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by mehrdada 7y ago
It's not the only difference. Dividends are paid to the shareholders of record as of a certain date. Buybacks effectively benefit all the future as-of-yet-unissued shares, e.g. unvested stock-based comp (which makes it a beloved thin
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by mehrdada 7y ago
Moffet Field is probably the tough part. It's true they operate it but it's a federal air field. Privatizing the ownership may be challenging.
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by mehrdada 7y ago
Two points: the basic model assumes there’s a single market to sell to, but different geos ramping up may spike your supply in one market while your other segment is not deliverable yet, causing short term supply spike in one segment while
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by mehrdada 7y ago
> I know at least one person that's decided not to buy a Tesla simply because their future is so murky and is not sure if they will be around for repairs. That's a problem they need to tackle now before it spirals out of contr
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by mehrdada 7y ago
The laggy tiles were much much better than Android at the time, which was complete garbage till v4 or so.
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by mehrdada 7y ago
I do not believe this is true. You can start the car with just the account credentials. You will have two minutes to start driving, as the GP states; it’s called keyless driving mode. I’m pretty sure as I have used it when my phone broke an
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by mehrdada 7y ago
That was a metaphor.
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by mehrdada 7y ago
> being an immigrant myself I'm of the minority ethnicity X so I cannot be racist
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by mehrdada 7y ago
What I said (GCP runs on Borg) is absolutely and technically correct, affirmed by your own comment, which highlights the power and flexibility of Borg. The point being no one[1] at Google relies on Kubernetes for raw cluster management capa
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by mehrdada 7y ago
GCP itself is a job on Borg. ;)
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by mehrdada 7y ago
As mentioned in other comments, gRPC transport is orthogonal to Protobuf serialization. The gRPC runtime library takes no dependency on that. You can use gRPC with JSON. It just happens the default code generators use protobuf IDL and seria
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by mehrdada 7y ago
This may be true today (although even on this metric I’d estimate Kubernetes to be off by some orders of magnitude, bordering zero). My point is there’s a path and plan forward for gRPC adoption and it’s a matter of transition to a new syst
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by mehrdada 7y ago
Scale, for one thing. Kubernetes is not a bad system but it’s not designed to run Google.
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by mehrdada 7y ago
This analogy is very misleading. Kubernetes is probably never going to run any real workload internally at Google, but gRPC powers all external APIs of Google Cloud, and increasing other Google properties (e.g. ads, assistant), used by mobi
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by mehrdada 7y ago
It is laughable, because it is probably true. The quality of the systems produced by the named manufacturers is abysmal.
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by mehrdada 7y ago
The proxy du jour is going to be Envoy. Jump on that bandwagon instead.
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by mehrdada 7y ago
Or take an Uber when the car is in the shop? I hear Tesla is willing to give the option of lots of Lyft credit per day instead of a loaner.
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by mehrdada 7y ago
While I can relate to your point, if you actually experience Blaze at Google (and Bazel too, but it has other ecosystem immaturity issues not related to reproducibility) you will quickly change your mind. I can totally see why prior tools y
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by mehrdada 7y ago
Sure there is: often the cheapest scanner you can buy is a multifunction inkjet printer.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
The fact that some "average software engineers" got lucky to join at the right time and a sweet deal (by some metric) does not make a criminal act okay that makes thousands of more software engineers who would join later and did n
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Wells Fargo Cash Wise Visa Card, I believe pays up to $600 with $25 deductible ($575 effectively) if you pay your phone bill with it
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Linux on those 2014 Macs run great especially for the ones with integrated GPUs.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
There's a used market you know.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
> Apple seems willing to disregard American laws regarding backdoors, national security, and access to device information. Which American law did they disregard? Unilateral opinions from one branch of government are not "laws".
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by mehrdada 8y ago
The grpc.beta code elements are deprecated and may go away anytime. (gRPC 1.0.0 is also super old and unsupported)
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Model Y was a known character before the announcement, so its official unveiling if anything had kind of the opposite effect. It put a pin to hoping for it to be available soon enough to hold off buying a Model 3 today and it is sufficientl
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification, good to know!
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by mehrdada 8y ago
I recently tried Android again on Pixel 3 and effectively I have to find a way to send a file to an app without the storage permission. Is that an app-specific thing? I have yet to find an app that doesn’t do that. I understand the issues w
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Haha, there has to be a proper security system/ecosystem on Android to be interesting to break, not one that effectively needs giving every app you want to share a single photo with the entire filesystem access, for example.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
> it is my only vehicle, which is why I went the hybrid rather than full electric route. At least in the US, I think you'd be underestimating how much one can rely on a proper fully electric vehicle (i.e. a Tesla, and perhaps Bolt?)

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