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> So those who claim that Russian vaccine is only on the 1/2 phase spread an outright lie. Russian vaccine was announced back in August, when it was only on phase 1/2. In contrast phase 3 Pfizer/biontech had been well unde
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The very first paragraph of that page says "The American people will determine who will serve as the next President of the United States". Doesn't sound like declaration of victory to me.
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I'd argue that being a greeter at Walmart, or in general a human interaction role is exactly the role for people in an automation future. The greeter at Walmart tomorrow may also be responsible of a fleet of robots that perform cleanin
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Well, Tesla does claim that Tesla cars may need to be retrofitted for self driving: https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-computer I suppose they wouldn't have any problem asking for Lidar installation i
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While I’m sure Musk is stubborn and his ego is huge, he is also very technical astute and doesn’t afraid to change his mind. SpaceX had planned to use parachute for 1st stage recovery but switched to the current solution after it became cle
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ASML's revenue has tripled since 2007 - [0]. Stock price increased ten fold. I'm sure they don't complain about how things turn out for them thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices after iPhone. [0]- https://
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> Weird question :) My claim is that it won't be open to "anyone" in a useful way any time soon. Seems pretty clear it will be available to public in the next few weeks, unless you're saying "general access to an
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We need to make air travel more sustainable, eliminating unnecessary ones such as business trips that can be replaced with online conference. Air travel is still crucial because personal witness and person to person interaction can't b
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Boeing did bet on more point to point connections. Their 2003 commercial market outlook states "Passenger preference for more frequent, nonstop flights with shorter trip times will continue to drive market evolution and airline strateg
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Perhaps you couldn't read the article because of the paywall, but it does include the following: > Cook said 10% to 15% of Apple employees have gone back to the office and he hopes the majority of staff can return to the company’s n
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> What is the point of deadlines then? I don't pretend to know his motivation, perhaps his misplaced optimism? or to motivate and set the guideline for his troop? or to indicate Tesla's priority and direction? Do you think JFK
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> But you can't hand wave away his statements on Twitter as "Oh, that's just Elon, all Tesla's corporate statements have very explicitly (in at times very fine print) said it's contingent on 'capability&#x27
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> Right, and he's also made explicit statements that you could FSD "by the end of 2016", "by the end of 2018", "by the end of 2020", coast to coast. That isn't out or character for Musk. He's
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> Then you can literally say anything and claim "just not yet!". > Amazing people say things like this with a straight face. Then literally everyone who claims breakthrough in fusion, new energy, medicine, AI, robotics, supe
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But more biased when it comes to Qatar and their Gulf's adversaries? Just an example: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/06/qatar-gul... Western media are certainly no strangers to bias
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Artificial Intelligence is the single most overused buzzword at the moment. Just an example among many: "We’re building an AI-powered writing assistant that helps people communicate and connect" https://www.grammarly.co
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That's common for tech demos, especially software demos. Hardcoded values, scripted paths, etc. Nikola's presentation was something else: > "We will have a chain on the seats to prevent people from coming in just for the s
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> His stated goal is to do this by 2050. That’s within his lifetime (I hope). (Responding to your claim elsewhere since reply isn't allowed there) Incorrect. That's not Musk's stated goal. What he said was: "Building
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Do you have some examples of those silly things?
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They weren't, if you meant taxpayers subsidized them. Have you seen the hops Tesla has to jump in order to sell cars to consumers, like in Texas or Michigan? NASA is indeed SpaceX's most important customer, but taxpayers in fact s
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> Elon seems to have moved on to non-vaccuum underground tunnels via The Boring Company, which is actually doing real projects. The Boring Company has never planned to build Hyperloop. They are about lowering cost and time of digging tun
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Think of it this way: how many people were as well off and well connected, and lucky as Bill Gates when he started out? let's say 100,000 people, conservatively? How many of those are as successful as he is?
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Eh, Musk is well respected when it comes to space matters. Check out his conversations with Everyday Astronauts, Scott Manley, Tory Bruno, Peter Beck as well as space journalists.
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> The other concentration camp source being the CIA regime change NGO CHRD based on interviews of exactly 8 individual. And the other forced labor source being the Raytheon Australia, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, MBDA Missile Syste
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I find it hard to believe that such a well informed crowd with health dose of skepticism as HN can be outright dismissal of that article just because no evidence has been revealed, and because experts have dismissed the story so far. A favo
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They plan to make a million doses available by September, possibly more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-oxford...
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Would you rather that we don't discuss bats in this specific thread? Because all that mentioned so far is that bats are(were) sold at Wuhan market as food, and that they may have a role in spreading the virus. Both of that is true. Not
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> Now, (fruit) bats eaten as food in West Africa is a major vector of the spread of Ebola. And maybe one day we can conclusively say bats play no roles whatsoever in the spread of Covid-19, like we are able to say confidently about bats
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There'd been rumor of a Turkish Airlines's order for A380 for so long but it never happened. Etihad and Qatar each operate a tiny fleet. In fact A380 seems to only work for Emirates. So it doesn't really make sense for hub an
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Of course it was a proxy war, and of course US bombing was brutal, not only to Cambodia but also to Vietnam. > The US bombing of Cambodia was without a doubt a defining factor in this event. Which event? US bombing was between 1970-1973.

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