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by slivym 8y ago
Is that silly? As an academic am I meant to be familiar with the number of dogs who frequent a particular park in a country I've never been to? As the reviewer of that paper what exactly are you suggesting, I accuse them of lying? Acad
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by slivym 8y ago
I'm not a big fan of this article at all. Firstly, if you want to try and actually persuade people of a point don't preface your entire discussion by deciding to use an epithet to describe what you're discussing. How can I ta
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by slivym 8y ago
They literally have a video in the introduction which documents them deliberately submitting papers that they've engineered to have problems in bad faith to try and manufacture evidence that bad studies can get into journals. They esta
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by slivym 8y ago
A key part of that though, is that Tesla took 5 years before it even produced it's first car, 9 years before it's actually successful model S. Over that time they burned an enormous amount of money and they're 'disruptin
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by slivym 8y ago
>Who says Amazon doesn’t pay taxes? Can we do away with this now please. Amazon paying the taxes it can't avoid doesn't act as an excuse for avoiding the taxes that they do avoid. In fact, excusing Amazon's tax avoidance w
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by slivym 8y ago
Between the SEC essentially dropping any of their real threats, and finally getting to solid production numbers it looks like Tesla has really stabilized. Yet for some reason the stock price is barely getting back to where it was at the beg
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by slivym 8y ago
This is so typical in technology now, large corporations patenting everything they can possibly think of, including things that they've blatantly copied. It absolutely doesn't surprise me that a technology as fundamentally simple
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by slivym 8y ago
Unless you have personal wealth already - which was the case with both SpaceX and Tesla.
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by slivym 8y ago
This seems incredibly unlikely because his actions were so independent of Tesla. They aren't pursuing Tesla right now, they're pursuing Musk personally.
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by slivym 8y ago
There are plenty of examples where these situations have been ameliorated over time. A great example to draw from in the west is the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. In the end the solution was in large part to give the minority poli
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by slivym 8y ago
I'm sorry but some of this just reeks of PR bullshit. Take your goals, multiply them by 3 and then you exceed them anyway? That is a shocking indictment of your judgement. Build a great idea? Yeah, we know the idea was great - because
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by slivym 8y ago
Let's put the counter to you though - toilet humor is easy. It makes money. It's what allows so many actors and production companies to make a living, and because they're successful they can then go off and make more interest
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by slivym 8y ago
>Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon said the company has "right-sized" the server business for the market opportunities. I hate this corporate speak. 100% of the time this means that they fucked something up and they're goi
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by slivym 8y ago
The reason everyone is reacting the way they are is because this news really isn't about this particular website. It's about the fact that the largest corporation on earth has decided it can freeboot everyone else's content.
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by slivym 8y ago
Not sure this is news, the Model S and X are also five-star. We don't report when the new model of the Chevrolet Bolt gets 5 stars. I think we can probably calm down a little about the Tesla news.
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by slivym 8y ago
Well partly it's neater to write the headline and grab attention, but partly it's because their research seems to be indicating that this is being used to target only men. For example: >Our survey of 91 Uber ads found just one
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by slivym 8y ago
Or more simply "We're laying off 10,000 people, that's saving us >$500m USD per annum so we can afford a law suit or two"
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by slivym 8y ago
One thing I think this misses that is REALLY worth knowing as a new engineering manager: you might not want to be an engineering manager. People often view it as a seniority step or a power step or a salary step, but there are three things
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by slivym 8y ago
On a personal note, this representation annoys me: value = (-1) sign * 2 (exponent-127) * 1.fraction It should be: value = (-1) sign * 2 (exponent-127) * (1 + fraction*2^-23) It sounds trivial, but you can't reason mathematically about
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by slivym 8y ago
> According to the employment website indeed.com, the average salary at Tesla ranges from approximately US$38k to US$147k. Not bad money really, but it means that even a top earner at Tesla would take 133,000 years to amass Musk’s fortun
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by slivym 8y ago
Whilst their website is terrible, I actually think the specifics of what Amazon does makes it very difficult for the website to be good. They sell a million versions of a million products in a million sectors. What is useful for me to know
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by slivym 8y ago
It seems odd to make that claim about other companies without actually checking. It could be true, but it also wouldn't surprise me at all if Tesla were cutting corners here in a way that McLaren doesn't for the really obvious rea
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by slivym 8y ago
Even if you subscribe to the idea that there weren't correct laws in place to ensure that those who should have been criminally responsible, you then have to contend with the the corollary. Which is that instead of prosecuting those re
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by slivym 8y ago
What I don't understand about the Boring company is that Musk's vision seems to be: Cheap tunnels so that we can throw lots and lots of cars down them thus alleviating congestion. Everyone gets mad and points out that cars driving
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by slivym 8y ago
Our full day interviews aren't so that you can do lot's of different tests, it's so that you can meet and discuss things with the entire team you're working with. It might seem silly that you're being asked a toy pr
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by slivym 8y ago
100% of your salary in a satellite office is about visibility from the main office. You should be giving talks to groups of people in the main office, partnering with top people in the main office to share best known practices, and having s
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by slivym 8y ago
Why is this on hacker news? It's just full of vague, unactionable statements. >Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in th
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by slivym 8y ago
Sorry but Tesla is not meeting its targets. It has a phenomenal reputation for missing targets repeatedly and finally hitting them in a 'kind of' style. The 5000 is the obvious example - they missed the target by almost a year, ha
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by slivym 8y ago
It's very difficult to say that what Krzanich did was related to Spectre/Meltdown given what we now know was going on. It seems a lot more likely he was lining up his position to resign.
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by slivym 8y ago
You're right that it's a bad situation for millions of kids to be told to turn off security settings, it seems like that's a bad situation for Android/Google/Samsung than it is for Epic Games. It's kind of Goog

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