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by lucianbr 2y ago
This was the question: > Is there any indication that this would be cheaper than just paying the $17M in taxes? You wrote a lot of words besides the point, and the only thing that is on point is: > I assume that the math works out May
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by lucianbr 2y ago
You don't seem to have accounted for "stock appreciation rights" at all, which was the whole point. > At a 0.5% interest rate they would have paid just $20M in interest. Plus these "stock appreciation rights",
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by lucianbr 2y ago
It does not matter what you personally value. The reddit post claims the inheritors get to avoid taxes. If that is false, the reddit post is a lie, nothing philosophical about it. It does not depend on anything.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The reddit post talks about putting "the asset" in a trust, but the article says Ellison personally owned shares of Oracle. That does not fit. And most ultra-rich that own lots of shares of large publicly-traded corporations own t
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by lucianbr 2y ago
How can that be the point? That would be parallel to Amazon calling itself Elasticsearch, which never happened or was even a remote possibility.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Funny, you're doing exactly what you accused others of: defend Amazon with argument 1. Ah, argument 1 completely misses the point? Well, just defend Amazon with argument 2. Say no word about how you missed the point originally, because
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Macron intervenes and lets Durov go No clue if this will happen, or how much of a good/bad thing it would be. But it would sure be funny to happen after Macron publicly stated the executive had nothing to do with the arrest. Guess
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by lucianbr 2y ago
It's certainly possible that the arrest is at the same time unsurprising and stifling free speech. Is one supposed to exclude the other?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
They saw the "drink verification can" thing and thought it's actually a good idea? I guess the torment nexus is next.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> it would require a lot of effort to update all call sites, and in some cases the benefit of the new API was minimal. By wrapping the old library it meant we could choose to keep the interface similar to the old library in these cases,
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by lucianbr 2y ago
It shows what the people on the leaderboard used, seems close enough.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
No, dismissing something that is claimed without evidence is not arrogance, but common sense.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I have no clue what you are saying. "They did it somehow"? How ? Maybe they did not measure it, but Elon just imagined it. How can we tell the difference?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
How would you measure / calculate something like that? Seems like adding some amount back is the right situation, and not too much either, but putting a number on it is just arrogance.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Wht do you think mountain bikes have rubber tires? Or one of these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-terrain_vehicle Or a dune buggy? Pretty clearly the worry about the road surface is not the only cause of using tire
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> one big upside is that you can theoretically avoid the rubber/microplastic particulate emission associated with tires and wheeled vehicles if you can make legged vehicles as good as wheeled ones. How does keeping rough terrain rou
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by lucianbr 2y ago
It says these are made of plastic pipe. Doesn't the pipe wear down where it contacts (or even slides in the video) the ground, creating microplastics? Also, it already slides some of the time in the videos. Not sure what the advantage
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I don't see how that is supporting "SQL is declarative and therefore simple". You've kept the declarative part, but it's not simple anymore. You need to know multiple declarative ways to ask for the same thing, and
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Yes but for performance you need to know how it is done, which defeats the declarative point. I've read countless articles on how to rearrange the "declaration of what you want" in order to get the database to do it in a fast
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> "it can be sunny virtually everywhere at the same time in a small country" > When it is sunny in the netherlands, it is likely sunny everywhere in NL because of how small the country is. These statements are not the same.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The Netherlands covers 41,850 km2. I don't agree this size is small enough to cause the weather to be likely the same everywhere. Whatever qualifier and quantifier juggling you're trying to do is beside the point. > When it is
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by lucianbr 2y ago
It's a cycle, and we've been around the bend multiple times already. https://www.xkcd.com/2044/ Installing multiple programs on my computer or a server is complicated, and slows things down, and it's ins
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The analytics services gather enough detail to personally identify you. You know, IP, browser fingerprint, geolocation, corroborated with other sites you visited gets you gender, age bracket, lifestyle... the noose slowly tightens. This stu
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> what sort risks are there? The aren’t handling your personal information The sites themselves disagree with you. They think there's risk, which is why they decided to not work in the EU. EU does not "threaten very high fines
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I have some shelly devices which manage to do all that, and cost next to nothing. Work with local rest services or cloud, password protection, TLS. Sure, it costs more than zero, but not much. In the end, freedom goes away because we could
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> RS232 port specification and you can create your own dongle! This is just a way of pretending to give access while making it as hard as possible. We are talking about a device that is already connected to the network. The local path is
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> When it is sunny in the netherlands, it is likely sunny everywhere in NL because of how small the country is. Often friends of mine who live in my city report rain when I see none, or no rain when it's raining outside my window. T
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by lucianbr 2y ago
What's the reasoning for not allowing both control paths, via cloud but also locally? So that people who can and want to, will use the local control.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
What does this have to do with anything? Are NASA or Boeing using Agile for any project related to this mission?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> This whole article very true, but somewhat irrelevant to 2024. The author is complaining about inconvenience. If I'm in the shell, and I want to see how much disk space I have, asking a LLM for a command then running the command t

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