mehrdada

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by mehrdada 5y ago
Not anymore[*]. [*] If you enable "Messages" sync in iCloud, encrypted message history is synced across your iCloud devices in an E2E manner.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
RAM is not on package in the way iPhones are. Bandwidth should not be meaningfully affected by the placement of RAMs; perhaps slight latency improvement. It simply has many memory channels.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Surge pricing of a limited resource is not exactly "price discrimination" in the way that term is used traditionally in economics. Per wikipedia: "Price discrimination is a microeconomic pricing strategy where identical or la
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> Apply this to software, and everybody will be forced to pay the Office Pro price when they only need Office Home features. Or rather Microsoft makes less money producing pretty much the same products and selling close to the lower pr
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Most cars in the US have 3-4yr "bumper-to-bumper" warranty and 5-6yr for powertrain. Tesla has 8yr only for battery/drive unit. Warranty for the rest of the car runs out at 4yr or 50k miles (plan to replace S door handles [
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by mehrdada 5y ago
In which case one could more accurately substitute "dense" for "advanced". There is an implicit assumption that dense == advanced that may or may not be true.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I am skeptical of such claims despite the sophisticated vibe one may carry in their belief. It's natural for less economically prosperous jurisdictions outside North America to try over-glorifying themselves with non-quantifiable metri
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> Is the US not a democracy because the executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicity obligated to believe and follow the constitution? Did you just equate "following the US constitution" to "following Sha
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> Uh, no it isn't You are absolutely incorrect[1]. There are no ifs and buts. They absolutely positively require the candidate to assert they'd abide by Islamic law--there is not even a pretense of secularism. Which Islamic R
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by mehrdada 5y ago
This characterization is ridiculous. Following the form does not make you “somewhat democratic,” nor does calling oneself Democratic People’s Republic. In addition, “the secular executive branch” comment is flat out wrong. The executive br
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Did the government force them to sell their electricity to other EVs? AFAIK the CCS connector is forced which had been shipping for a while. Allowing other EVs to charge seems to be business choice.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
My point was Rossman's use of the phrase "refurbished" really means "fixed under warranty". Whether a refurbished is worth the risk is of course, one's own evaluation, but the video is not a representative of A
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Apple's own refurbs usually come with a box identical to the retail one except they don't have the graphics and they are just white and just have a wordmark, e.g. "MacBook Pro", in the center, so you can still use them f
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Those issues would have likely occurred even on new MBP 2016-19 models, esp. on 2016.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I doubt this is the same thing as "Apple Certified Refurbished" store[1] which in my anecdotal (but quite a number of samples) have sold indistinguishable from new products in a sealed non-retail box which is the same as retail ex
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> It's also probably worth financially supporting Oracle if you make substantial money from Java-based software. Oracle is by and large responsible for the platform that you are using. Mmm... That's an interesting theory, but
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by mehrdada 5y ago
- 2010 to ~2013: removable SATA SSD in a stick form-factor. - ~2013 to 2015: removable PCIe SSD (connector not compatible with off the shelf ones though) - 2016+: soldered
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by mehrdada 5y ago
That, however, does not prevent the flash chips from being removable. Sure you would not be able to access the data, but could replace/upgrade the flash without throwing away the computer when they fail. In fact that exists in a real
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by mehrdada 5y ago
"an idle person" -- hahaha
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I played with this and it is super interesting (almost made me register a couple domain names!) That said, to me, it once again reinforces the belief that a large factor in GPT-3 amazingness is the taste in prompting/filtering that hum
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I cannot do it on Teslas. (Or at least the trade off is undesirable)
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Not everyone lives in your jurisdiction. I don’t know why you would be quick to police the discussion, as talking about how something works is done does not mean you intend to do it (and is well within the scope of “Hacker” News).
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by mehrdada 5y ago
While Tesla knows more info about how you use or operate the car, the big piece that matters to your privacy is arguable the vehicle location and that is not at all unique to Tesla. Many (most?) vehicles produced in the last decade have a
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by mehrdada 5y ago
You could pay them in other means, but there were constraints there are obvious constraints that I did not spell out. We are assuming a non-growing company that now needs to pay extra cash to you top up employee comp with cash. Your margin
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Sure, but the stock price would tank (note that the current multiple assumes growth), employees would leave due to poor compensation, and starts a downward spiral. I am not sure if that is called survival. And no, most businesses in the wor
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Internet Explorer did not quite “hold the web back for everyone,” at least not initially: in fact it was full of proprietary features that were non-existent or incompatible with the rest of the world which caused problems.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Google probably injects way more than that to fund open source projects: it is called working at Google. $290M is a measly, 600 avg employees or so (let's just assume ~500k for an average gSWE in Bay Area). These cash donations may be
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I think the author needs to be reminded that the pixels to the left and right of the notch are basically free bonus pixels. They are not eating into the screen aspect ratio to build the notch. Given that, I prefer the notch to a thicker t
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Teslas are much simpler designs to build at scale, while traditional automakers have perfected the ICE design and manufacturing, they see everything through that eye and bring the warts and complexity from the devil they know (as an example
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by mehrdada 5y ago
They report segmented results for each business, along with gross margin of each business, so I am not sure how that would fool any real analyst.

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