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And how is that communism?

Teslas generally aren't available in India. Import duties are high for foreign vehicles (like "100% of vehicle cost" high) , and Tesla doesn't have Indian factories.

>He is good at making engineers a "high status class"

From what I've seen, Elon's companies pay below-market for most roles. Levels.fyi indicates that, on average, engs take a 10-15% pay cut by deciding to work for Tesla.

I'm sure there are a handful of engineers that exist that could save Twitter single-handedly, but none that would do it for the pay he's offering.

It's an internal post. Can confirm.

Anything from newer than 10 years ago?

Think full-featured bootstrap components. Design + FE build "Bloks", product teams use them everywhere.

> Conducting psychological experiments on users without consent

Link pls

Do you expect an equivalent Apple product to not require an iCloud login?

RL spending (that 10B you're mentioning) includes this capital expenditure. Obviously the percentage of that 10B going to deployment is unknown, but given that it's the most expensive part (according to the author), I assume it's the majority.

> Am I still considered a DAU?

No.

>The problem with this line of reasoning is that Meta’s capital expenditures are directly focused on both of the two main reasons for alarm: TikTok and ATT. That is because the answer to both challenges is more AI, and building up AI capacity requires a lot of capital investment.

>In the long run, though, this investment should pay off. First, there are the benefits to better targeting and better recommendations I just described, which should restart revenue growth. Second, once these AI data centers are built out the cost to maintain and upgrade them should be significantly less than the initial cost of building them the first time. Third, this massive investment is one no other company can make, except for Google (and, not coincidentally, Google’s capital expenditures are set to rise as well).

According to the article, this is a myth.

> Myth 5: Meta’s Spending is a Waste

Any rebuttal to the arguments he makes?

Ah yes the great mind that gave us:

- Calling hero divers pedophiles

- Covid will be over by summer

- Twitter poll Ukrainian peace

- FSD is coming in ~2015~ ~2016~ ~2017~ ~2018~ ~2019~ ~2020~ ~2021~ 2022

- Cybertruck coming in ~2020~ ~2021~ ~2022~ 2023

- Freight Truck coming in ~2019~ ~2020~ ~2021~ 2022

- Roadster v2 coming in ~2020~ ~2021~ 2022

Where won't his brilliance take us next

I would forward this question to Simula, since their website still says:

"We expect units to ship no earlier than Q4 2022, with priority given to Founders Editions."

Given that, as you've said, we're in Q4 and there's no updated information available on their purchase page, I doubt it's going to be any time in the next few weeks.

The Quest Pro will be (very soon) on shelves for customers to purchase. It's a product that exists with an app ecosystem and other users. As far as I can tell, SimulaVR won't have a product ready until at least Q4, and even then I'm sure volume will be low.

Imo the most damning part of this article for SimulaVR is this annotation:

>[6] There are lots of tradeoffs involved in battery life vs. headset weight that we still need to decide on.

The Quest Pro has already made these trade-offs, and exists as a real device with specs that are available, while Simula is still trying to figure out the balance of your device?

It's unfair to compare a released product to something that might be available to consumers sometime in the next year.

> I see smoke, but the fire department has not confirmed that there’s a fire. Therefore, there’s no fire, and ideology is the only reason I might believe?

In this example you cold point to the smoke as first-hand evidence. Can you point to equivalent evidence that people are underreporting crimes?

I'm only asking to see evidence showing underreporting, a claim you made. No ideology here.

And? My links show crime has gotten better over time. Taking a snapshot of crime at one time is useless to understanding the delta.

Would you be able to figure out the acceleration of a body given only it's velocity at one time?

Could you prove this is taking place? If not then I don't see how it invalidates the data. It could just as well be that people are more willing to report crime now.

The only evidence available to us implies that crime is going down. Ideology is the only reason you might believe otherwise without evidence.

I don't see how it's useful evidence when there's no time series. What if more people were victims of crime in the past and this number has improved?

Did you even read the article? They weren't meeting these numbers for a long time.

>The proposition also requires San Francisco to end a requirement that there be a specified number of full-duty sworn police officers assigned to neighborhood policing and patrol — a number law enforcement officials say has never been met due to resource constraints.

Can you provide any... yaknow... evidence that crime is going up on average?

Just a quick Google implies that this is a complete fabrication

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-crime-Che...

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san-francisco-crime-r...

>Ideology gets the best of people and they don't want to believe.

The irony of saying this with no data to back up your claim, and the data that exists showing the exact opposite of your claim, is truly palpable

Could you provide an example of a competitor app that integrates Giphy? It feels like a lot of people _think_ this is the explanation, but the chat apps I use defer gifs to the keyboard.

It's stunning to me that certain political groups are incredibly and violently angry (dare I say... triggered) about something they're completely unable to quantify or describe.

This description is about as opaque as your opinion on Netflix.

Could you define woke?

> I’m seeing a lot of R&D solely focused on giving them the chance to extract rent through future silly things like buying artificially scarce houses in fbs metaverse

An example from FB please?

> Geeks were excited about having computers in their pockets. Literally nobody I know is excited to strap a dorky piece of puke-inducing hardware onto their head outside of limited gaming uses.

I'm getting flashbacks to everyone complaining about the lack of buttons on the original iPhone, and how bulky/heavy it was in comparison to the micro-phones of the era. And how it was less powerful than comparable PDAs of the era.

I guess we'll see how well this comment ages in the same time period.

Err, maybe I'm mistaken, but this seems different than the above discussion.

From what I know, Apple takes 30% of paid app sales in the app store. In-app purchases, though, drop to a 15% take after the first year (or that's my read from the article).

Contrast this with AppLab, which takes 30% of paid app sales, but doesn't take a cut of in-app purchases.

I'll retract the "much" lower point since I assume this results in roughly the same final take. Games on non-mobile have a higher initial cost, which probably balances the lack of post-sale revenue.

Regardless, I don't think this makes the Oculus more locked down than an iPhone, since you can always bypass their store and sideload or run apps directly from your PC, which Apple isn't offering.

The speakers are built into the headset itself, one on each side near the temple. The product shots on the Meta page don't show them off well, but the grills are occasionally visible in some of the videos.

This is a recent change no? Previously it was 70/30 across the board and this also includes in-app subscriptions/payments.

I say much because (afaik) the majority of developer income comes from recurring payments, which AppLab doesn't take any of.

So much misinfo in one post.

> They have much higher rev-shares

The current revshare for App Lab is 70/30 in favor of the developer. Much* lower than Apple.

> they have tighter control

Than the iPhone? The Quest can be used in SteamVR like any other headset. Third-party apps can be sideloaded, and the bootloader is (semi) unlocked. Not sure how they're even comparable.

> require a Facebook account to use it

A Meta account now, disconnected from the social network. How is this different than an Apple account?

> I think the Quest is basically useless without a Facebook account setup

Do you have a Quest? I've used mine entirely as a PCVR setup, I don't think I've used a FB service in years besides the store.

* EDIT: Discussed below, "much" is maybe a bit too far. Seems like the final split is roughly the same, though AppLab doesn't take a cut of IAP.