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by jonas21 3y ago
The article isn't based on information SpaceX released. The WSJ got their hands on internal financial documents.
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Peter Pan: Cynical Celebration of a Serial Killer or Cautionary Tale? (2020)(historyaschoice.com)
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by jonas21 3y ago
This sounds like the opposite of what the author had in mind. The cowboy coder is the one with spark, and the need to "transition into a role more suitable for a growing company" is the problem.
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by jonas21 3y ago
What hypothetical firm would say, "she pleaded guilty to multiple felony fraud charges, but hey, let's give her a chance anyway. Wait, what's this? She wrote in her diary that she has doubts about her leadership ability? Neve
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by jonas21 3y ago
Linux wasn't the first OS, git wasn't the first source control, and vim wasn't the first editor. In each of these cases, someone used the existing solutions, asked themselves how they could be better for a particular use case
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by jonas21 3y ago
You're taking this too literally. The product will not be asking you what you're doing. The product designer will ask these questions of themselves and create something that better serves these use cases.
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by jonas21 3y ago
I'm currently reading this on a 27-inch 2560x1440 monitor [1]. At a typical viewing distance, it's around 35 ppd. This is perfectly fine for me, and I would imagine most other people as well (it has a 4.8-star rating on Amazon). Y
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by jonas21 3y ago
> Would drive, docs and gmail be free if you divorced them from the ad revenue products? Yes, probably. They all count against your 15 GB quota of free storage, after which you have to pay Google for more. It's basically the same
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by jonas21 3y ago
Section 4 of the Jitsi Meet ToS grants them similar rights. It's just with mushier language. > You give 8×8 (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works..., communicat
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by jonas21 3y ago
I think you mean: you can often get more users by charging less than what it currently costs to provide a service. I doubt managers forget this. It's just that you need backers with very deep pockets (the government in this case, VCs i
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by jonas21 3y ago
What's wrong with the name? It doesn't seem any sillier than "GoDaddy" or "Google".
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by jonas21 3y ago
Do you believe they would be opposed to it?
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by jonas21 3y ago
I don't. I'm responding to the parent's comment: > However, charging away from home can get expensive. During peak hours, it's possible to find charging for $.50 per kwh.
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by jonas21 3y ago
It's not just away from home. Where I live, electricity at home is $0.72/kWh during peak hours.
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by jonas21 3y ago
An internet-connected fridge might use a tiny amount of additional electricity (probably a couple watts when active, and much less when idle, which should be most of the time). But this is dwarfed by the massive improvements in refrigerator
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by jonas21 3y ago
I can imagine being the neighbor on the other side of that fence. ( peeks head over fence ) Hey neighbor, what's that thumping sound I've been hearing all day? Oh, that? Just my knife throwing machine. Nothing to worry about - I&#
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by jonas21 3y ago
Musk's pay package was tied to TSLA stock hitting certain price targets -- if it failed to do so, he wouldn't be paid at all. Here's what the NY Times wrote back in 2018 [1]: > Tesla is worth only about $59 billion today.
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by jonas21 3y ago
I don't get it. I assume the author is trying to make it sound absurd that you would need all these layers of factories to build a simple spice rack and, by analogy, that frameworks are also absurd. But if you were building spice racks
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by jonas21 3y ago
> But it sure looks like self-driving cars are still a fair bit worse on the second. How so? We hear about the self-driving car incidents because they're required to write up reports whenever something happens (and it also makes f
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by jonas21 3y ago
In case anyone else is curious about the name: > SBCL derives most of its code from CMU CL, created at Carnegie Mellon University. ... it's appropriate to acknowledge the descent from the CMU hackers (and post-CMU CMU CL hackers) w
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by jonas21 3y ago
Uh, yes? When I search for "google cloud", I see an ad for Azure. When I search for "pixel 7", I get ads for Verizon and T-Mobile.
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by jonas21 3y ago
In fact, the FTC did the opposite, ruling that 1-800 Contacts unlawfully harmed competition when it sued competitors who bid on its name and obtained settlements preventing them from doing so. [1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-ev
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by jonas21 3y ago
Transit/biking/walking? Or if that's not feasible where you live, having only one car per household instead of 2+.
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by jonas21 3y ago
I didn't downvote, but I assume people are because everything you can possibly do in life comes with some risk -- you need to evaluate the risk versus the benefit to decide whether to do something. Not even considering developing an ap
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by jonas21 3y ago
It sounds to me like the conversation went in a way that it could be interpreted as a threat. This is from the Apollo developer's own telling of the story: > As said, a common suggestion across the many threads on this topic was &q
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by jonas21 3y ago
It's not unilateral. The contract you sign has a clause that gives them permission to sell the loan.
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by jonas21 3y ago
Funny, that's what the older folks said about us when we were young.
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by jonas21 3y ago
This is why many apps/sites require a phone number to sign up.
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by jonas21 3y ago
Think about it from the researcher's perspective. They're used to being asked all the time to justify why their research matters. In fact, it's critical that they do so in order to get funding. If they answer, "well, pri
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by jonas21 3y ago
Yeah, it's kind of the same way people have been saying Google search has been going downhill for years, but compressed into a much shorter time frame.

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