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> Every Tesla sold enables another gas guzzling SUV to come into existence This is a very reductive and static worldview. First, on the surface of it "enable" is factually false: I…

Mmm... to be clear the baseline is not after you burn it to the ground , but before the acquisition.

At this point, the company was hemorrhaging cash. He had no choice but to stop the bleeding. It is a messy process and time works against you; mistakes will be made. Once he gets t…

100% agree. Once the dust settles my prediction is productivity will also soar.

COVID era supply was impacted and demand was high. US car dealers routinely sold cars way above MSRP too.

I have only experienced the US version firsthand, but hearing from EU friends, it seems the EU prices are more-or-less set in stone and the haggling potential in the US can get you…

If your focus is on P/E, you got to at least look at its first derivative too.

Which stance of hers that I listed do you dispute? Ad hominem much? I attached a link to an interview describing concrete circumstances. Did you watch it before making your asserti…

Look no further than Ilhan Omar: Islam, anti-imperialism (BDS), LGBT-activism (mostly T-activism these days), and radical feminism have joined forces. Or the extreme lack of covera…

It's not exactly that simple: Islamists (and religion in general) is also perceived to be an antidote to Marxism. At the height of the Cold War and bordering Soviet Union, the west…

You just took one angle. I find it unfair that Facebook is banned by China while China can deploy TikTok in the US market, for example, to demonstrate the opposite.

I was not suggesting SMS 2FA when I referred to "Smartphone-based solution". I meant relying on Secure Enclave or alike on the smartphone as the second factor in a challenge-respon…

> Secondary opinion, why is the Google app lacking? Because they really don't want people to use it. They much prefer you reveal your phone number and use SMS instead. This way the…

Simply unfortunate that one cannot rely on Google for critical stuff. The least one can do is compartmentalization across various Google account and keeping domain names, consideri…

My response was to the claim that the majority of the customers of that product was developers. It seems unlikely that the majority of the customers of that to be developers simply…

> The sad irony of it all is that I bet the vast majority of purchasers were developers like myself, who have absolutely no need for a dedicated GPU. I would seriously doubt that. …

> In fact, I'm not sure it's possible to log into an iPhone with your Apple ID and not have an iCloud backup immediately fire off You are correct there’s a bit of dark pattern goin…

> GDP in the United States is currently growing strongly Last quarter was -1.4% growth, so probably not growing strongly (but who knows, maybe just a blip...) https://www.wsj.com/a…

Google events are generally boring and of poor production value. Plus, what Google is known for primarily is the search engine which is not what they announce at Google I/O.

Cannot disagree more. "Making a car is expensive, so let's not do that to explore 1000 miles out. Let's just have 1000 people walk one mile and explore." Simply ridiculous comparis…

Sure you can reuse a cached file at a token level, but you cannot easily do that at the parse tree can be completely different based on preprocessor state.

The medium also belongs to Quincy Institute whose leadership include individuals widely considered to be lobbying on behalf of the Iranian regime.

You can do some tricks but the basic issue is that the "environment" in which you interpret the preprocessor directives for a ".h" file may change across different contexts resulti…

I'm pretty sure they use that internally (when I was there Hangouts was used). However, Google work culture is (or at least was till fairly recently) centered around shared docs an…

This is patently ridiculous—it's like saying since everyone can post on their own blog, why would anyone publish an OpEd in NYTimes? Obviously reach and distribution of the medium …