original, they simply ported the original resources on top of the Source engine, and modified the physics engine so it would feel closer to the first one. It generally doesn't get much love in the community and I am not sure why he chose it. I am not a great fan and have only replayed it a few times.
The maintainer of the manpages project, Michael Kerrisk, is quite responsive and interested in improvements. I've generally found the maintainers of other software to be receptive to documentation patches, as well.
Very impressive example, good find. How'd you initially come across it?
I am pleased with the 6.5% compounded annual return on our principal residence we purchased in 1994. Tax deductions are helpful, but the big benefit is our mortgage is less than half the cost of rent.
That's fair - last time i used C++ in earnest was around 2007. Unless they broke compatibility, it would still be opt-in, though, right? Nice thing about Rust is that the resource management approach is built-in and enforced by default.
Disclaimer: I work for PDFTron

This is a very interesting field, and PDFTron has been doing similar work with ML and table extraction as part of our document understanding platform. We've made pretty good progress over the past year -- you can try it on your docs here:

https://www.pdftron.com/pdf-tools/pdf-table-extraction/

We also have a rules-based table extraction product (PDFGenie) that works reasonably well, but ML is most definitely the future.
HL Alyx is not a HL3 though, it is a prequel.
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Renting has all of these problems and is the baseline. This pretend "no rent no mortgage" baseline doesn't exist.

Also getting kicked out of your owned house generally takes six months not six hours as you imply here. Which again is longer than you will get if you rent which is also not zero time.
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Interesting. But the inevitable question, wouldn't the performance suffer because of the additional integrity check for every function call in the kernel?
I'm pretty sure that Tesla managed to get at least 400,000 cars sold in the US before fully phasing out of the tax credit. That's between 1.5 billion and 2.5 billion, depending upon how you estimate it.

EDIT: Also, this amounts to fewer than 50,000 cars in revenue. Sales restrictions in various states have probably cost them more in sales than they gained in tax benefits.