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by cbeach 3y ago
Come on. Let’s rise above this rabble rousing. HN is better than this. Let’s elevate the discussion beyond ad-hominems about this man. He is doing more for the long-term future of humanity than most of us, and our views on his personality r
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by cbeach 3y ago
The current Two Minutes Hate* against Elon Musk is frustrating. Those of us who don’t want to be part of this politically-motivated nastiness know we will be ostracised, so we avoid speaking out against it. And so the hateful groupthink per
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by cbeach 3y ago
Tackling bullying and “hate” sounds laudable in principle but in practice require a high degree of surveillance and totalitarianism. All regimes in history that tried to build utopia failed
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by cbeach 3y ago
Very impressive tech demo, but in practice, the lack of contrast and the slow (but impressive for e-ink) refresh rate would be a dealbreaker. Also, as others have said, what's the benefit of e-ink on the desktop where mains power is re
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by cbeach 3y ago
The opposition party have stated that they think the Online Safety Bill is too weak, and they would make it even stronger (more draconian) https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/labour-pl...
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by cbeach 3y ago
Employee of $5bn company that exclusively uses Slack, here. I LOVE Slack. Great integrations, fast, solid apps, UX. it makes Teams look third rate by comparison. We’ve nearly completely done away with email, thanks to Slack. Most of our sup
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by cbeach 3y ago
The answer is plurality within the scientific community. During the Covid authoritarian period, scientists like Dr Robert Malone were evicted from society because they didn’t toe the government line on support for mRNA vaccination. I’m not
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by cbeach 3y ago
I use Twitter for tech. I don't understand why people would use Mastodon for anything other than tribal political signalling purposes. The UX of Mastodon is terrible compared to Twitter, in terms of global post search and discoverabili
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by cbeach 3y ago
Algebra is fundamental to problem solving. Learning to code would have been much harder if I hadn't grasped algebra. Calculus is important for understanding science (especially physics) and statistics. These are not niche subjects for
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by cbeach 3y ago
To reverse the racist and ideological policies of “equity,” which is a codeword for reverse discrimination. It enshrines sound and meritocratic economic policy, as opposed to diversity quotas and the gerrymandering of org charts to favour
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by cbeach 3y ago
If you're interested to know: https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient
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by cbeach 3y ago
Tell me you’re autistic without telling me you’re autistic PS I’m autistic too, no offence intended! :-)
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by cbeach 3y ago
Stop thinking critically. We’re all trying to channel our Two Minutes Hate for Musk and we don’t like distractions.
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by cbeach 3y ago
The hype doesn’t feel organic, and neither do the posts from brands on Threads. Some examples, which feel like they were written by the same social media intern: https://twitter.com/chrisbeach/status/1677584064436
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by cbeach 3y ago
> Nobody has a better track record ... than Meta * Data breach of 533M users * Record-breaking €1.2bn fine in Europe for illegal data transfers * Record-breaking $5bn FTC fine for privacy violations * Psychological experiments run on unc
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by cbeach 3y ago
According to leftwing media outlets like The Guardian, Twitter has been on the verge of collapse every day since Musk took over. Hopefully people are starting to understand why the legacy media pushes this narrative. Legacy media is bitterl
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by cbeach 3y ago
Did anyone increase their holdings of $AAPL after the Vision Pro unveiling? I sold all my AAPL stock as soon as I could.
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by cbeach 3y ago
Looks like the opposition's stance is even worse. Labour's Lucy Powell: “The weakened bill will give abusers a licence to troll, and the business models of big tech will give these trolls a platform.” So the Labour government will
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by cbeach 3y ago
The “Musk Bad” responses are 100% political. He’s revealed his hand, in that he’s not a Blue Tribe member like most other tech CEOs. So now, every member of the Blue Tribe hate him. They will attack him just as they attack anyone prominent
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by cbeach 3y ago
Oh dear, is it still like this? Every time I’ve tried using Mastodon I’ve hit a wall of “Elon Bad” political tribalism.
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by cbeach 3y ago
Great news. Tesla NACS is generally better for consumers than CCS. Seems we learnt our lesson from the VHS/Betamax debacle after all.
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by cbeach 3y ago
In the UK, property developers are forced by the govt to build a certain proportion of social housing into their developments, or to subsidise the building of social housing elsewhere. Obviously, this means the high end property is less de
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by cbeach 3y ago
Wikipedia still states the max power of CCS is 350kW. Why haven't you updated it, if what you say is true?
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by cbeach 3y ago
I think you confuse winning on merit with winning by regulatory mandate. I prefer the former, you prefer the latter. Let’s agree to disagree. We clearly don’t have much intellectual common ground here.
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by cbeach 3y ago
So despite your confident claims about CCS being rated to 700kW, you choose for Wikipedia to state it as 350kW. I wonder why that is? Do you need me to explain how to edit Wikipedia? I’m happy to help. —- Interesting that you keep bringing
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by cbeach 3y ago
I certainly wouldn’t HQ an AI company in the EU, or place any significant foreign investment there. The fines for GDPR non-compliance are non-trivial. And you only know if you’re fully complying with the GDPR if you have a legal team that c
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by cbeach 3y ago
For me, Twitter has come to life, since Musk took over. It’s definitely more lively and it’s great to see conservative voices given the same freedom to express themselves as leftwing voices. The world will be more harmonious if we allow the
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by cbeach 3y ago
Even better. Edit that page to say that the max power of CCS is now 700kW. Let’s see if that stands up to scrutiny from other editors. Let me know when you’ve done it.
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by cbeach 3y ago
> That’s why those 400kW CCS chargers exist If you think CCS chargers exist that can deliver 400kW to a single connector for a passenger EV (as opposed to 400kW shared across two connectors, or specialist charging hardware for semi-truck
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by cbeach 3y ago
> I'd like to pay attention to your manifesto on how CCS type 2 Combo is a bad thing when the European EV market is bigger than the North American market, when all brands of charger charge all brands of EV in Europe, when CCS type 2

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