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by Fins 7y ago
Yes, I do have great disdain for Elon, he's an absolutely terrible human being. Thanks for digging it up. You may define "extremely high" at any level you want, but you don't get to claim that Tesla is shorted to any kin
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by Fins 7y ago
I always knew there were good reasons I prefer Audi. Although to be honest, if not for the unconscionable amount of money they (or Navteq, I guess) asks for map updates, I'd be even happier just using the built-in navigation all the ti
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by Fins 7y ago
Yes, please, go on. I am sure you realize that when talking of insane, or otherwise, interest in Tesla, showing numbers for Tesla alone is absolutely useless. According to [0] Tesla doesn't even make it to the top of the second page, a
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by Fins 7y ago
Aren't instances of sexism, misogynism and threatening situations coming from RMS himself and going back decades numerous and well-documented at this point?
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by Fins 7y ago
Sorry, but what is wrong with working for the US military in the grand scheme of things? Would Russian or Chinese military be a preferred option? Certainly seems to me to be far preferable to working for Facebook or Google or something like
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by Fins 7y ago
There is no "insane short interest" in Tesla. Just because Elon might want you to think that it is some nefarious conspiracy and not Tesla's incompetency in many aspects of making a car (pretty much anything pother than makin
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by Fins 7y ago
Can we please stop with ridiculous BS about evil shortsellers? Would you believe that it's martians spreading "fud" about Tesla, if Elon says so? And that would be at least as accurate as the shorts nonsense.
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by Fins 7y ago
What really needs to stop is the fanboi narrative of "I drive my glorious Tesla like that (and damn the compriomises) so YOU BETTER LOVE IT TOO, AAARGGGHHHH!!!!!!" If it works for your roadtrips, great. For mine it doesn't, a
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by Fins 7y ago
Then why do current Audis have perfectly fine Android Auto integration?
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by Fins 7y ago
Well, after I drove one I liked it even less. But if some people enjoy paying Mercedes prices for Yugo quality, all the power to them. Although regularly driving into firetrucks costs us as taxpayers money. But then fleecing taxpayers is th
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by Fins 7y ago
Or maybe, while they certainly can and should think and talk about ethical implications of their work, just like everyone else, we as the public should pay far less attention to it. Because really, being able to "invert a binary tree o
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by Fins 7y ago
Because every place that did implement socialism did SUCH a great job of preventing pollution and protecting nature! As they say, the only thing History teaches us is that History teaches us nothing.
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by Fins 7y ago
So, with a few exceptions, making a few billions of dollars through some less than ethical shenanigans makes you admired by the Hired crowd. Good to know.
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by Fins 7y ago
Brin isn't of Polish descent, so "cz" would be an unusual transcription.
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by Fins 7y ago
Not the OP, but maybe, whatever his achievements (which mostly include suing his way into being listed as a founder of something he did not found), "pedo guy", as it were, shouldn't really be the most admired person, even amo
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by Fins 7y ago
Yes, but wasn't the initial comment about NYT's rather consistent complaints about "big tech" when they aren't exactly blameless themselves?
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by Fins 7y ago
Who said anything about the media? Big Tech is worse.
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by Fins 7y ago
Just becaude NYT had never been either very truthful or very honest doesn't mean that the "other guys" aren't actually bad.
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by Fins 7y ago
That's a rather charitable view of the Soviet education system, probably colored by the biased selection you'd see in the West. By 1990, that "very highly educated general populace" was setting out jars of water in front
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by Fins 7y ago
Lucky you, to get so few of them. I gopt 4 in just the last month, and usually it's at least one every 3 months. And that when the first line of my profile very explicitly states that I would never work for Amazon. Not sure if they are
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by Fins 7y ago
>> ay that someone claimed that Stalin drank the blood of his victims, would it be "inappropriate and indefensible" to try to debunk such a claim (and thus defend Stalin) in the process? It's an interesting point given
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by Fins 7y ago
That'd depend on what you'd want for QOL, different people value different things. Myself, I think quality of life in Chicago is so much higher than in BA that I'd take it even at significantly less money. Austin seems simila
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by Fins 7y ago
Is this in any way surprising? Just like the lack of comments here...
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by Fins 7y ago
[I expect if I'm being asked to do something, it's been vetted by our corporate legal team. I should not be expected to know every aspect of criminal and civil law to protect myself from my employer.] "I have been only follow
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by Fins 7y ago
Even 2011 has it, and I am sure it wasn't the first year it was available either.
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by Fins 7y ago
I've worked on a system where almost all of the business logic was handled as stored procedures (apart from things that belonged at the UI level, of course). Worked fine, was easy to debug , and performed great. Sure, you had to know h
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by Fins 7y ago
It's not only left coast, you can get an incredible variety of great beer pretty much everywhere. Most of the breweries just keep small enough (e.g. New Glarus) that you can't really get them anywhere else. Sometimes it's ev
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by Fins 7y ago
I think most Russians, when they get traditional, would scoff at the idea of potato vodka, equating it with something made from wood pulp. Distilling grain spirits was quite possible before potatoes were introduced.
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by Fins 7y ago
As another sample of the same size, my mom's house has a Miele dishwasher we've installed in 1997 or so. I occasionally take spray arms off and clean them, and it hasn't had any problems ever. Same for a Miele vacuum of the s
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by Fins 7y ago
Oh, definitely. I'm sure that even the kind of trafficking that Backpage was accused of aiding and abetting also exists, although obviously to far lesser degree than people who feed off of fighting it would want us to believe. But bust

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