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> Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

I suspect King of Technology - but perhaps he's creating a grey area to give himself lateral tactical space to negotiate his posture against the SEC.
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> Having a free opinion and practically keeping it to yourself because you have no audience is not freedom of speech.

It absolutely is. You are still free to propagate your ideas. You have no claim to use other people's tools or access other people's property to do so.

You are not entitled to an audience. If that means you're literally screaming into the void because nobody else wants anything to do with you, then that's still free speech.
> the choice of metrics and of things that are not optimized for. But it's not as simple as "more processed = more chemicals = more bad".

True, but in practice that is how it goes.

Because the McD patties and buns are optimized for shelf-life, for consistency, for being quick to cook, for "cheap taste". Hence high levels of sodium, stabilizers, etc

Yes, "more chemicals" is not necessarily bad, but it depends.

I think it's been some years since I could stomach a McD meal without feeling sorry afterwards.
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>And ... that’s probably ok

1000% ok. Caveat: the warrant is legit and they (judges/appropriate authorities per country) do their job right and don't have 100 pre-printed approvals (a la blank cheque) lying around and just hand them over to any policeman and/or torturer walks in asking for one.

(Also) I am thinking the people in China, Iran, Turkey, etc. where people dissapear in the middle of the night (even public figures). Do we not care for those 1.5bn people because they are outside the EU, USA, CA, AUS, NZ, etc?

My initial point is that one cannot hide from the State. One can only hide their data from the common criminal.
This graph says Bitcoin is up something like 500x since 2013.

That isn't a store of time, it is a speculative return. Gold, silver & the US dollar all did pretty much what they are advertised and expected to do (go flat, flat and steady down in value respectively). Nobody knows what Bitcoin is going to do next.

What Bitcoin does has nothing to do with storage. Obviously we'd all rather have had Bitcoin from 2013 to 2021 than storage, but hindsight makes these decisions easy.
I got banned from Gumtree for a similar system. I was using a script blocker, uMatrix (but have since stopped because of the hassle), and the site wasn't coded to handle something with reCAPTCHAs not loading and the error messages were useless. Support said it's an automated system and for contacting them about the ban, they blocked my email as well.
The people who successfully climb the ladder don't care about titles.
They won't let you touch it. I've sent out more than 100 resumes and got in at only two despite having a bachelor + master in CS. The one company that I got in severely underpaid me. This is in NL and I might be an outlier, but I'm beginning to see a problem. I also applied (in secret) when I got the job, my odds didn't improve.
I can't wait until he starts wearing a crown and carrying a scepter. Perhaps he'll starting conferring honorary titles upon his employees and members of the general public. All in all he's got a great sense of humour.
What political agenda?
Really great stuff. Good job!
I'm sure this will end well. /s
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The Musk haters will never like him so he might as well feed the trolls.

Today there is a launch for a VW EV. It is very nice but way off what the equivalent Tesla is. But none of the Tesla/Musk haters with their old fashioned cars can admit that the Tesla product is awesome. It is very interesting to see how people twist their views to be absurd. For this reason I am glad Musk triggers them with nonsense like this.
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"Even China, which has banned mining and trading, does not penalise possession."

I wasn't aware that China had banned mining. Whenever mining crypto is brought up, often people say that most miners are in China using hydroelectric power.
The point is not whether Google has or not a point regarding UX, but more about banning the app and giving extra work to the team during a weekend.

This is the kinda thing that could have been handled by "please submit another version with the correct text ASAP or we'll ban you in X days".
I might have missed it, but the article doesn't really seem to touch on the why of this. I get that they're thinking about launching their own digital currency, and might just want to be rid of potential competitors, but is there any other potential reason for it?
Really?

That's a really low bar for a political candidate to win your vote.

The cynic in me thinks that perhaps you don't deserve to vote after all.

I'm sure I will get downvoted by some / many HNers, but seriously... Do you honestly think that this is the right approach to use your right to vote, considering that many people in the past gave their life to give it to you?
Agree it seems fun, but the usual corporate crap titles are there so that everyone understands what they are. Shared meaning - literally the foundation of language.

The novelty of having to learn each company's made-up titles would wear off quick.
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Art has intrinsic value that paper money does not, (without getting into the weeds about how the subjective nature of art means that anything can be art if you simply decide you want it to be for yourself, including dollar bills).

The intrinsic value in a painting is that I enjoy it.

Not how much effort went in to make it, not the market around scarcity and status, but the art. And in that case, indeed the intrinsic value is largely the same between the original and any high quality reproduction.

