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vGPU
3y ago
At best, he earned an inflation adjusted 400k total from it, per the article. At worse, he broke even or got scammed. That’s a year of tech-bro salary. Why aren’t you a multi-billionaire yet? Surely you can turn 400k into at least one bil
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vGPU
3y ago
Because my twitter ads aren’t already 50/50 “male enhancement chewables” and crypto scammers. Apparently searching for hair loss treatments gets you put on the dick pill list.
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vGPU
3y ago
Oh, lovely. Just like the Chinese “everything app”? With the social scores?
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3y ago
I am certain I can find at least one angry blogger for every single post you’ve listed. I can remember at least a dozen angry articles over the flamethrower alone. Regarding your complaints about twitter: > In response to a 2017 request
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3y ago
I drove two model Y’s recently. One, I was pretty impressed by. The second? I’ve had less wind noise riding my motorcycle. Still very hit and miss. Doesn’t mean I’m not looking to buy one after they refresh them next year, but you definitel
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3y ago
Or we could take the middle ground, which is likely the most accurate. I don’t see anyone claiming Steve Jobs personally designed the iPhone PCB by hand while mining cobalt on the weekends to stay in shape, but on the other, I don’t see any
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3y ago
The article is pretty scant on details, but it would appear that there may have been problems with Nikola’s battery welding process which could have caused punctures in cells. https://electrek.co/2023/06/27/ni
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Nikola says damaged truck reignites at its headquarters
(reuters.com)
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vGPU
3y ago
That looks interesting. Are you still actively maintaining it?
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3y ago
So why hasn’t bezos’s phallically reminiscent space endeavor been able to draw similar talent? Why is every other EV startup essentially DOA? Rivian’s current sales numbers rival Ferrari. Fisker is dead. Faraday is dead. Nikola just had a t
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3y ago
The “emerald mine” is a myth. https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min... Try harder.
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3y ago
> Revealing about his father's business, Musk stated "My father created a small electrical/mechanical engineering company that was successful for 20 to 30 years, but it fell on hard times. He has been essentially bankrupt
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3y ago
The vast majority of twitter staff should have been laid off years ago, and would have been getting laid off now as the US continues to experience credit tightening. Musk just did it faster.
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3y ago
Who else has done more for furthering the use of electrical power? Tesla solar. Tesla powerwall. The single biggest infrastructure for EV charging in the world, without which EV’s would have never taken off.
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3y ago
> He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. I’m not sure if they mean he can do them in his head or not bec
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3y ago
Just wait until he changes his middle name to s3xy.
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3y ago
Xerox did it first. And don’t forget google’s X department.
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vGPU
3y ago
For news? https://t.me/CIG_telegram https://t.me/BellumActaNews Both provide decent coverage of global happenings.
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vGPU
3y ago
The search sucks, but you can find quite a lot of interesting stuff if you have a jumping off point by checking out the groups they forward from. I’ve discovered a few great groups like that. Most of the stuff that comes up on search is spa
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vGPU
3y ago
Yandex hits me with captchas every search and every 2-3 pages on Firefox.
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vGPU
3y ago
Comcast? I have att fiber and I can pull down 5-10tb/mo no problem.
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vGPU
3y ago
Judging by the lack of hard numbers and some statistical fuckery they’re doing - no. > Within two years of this policy, 94% of eligible students are taking these classes. Preselection. Additionally, about half of the entire student body
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vGPU
3y ago
Can’t help with the GUI, but would be interested in knowing more about the tool.
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3y ago
Indeed. Look at how the US and the CIA sabotaged the technology transfer from Russia.
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3y ago
Vikas was essentially a carbon copy of the French Viking engine. The CE-20 is an upscale version of Russian tech. None of this stuff was designed in house.
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3y ago
India’s poverty problems are leagues worse than the US in the 60’s. The 60’s were literally the decade of “sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll”. The post war economy meant the majority of people could afford to buy a house, car, and raise a family. Me
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3y ago
http://sasquatchgenomeproject.org/ By Dr. Ketchum. Hmm… Regardless, I love this! I just finished reading a site on fixing the flaws in the Atari ET game.
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vGPU
3y ago
> because half of it is no longer built on a poorly implemented proprietary technology. And then Google amp came along.
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3y ago
Not so much “user data” as “let the plebs collect AI training materials for us”.
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3y ago
I built a desktop 5 years ago. I recently upgraded it. I was able to reuse a lot of the components including SSD, cooling, case, power, etc. And that computer had been upgraded a few times over its life before it was retired too.
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