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by ulfw 3y ago
I buy a company's products. Not a CEO's. CEOs just have to keep their mouths shut and all is well if their products are good. Hell, how many people do you think even know who the CEO of KIA is? Or of BMW? Or of Honda? Or of Stella
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by ulfw 3y ago
And how do you think they'd identify those "not slackers slackers" en masse to do a 14-15,000 people layoff?
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by ulfw 3y ago
Bullshit. You don't do a mass layoff in that case but get rid of 'slackers' over time as you identify them. This has nothing to do with that. There's huge demand issues as Teslas are getting really old and nothing useful
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by ulfw 3y ago
An absolute pittance compared to what Elon Musk is able to extract from US taxpayers to fuel his own personal wealth.
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by ulfw 3y ago
Following and make the most pedantic rules. Germans loooooove setting rules and expect everyone to follow or else they rat you or or sue you even. (see neighbour conflicts about hedges growing too far etc)
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by ulfw 3y ago
It's going to get charged to 80% only. That takes half an hour if they install DC fast chargers. That's how long a walk around inspection for damage and cleaning of the car inside/out takes. That costs money of course. Let&#x
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by ulfw 3y ago
Location: Hong Kong and Melbourne or Sydney, Australia (PR in both) Remote: Preferred, Yes worldwide possible (as consultant or similar freelance arrangement or full time employee) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: I'm a Globa
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by ulfw 3y ago
Alan Kay is 83. Why would you want him to run a lab that requires lots of administrative work?
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by ulfw 3y ago
That's super sweet of you. Thank you. I do try my best.
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by ulfw 3y ago
This is exactly why I decided not to have kids. My mum had me at 40. I lost my dad when I was 23 and my mum at 44. I'm 47 now and it's frankly too late for me (I'm male, so theoretically I could father some) to have children
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by ulfw 3y ago
How will there be economic growth if humans will keep losing their jobs due to AI? You know we do need a customer base of actual human beings to sell things to. AI buying AI products AIn't gonna cut it.
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by ulfw 3y ago
Big Tech? You mean Google? who else is in Zurich? Google's salaries in Europe never really made sense
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by ulfw 3y ago
Autodesk is an American company based and founded in California
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by ulfw 3y ago
And what are they supposed to do? Pray? Rush there to help? (from thousands of miles away potentially) They've done what they can.
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by ulfw 3y ago
Canva seems lost in terms of what they are or want to be. I suppose AI doesn't help businesses like Canva's.
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by ulfw 3y ago
You've never heard of the Placebo Effect, have you?
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by ulfw 3y ago
Is this some kind of joke? So who but Canada is your 'close ally' then?
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by ulfw 3y ago
The only 'ideas' allowed are AI and AI if done from the ground up can only be afforded by billion dollar companies, which is why you see nvidia, microsoft, google owning most of it. The entrepreneurship of ten years ago of two dud
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by ulfw 3y ago
Dying? It's been dead. I haven't been able to find a job in a year+. And that's with almost 20 years of product leadership experience. Bunch of interviews for company that at the end laid off another 20% of people rather than
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by ulfw 3y ago
What governments that aren't your allies? Chips are produced in Taiwan, in Korea, in Japan. In that order. Which of those governments is not allied with the US of A?
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by ulfw 3y ago
Well great.
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by ulfw 3y ago
None of them cost even half as much as this thing. What's with the endless comparisons with previous Apple products that were completely different in a completely different market and competitive environment.
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by ulfw 3y ago
You often convert units while driving? What would be an example of unit conversion you need to get done while en route?
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by ulfw 3y ago
> High speed rail make sense in corridors that have a large number of big population centers that are just far enough where driving is not a great solution so exactly SF Bay Area (7.5 MM people) to LA Area (13.5 MM people). Distance 350
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by ulfw 3y ago
It's called corruption and is rampant in the US.
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by ulfw 3y ago
As if the 787 was any better. Just see the history of issues and reports about manufacturing.
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Those interviews the comedian has shown are a decade old from Al Jazeera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
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by ulfw 3y ago
Or he was just lying all along in order to get the SV elite behind him, get the mighty tech dollars for cheap, raise to lofty valuations based on hype ('Mars', 'Hyperloop', 'Tunnels') and broken promises (&#x27
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by ulfw 3y ago
So you hire only "10x developers"?
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by ulfw 3y ago
What an arbitrary limitation. So you don't hire on merit or what your candidate is able to deliver. You hire on desk space

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