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Ever since Tesla bought Solar City, I'm curious if this is a Cronyism Dump of Tesla investment. Elon's cousins are multi- hundred-millionaires despite creating a profit.

They are marketing geniuses. But does that mean their customers are objectively 'suckers'?

Six Sigma, where statistical process control has turned into... a beast. I would say I've seen 2/10 projects be SPC related. Although 1 of those 10 were pretty loose.

When future generations laugh at our excess, what will it be? Similar status symbols?

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Going from picked on lifelong nerd to buff dude, each had their own strange stereotypes and treatment from people. I don't know if I've become cynical when I say- You can never mak…

To be fair, Apple forces you to use their proprietary hardware and software. This means you must join the Apple ecosystem to compete, even if you strongly disagree with their pract…

Governments are strong. Wow. I forget the influence until I see things like this.

This is good that you are calling this out. I've seen non-science in Healthcare, and I've spoke out against it. I don't really understand why people are stubborn when there is data…

I worry a company will bait and switch with me. I have seen products get discontinued. But yes, this is outsourcing a problem for a cost.

This is USD? I know it seems like a doomsday scenerio, but if the US goes through a moderate hyperinflation, do these companies die?

Okay, but what happens when it gets below 0% with QE5? Thats when Bitcoin hits 6 figures, or thats what the libertarian in me has been saying for a decade.

I bought an $800 gaming laptop 6 years ago, formatted everything and installed windows. Handles 100% of my dev work inc emulators and media editing. If I could recommend something,…

Is this an actual risk? you would need to guess a link. Serious question

> But again arbitrarily punishing or helping some corporations opens up the possibility of corruption and corporate meddling as corporations look for favors. Like it or not, but th…

I don't understand what you are looking for. Do you want your folders to be organized/displayed different? Or you want this integrated without having to download an app?

5G solves different problems. Panasonic(at a trade show) says they can do 'next gen GPS' with 5g. Basically better location. This could be the solution for the winter problem in se…

I teach a programming class and one of the 'easy' things I ask about is- "Have you taken algebra?" All but 1 person had taken algebra, and with that I start into variables and func…

>The idea of teaching children math as a language from day one is an interesting concept though. How and how young? I have a newborn I'm teaching numbers.

I read this article and I love the capitalism. A company is losing money to give customers better service. Its not selfless, but its a phenomena. I have never enjoyed shopping more…

I'm the other way, google is probably the best company in my lifetime. Its recent Apple exploit 0day, I'm a bit skeptical of the programming. Google has the resources to make bette…

> MacBooks are the best laptops in many respects I've never heard this before. I thought some people needed their proprietary software that could only be run on Apple products, and…

Electrical Engineering, its very cool to be able to calculate and invent anything.

Healthcare is expensive because of Physicians. They are the bottleneck. The American Medical Association has lobbied 400,000,000 dollars in the last 30 years to make sure they are …