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by mehrdada 5y ago
Have you looked at Tesla delivery queue wait times recently? Not need to spin up controversies when the market demand is clear and explains the tailwind. They have been leveraging the demand to increase ASP both by increasing prices and shi
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by mehrdada 5y ago
On most of my machines I switch to the integer scale mode, but realistically, the effect on sharpness is not too far from antialiasing in practice. I am not sure how they do compositing of media on macOS though. Theoretically they can rende
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by mehrdada 5y ago
The universities are hedge funds flying below the radar that should “pay their fair share”, not “unrealized gains” by regular people.
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In what way the state is the hand that feeds you? Arguably California bit one of the hands that fed it, as evidence by the ability to move, since it is not that special of a place to do business. The state’s existence is afforded by the res
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by mehrdada 5y ago
There is an additional $100 fee specific to EVs in California and an increasing annual tax. https://electrek.co/2020/07/10/california-starts-charging-ev...
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Mountain View is just an example, and not an extreme one like Atherton or Palo Alto. Even if you go as far as say Pleasanton the market is still in another league compared to Austin.
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Bay Area homes are like that too. I implore you to check some Zillow in Mountain View and compare. Not in the same ballpark even.
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by mehrdada 5y ago
You are changing the goalposts here. You don’t just want sideloading. You also want an easy way to do that at scale. However that’s not an obviously beneficial trade-off for the average user. The point is as the device owner you have the ab
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Sideloading is allowed with a free developer account.
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Indeed many people do not remember that Android ecosystem at the beginning deliberately was on the side of the developer (and Google) as opposed to the user with its lax permissions and liberal access to the system and took its leisurely
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by mehrdada 5y ago
At any given year there will be N corporations whose tax bill will be zero. It's not even relevant as a policy matter that "55 corporations" are cherrypicked to have $0 tax bill for a certain year. It's not legitimate t
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Title is misleading... The original title is "55 Corporations paid $0 tax..." and who cares... sounds like a garbage report by a think tank to bolsters the policies they care about. Why is this on HN?
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> We haven't reached any kind of semblance that Autopilot or similar systems are capable of that. Oh, I was not suggesting that AP would more intelligent overall than humans, rather the vision stack might (or might not) be more se
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Would you automatically assume Autopilot is not able to see and brake for the pedestrian at night and a human pair of eyes would see better? It’s unclear to me that will be the case. Either way that is a straw-man argument: even in manual d
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by mehrdada 5y ago
The self-evaluation aspect is kind of beside the point. The core question is given a fixed amount of "attention", do you want to spend most of it staring forward to keep yourself in the lane and avoid rear-ending the next car? Cur
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by mehrdada 5y ago
It is not clear to me that the metrics of attention people traditionally use are optimally desirable when evaluating Autopilot-like systems. Anecdotally, I have found myself not staring forward anywhere as much, but in fact I am more attent
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by mehrdada 5y ago
An interesting economics exercise would be to evaluate the perverse incentives that could be created when the existence of a company is tied to turning one-time vaccine purchases into subscription revenue, and how to prevent/control th
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I just use two watches and alternate every night.
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I remember getting my plaintext password back over email through one of their forgot password flows a few years back, so yeah...
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by mehrdada 5y ago
I guess one could productize that but not sure if the market is big enough to simplify the process even further without getting into full enterprise MDM business. If you got a Mac, the productization is called Apple Configurator 2 .
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I have a Basic iOS Hardening MDM profile which disables iCloud Backup, ad tracking identifier, etc that I deploy on all my iOS devices the moment I set them up.
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> Apple's CSAM scanning system continues to draw criticism over its existence, largely at a misinterpretation as to what the system does and is capable of doing [emphasis mine]. Is that sloppy journalism blindly parroting Apple PR
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Even legacy BIOS effectively served a similar purpose before the functionality provided ended up being too limited. The name BIOS, Basic Input/Output System , in fact focuses on this functionality of serving the I/O function cal
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by mehrdada 5y ago
My point is you have to understand his principles first before calling him a hypocrite: in your cell phone example, the phone call he is making with someone else's phone is not depriving him of his freedom/privacy, but its owner&#
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by mehrdada 5y ago
To portray RMS as "against tech" is a very misleading characterization of him (he is an OS developer after all). To judge someone as a hypocrite, you have to first understand (1) what they say, (2) how they act, and then (3) comp
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by mehrdada 5y ago
With all due respect, I don't believe you are familiar with RMS positions. I'd argue most people who have not followed him closely and haven't carefully listened to what his PoV is, have a very hand-wavy understanding of the
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by mehrdada 5y ago
"Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another or the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform." RMS is as
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by mehrdada 5y ago
> GPLv3 is obviously a non-starter for most companies "Non-starter" is a gross mischaracterization for GPLv3 for most companies , even most software companies, considering there is quite a bit of GPLv3 software in a modern GNU
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by mehrdada 5y ago
Please note that without any license, the default in the US would be all rights reserved for the copyright holder, and thus does not permit you to redistribute without author's permission. Therefore, that particular argument alone
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by mehrdada 5y ago
The copyright holder can choose to do that only after violations have occurred (and choose to permanently terminate the license even after curing the violation). See the verbatim quote from GPL3 in my other comment https://news

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