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Comment #49159903
Verified - and the actual payload to the iCloud endpoint is e2e encrypted ciphertext.
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Comment #49158406
the marketing name is "Mail Drop", and it is separate from iCloud mail; though it should only fire if there's a 20mb+ attachment on the email. cloudd is used by a shit-ton of servi…
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Comment #49158044
"reasonable person, what kind of definition is that???"
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Comment #49148999
For 2026, the 401k limits are $72,000 overall, and $24,500 for pre-tax employee contributions. Assume an employer who matches 50% up to pre-tax employee contribution max, the resul…
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Comment #49148836
Pretty much every EV can use Superchargers. I'm setting aside that charging off of public EVs is relatively rare anyway... but your premise is flawed.
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Comment #49148827
And you can plug almost any modern EV into the Tesla supercharging network without issue. However, unlike Teslas, you can _also_ plug and charge them in other networks. On self-dri…
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Comment #49148640
R2s are already being delivered to customers. There is no honest way to manufacture a $40k price gap.
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Comment #49148613
Charging experience? Teslas can't charge as fast as a modern Kia, Lucid, Geely, or BYD. They can't two-gun charge like a BYD. They don't have battery-swaps like NIO. They've got a …
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Comment #49140897
I have considerable Roth assets because my employer's 401k allows for the Mega-backdoor, which means I can put $30k+ per year of after-tax income into 401k (beyond the normal pre-t…
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Comment #49075642
The key is your comment about rotating between 4-5 different vendors to control costs. That will naturally rotate you _away_ from vendors who expand margin, and _toward_ those who …
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Comment #49072732
Apple is a $5t company that has $45b cash-on-hand. Your post is "cute", but 3 or 4 months of operating cash isn't a great example of "sitting on piles of gold".
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Comment #49072214
That is a largely incorrect statement that is loosely based on a single incident, not a trend. The single incident was an individual in Malaysia who added an after-market finger-pr…
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Comment #49071170
It's fascinating that you simultaneously argue that margins will expand... while posting about personal behavior all of which points toward commoditization and intense price compet…
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Comment #49062662
Great paper, thank you for sharing it.
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Comment #49062652
Elon Musk cares that Elon Musk benefits from policies. He does not give a single solitary fuck about you. If you get lucky and your interests align, great. But Musk talks fairly op…
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Comment #49049160
Even if carbon was a complete non-issue, electrification and a greater diversity of energy sources would still have immense value.
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Comment #49048679
This becomes substantially less true when the billionaires transform their money into political power.
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Comment #49048636
Even if you live off of your wealth - what happens when customers of those wealth-generating businesses don't have jobs?