Fins

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721.
by Fins 9y ago
> He is a decent person like any other Except that his behavior over years seems to suggest that he isn't. Maybe that's why people don't like him much?
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by Fins 9y ago
The company has been called Nissan since 1930's. Even if some of their cars were called Datsuns.
723.
by Fins 9y ago
But the ISP does not follow me from device to device, doesn't (for home providers, anyway) correlate me with location info, and generally knows far less about me. I'd rather Comcast didn't touch my data, but no, in the end I
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by Fins 9y ago
Pretty much every major company has a mission statement about "improving the world" in some way. Can't really think of any that says that their goal is to cheat, lie, and steal to hasten the coming of the Brave New World. If
725.
by Fins 9y ago
Didn't AWD on Model S become widely available only relatively recently? I seem to remember it being an option last time I looked at it.
726.
by Fins 9y ago
Can well imagine that. It might be better than that now only because cars are safer.
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by Fins 9y ago
101 is pretty scary pretty much everywhere between Gilroy and SF (doesn't help that locals can barely drive even in perfect conditions; add two drops of rain, and the whole thing stops) but the title is clickbaity -- so far it doesn&#x
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by Fins 9y ago
They do, eventually, but as many things with Tesla it is sometimes hard to tell what is actually available (as in you can go and buy it) and what is to be available "real soon now" for several years. It is not cheap, either.
729.
by Fins 9y ago
Not really. I am arguing that what can be enforced, either by state or by an organization, are laws for the former and rules/bylaws/etc for the latter. Which may or may not be ethical. Maybe I _am_ splitting it a bit too finely, b
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by Fins 9y ago
You'd just have to wait then... Also, BMW and Tesla operate and vastly different scales, and I am not sure there are enough people who consider electric more desirable (or feasible) than "a bimmer".
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by Fins 9y ago
I believe the assumption is that if the number is (apparently) on the same exchange as yours, it might be your neighbour, kid, etc. and you'd be more likely to pick up. Since most of those originate from a VOIP box in some low cost cou
732.
by Fins 9y ago
That's a pretty important semantic distinction -- are you enforcing ethical standards (and I don't think anyone can force somebody to be a good person), or are you enforcing laws or rules? If the same association, in the fifties,
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by Fins 9y ago
But then it's not even that they are competing in that segment, they are that segment. Outside of people with sufficient disposable income who hate fossil fuels so much they are willing to wait for a full charge (and I've seen s
734.
by Fins 9y ago
That would be the boat of early adopter people who are willing to pay top dollar for a car that, apart from Superchargers and a large screen is not on par with BMW and the like in things that actually matter to luxury car buyers, like build
735.
by Fins 9y ago
That goes for blindly following any ideology.
736.
by Fins 9y ago
They enforce rules of that association. Which may or may not be based on ethical standards.
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by Fins 9y ago
illegal It's legal standards that are being enforced, not ethical. Whether those standards coincide with ethical ones is completely another issue.
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by Fins 9y ago
I am trying to think of anything worthwhile Apple had ever delivered that was actually their idea, but somehow fail... Sure, there are companies that make real, cutting edge stuff in SV. As there are in other places. But SV has far more noi
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by Fins 9y ago
You'd have to ask her how she reconciles being a non-marxist communist, transhumanist, and Putin's stooge, but she manages somehow. There were examples posted here of her punishing scientists for speaking up in support of someone
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by Fins 9y ago
Their build quality is atrocious, too. When stuck behind one on 101, I can see that gaps are uneven right from my driver seat. For a Yugo it might be OK. For a car with a luxury price tag that's just wrong.
741.
by Fins 9y ago
They are quite cool, but not great for everyone (as in the majority of world's population that BMWs and VWs of the world are targeting). Even living in SV I wouldn't buy a Tesla even if I wanted to -- nowhere to charge it at home,
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by Fins 9y ago
Isn't A3 e-Tron a plug-in, not a pure EV? It is pretty nice to drive though.
743.
by Fins 9y ago
Don't they have an e-Golf? They know how to build an electric car. It's building one that's actually profitable without heavy tax subsidies and at VW's build quality that's a problem. Tesla hasn't figured that
744.
by Fins 9y ago
You're welcome. Irregular verbs generally tend to be the ones that are used most often, and that are most archaic. Looking at languages there are lost of interesting patterns you can notice. It's even more fun if you look at ones
745.
by Fins 9y ago
Initially, Russian used the same convention for 40 as it does for other multiples of 10. Other Slavic languages still do. However, 4 (четыре) is the longest word by syllable count in the 1..10 range, so over time a shorter word that used to
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by Fins 9y ago
Being from exUSSR, and knowing quite a few people who are trying to do science there, I would say that the whole Dynasty incident perfectly demonstrates what Sci-Hub (or Elbakyan at least, but she's Sci-Hub's public face, so sam
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by Fins 9y ago
THat's still not what I would call vast . Vast would be far more mundane stuff, like providing clean water and medicine. Not to say that access to research publications is not important, but there are great differences in magnitude. D
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by Fins 9y ago
> but there more people working on it, and maintaining Library Genesis too, and dealing with risk of getting into prison for the service they provide to everyone. So... one could go to prison for doing something that is explicitly illeg
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by Fins 9y ago
The point, really, is that SV guys may know some cool tech (although with SV's chase for the next shiny JS-frameworked AI-based noSQL-stored , whatever else is trendy now-thing it is arguable if that tech is any better than tech people
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by Fins 9y ago
SV does tend to exaggerate its importance. Part of the brand marketing, I guess. I also fail to see how Google and FB meeting to come up with new ways of stealing your private data is a good thing. Seriously, sure, there are breakthroughs m

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