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by romed 8y ago
It’s great that they opened Kythe but as someone who deployed it from scratch I say it’s like ordering a DIY aircraft carrier kit. Many steps before you get something useful.
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by romed 8y ago
The reason for this apparent paradox is that all of the key statements in this blog post are false. Just go read the US Attorney's press releases or the perpetrator's guilty plea if you want facts.
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by romed 8y ago
Right. The person in question plead guilty to criminal tax evasion, an exceedingly rare charge. Nobody gets charged with tax evasion for reasonable but incorrect interpretations of the tax code. In this case the evasion was intentional,
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by romed 8y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/mercury-plea/former-mercury-... https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2009/lr20964.htm etc.
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by romed 8y ago
The blog post is a highly misleading one-sided account of a notorious white-collar crime. You should read more about it from other perspectives.
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by romed 8y ago
Intent does not matter. If Musk got up on Twitter and announced "I have secured orders for fifty million cars at $50000 each" because he was drunk at 8am, that would not be excusable either.
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by romed 8y ago
Public companies can raise money through "secondary" offerings of stock. That's why an IPO is called an "initial" offering.
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by romed 8y ago
Good chance that Musk will get placed on the bad actors list and will be unable to serve as an officer or executive of Telsa.
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by romed 8y ago
That Waymo has not solved left turning is not really a conclusion supported by that article. A supportable conclusion is that the impatient meatbags are angry that the Waymo van won't dangerously veer out into oncoming traffic.
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by romed 8y ago
I guess it's pretty obvious that the company who regularly pushes new software to your phone can also change the interpretation of settings and preferences as they like, or remove the preferences and settings altogether, or replace you
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by romed 8y ago
Every time Ubuntu updates some package (that I haven't figured out) it blows away my CPU governor settings. But I guess there won't be a lot of press articles about this.
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by romed 8y ago
I think people are overlooking the big picture here. Inbox had a lot of machine learning features that Gmail lacked, like Smart Reply. I think this was just because they really couldn't afford to run Smart Reply on all the incoming e
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by romed 8y ago
Eizo still makes monocrome LCD monitors. They are for medical diagnostic purposes. https://www.eizo.com/products/radiforce/gx550/