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by toephu2 4y ago
Actually it's only 1.8% efficient. From the YouTube comments: Video carefully avoids to state that the overall efficiency of the system is 1.8%. Input power was 91.2kW at the TX antenna, out of which 1.65kW was produced at the receivin
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by toephu2 4y ago
From the YouTube comments: Video carefully avoids to state that the overall efficiency of the system is 1.8%. Input power was 91.2kW at the TX antenna, out of which 1.65kW was produced at the receiving side. https://ieeexplore.i
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by toephu2 5y ago
Wow, my prediction is Musk will walk away, Twitter stock price will tank, and Twitter will be flooded with thousands of shareholder lawsuits (for breaching their fiduciary duty).
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by toephu2 5y ago
Already a discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31042187
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by toephu2 5y ago
Wow, my prediction is Musk will walk away, Twitter stock price will tank, and Twitter will be flooded with thousands of shareholder lawsuits (for breaching their fiduciary duty).
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by toephu2 5y ago
nit: IT != software engineering IT is desktop support, fixing servers, printers, computers, setting up new employee laptops, handling networking, fixing WiFi issues, etc.
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by toephu2 5y ago
The Twitter exec team & board is between a rock and a hard place. If they take the offer, half the exec team (or the entire exec team) will be axed (Musk already indicated he's not happy with management in the SEC letter [1]). If t
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by toephu2 5y ago
If he's doing it all for money and to live a life of luxury then why does he live in a 50k house in Texas? Yes he had a McLaren F1, so what? That was a long time ago when he was young. He drives a model S these days. If he's doing
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by toephu2 5y ago
There's only a limited amount of time one has. The private jet is to save time (convenience). In one of his interviews he talks about how he is always solving problems and his brain is running a million miles a minute. His brain is wir
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by toephu2 5y ago
Do you think Elon Musk does all that he does for the money?
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by toephu2 5y ago
Who determines those mappings though? The guy who created levels.fyi? and based on what? (P.S. I know the creator of levels.fyi is here on HN, thanks for creating levels.fyi and for everything you do!)
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by toephu2 5y ago
In which country? There are dozens of food delivery companies all over the world. It's not a winner take all market.
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by toephu2 5y ago
What percentage of Germany's population actually work in car manufacturing? A quick google search reveals 300k.. and Germany has has a population of 83 million. For example, BMW production exists in five different countries. You can fi
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Pinterest acquires video creation and editing app Vochi(techcrunch.com)
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by toephu2 5y ago
It does distinguish Chinese. It's quicker to count to 10 in Chinese than in most other languages. Malcolm Gladwell did some good research ('Outliers' is a great book) in this area. Chinese are generally better at math than ot
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by toephu2 5y ago
I just typed 'scarf' in Google's image search and didn't see a single Pinterest link?
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by toephu2 5y ago
Is this the person Netflix refers to in its infamous culture memo? "On rare occasions, freedom is abused. We had one senior employee who organized kickbacks on IT contracts for example. But those are the exceptions, and we avoid over-c
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by toephu2 5y ago
The difference is USD is backed by the U.S. government. Bitcoin is backed by nothing.
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by toephu2 5y ago
If you are on a Mac you can do screen recording for free with a non-beta app that comes with the OS: QuickTime Player (assuming Dropbox will eventually charge for their product).
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by toephu2 5y ago
Curious what is the motivation for people to submit verified offer letters to levels.fyi? What does the submitter get out of it?
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by toephu2 5y ago
> problem is that an employee cannot earn more than his boss Actually this is quite common at FAANG companies. E.g., I make more than my boss.
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by toephu2 5y ago
Per year? Usually only director and higher levels make $1m+/yearly (not accounting for stock appreciation).
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by toephu2 5y ago
> The only comparable country I've been to is the Netherlands or maybe Denmark. I guess you've never been to China?
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by toephu2 5y ago
How can I put a Single Family House I buy in my Roth IRA?
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by toephu2 5y ago
This is just one anecdotal experience out of hundreds of thousands. Because of your one bad experience you just dismiss Apple? I can also provide 1 anecdotal piece of evidence: I've done iOS dev and published apps in the App Store. Nev
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by toephu2 5y ago
> The dude thought covid would go away last May. > He's thought that full self driving was 6 months away for literally 4 years now. He can't predict the future, so what? >He thinks it's easier to make Mars habitable
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by toephu2 6y ago
source?
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by toephu2 6y ago
> I'm curious as to how such a huge oversight in the design of the craft made it to production Do you work in military aircraft production? (just curious of your background)
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by toephu2 6y ago
Vine..
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by toephu2 6y ago
> how does anyone who greenlit this on any level still have a job? Have you ever worked for a tech company? They don't just fire PMs/leads because their project failed. We are all human, we all make mistakes, in fact I bet 90%

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