You are both wrong and right.

I'm not sure what you thought was so absurd about the idea that a painting has no intrinsic value over a print. You are right, it doesn't (assuming a quality print that is pleasing to look at).

It has much other value, but not intrinsic. All the other value is just "we all just decided it's worth a lot of other stuff".

All the other value in a Picasso is the same as the value of paper dollars and bitcoin. Exactly as you say.
Like with any condition that your body is expected to take care of.

Drink lots of fluids, rest. If you have excessive fever 38+, use fever reduction medicine of your choice.

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You are assuming a lot. Many stanford phd's /dont/ fail the google interview. I'd guess larry, sergey and zuckerberg had a pretty good chance of /passing/ their own swe interviews...
They claim to be. I doubt most of them would get an interview.

There is a lot of charlatanism. If you ask Mr. Musk what’s your speciality, he would say I am a physicist.
Why stop there? Web apps can trivially be taken down if your domain registrar, hosting provider, datacenter partner or payment solution decides to kick you out.
You also don't understand that one side may poor, can't fight with a rich nation. So they are forced to go that way.

Enemy may call you terrorist, but if it is your country you are freedom fighter.

Not continue to take other people's land and not making their live worse in cunning way is also wise.
This is a very misinformed comment. I suggest you talk to pretty much anyone who works in healthcare before fabricating rhetoric about how the system works.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about? Soviet level? Not even close, not even in the same-universe-close. Please learn something about what the life in USSR was really like.
Most probably there's something else very wrong with your resume. The job being in high demand, your foot-in-the-door rate should be much higher.
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I am not sure that the mention to China is accurate, see [0].

Perhaps they're confusing the whole China with one of its regions, Inner Mongolia? [1]

Edit: by the way, it seems to me that this is the key part in the article:

> The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private virtual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an official digital currency.

I'd read this as India trying to pave the way for a huge adoption of its local digital currency, and therefore banning other crypto might be seen (by govt officials) as the way to go.

[0]: https://www.loc.gov/law/help/cryptocurrency/china.php

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-inner-mongolia-end-cry...
This feels like a minor point even if it's valid. This is like allowing the police to confiscate your car for a single defective bulb.
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Maybe the issue is with the Google interview?

I mean, plenty of very capable people are filtered out of Google and go on to do great things. It is bound to happen when you receive hundreds of applications and hire one person.
> It's 10x times better. Because it can fit 10x more data in the same storage budget.

This makes no sense. It's 9% better because it's 9% better.
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I typically see decent quality land $500-1000 per acre. This is in the rural eastern US.
Okay, I want my time back. How do I cash out?
There is a similar great project here [1] with the Hungarian Wikipedia corpus. Great workout for non English and maybe non-ascii operations.

The performance of Java there is super impressive. It should port relatively quickly to this file too...

[1] https://github.com/juditacs/wordcount
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People in the UK "officially and legally" have much the same situation, and in reality most people still work longer than the officially stated hours.

Most of the numbers I can find for Europe is from surveys of employees, not gathered from data on labour contracts.

E.g. pretty much all of the EU numbers draws on the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS)
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You do have a recourse, same as with any other business: you can always take them to court.
How about they study, or work in, the field in which they want to be CEO? Damn.

It’s not like history is some useless knowledge. Software engineering is still the new hotness. Give it time and the headline will change to why meteor engineers make the best CEOs while we all pine for the days we sat on top
To "propose", as said by a "senior government official". So basically this is a great way to crash the market a bit, buy the dip, and then nothing will ever come of it. Just like the first few times they did this. Clever. The media will, of course, report it, the market will, of course, crash, and these government officials will make some nice money.
The royal title attributes color to his musical genius in the A16ztech Empire (previously before Dogecoin, Rebel Allstar Technologies).
My guess would be the uncontrollable nature of CC and the resulting economic independence of actors in the system.
Not sure if you pay attention to this stuff, but some folks recently brought EmuTOS up on the Apple Lisa. This was after some people got original DR GEMDOS 68K/GEM to boot on it again. So, from software archeology to full circle.

Thread here, if you Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emutos/posts/4067291733301377
I think in authoritarian systems like China, loads of things that everyone does are illegal. They have something on everyone.

And yes, yes - a bit of that goes on in the West too.
Well people that buy cars actually like the VW's more, look up sales/registration data in Europe.
I suppose that's down to cultural differences. I'd consider junk to be not useful anymore (I call my core2 duo junk but it was a powerhouse when I got it), but maybe a better word is defunct? According to dictionary, junk = Cheap, shoddy, or worthless.
f-droid doesn't have payments, Amazon is yet another faceless mega-corp that has had its fair share of sellers accusing them of various shady things.

