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by exw 3y ago
<<Tesla pulled a fast one on the morons at GM and Ford, who signed stupid deals that handed the future back to Tesla>> It's always curious to see someone with such strong conviction that somehow they have an insight, withou
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by exw 5y ago
This comment is either neither a constructive criticism of him, nor does contribute anything substantive to the discussion. Please review the site guidelines against name calling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2668733
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by exw 8y ago
This is by far the most important point in this discussion. According to this article ( https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107109_teslas-own-numb... ), Tesla's statistics are deliberately wrong, and Tesla compare
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by exw 11y ago
<<Actually it is not what we're talking about, because they're not blind, they can use usual means of inquiry, and the technology. How comes already there are no firearm firing sound detectors, or remote-controlled drones wi
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by exw 11y ago
<<Was hoping Gates would be less naive in thinking this legal precedent has anything to do with this specific case which has close to 0% chance of providing any real-world information and more to do with the fact that this tragedy is
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by exw 11y ago
<<The FBI is the opposite in every way, mostly because of budget constraints and the subsequent lack of training. I hope that this is a good learning opportunity for them and a chance for them to increase their training budget in this
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by exw 11y ago
I think you are mixing up the law enforcement and intelligence community. These request are coming from the law enforcement side of the government, not the intelligence community. Given their mission, the intelligence community has no inter
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by exw 11y ago
I did not downvote you, but I think people might feel that you seem to let your personal disdain for Apple color your response regardless of the facts of the case vs. having a real discussion. Even this point is a bit disingenuous - your qu
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by exw 11y ago
Regardless of the merit of the FBI's request and Apple's refusal, this is rather hypocritical response from the FBI, since their insistence to make the request public is what triggered Apple's public response in the first pla
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by exw 11y ago
<<Haha, really? Isn't that how Uber started out, and the quote could well be verbatim from a taxi driver in 2011?>> Yes, This this is completely disingenuous... They did not only start out like this in the US, but this is t
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by exw 11y ago
<<Yes I do think that they would attempt to discourage unauthorized repairs in such a way for less-than-noble reasons.>> I have added some additional information to the parent comment (i.e., only bricked updates via iTunes, not
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by exw 11y ago
Anybody with common sense. Do you really think that Apple, who prides themselves on having outstanding customer satisfaction, would deliberately try to brick their customers phones through something this obvious? Apple definitely looks out
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by exw 11y ago
No, that information was already mentioned in the second BuzzFeed article: <<That was how executives discovered the macro, which Conrad had created based on a belief that 52 hours was too long to spend in training, the lawyer for Sack
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by exw 11y ago
I understand your concern, but depending on what product(s) you are selling, startups (and by startups I am referring to the PG definition of startups) are actually great customers for a couple of different reasons: - Willing to try new pro
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by exw 11y ago
<<purchased by professional buyers at Japanese auctions>> How did you find these buyers? Are these just auto brokers (e.g., these guys are popular in SV: http://www.hammerauto.com/ ) or is this something differen
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by exw 11y ago
According to the article, Sacks discovered the issue in January, and then forced the company to report it to the California regulator - if you believe that sequence of events, he can't really be held accountable for the action of Conra
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by exw 11y ago
While there may or may not be a darker side to having an entire engineering team in the 25-30 age range, according to the reporter that wrote the article, this hacking came straight from the CEO, who also set the tone for this type of behav
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by exw 11y ago
I both appreciate and agree with your point, but in this case I think the issues was that their new CEO had to assume that, given the high visibility of the company, whatever message he was going to send out to his internal team was also go
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by exw 11y ago
<<Currently, as long as people are online, there's a certain guarantee that they will see it.>> I understand your concern, but this seems to contradict reality... According to this article, only a small percentage of your f
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by exw 11y ago
<<The reason why most communiques are generic is because there's very little upside to being abrupt publicly.>> You are quite wrong, if anything, employees appreciate openness and decisiveness, vs. sweeping changes under th
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by exw 11y ago
We ended up going with Trinet as well after looking at them. If you look what Zenefits is really doing, they appear to be just another rent seeker - their entire goal seemed to be to get you to use their software, and in exchange become the
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by exw 11y ago
<< It wasn't possible to get from point A to point N (where Parker took the company) without breaking these "rules" but he didn't actually break any rules because this is all new territory.>> This is complete
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by exw 11y ago
Looks like the WSJ article has some additional information, including this rather telling quote about the current company values, which seem rather different than the set of values Sacks espouses: <<Mr. Conrad, 35 years old, is known
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by exw 11y ago
I don't know that this is even a particularly strong conspiracy theory - when Sacks joined, A LOT of people were predicting that he would be the CEO within 12-18 months. Parker always felt like he was the wrong person to operate such a
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by exw 11y ago
This is a great question, especially since it seems like he would have been in charge of the salesforce (where a lot of these issues happened). So unless he wanted to change these processes and Parker stopped him, it does feel like there is
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by exw 11y ago
Do you work in a larger company? This is crystal clear (if you know what to look for) vs. the usual generic communication that happens in larger companies around these types of changes...
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by exw 11y ago
<<Which is interesting because most companies spend ages coming up with the correct values for the company and it usually involves feedback from employees. >> "Operate with integrity", "put the customer first&quot
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by exw 11y ago
> 2. Play it up as a huge problem that could threaten the company. It absolutely was a HUGE problem. Even if he was set up, Conrad created a toxic culture that had to change. Parker never seemed to understand that he could not flout laws
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by exw 11y ago
If you look through the comments on this article, somebody else made the same point, and claimed that it was actually cerium-141, and not Iodine-131: <<Tim, Thanks for this article and I think you did a great job on a very important b
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by exw 11y ago
Seriously? Given the many challenges that Twitter deals with right now, you think they are doing this because of an election year? Pls take your conspiracy theories to reddit, they don't belong on HN....

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