I definitely do not speak for my employer.
- alasdair_That depends on how many lanes there are and if there is a median.
- In terms of profit given to its creators, “money” has to be number one.
- Personal hot take: China is forbidding its companies from buying Nvidia chips and instead wants to have its industries use China-made chips.
I think a big part of the reason for this is that they want to take over Taiwan and they know that any takeover could likely destroy TSMC and instead of this being a bad thing for them it could actually give them a competitive advantage vs everyone else.
The fact that the US has destroyed relationships with so many allies implies it may not stop a Taiwan invasion when it happens.
- The issue is the X is still a small SUV. We have one and ended up buying a Rivian as well because it has a lot more useful space than the X.
- We have a model X and model S. I still like them but for our latest car we bought a Rivian SUV instead. The interior is just laid out better and there is a lot more space despite being roughly the same size as the X.
The Rivian has the 360 degree view and other stuff as well.
And as for the delays - our X was in a minor collision last November and is STILL not fixed. The only way to contact Tesla is through the app and so we make an appointment, take photos, describe the issue and then are told to wait two months for our appointment. Then invariably the day before the appointment, we are told that the center we had the appointment at cannot do the work and to go to another center, with another two month delay, which then tells us the same thing.
Not being able to reach a human to fix out $100k+ car is infuriating.
- >Would you go to prison for possessing a single joint back then?
Yes, Harvard Professor Timothy Leary was sentenced to 30 years in prison (!) for having a single partially-smoked joint in his car.
- homicide is not a "petty crime" or a "code violation" - that should be all the data you need.
- >but they have never been free.
Different kinds of freedom. In London you can legally jaywalk naked while drinking a beer in front of a cop and know that even if you really pissed the cop off, you'd never get shot for it.
- No one I pay attention to posts on twitter any more.
- If congress doesn't allocate the money, they won't be paid, even if they have a contract that says they will.
Imagine Trump decided to offer a worker a trillion dollars. He writes a contract with the worker. It is irrelevant - the worker won't be paid because the executive branch is not allowed to spend money that hasn't been authorized by congress.
- And Professor X is Martin Luthor King and Magneto is Malcolm X.
- Through who? I'm paying $450 a month for 5 iphones and 4 watches.
- The last time I rented a home in the Bay area I paid first, last, damage deposit and pet deposit in cash (almost $15k). The reason was that I was changing banks after a dispute and didn't want my old bank snagging the money.
The owner straight up asked me if I was a drug dealer though, so I see your point. I had to show him my tech company offer letter for him to believe me.
- >if you tell a story about someone carrying more money than most Americans ever have in their bank accounts in their entire lives, in cash, on their person, you're describing something extraordinarily unusual.
I used to play poker semi-professionally. Traveling with upwards of $50k wasn't an uncommon thing at all among the people I knew.
I knew a card counter who was detained at an airport carrying well in excess of $100k and, comically, the money and the inside of his bag were covered in white powder at the time. Because he was a nerdy jewish kid, they believed his story that it was powdered caffeine (it actually was) and sent him on his way.
- > i can't imagine why you'd carry cash for such transactions and not a cashier's check.
because people forge cashier's checks far more easily than they forge cash. I certainly wouldn't take one as payment for a truck without going to the issuing bank first and withdrawing the money (as cash). In which case, there is no need for the check.
- It seems it would be far easier to just mail the company a raspberry pi, a battery and a GSM module. Address it to someone nonexistant so it doesn't get opened for a few days.
The real news is that the wifi didn't use 2FA like the rest of the system.
- >The difference is that you can trust a good calculator.
I found a bug in the ios calculator in the middle of a masters degree exam. The answer changed depending on which way the phone was held. (A real bug - I reported it and they fixed it). So knowing the expected result matters even when using the calculator.
- I had an interview once where they asked "can you describe yourself in one word?" and they disliked my answer of "no".
- The difference is that in Europe, you apply to take a specific subject at university, like Computer Science, and there are only so many spots available so that effectively caps the class sizes. You don't have a bunch of other people taking the class that are not working on that specific degree.
- If I want to hire an artist, I'd like to see their portfolio. If they don't have commercial work they can show me, I'd like to see things they created on their own time.