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by asaph 6y ago
For Elon Musk, working at only two companies would be a substantial reduction in employers. He currently works for Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink and OpenAI. * Update: Apparently Elon quit OpenAI. So let's not count tha
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by asaph 6y ago
Article is from 2018. Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18212409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20533034
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by asaph 6y ago
A lot of people care about their legacy.
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by asaph 6y ago
How do I create an LTSE account and start investing? I went to https://ltse.com/ , clicked on the menu and selected "Exchange". But I only see marketing material. Update: I found the Sign In/Sign Up URL: http
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by asaph 6y ago
I did my own deep dive on TOTP a few years ago and wrote a blog post on how to implement a Google Authenticator compatible 2fa system in java including generating QR codes[0]. Demo code is on GitHub[1]. [0] https://www.asaph.org&
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by asaph 6y ago
> Yep, some of these predictions are outright comical. "has covid ended handshakes forever" I hope so. Handshakes are pathogen vector I can easily do without. And they don't seem essential to anyone's livelihood. >
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by asaph 6y ago
Is it the same group of people? Isn't it possible that the set of people complaining about Ford's touchscreens is completely disjoint from the set of people loving Tesla's touchscreens, with no hypocrisy whatsoever? Or are
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by asaph 6y ago
> Clearly if the driver was watching YouTube on the touchscreen, the fact that it also shows their speed wouldn’t have been relevant. Watching YouTube (or Netflix or any of the other supported streaming services) on the touchscreen while
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by asaph 6y ago
Since we're sharing, here's mine: https://jguitar.com/ Made the front page of HN a couple of years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037657
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by asaph 6y ago
I thought the whole point of "index funds" was that they are not "actively managed" by a human fund manager. They should just automatically track the index (with some minimal tracking error).
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by asaph 6y ago
> index funds rarely carry the entire portfolio of 500 securities - it's very expensive to manage that much stock at scale and rebalance each one. This doesn't pass the sniff test. Funds calling themselves "S&P 500&quo
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by asaph 6y ago
Terms and privacy policy were recently updated.
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by asaph 6y ago
I disagree. Tesla is a luxury brand. Hertz is not.
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by asaph 6y ago
He only had $3 in his pocket to actually pay for the Lambo.
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by asaph 6y ago
If you only read one sentence from this article, it should be this one: > In this paper, we take a fresh look at this ranking scheme using the public College dataset; we both formally and experimentally show in multiple ways that this ra
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by asaph 7y ago
The 1,000,000th car was a Model Y.
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by asaph 7y ago
What if this supply chain disruption is short term, and the world returns to business as usual soon?
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by asaph 7y ago
I'll bite. How can you tell?
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by asaph 7y ago
> ... and it could use its power to sell the browsing data of users of .orgs By what mechanism is this possible?
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by asaph 7y ago
> How do I feel about EVERYTHING moving to a large LCD panel that could play Netflix if I really wanted? The Tesla Model 3 is already like this, including the Netflix part. > So if updates and digital screens are on the way for all ca
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by asaph 7y ago
> In the US, roughly 5% of households earn more than $200k. In a town of 70k, you’d expect there to be roughly 27k households and therefore 1300 households earning more than $200k. This assumes uniform distribution of household incomes a
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by asaph 7y ago
If you choose to put a WiFi password up on a sign as a QR code, do not post it in view of a window. Passers-by should not be able to connect to your network from outside your home or office. This advice also applies to plain text password
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by asaph 7y ago
If you change the password, will you repaint the picture?
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by asaph 7y ago
It probably uses the same skateboard design for the battery pack that all of Tesla's other vehicles use. The battery pack spans nearly the entire bottom of the vehicle, giving it a low center of gravity which helps prevent tipping and
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by asaph 7y ago
> The trick is not to rely on Google translate for a finished translation, but to use it just as a tool toward reaching that goal. This assumes the use case is a translator fluent in the source and target languages translating a passage.
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by asaph 7y ago
Do you mean the Bee-Watcher wants to know what to tell the Bee-Watcher-Watcher?
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by asaph 7y ago
People should decline pointless meetings.
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by asaph 7y ago
Undoing someone else's well intentioned work can be viewed as passive aggressive behavior.
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by asaph 7y ago
What about electric trucks?
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by asaph 7y ago
Surprisingly, there is no mention in the article of how the truckers feel about the threat of automation to their own jobs.

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