lolbase

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by lolbase 3y ago
It is beyond parody to refer to "not giving money that was not earned" as acting in an "adversarial capacity". Your argument is completely detached from reality, and devoid of logic.
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by lolbase 3y ago
No, it should not.
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by lolbase 3y ago
The government shouldn’t give out billion dollar participation trophies. There’s a set of metrics to meet. Starlink is moving the wrong way against those metrics. As such, they’ll need to succeed unaided in the marketplace, instead of get
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by lolbase 3y ago
Your claim was about “Most EVs”. I listed the most popular EVs, without edits.
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by lolbase 3y ago
Good point. Based on the latest internal valuation, Elon only destroyed $25b in the first year.
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by lolbase 3y ago
Perhaps it could be compared to _just_ FedWire. But even then, FedWire handles about $4t of transfers per day. That's a couple orders of magnitude more than BitCoin. And that's literally one service, from one bank.
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by lolbase 3y ago
superautomatics provide similar benefits with less environmental impact. Unfortunately, most people prefer the lower up-front cost and higher operational cost of a Keurig or a Nespresso to the higher up-front cost and lower operational cost
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by lolbase 3y ago
You can do this with most direct indexing solutions.
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by lolbase 3y ago
Tesla 3 - up to 4065. Tesla S - up to 4941. Tesla X - up to 5531. Tesla Y - up to 4416. Chevy Bolt - 3563. Leaf - up to 3853. Mach-E - up to 4920. ID.4 - up to 4848. E-Tron - up to 5754. BMW iX - up to 5659
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by lolbase 3y ago
Two things: 1) the backup is likely a high end rewards / corporate card whose fees are as high or higher than Amex for most categories of spend; and 2) it’s kind of weak for the last interaction with a business be them saying they won’
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by lolbase 3y ago
Your pedantry misses the point. Even if all she did was sing happy birthday to the immigrants and then welcome them to Greece, Stainablesteel is still advocating for speech he doesn't like to be restrained. In hindsight, I should'
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by lolbase 3y ago
> Musk has explicitly and repeatedly said that his standard for free speech is that which complies with the law in any given country. Yet he has repeatedly demonstrated that this is not, in fact, his standard for free speech. It’s bizar
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by lolbase 3y ago
Thank you for answering. I'll agree he changed the (flawed) covid misinformation policy; though there were absolutely people discussing Chinese lab leak theories or the effectiveness of lockdown without getting banned. I don't kno
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by lolbase 3y ago
Paul was later unbanned. My narrative was true.
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by lolbase 3y ago
Can you please name some right wing opinions that used to be banned, and is no longer banned? Be specific.
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by lolbase 3y ago
And if you want to find somebody saying that some people should not exist on the planet, you can find the CEO retweeting it, or replying with something like "this is the actual truth".
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by lolbase 3y ago
> where freedom of speech is the most upheld. This is only true if one defines freedom of speech extremely narrowly; specifically if you want to use racial slurs, or if you want to attack lgbtq folks. Material criticism of Elon or his en
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by lolbase 3y ago
I'm leaning toward the reason being that Sam did something that created a massive legal risk to the company, and that giving more details would cause the risk to materialize.
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by lolbase 3y ago
I believe that Rivian offers a quad-motor option, and a standard dual-motor with an open-diff that uses the brakes to try to compensate (similar to a typical AWD system).
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by lolbase 3y ago
For context, this is a video of a traditional truck driving up the same hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptTwpkWQY_s And here's a Range Rover going up it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_00ah8
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by lolbase 3y ago
This article elaborates on it: https://www.businessinsider.com/interview-venture-capital-jo... > A candidate who displayed empathy for the entrepreneur would answer the question about Neumann with something like the foll
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by lolbase 3y ago
a16z viewed Neumann very positively, to the point that they asked potential CEOs what they thought of Neumann, and the "correct" answer was to be empathetic that he took a huge swing of the bat.
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by lolbase 3y ago
Apple will replace batteries for iPhone 5s and up, for $69-89 in the US. No issues with fakes or low quality. People who want to do some work themselves can buy replacement kits from reputable part suppliers for $29-59. Your problem only o
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by lolbase 4y ago
Brian has an exceptionally long history of holding himself to a dramatically lower standard than he holds his employees. It is hard to imagine a reason that he would change.