awkwarddaturtle

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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> If you break it down, the Yahoo Alibaba + Yahoo Japan stake + Yahoo's final selling price equals Microsoft's $45/share offer Actually, if mayer didn't sell a huge chunk of alibaba stake, the BABA stake by itself wou
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> Many years ago Microsoft was trying to purchase Yahoo for $45 a share. Every company has their Yahoo moment, where they consider making an over the top purchase offer for a company, that in hind site looks like a terrible idea. That bi
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
It's all journalists. It's all media. Some are for sure outright corrupt but it's just part of the job. > I'm not sure how easy this would be. Does anyone know if something like this exists? Don't know of any suc
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
The most worrying part is tech industry buying news media. Steve Jobs wife bought The Atlantic. Bezos bought the washingtonpost. As the news properties become cheaper and the money floods the tech industry, I'm sure they'll snap u
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> Is he wrong? Did Tesla not prove to the rest of the auto industry that electric cars are not only viable but also profitable and inevitable? From your "context": "What are the accumulated losses so far? $5-10B?" $5-
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> I'm not sure why you're so upset. I'm not. But it's interesting how I just got swarmed by 3 commenters. > The comment you are quoting is a snippet out of context. The context makes it even worse. "None of us
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> I don't see the jump from noting that the same enthusiastic fanboy is in the HN thread and the TSLA thread to "It's like a TSLA/Elon cult meeting in this thread." Have you read the comments and the replies?
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
Yes. From all sides. It's sad thing to witness because my naive young self viewed social media as the promise of free information flow, honest interaction and entertainment. I guess that was wishful thinking.
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
Jesus. Look at the top comment and the replies in this thread. I find it hard to believe it is real HN commenters and not a TSLA PR campaign here. "What are the accumulated losses so far? $5-10B? Even if Tesla were to spend another $50
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
It's also a shame that whenever I see comments like this I'm thinking why is a HN user trying to divert attention to a whole different topic? There is so much agenda driven propaganda on social media now.
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> The Allied Powers had seemingly learned the lessons of Versailles and didn't try to punish the losers (well, not as much), instead letting them grow. This was true for Germany but not for japan. Due to hard feelings over ww2 and o
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> I like how you portray the US to have a higher moral standard for this subject matter. I wonder if there's a Chinese guy who read the article and said: It's just the nature of where we live and our propaganda. We have been to
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> it's inevitable that we also learn to control our own evolution. The problem here is the pronoun "we" and "our". It isn't "we" who are going to control evolution. It is a select group of wealthy
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> You're not taking into account the size of the US. If you look for per capita Nobel prizes the US is not even in the top 10. Per capita doesn't matter when it comes to being a superpower. The US is an economic superpower and
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> Nope, They were the first settlers in those area just like first settlers in Europe, Africa or Asia some 30-40k years ago before they were invaded recently in 15th century and the migration wave started and guys came in 500 years back
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> Amazon had almost 20 years in business without "making any money" except a few quarters where they accidentally eked out some non-trivial profit. AMZN could get away with it because it was growing and expanding nearly monopol
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> The valley would not exist without quality schools, but those schools are no better than Canada's. I'm not saying canada doesn't have good schools. I'm saying the US has hundreds of top universities while canada has
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> Comparing raw numbers like that makes no sense considering Canada has a population of 35 million against the U.S.'s 323 million. Even on a per capita basis, we outstrip canada easily. But raw numbers doesn't count? So the US
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> Good student performance consistently correlates with higher-paying jobs and higher quality of life. Because that's the more sensible definition for superpower? > Good student performance consistently correlates with higher-pay
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> Yes, may be this should be the ideal definition of a non immigrant US / Canadian, but most of the time people judge you only by color/race in those area Really? What's your point? We are talking about the meaning of the
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
It has nothing to "reset" or having to think about helping the 99%. Silicon Valley isn't a charity and the VC crowd nor anyone else in silicon valley care about society or doing good. It's all about money. The FED has be
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> For you, the most important result might be economic gains/growth and for others, it might be scientific/academic achievements such as Nobel prizes, research papers, major scientific breakthroughs, etc. I agree. > If that&
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> We do have top-tier universities (UBC, University of Toronto, UWaterloo) I agree. I didn't deny that. Now compare how many top universities we have in the US? If the US has hundreds of top universities and Canada has a handful, ho
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
Highly educated immigrants could be a boon to a society. Or it could be a drag on wages of white collar workers. Nothing is ever all good or all bad. > In other words education is important but the focusing on education especially higher
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
Saying we are all immigrants is just a feel good lie. It's a tactic to try to get everyone on the "pro-immigrant" side. If you were born in the US or Canada or a citizen by birth, you aren't an immigrant. Many of our anc
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
Articles like this put me off because it is blatant propaganda. Canada isn't an education superpower. The silly international ranking of kids' test taking abilities is meaningless. Real education superpowers are those with top uni
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
This is just the first step. The ultimate goal is driverless taxi fleets. Whether that's achievable ( technologically, legally, etc ) is another story.
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
Not on a global scale. The elites control national/regional. China controls theirs. Russia controls their. EU theirs. We control ours. That isn't global.
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
>As do regular cars. Yes. That's my point. If truly we are facing human extinction, shouldn't we ban even EV/hybrids? You would think all these alarmists claiming end of the world wouldn't be driving ANYTHING.
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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> But there are plenty of assholes out there that abuse "free speech". Yes. That's why free speech was created. To protect the "abusers". This is something you learn in your first year of college. At least I did.

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