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by ucaetano 9y ago
> If you can't understand why there's so much ruckus and commotion by the public you shouldn't be calling it pointless or useless. I can understand, but that doesn't make it any less pointless or useless. > People
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> I know you do not care, but your dismissal of 80k people you don't and will never know says volumes about you as a person. Thanks for the ad hominem. It isn't that I care or not, approving this well is a technical environmen
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by ucaetano 9y ago
That is all covered by the environmental report, as it should be: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/deq-dwmad-eh-swpu-Fina... 4) The supply potential of the water source, considering quantity, quality, and re
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Nestlé's request to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to pump 576,000 gallons of water each day For perspective, all of Michigan uses 9 billion gallons of water each day. Nestle will be using 0.006% of what the stat
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Advertisers don't mind having their ads shown next to all violent content, only to some violent (and some "controversial" content). Most advertisers won't mind being shown next to a major news channel, but they might min
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> What we're dealing with here is loopholes and nothing more under various incarnations - take patents in the US or the lax tax policies of Malta or Isle of Man as an example - and you'll get a sense on why a bit of cleaning up
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Nobody is suggesting that, quite the opposite, actually: > Or Google and Facebook will be held to a higher standard of compliance.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Again, I don't see an issue with different rules, I see an issue with this: > Or Google and Facebook will be held to a higher standard of compliance.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Lobbyist don't circumvent the law, politicians do.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> European here Same. > Facebook's tax of 5k/year in the UK, the double irish with a dutch sandwich, the backroom deals from the 80s with the Irish govt.. these are global practices which truly devastate everyone in the long
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Mobike is the world’s first and largest dockless bike-sharing provider World's first? Please, DB has been operating one across Germany since 2000, 15 years before Mobike even existed.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Which is mostly useless when you have only 20GB of storage. OTOH, if I ask Google Photos to show me pictures of me on the beach with my friends X and Y, it shows me a picture from 2005, of exactly what I asked. (literally "me on the be
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Which goes back to the point of loving to target American companies.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> when people say 'X loses money on each item sold' they are typically talking about GM1, not about margins including R&D It depends on the industry.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
It does. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4075701-tesla-closer-look-m...
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Given this story [1], it will be interesting to see how the differences in culture and openness will allow to perform well inside the company, especially if it requires deprioritizing a walled-garden ecosystem to succeed in AI. 1: https:&#
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Yeah, and you need more than 2 data points to claim it is exponentially. This is bullshitty PR. TO: 10 vehicles T1: 40 vehicles Is production growing 4x per T, or 30 vehicles per T?
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Double yoy? Where? https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-v...
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by ucaetano 9y ago
"Zetsche joined Daimler-Benz in 1976, working in the research department. In 1981, he became Assistant Development Manager at the Vehicles business unit. He became a member of DaimlerChrysler's Board of Management in 1998 and serv
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by ucaetano 9y ago
True, but let's not blame the victim.
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Tesla crash victim had complained about auto-pilot in same location(abc7news.com)
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Being a "leap forward" still puts it behind others. But if your criteria for quality is being able to hope that one day you'll get an update, well, that still puts you behind Cadillac and possibly others. You can continue to
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Exactly, with industry-standard infrastructure and plenty of highly-qualified and experienced professionals up for grabs, it is puzzling how they are failing so hard. My guess is a mentality of "everything is wrong, let's rebuild
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Compared to the current, non-MobilEye Teslas, the Leaf, the A6, the CT6. Even the old Model S has better autonomous driving than the current one. Oh, and Google. By very, very far. Tesla hasn't even caught up to its original Mobileye-p
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by ucaetano 9y ago
It is clear that Tesla is failing to deliver any competitive advantage besides its early start. It has failed to achieve what is the standard baseline for mass production of cars today, a sustained production rate within controlled quality
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by ucaetano 9y ago
"Tesla said it has only seen this problem occur in "very cold climates" where road salts are commonly used." Ah, the usual "designed in the Bay Area" issue...
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Apparently Google thinks it's necessary, since they are doing that decision.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> If the political benefit really outweighed the costs, then every single billionaire would be doing the same thing, purely out of selfish interest. Well, they are doing for the selfish interest of feeling and looking good. And I'm
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Exactly, they failed to monetize their installed base through ads, so decided to call it a "feature".
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Not necessarily, look at the "black girls" example. Anyway, that's Google's call to make.

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