Creating a Play Store alternative is hard for many reasons:

1) finance: the more countries you operate in, the messier it becomes. International taxes are one hard mess, KYC/AML regulations differ between countries, and to top it off there is the whole "international sanctions" issue especially regarding Iran (where it's fine and explicitly encouraged by the EU to do business with Iran, but any entity that has US exposure exposes themselves to liability in the US for violations).

2) vetting of apps against a constant onslaught of spam, malware, copyright violations: f-droid has it a bit easier since they require all apps be open source, but a commercial, widely used alternative will have to run static analysis, dynamic analysis (to catch runtime exploit attempts) and manual testing. All of this is expensive and requires expert knowledge of Android as well as IT security.

3) Implementation and hosting: an app store worth its name has a lot of binary assets to distribute to users (and again, you have to avoid getting into trouble with people abusing your service to spread illegal content, because there will be such cases rather sooner than later), the store itself has to be implemented, regularly adapted to account for changes in the Android core, you definitely want a focus on security to avoid some hacker distributing malware to all your users with a push...

4) Customer and developer support: it's a well-known meme that FB/Amazon/Twitter/Google are almost impossible to reach for ordinary people without raising a shitstorm on Hacker News or a well-funded lawyer team... but the key thing is, support is expensive to run.
I am assuming a lot, but everything I've read about Larry, Sergey and Zuck tells me that they're pretty exceptional people (even if that doesn't extend to their coding ability, which I have no idea about). They're people who are driven, focused and hugely ambitious. If they don't have what it takes to pass a SWE interview then there's little hope for the rest of us.
If you can have "one mutable" and "more than one non-mutable" reference (not sure if this is the case), you still cannot safely do that optimization, as foo() and bar() could in principle be reading f.a and the optimized version would then not have the correct values of f.a when foo() and bar() are called.

Note, I genuinely don't know if this caveat applies to Rust. But, m general, not only mutable references need to be considered.
Could it be a move to eliminate ways of hiding untaxed income, as with the 2016 snap cancellation of 500 and 1000 rupee bills?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41896865
For some additional background. This is a demo from the quant finance tensorflow package:

https://github.com/google/tf-quant-finance

Performance seems impressive relative to other FOSS. I use quantlib for mostly for hobby projects, would love to hear peoples thoughts if they've played with this.
I don't know if he was a mod, per se. The scandal was that he received renumeration from Reddit, and had a direct reporting relationship with them. It probably wasn't much, and was probably loose enough to allow a speedy under-bus transition of the person, when found out.

I am not much of a Reddit user, so I don't know the landscape well enough to be cognizant of the terminology.
Since pushing to use more renewables, Germany's CO2 emissions have increased.

Being able to import energy from elsewhere doesn't just solve the problem, you just have a bigger area to average over.
> I get that they're thinking about launching their own digital currency, and might just want to be rid of potential competitors

A state wanting to continue to control currency, taxation etc seems like a fairly predictable and compelling reason though. It would be interesting if that's not the reason, but I don't think that we need to search hard for one.
Am I weird for being sad that they don't want to take any photos of the inside? I'd love to see what it looked like in the original setting. I guess I have a morbid curiosity.
Side projects were a great warmup for me before I started my company. Like OP, I enjoyed my day job and didn't feel the need to quit, but when Covid hit and our whole company folded, the years of side projects had given me lots of skills to try making it on my own.

Running a business takes a wide variety of skills, some of which you have to just get by doing.
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Right. I did a bit of research and

1. very little rare earth materials are actually used. 80%+ are in magnets / motors, a good chunk in screens and sensors

2. solar panels might have cadmium/silver which despite the name are not rare at all

440g is the average amount used in a modern car. Let’s extrapolate to 1Kg for a satellite. Earth has an estimated 120 million metric tons of rare earth deposits. If you start burning ten thousand of those satellites every year, it will take twelve million years to go through the stock.
> Play store employee can ban your app = destroy your business at any time

No one forces / forced businesses to rely on apps for their business. Websites do exist and work well, so there are alternatives.
This is factually wrong, looks at CO2 emissions per capita, USA has carbon footprint double that of France.

Do people in US have twice better life? They don't, its just that the policy doesnt give a flying fuck about environment. The government spends more on military programs to defend from hypothetical weapons that dont exist yet, than it does on dealing with the certainty of climate change.

