mehrdada

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by mehrdada 4y ago
> Every Tesla sold enables another gas guzzling SUV to come into existence This is a very reductive and static worldview. First, on the surface of it "enable" is factually false: ICE SUVs existed before Tesla so Tesla is in no
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by mehrdada 4y ago
At this point, the company was hemorrhaging cash. He had no choice but to stop the bleeding. It is a messy process and time works against you; mistakes will be made. Once he gets to stabilize the cash flow, Twitter can provide a comp model
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by mehrdada 4y ago
100% agree. Once the dust settles my prediction is productivity will also soar.
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by mehrdada 4y ago
COVID era supply was impacted and demand was high. US car dealers routinely sold cars way above MSRP too.
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by mehrdada 4y ago
I have only experienced the US version firsthand, but hearing from EU friends, it seems the EU prices are more-or-less set in stone and the haggling potential in the US can get you a better deal if you are savvy and patient (and then say no
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by mehrdada 4y ago
If your focus is on P/E, you got to at least look at its first derivative too.
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by mehrdada 4y ago
Which stance of hers that I listed do you dispute? Ad hominem much? I attached a link to an interview describing concrete circumstances. Did you watch it before making your assertion, for example? If you suggest that is not representative
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by mehrdada 4y ago
Look no further than Ilhan Omar: Islam, anti-imperialism (BDS), LGBT-activism (mostly T-activism these days), and radical feminism have joined forces. Or the extreme lack of coverage of Iran protests in the major US newspapers despite their
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by mehrdada 4y ago
You just took one angle. I find it unfair that Facebook is banned by China while China can deploy TikTok in the US market, for example, to demonstrate the opposite.
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by mehrdada 4y ago
I was not suggesting SMS 2FA when I referred to "Smartphone-based solution". I meant relying on Secure Enclave or alike on the smartphone as the second factor in a challenge-response fashion that makes the "OTP" bound t
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by mehrdada 4y ago
Simply unfortunate that one cannot rely on Google for critical stuff. The least one can do is compartmentalization across various Google account and keeping domain names, considering they are at the very root of the infrastructure chain, s
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by mehrdada 4y ago
My response was to the claim that the majority of the customers of that product was developers. It seems unlikely that the majority of the customers of that to be developers simply because of the numbers. Whether they need dGPU or not I do
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> The sad irony of it all is that I bet the vast majority of purchasers were developers like myself, who have absolutely no need for a dedicated GPU. I would seriously doubt that. Mac sales are huge and developers must be a relatively sm
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> In fact, I'm not sure it's possible to log into an iPhone with your Apple ID and not have an iCloud backup immediately fire off You are correct there’s a bit of dark pattern going on here, but it is possible (to the extent th
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> GDP in the United States is currently growing strongly Last quarter was -1.4% growth, so probably not growing strongly (but who knows, maybe just a blip...) https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-economy-gdp-growth-q1-116
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by mehrdada 4y ago
Google events are generally boring and of poor production value. Plus, what Google is known for primarily is the search engine which is not what they announce at Google I/O.
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by mehrdada 4y ago
Cannot disagree more. "Making a car is expensive, so let's not do that to explore 1000 miles out. Let's just have 1000 people walk one mile and explore." Simply ridiculous comparison. But sure, let's find a way
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by mehrdada 4y ago
Sure you can reuse a cached file at a token level, but you cannot easily do that at the parse tree can be completely different based on preprocessor state.
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by mehrdada 4y ago
The medium also belongs to Quincy Institute whose leadership include individuals widely considered to be lobbying on behalf of the Iranian regime.
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by mehrdada 4y ago
You can do some tricks but the basic issue is that the "environment" in which you interpret the preprocessor directives for a ".h" file may change across different contexts resulting in a potentially distinct AST: simple
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by mehrdada 4y ago
I'm pretty sure they use that internally (when I was there Hangouts was used). However, Google work culture is (or at least was till fairly recently) centered around shared docs and email (automations send email with action buttons fo
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by mehrdada 4y ago
This is patently ridiculous—it's like saying since everyone can post on their own blog, why would anyone publish an OpEd in NYTimes? Obviously reach and distribution of the medium is fundamental. How would you notify 80 million people
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> tool of propaganda for Musk's financial interests and self-aggrandizement looks very very concerning to put it mildly How is it any different than Bezos buying WaPo, in principle? That does not seem to have been detrimental to A
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> Can you tell me please what you mean by this? Twitter can find an excuse to ban his account (you can easily imagine this sort of risk exists after some of his recent meme tweets for example). I believe that is a single point of failu
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> massive boycott of Tesla's consumer products. I mean we could speculate at length but the condition you’re describing already exists. People have polar reactions to him. Some hate with a passion, some love him. As for boycott, I’m
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by mehrdada 4y ago
We don’t know the interest rate of that margin loan but you can be goddamn certain whoever underwrote the loan calculated that risk more precisely than HN crowd such that the rate justifies the default risk.
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> If I were a Tesla shareholder and this was his actual masterplan to maximize value for shareholders Doesn’t have to be either-or. Marketing strategy is an important part of running Tesla and given the empirical dislike of media establi
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> Using it as leverage with your current employer will damage your relationship with them, even if you win that negotiation. In larger companies at sufficiently deep levels in the hierarchy, often the person you are really negotiating a
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> If I found out my company worked on this basis, I would leave. Most likely you'd be in denial or delusion if you are assuming any company of scale is not operating on this basis. Sure they may not operate solely on this basis (
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by mehrdada 4y ago
> Tesla loses money on every car. They make money from regulatory credit trading. Absolute hogwash. In 2021, Tesla made 43B revenue in automotive sales and only 1.5B in regulatory credits, which is less than net income of over 5B. That

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