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by virgilp 5y ago
"he says/ she says". I think pg would disagree. Let's see if he intervenes directly? Otherwise, we can just discard his speculated opinions. And if we appeal to authority, there's actual evidence that Musk (who know
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by virgilp 5y ago
The legal result of the settlement is that Musk can call himself a (co)founder, and so can Straubel & Wright. Even Eberhard agreed to that. You may personally feel he's not entitled to the title, but that's just it, a personal
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by virgilp 5y ago
Also, the only non-intentional engine RUD that I know of is SN8, where debris from ground destroyed the engine avionics at takeoff. Any other incident?
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by virgilp 5y ago
How can you not get it? It's completely annoying - stores show a price that is not the real price. So I have to now look up what is the sales tax before I can make an informed decision. You may be fine with it if you live there and hav
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by virgilp 5y ago
Works well on my Firefox/Windows machine. Maybe it's a Safari problem? I sort of get your point (they should optimize for all platforms!) but it's somewhat ironic to immediately assume this is a Samsung-problem, not an Apple-
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by virgilp 5y ago
No. I'm saying that institutional failure should be addressed/solved "in place", rather than blindly hoping that disbanding said institution would solve anything. - There's a high likelihood that the institution was
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by virgilp 5y ago
> But ultimately the people outside the company who said it was a poor move from a user POV turned out to be right. Survivor bias? I'm sure there were people outside the company who said removing the headphone jack was a poor move,
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by virgilp 5y ago
One judgment error that people often make is to assume it's about "cops" or "doctors" or "politicians" or whatever. Like, take any large group of people - some of them will be good, some will be bad, some
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by virgilp 5y ago
Netherlands has a strong voice in the EU; I'm betting that Apple doesn't want to cease all business in the EU. Heck, they bent to China.... they'll bend to EU, make no mistake. This is an mind-blowingly-risky move on Apple&#x
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by virgilp 5y ago
> Whereas, in reality, it's only a question of what a buyer will pay and what a seller will accept. Which is why you don't have to let a monopoly/oligopoly set the price at will, they need to be regulated. Smartphones are
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by virgilp 5y ago
> It's a middle finger to the legislators. I.e. they're nuts.
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by virgilp 5y ago
> someone still pays it (normally the bank) but they make up for it by lending out your cash. You're skipping over large parts of the things fiat can do and crypto can't. E.g. there are chargebacks for fraud. There's the l
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by virgilp 5y ago
https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_connect.asp There's nothing similar in this CSS example, unless I missed it. (I do believe it can be done, the idea is "there" - you need to invent a syntax to dec
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by virgilp 5y ago
The connection itself has nothing to do with CSS. This is not "connecting to database", it at best "writing SQL queries in CSS".
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by virgilp 5y ago
You might not give him credit even if he did. We're in a thread where people are wondering whether he's not just a figurehead for SpaceX, so... what exactly are we taking about? AFAIK Musk's involvement in Tesla was specifica
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by virgilp 5y ago
Heck, check Armadillo Aerospace if you think that Bezos is "all money no skill" and doesn't count.
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by virgilp 5y ago
he didn't create it but can definitely be credited for its success... Tesla that he bought was a failing company. Do you really, really think that Musk is just a "big social media presence"? Why doesn't Trump or any of
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by virgilp 5y ago
I'll bite. Say I'm a Musk fanboy... I can assure you that all Elon fanboys I know are fully aware who Gwynne Shotwell is. Now, your turn: please explain how the following SpaceX accomplishments are thanks to Gwynne Shotwell (other
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by virgilp 5y ago
You're being intentionally obtuse here. You didn't prove anywhere that this was the market price, on the contrary, there are good reasons to believe it wasn't. Traditional way corruption works in my country is exactly that: t
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by virgilp 5y ago
You already got your answer somewhere else.
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by virgilp 5y ago
In Romania something like this happened with house prices. I bought my first flat just as credit was becoming available for the general population - it costed me 27k USD; at that time, it was customary that you'd pay in full for an apa
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by virgilp 5y ago
Can someone explain for people who aren't good at biology what are the implications of this "novel CDK inhibitor"? Is this news only because of the discovery method (i.e. AI-based), or is it significant news in and of itself
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by virgilp 5y ago
You'd be surprised how otherwise perfectly rational people look at irrelevant stuff (furniture, interior design) and miss important things (floor plans; neighbors; practical aspects like storage space, number and position of bathrooms,
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by virgilp 5y ago
That's the point though? You use carbon-capture as energy storage (when you have excess clean energy), and you can release CO2 when you don't have enough clean energy. In an idealized process, you basically produce coal as a form
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by virgilp 5y ago
That just credit cards ([edit] From your own source, roughly 85% French had debit cards[3]). According to statista[1], France has ~50% credit card penetration, but roughly ~100% have debit cards. Also, digital buyer penetration was <63
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by virgilp 5y ago
I mentioned "in every practical sense" - I'd bet that those that don't have credit cards don't do online purchases either, in the vast majority of cases (>95%). But indeed, that's true in the western world -
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by virgilp 5y ago
SaaS was mainstream but e.g. Creative Cloud was not really SaaS - it was "we give you desktop products and you pay an yearly fee instead of the one-time cost". Adobe tried very hard to add Saas features but especially initially, t
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by virgilp 5y ago
> you aren't required to use Coinbase or even anything like it, to use cryptocurrency That's a purely academic argument; It's like saying that "you aren't required to have a Visa or Mastercard card in order to ma
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by virgilp 5y ago
"no one has ever done it" - it definitely sounded to me like they implied to transform something that used to be a "pay per consumption" into a "service". Which is definitely untrue, Creative Cloud preceded the
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by virgilp 5y ago
> No one had ever done it WAT? Adobe launched "Creative Cloud" (which at the time was basically desktop-software-as-a-service) on July 17, 2013; if I recall correctly they had been trialing that for about 1year in Australia bef

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