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$500M is a lot to waste in private money, but unfortunately in taxpayer money it's pittance and usually swept under the carpet

idk it'll closer to 60% coding, of which >50% would be looking thing up rather than actually writing anything

people are not stupid- they know a business needs to make money. middle managers who tries to hide this from their team, even with the best intention (ie, to "shield" them from the realities) are only fooling themselves and in the end will always look like hypocrites to their team, while also taking the blame from higher ups. there's no winning.

yeh even for coffee or energy drinks. many take it to study for longer, rather than have a better study session.

if you take a step back, double blind every country's name and judge them based on their history, i doubt most, if any, would rate the US as the good guy.

it has a history of starting wars, especially in places far from their territory, and has overthrown/destabilized many governments for their own interest. it's civil rights records isn't the best either, but it constantly criticizes internal politics or other countries. sooner or later they'll have burnt enough bridges people won't forget.

i dont see any competitor atm that even comes close to wework. and maybe that's because the model isn't sustainable.

now that COVID has a few years to run we have new data for scientist to discover it's effect.

back then no one knew anything about COVID. it's not like the doctor was hiding the truth. people are expecting them to be all-knowing is just being unrealistic. did you expect him to just pull out a magical pill from his back pocket to fix everything.

good. the UX of using it on anything but an iPhone is painful, and watching on a small screen is a small subset of usage

it's fine to have a heavy cost to private ownership because they have a decent public transport.

yea a company's word that it respects privacy has little value. thankfully data harvesting isn't a profit stream for Apple so they see no need to collect it. Google on the other hand trades in data and would collect as much as they can.

really depends more on how many poor people he affected (slap on the wrist) vs rich people (longer jail time)

any country would avoid confirming any defense errors, I don't see why China needs to be singled out every time

it's very easy to ask questions sitting on a chair of privilege. most people just take a job to survive.

new evidence "coming to light" is grounds for appeals or rehearings, I'd have thought evidence of debunked science would have applied too

i wouldn't say she was ignored. this was an important but incremental research.

people always assume that landmark discoveries are immediately obvious but really it only appears so after the accumulation of numerous research built on top of it.

thomas kuhn wrote that knowledge builds up to a tipping point where the collective intelligence begins a paradigm shift and realize that "oh yea... that was a major discovery"

leverage? as in sell out people's biometric data for profit? yea that's exactly what we were warned about

though chatGPT seem to have had no trouble scraping data from everywhere

who would've thought a simple fact about tesla would be so triggering. IMO the post was quite neutral so hold off on your bias.

yeh unfortunately most of the best professors spend the majority of their time applying for grants for their students, going to conference, doing admin etc rather than work in a lab

there's proven ways to unlock older iphones. you can upload a modified ROM that increases the lockout limit. then brute force your way into the passcode.

an eye for an eye is fair enough.

but in his case though i think most people felt justice was hugely disproportionate- and only because they wanted to make an example out of a vulnerable person, just to protect their profit.

lol. i have respect for these skilled engineers. but let's not pretend making posts show up on a feed is as difficult as curing cancer.

half the time my app screen freezes or there's an issue with posts showing. it was good at the start and that's how fb gained users, but at this point people put up with the poor UX because of friction.

idk there's plenty of black box recordings of pilots panicking when a crash is imminent. ATC controllers on the other hand have training and physically don't have much to lose.

they sell mostly end of line stuff. Hence why they can sell very cheaply as factories would otherwise just clear them by the lot or dump them. as such most are cheap products but you do occasionally get decent items (e.g. factories retooling for a 10,000 MOQ run but buyer only needed 9000 or something).

idk, selling services/goods below cost is kinda the playbook most SV startups use so nothing new here.

i think everyone is wary of how politically connected the US courts are

Human factors is a big part of the UX for vehicles and machines and frequently overlooked in new products. It is especially important for emergency situations where what you assume is logical can be thrown out the window when the user is under pressure.

their AI would never

materials costs are not the only consideration. they have to arrange for a secure supply, retooling, QC checking etc. to do it properly.

I imagine they got the cheapest engineer to make a functioning product. Changing their whole production line for a $0.001 component is hardly worth their time in this product segment, however debatable the ethics or PR of it is.

Yes it's annoying but still don't get what the fuss is.

You said it's because they don't care about the bigger picture. But the bigger picture is they are doing everything to cut cost and adding extra chips is not worth it. They aren't exactly hailed for their built quality.