People here bitching about brazil removing forest, forest cover of UK is like 12%, one of the lowest in thw world. The 'ambition' is to plant like 2% more trees in 30 years. We just cut it down years ago, and so are off the hook.

You know what the wealthy countries should have done? Funded development of fusion properly, actually invested in renewables and shared technology with developing nations, had electric vehicles in mass production by 2010. Then you could do around and point at aome poor farmer fuck knows where trying to feed his family.

As things stand China has 10x more electric buses than the rest of the world combined, a couple Nordic countries have shown leadership in Wind. But most of western world is not just complicit, but a partner in crime, has actively enabled and protected their oil firms to commit literal crimes.
> and basically makes you "pay" with your personal details

I believe the parent means that you pay/it hurts your wallet (even if it is $5 per year). When you "pay" via your facebook details being shared, then this cost doesn't affect you. If you cared you woulnd't be using FB in the first place :)
Which is a non sequitur, peoples quality of life was much worse with the loss of breathable air, drinkable water or houses lost to wildfires (Jan 2019 Australia for example). Its not like people want a high quality of life which excludes those things.

Your final point is describing a collective action problem, but that is solved by simply exposing the full cost of a goods to people.

That is what markets do, very very well. Expose costs via pricing, and let people respond to that information.

If your skin care product packaged by X company is 30% more expensive because its cost of carbon is included, then people will buy the less expensive option and go on their merry way.
Both gold and silver had ~2x swings in the last two years (https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XAG&to=USD, https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XAU&to=USD). Not exactly "flat".
>>> the usual corporate crap titles are there so that everyone understands what they are.

yeah, sure :^)
"Top Indian officials have called cryptocurrency a “Ponzi scheme”," probably has something to do with it. CNBC as well says "The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private virtual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an official digital currency." [1]

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/15/india-plans-cryptocurrency-b...
>there are better data structures than Dictionary

What built in you'd use?
iirc there is a GPS chip inside the terminals, I recall hearing about that on the youtube video of it's teardown.

also, the geofencing thing seems to be a FCC requirement, because starlink recently applied permission for selling terminals to moving vehicles, anything from ships to RVs.
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Most developing countries are at a high risk of capital flight by the rich and hence they regulate foreign exchange with Capital controls.

India already has a cap of USD 250k limit on capital flight by individuals.

Nowadays bitcoin is a common method to escape capital controls.

This law will prevent capital flight by the rich which they earned with the patronage of Indian citizens and escape reinvestment locally
It won't solve these issues with gatekeepers fundamentally and doesn't work for all cases, but embracing PWAs means anyone can click the 'install' button for your application and side step some of this nonsense while getting a fairly robust feature set.
"The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled 'Elon.' Two houses of Parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet."

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I've never seen a multi-lang benchmark without glaring mistakes in a subset of them
The current layout system is designed with language (and content) direction preferences in mind. Could you expand on what you think an ideal layout system would be? I'd be interested to see what an alternative would look like with the same considerations.
I have Googled the teardown of a terminal and they do have GPS. That plus beam steering for the downlink at the satellite, which indeed in itself gives an indication of the terminal's location, means that it is technically feasible for SpaceX not to serve China is they so wish. "Latent crisis" averted.

> The terminals stop working if you take them more than a certain distance away from the registered address

I don't know about Starlink but I know that other telecom equipments (e.g. come 4G home repeaters) are similarly geofenced and they use GPS for that. It's likely that Starlink's terminals have a similar feature.
That's awful. This is one of the reasons I use Firefox, because its UI is customisable and not massive.

Mozilla seems to be intent on taking away the power user features. I didn't even know this redesign was coming, but those screenshots look horrendous. Why are the tabs "floating" as giant blobs? The current design looks much more cohesive and less distracting.

Sad to see Firefox succumb to the "must design everything every few years" mentality.
I don't think, "Most people are oblivious," they just don't care and/or don't understand the implications.

The idea that the government can use your mobile phone to spy on you is so widely understood that even the dumbest popcorn movies make sure to show fugitives ditching their phones and criminals collecting/discarding them before they discuss business without explaining why. Everybody understands the purpose of a "burner" phone.
Doesn't mean everyone has to report every joke or opinion a tech CEO makes (it's not just Musk). I don't mind him doing it if he thinks its funny, I mind people acting as if it's notable (which is why I choose the comparison to celebrity news: I'm also not objecting to these people having lives and doing stuff, but to the reporting and framing and it getting spread everywhere)
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