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Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars(jaguarusa.com)
28 points by bigtones 2y ago|39 comments
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by bigtones 2y ago
This post is over a year old: https://archive.li/LrMBo
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by bigtones 2y ago
This is not true in Western Australia, where Poker machines are illegal everywhere other than the one casino.
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by bigtones 2y ago
The car tells you verbally and shows you on the screen that it is calling back to base to ask for assistance "to get you moving again".
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by bigtones 2y ago
This is the US FTC. How are they able to boldly mandate what frequencies are used in space for orbiting satellites given their jurisdiction is scoped to the domestic USA? Would that not be the ITU's jurisdiction - FTC dont set communic
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by bigtones 2y ago
Waymo requires interventions about that often driving in San Francisco as well from my experience over many trips. Their interventions are automatic when the car calls back to home base to make a determination as to what to do next and the
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by bigtones 2y ago
Archived version: https://archive.li/VY7F3
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by bigtones 3y ago
Here is the non-paywall link to the full NYT article I shared: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-laws...
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by bigtones 3y ago
If you invested that $250k in Tesla shares rather than a Tesla Roadster deposit it would be worth more than $4,000,000 now.
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by bigtones 3y ago
Helen Toner through her association with Open Philanthropy donated $30 Million dollars to OpenAI early on. That's how she got on the board. https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board
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by bigtones 3y ago
Helen Toner through her association with Open Philanthropy donated $30 Million dollars to OpenAI early on. That's how she got on the board. https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board
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by bigtones 3y ago
I love using https://ec2instances.info as a reference - thank you for maintaining it !
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by bigtones 3y ago
https://archive.is/ozsZh
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by bigtones 3y ago
They have liability insurance that covers a portion of this.
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by bigtones 3y ago
The referenced paper on this was published more than a decade ago (2012): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03054...
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by bigtones 4y ago
impersonating might be more accurate...
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by bigtones 4y ago
TLDR - Calorine Ellison is pleading guilty to 4 counts: * conspiracy to commit wire fraud on customers * conspiracy to commit wire fraud on lenders * conspiracy to commit securities fraud * conspiracy to commit money laundering She is waivi
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by bigtones 4y ago
I think Sam Trabucco of FTX is going to be like Lou Pai of Enron. If you resign at exactly the right time and put some distance between you and the fraud, you can get away with it and ride off into the sunset. https://www.npr.or
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by bigtones 4y ago
Well Elon is planning on shutting down one of their three data centers, the Sacramento data center - so they must have a lot of extra capacity. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/report-elon-musk-...
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by bigtones 4y ago
I don't know that Evernote the company or it's management would be jealous - Evernote probably has more annual revenue than all of those app combined.
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by bigtones 4y ago
It is very easy to recover a previous version of the description field in Jira. Jira keeps a full change log / audit log of every change to the description field and other fields. You can definitely roll back to an old version of the d
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by bigtones 4y ago
A large majority of these elevations and building footprints donated to OpenStreetMap (over 900 Million) were contributed by Microsoft from Bing Maps. Microsoft now also incorporates OpenStreetMap data into Bing Maps. https://git
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by bigtones 4y ago
He will definitely make a lot of changes to the user experience of Twitter, and add a lot of features. He has already outlined some of the features he wants to add around billing and commerce, similar to super apps in China like Wechat. He
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by bigtones 4y ago
For comparison: Bigger prefab house, better looks, more features, half the price @ $210k : https://mantanorth.com/northamerica/project/slope/
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by bigtones 4y ago
It cost USD $465M for just the first season. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/amazons-lord-of...
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by bigtones 4y ago
She did not get 10 years jail. She was sentenced to 2.5 years, with a minimum term of 15 months.
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by bigtones 4y ago
Because going off IBM's design would have been illegal. It's one of the most famous and well documented reverse engineering projects ever, and they had no copies of the IBM Bios in their clean room because otherwise it would have
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by bigtones 4y ago
That type of engineering that Compaq performed was very specific clean room reverse engineering or clean room design, which is specifically designed as a defense against copyright infringement because it relies on independent creation by go
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by bigtones 4y ago
Could that same criticism not also be applied to this very news article that was retroactively edited or 'George Lucased' as the writer refers to it as.
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by bigtones 4y ago
That 'fire the bottom 10% rule' was true in the 80's and 90's and was pioneered by Jack Welsh at GE, and notably Microsoft did a similar thing with their 'stack ranking' system. It's a lot less popular in

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