- 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, and quite a few companies well ahead of it are real large businesses and household names.
Repeating the few tired talking points ("it's the shorts!", "you just didn't drive one", "pecking at 5 buttons in random positions on a touch screen is easier than pressing one physical button") just gives a pretty unflattering impression of Tesla's fans.
- 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 that.
Whether she is a nobody or not, it should not come as a surprise that for 99.(9)% of humanity, all of us here, as well as RMS are just as much nobodies.
- 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 making the best available electric powertrain, really) and his personal douchebaggery that are causing problems. That canard about Tesla being the most shorted stock on the planet since the beginning of times has been debunked so many times it's not evenv interesting anymore.
I have no interest in discussing your intelligence, but but once you start bringing out "shortseller fud" your credibility goes straight out of the window. Even claiming that Elon is behaving like a jerk because he's hiding from hit squads hired by Saudi Aramco would be both more plausible and make more sense.
- 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, and anyone telling me that I should enjoy spending an hour in some crummy location in the middle of nowhere waiting for the thing to charge (but only to 80%, or your battery will lose capacity!) are probably the same people who enjoy Elon's fart jokes.
- 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 on a whiteboard", which is the selection criteria for companies that have them working on the most "impactful" projects does NOT by itself make one's opinion on any ethical (or any other, really) matter more valid or important than that of a guy flipping your burger or bagging your groceries.
Especially when most of that moral posturing comes not to even leaving your company to work (at still a very comfortable salary, mind you!) somewhere else, but to protesting mostly minor and inconsequential (and to most of the country, if we're talking about SV and US, quite unobjectionable) things while happily working on projects that actually do have some pretty damning ethical implications (viz. pretty much any Google protest).
- 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 among a crowd as sorely lacking in ethics as "tech professionals".
- 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 of their TV screens, so they would get charged with healing powers of ESPers
- 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 so desperate to get any warm bodies in, or just general Amazon's incompetence.
- >> 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 that there actually is a certain strain of Stalin's apologists that reply to any critique of their idol with "yeah, and he also drank blood and ate little children for breakfast".
- [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 following orders" had stopped being a valid defense quite a long time 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 how to actually write good SQL, which threw off kids who think programming equals using JavaScript framework du jour, but I don't see it as a shortcoming. No XML anywhere either.
At some point they rewrote it as a web app with NHibernate and all that. Took them literally many hundreds of man-years, and it still runs like molasses. And profiling whatever crap NHibernate emits is rather joyless enterprise.
- 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 even great nbeer, not that overhopped IPA crap :) (in case you didn't notice, I strongly dislike IPAs)
- 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 same age.
Maybe they did go downhill since then, but a Miele dishwasher I had installed in one of the apartments I lived at in 2008 or so also still going strong, as far as I know.
- 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 busting some Chinese grandma giving handies in a parlor (after getting some at taxpayers' expense) is so much easier than running after gangbangers, and gives points with voters, so that's what we get...
You may define "extremely high" at any level you want, but you don't get to claim that Tesla is shorted to any kind of unusual, extreme, never seen before level. None of those companies gets to claim that "it's all shorts' fault" either.
You driving a Tesla probably affects me positively (well, apart from the taxpayer fleecing angle anyway), but the complete lack of intellectual honesty on the part of Tesla supporters is... not even annoying, it's rather amusing. Where else do you get to see people seriously claiming that it is more convenient and safer to hunt and peck several buttons on a touch screen that pressing one on a door? Only in Tesla world!