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by ripjaygn 2y ago
> That's of little consolation to the people who bought Tesla stock when it was far more overvalued than the still grossly overvalued price that it has today. You make it sound like HN is a forum for Tesla shareholders. Or Tesla sho
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Microplastics found in blood clots, linked to higher heart attack, stroke risk(thelancet.com)
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SpaceX Demos Cellular Starlink Tech Powering Video Call Between Phones(pcmag.com)
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
83% looking to switch jobs with RTO mandates vs. 41% with a few days remote is wild.
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Return-to-office mandate is backfiring on a key federal agency(thehill.com)
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UNM Researchers Find Microplastics in Canine and Human Testicular Tissue(hsc.unm.edu)
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Study: "Cuddle hormone" oxytocin nasal spray helps against loneliness(uni-bonn.de)
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
> Microsoft is the de facto controlling shareholder in OpenAI No, they are not even a shareholder. > Microsoft is entitled to up to 49 percent of the for-profit arm of OpenAI's profits, according to reports. But that's not t
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
This story is about one anecdote and passing it out as a pattern. For example Consumer Reports found Teslas have the least maintenance and repair costs among all brands. https://www.kbb.com/car-news/consumer-reports-nam
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
> I can't afford to spend $30k on an unreliable vehicle, nor a reliable one with $5k+ repairs. Then you should get a Tesla, because once you get past the FUD on HN, Reddit and the media, in the real world Consumer Reports found that
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
> Besides, I imagine many of the issues with vision (e.g. adverse weather) LIDAR is bad in rain, fog and snow.
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
They might be using them to train robots like Optimus, given Musk's statement. Also why is the tone of the article so toxic.
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
Now do Covid.
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
It's not just casting. Right there in the second paragraph of the TFA: > Tesla has been a leader in gigacasting, a cutting-edge technique that uses huge presses with thousands of tons of clamping pressure to die-cast large sections
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US opens probe into 130k Ford vehicles over hands-free tech(reuters.com)
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
It's up 25% of his sale price in the few days after he sold. Ouch.
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
> These people would have been alive if it was a normal human driving That's the wrong way to look at it. 109 people were killed on the road today. How many would've been alive if Autopilot was active? Assuming your goal was to
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
Thats outdated news. > BYD, China's biggest electric vehicle (EV) maker, reported first quarter 2024 sales fell 43% compared to the fourth quarter of 2023, handing back the title of world's biggest EV seller to Tesla after win
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
> For example, you can now lease a Toyota bZ4x for $169/month The same Toyota that got caught cheating in emission tests? The same BX4X whose wheels were falling apart? No thanks.
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Tesla has lowest maintenance and repair cost of any brand(electrek.co)
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
From a tweet: Consumer Reports has named Tesla the cheapest car brand to maintain over a 10 year period: 1: Tesla: $4,035 2: Buick: $4,900 3: Toyota: $4,900 4: Lincoln: $5,040 5: Ford: $5,400 6: Chevrolet: $5,550 7: Hyundai: $5,640 8: Nissa
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Ask HN: Best Coding Assistant(s) and Generator(s)?
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
> H1Bs wouldn’t be so easy to fire if the skillset were rare or difficult to fill. By the same token a good chunk of government employees would be paid higher if their skillset were rare or difficult to fill, and they worked hard. The go
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
That's three comments where folks are attacking me instead of addressing the topic because they know they lost the argument. Sad to see that happen. And also look up the meaning of the word essentially.
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
I had two options, either continue the personal back and forth by debating that you folks don't understand the meaning of the word 'essentially', or take the high ground and debate the topic. Sad that both you and the other p
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
Lets ignore the personal back and forth, and get back to the argument. It is harder to fire govt employees than to fire private employees. Disagree? At-will employment law doesn't apply to government entities. A very consequential law
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
> This is a great example of that political dogma: notice that you’ve accepted as an article of faith the trope that government employees can’t be fired or disciplined or that this is not true of contractors, despite neither of those bei
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
Maybe the CSRB should look at their own agency, CISA, and get things fixed, since CISA has more power over CISA than it has over Microsoft. https://securityintelligence.com/news/cisa-hackers-key-syste...
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
> but their recent failures have been pretty amateurish > See also the CISA report about last years breach The same CISA who just recently got hacked in an even more amateurish way? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by ripjaygn 2y ago
The US govt can also do a lot better. The very agency they formed to counter cyber threats and alert against(CISA) itself got hacked because they failed to patch or remediate, and led to a serious leak of sensitive chemical industry informa

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