Slartie

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by Slartie 7y ago
> Yes these quarterly numbers are in the best conditions and supervised, no that doesn't invalidate them... That is exactly what it does: it invalidates them. Comparing apples to oranges is an invalid comparison. Let's compare
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by Slartie 7y ago
That's actually totally non-contradictory. The human is there to make Tesla's lawyers happy, and they are definitely very happy to have an easy scapegoat to blame if their tech fails to live up to the hype.
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by Slartie 7y ago
I do exactly the same - not with 4-way stops as we don't have those in Germany, but with areas where a two-lane road is intentionally narrowed to one lane for a very short piece of road, which we sometimes have in order to slow down tr
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by Slartie 7y ago
Yeah, that must be it. I mean "versatile", which is a feature not everyone needs, not even a majority, but a large enough proportion of the market as to be relevant (especially since the remaining share of the market depends on th
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by Slartie 7y ago
That is not what I would consider "general computing device", more like "media consumption device", and yes, it is fairly good at that. I would require a device to be regularly used for content creation as well in order
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by Slartie 7y ago
I get that, but after all it's not really Apple's choice what their buyers do with their devices. If they overwhelmingly decide the iPad is a nice base for this kind of application, Apple can either embrace that decision and cater
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by Slartie 7y ago
The iPad has failed as a general purpose computing device, sure. But it has succeeded (along with other tablet devices of similar form factor) as a basis for a large and growing number of single-purpose use cases in various industries: - iP
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by Slartie 7y ago
In the US, they're for sale everywhere. And I must acknowledge their ingenuity when it comes to toilet plunger design: American plungers have an additional "lip" at the bottom of the rubber thingy that fits into their toilets
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by Slartie 7y ago
Yeah, those are the greatest. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can pull on the fixture to control the flow rate, but on others you are basically limited to full throttle if you don't want to shower with cold water only.
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by Slartie 7y ago
I must say that I find it oddly satisfying to flush down poop from such a shelf. Especially if it goes down just fine every single time and doesn't clog.
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by Slartie 7y ago
Yeah, I totally get what you're hinting at ;-) I stopped counting the number of times that I clogged American toilets with...let's say "substances that clearly belong in there". Seriously, am I supposed to hold it in the
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by Slartie 7y ago
This was really boring from a security or forensics perspective. Nothing really substantial in there. But fortunately there are other angles to view this document from: if this is authentic, it says that the richest man on the entire planet
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by Slartie 7y ago
It is hypocrisy to a certain extent. Cash only works because people accept it. It depends upon enough people accepting it, because only then enough of physical cash will circulate in order to make maintaining all the infrastructure (printin
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by Slartie 7y ago
I've been in Amsterdam twice last year, and I was able to pay everywhere with Apple Pay backed by a Visa card (well, almost anywhere, one store required a physical card, and I am not 100% sure Visa would have worked because I used a Ma
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by Slartie 7y ago
This is probably the loophole by which both statements "cash is legal tender for all debts" and "not accepting cash is legal" can coexist. There is no debt if the transaction does not happen because one of the participan
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by Slartie 7y ago
> why? Because MY DNA is MY DATA. MINE! I own it, so I can do whatever I want with it, including not giving it to some weird company or whoever. Is that so hard to understand? It's not me who needs a very, very good justification (a
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by Slartie 7y ago
You probably can't, because there must be a reason for it to have lost 90% of its value, and that reason probably has to do with the house somehow (I named a few examples, but there are more possibilities) losing its capability to &quo
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by Slartie 7y ago
If "south" is a sudden and extreme loss of value, then you might be just as screwed with a house as well: think of a flooding of an area, having a catastrophic wildfire nearby, or a sudden increase of crime in your neighborhood (t
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by Slartie 7y ago
> Real estate isn't a very volatile asset class. This conventional wisdom has been increasingly getting less true over the last decade. Valuation increases of 5-10% per year on a regular basis are also "volatility".
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by Slartie 7y ago
Nah, it is indeed much easier to invest in real estate on 5-10x leverage than doing the same with stocks or ETFs, because the banks are usually much more comfortable lending you the money in the first case. I think it's because of the
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by Slartie 7y ago
You are wrong. And the "serious autonomous teams" are also wrong in not using AI (which is mostly true AFAIK, as long as we don't call basic image recognition to already be "AI"). But that's just because the AI
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by Slartie 7y ago
It for some weird reason is not the norm in a large part of the world (the individual credit lines for every little store thing, not the debt-based finance system in general) where it has been totally the norm to bring cash into stores for
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by Slartie 7y ago
Actually, the first one wasn't in that much demand, because it had laughably slow processor and cell standard support even by 2007 standards (no UMTS, which was already available on cell networks back then, just not with an iPhone). Ap
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by Slartie 7y ago
And there's the local difference that makes or breaks this kind of calculation. For Germany these numbers currently are more like 0.3€/kWh and 1.2-1.3€/l.
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by Slartie 7y ago
Apple is up 100% because it's kind of the safe haven among tech companies. It actually has the earnings to justify its market value even when using conventional P/E ratio evaluations. This means that if the current oversupply of &
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by Slartie 7y ago
At least in Germany, that math doesn't add up. Electricity is - if it's not heavily subsidized, which had been the case for a long time with a lot of EV charging spots over here, although only by accident - at least about 50% of t
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by Slartie 7y ago
> We’re responsible for only 15% of worldwide emissions, but nearly all of the new green energy tech and research. Is "we" the US? laughs This sentence becomes more true if you replace "we" with "China". B
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by Slartie 7y ago
Right now, the only market participant I see doing some inferencing at the edge is Apple with its photo analysis stuff that runs on the phone itself. Anyone else is busy building little dumb cubes with microphones and speakers that send sou
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by Slartie 7y ago
Maybe this is intended to prevent "YouTube babysitting" aka "make a long playlist, park kid in front of youtube, go and do something else"? Without the ability to schedule up hours of content, one is forced to look after
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by Slartie 7y ago
They should, but it's actually pretty hard to do the following two things at the same time: a) fall back to being a bulb: power off = no light, power on = light b) allow for some kind of control to be possible via the switch, like: pow

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