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thg

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Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

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    Comment #48904922

    The early years Amazon wasn't profitable by choice. They could have stopped that at any time and even did demonstrate it by having a single quarter with $1 profit or some such. Ant…

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    Comment #48903253

    Will Locket wrote about it last month: https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/openai-is-in-a-far-wor... tldr is: They either get a successful IPO to stave off bankruptcy for a coupl…

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    Comment #48583370

    Let me give you an analogy: If you e.g. figure out some undocumented endpoints for a REST API, which are intended for internal use only, and started using them, do you expect the d…

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    Comment #48582778

    This was never marketed as a feature of the consumer CPUs and if some malignant actor does get physical access to my (consumer) hardware, then them being able to read out bytes thr…

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    Comment #48557548

    The UK left the EU years ago.

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    Comment #48544872

    > Amazon could effectively brick your device if so desired. I have a 16 year old Kindle (Keyboard) that Amazon actually decided to turn into a brick last month [0]. Still works jus…

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    Comment #48426233

    For posterity: It's rank 34 at the time of this comment

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    Comment #48423289

    I bought a Fairphone exactly because I did care, so yes.

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    Comment #48368111

    NASDAQ has, however. SpaceX will be weighted at triple its public float.

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    Comment #48343251

    A fully reusable Starship has a launch cost of around $75m - $90m and the last V3 launch managed 44 tonnes of payload on a sub-orbital flight of not even 200km (Starlink satellites…

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    Comment #48338525

    > Starship is going to make whole entire industries viable that were not viable previously. Starship is a complete and utter failure, as you can read about here, among other places…

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    Comment #47586500

    Several, actually

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    Comment #46834507

    It was just another marketing stunt to pump the stock price before their terrible earnings report. One "unsupervised" unit, with the supervisor in a follow car, that nobody could a…

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    Comment #46573638

    For the last few quarters, Tesla was only profitable due to their selling CAFE credits. With those gone and their sales declining, it's all but certain that Tesla will post a loss …

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    Comment #46570680

    They're declining worldwide and since Musk got the climate change denier elected who did away with CAFE credits at the end of Q3, Tesla is now also no longer a profitable company.

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    Comment #46463524

    Tesla was only profitable the last few quarters due to selling their carbon credits to other companies. They'd have lost money otherwise. And since Trump basically did away with th…

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    Comment #44479449

    Geely owns Volvo Car AB. Volvo Trucks is a different company and part of the Volvo Group, which is not owned by Geely (but they are a big shareholder).

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    Comment #44066854

    They couldn't even if they wanted to, because that scam was shut down in 2011.

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    Comment #42737521

    Doesn't help the op, but I use my Nikon Z6 II as a webcam under Fedora and have been doing this for a few months now, mostly without any problems. Here's a guide for those interest…

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    Comment #42351971

    That's a link to this discussion.

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    Comment #42265194

    The traffic limit is outbound only. There is no limit on inbound / internal traffic. So even if they were to hit you with a 5TB / month limit, you'd be just fine. https://docs.hetz…

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    Comment #41669010

    Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but I suppose it will be of at least some help: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tf4qx1aMJp8Lo_R6gpT6...

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    Comment #41634111

    Quoted from the second paragraph: > the new laws not only bolster those existing protections but extend them to everyone in California — not just to people working in front of a ca…

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    Comment #40679844

    That's 80+% of the companies here, so I doubt it really is the relevant factor.