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Kenton Varda (tech lead) has some more notes in this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1659551757796515846

I agree that payments on their own (e.g. salary, bonuses) don't seem counter to the non-profit's interest. But what if we're talking about 100B of equity -- equity that otherwise w…

A few comments have noted that it's common for non-profits own for-profits (Mozilla Foundation, college endowments, etc). What seems different here is that rather than funneling pr…

The original data source of all this breaks this out into "Critical Disengagements" (CDE) and Non-Critical. * Critical: Safety Issue (Avoid accident, taking red light, unsafe actio…

In case it goes away, or if you're international and can't see, this seems like a good usage of Community Notes for added context and is currently published: Regulatory Credits on …

From Keith Coleman today, who authored the original post announcing birdwatch [1] > The team is on a mission that has had the support of 3 CEOs. We're cranking. > to all team membe…

Mike DelPrete has done several: - https://www.mikedp.com/articles/2021/12/16/opendoor-vs-zillo... - https://www.mikedp.com/articles/2021/11/3/zillow-exits-ibuyi...

The actual implementation is a little more nuanced than always roll or never roll, with seven conditions required to avoid coming to a complete stop: 1. The functionality must be e…

I'd recommend this article for a deeper look at how Zillow and its competitors exhibited different behavior in Phoenix as the market cooled: https://www.mikedp.com/articles/2021/10…

Tesla has also recently added wi-fi to their existing chargers, and will facilitate payment processing: > With a growing number of Tesla cars on the road, a Wall Connector can pay …

An example of what they used the data for is this investigation into feed changes in Georgia ahead of the runoff: https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/01/05/in-georgia-... Ra…

This was a reverse auction, where the goal was to minimze cost to government to get high speed internet in rural areas. Starlink bid in the Above Baseline tier, meaning ≥ 100/20 Mb…

Excellent summary, thanks for that. One thing to add is that Starship should enable 400 satellites per launch: https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-president-teases-starship-s...

This is going to apply to every employee at every company, regardless of whether they have a celebrity CEO or a clickbait friendly name. In California, EDD released guidelines toda…

Last 4 quarters of free cash flow, seems quite sustainable: June 30, 2019 590.40M March 31, 2019 -944.80M Dec. 31, 2018 880.66M Sept. 30, 2018 831.52M

> The Center for Automotive Research and other firms focusing on the impact of new technology on the auto industry don't expect electric vehicles to account for more than 10% of th…

That is a demo of full self driving, which is a perpetually coming soon feature. You even need to pay for it separately. The actual section on what autopilot can do and what it req…

$TSLA annual revenue (billions) 2018: $21.46 2017: $11.76 2016: $7.00 2015: $4.05 2014: $3.20 2013: $2.01 2012: $0.41 2011: $0.20 2010: $0.12 2009: $0.11 2008: $0.01 CAGR: 2 yr: 75…

It wasn't just Elon who turned that down, it was put to a vote and "More than 86 million shares voted against the proposal at a shareholder meeting in June, while fewer than 17 mil…

Related blog post from last November: https://medium.com/@karpathy/software-2-0-a64152b37c35

We've been doing something similar using keen.io. Our goals were to get high volume web data (pageviews, clicks, etc.) alongside application data already saved in our Firebase DB a…

Three months ago they were oversubscribed for their debt offering. It might cost a little higher rate, but if they need more money they can get it and they're not going bankrupt. T…

I can’t recall the pod ever talking about gambling lines, or fantasy value. Not to say listeners don’t use the info for those purposes, but it’s not a value proposition they even h…

For context, there was a study published three weeks ago observing that opioid overdoes fatalities are down in Colorado since they legalized recreational marijuana: https://www.was…