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So many times HN posters have extolled how Bezos hasn't interfered with the WaPo and those of us who expressed concern about his purchase were chicken littles. It has never been true and it's plain as day now. He bought it for the same reason Musk bought Twitter. To have control over a media outlet he values.

Why is everyone in this thread pushing the idea that Bezos is scared of Trump? It seems more plausible to me he is scared of the DoJ breaking up Amazon under Harris.

It's east to think that way but if it didn't matter, Bezos wouldn't have squashed it.

Talk to people who have actually worked in the games industry. It's terrible.

If this is your position then you might as well stop using any computing devices of any kind. Which includes any kind of smart devices. Since you obviously aren't doing that, then you're trying to hold Apple to a standard you won't even follow yourself.

On top of which, your comment is a complete non-sequitur to the topic at hand. You could reply with this take to literally any security/privacy related thread.

I think you're confused. Model Y refresh is coming. He said $25k car other than robotaxi makes no sense and is antithetical to their vision of autonomous future.

Musk did announce there's no such thing coming. Only robotaxi.

How much of the supercharger growth was stuff that was already in progress or done prior to the layoffs? How big would the growth have been without the layoffs? They did hire some amount of the team back.

Also Tesla is way behind on V4 (high voltage) superchargers. There are only dispensers installed. Zero actual V4 charging cabinets. Which means Cybertruck owners still can't get full speed at Tesla superchargers. If things continue as they are Tesla will let their monopoly on reliable high speed charging slip through their fingers.

Lastly, Musk was very clear there is no next gen affordable car coming other than robotaxi.

The trend of hyping up papers too early on is eroding people's faith in science due to poor journalism failing to explain that this is theoretical. The outlets that do this should pay the price but they don't, because almost every outlet does it.

Your crediting the work of thousands of talented people to him while similtaneously dismissing the lies that are solely his is very weird to me. Especially for someone saying trustworthiness in CEOs is so important. (I am not a Sam Altman fan either, so don't read me as defending him.)

Of course. I never said they were. But sociopaths do tend to be very comfortable lying and backstabbing.

That's an interesting way to characterize Elon's history. "Ambitious deadlines" implies you are believe he will one day deliver on the many, many claims he's made that have never happened.

SpaceX and Tesla have both accomplished great things. There's a lot of talented people that work there. Elon doesn'r deserve all the credit for all their hard work.

Elon Musk alone disproves your theory. I wish I agreed with you, I'm sure I'd be happier. But there's just too many successful sociopaths. Hell there was a popular book about it.

"Teachers use chalk daily." - definitely a true statement. Some amount of teachers do.

"All teachers use chalk daily." - definitely a false statement. Certainly some teachers don't.

Again, English 101.

I am not at all "worked up". It is literally hilarious to think loan officers know anything about cars.

Tesla has high insurance and potentially repair costs (in the case of an accident) because of how they construct their vehicles; lots of glue and permanent bonding of components. They prioritized ease of construction and not repairability in case of body damage. They would have this issue if they built ICE vehicles too. Mechanical/drivetrain components are repairable.

Modern cars in general are quick to be totaled when they get into an accident because of this general trend. It's not isolated to EVs.

EVs are very repairable, but also just have far fewer moving parts and those they have are put through far less stress than comparable components in an ICE vehicle. It was obvious that they would be more reliable as long as the batteries were not an issue. The batteries aren't an issue, so EVs are way more reliable and will last a lot longer than ICE vehicles. The remaining issue to be solved is infrastructure for people in multi family buildings and road trips. We'll get there.

There's a Consumer Reports survey (note: not a study as widely mis-reported) that gets all the Google results when you search about EV reliability, which paints a terrible "80% worse than ICE" picture. But this is extremely misleading. First, it's lumping together any and all issues with cars from software glitches to a busted transmission. Obviously severity needs to be taken into account, but also many EVs are being either made by start ups like Rivian and Lucid or are on totally new platforms by legacy manufacturers and have had buggy software due to those issues like the VW iD4. But most of these issues do not make the car undrivable and get fixed via software updates, and should not be thought of in the same way as traditional car problems like "my check engine light came on and now the timing has been pulled back and my car is slow." Also, keeo in mind, it is a totally unscientific, self reported survey. So, I would not use it for purchasing decisions.

Instead, I'd look for scientific studies which are unfortunately much hardee to find on today's Google which is so biased for recency and wide reporting. One good resource is this site which at least addressed the battery reliability myth: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths

LMAO. No, they absolutely do not. Tbat is not a prerequisite of financing vehicles. Not remotely. It is absolutely hilarious you think they do.

Did I say "all Republicans"? Nope. This is understanding English 101.

The people at your credit union know nothing about car reliability. There have been studies about EV reliability and it is much higher than any ICE vehicles. Battery degradation is averaging 1-1.5% per year, which is basically nothing. Stop spreading misinformation.

Also "Jap" is considered a slur.

Oh yes it's just illegal immigrants that Republicans hate. That's why they spread lies about refugees and other legal immigrants, right?

You are talking out of your posterior. EVs are far more reliable and have less maintenance than ICE vehicles.

Yeah that's a mistaken take to begin with. It also doesn't make a lot of sense to absolve WP Core of allowing plugins to cause chaos. If WP had a secure model for plugins then they could be far more limited in what they can do. But security was never a concern for Automattic.

I wish the title was true.

I was at WordCamp 2014 or 2015 where Matt was asked about improving security in WordPress and he literally laughed at the question. So, yeah...

Read the article. Only the walking was AI. Everything else was human controlled, ie faked.

They don't have to be selling them to gain financially off of lies. They were obviously trying to juice the stock price.

BBSes were a big part of my pre-teen years, before dial up internet access became available in my area. Really difficult to explain to younger folks what it was like. XMODEM was the file transfer protocol for more than a decade, as I recall.

Same as it ever was. AI doesn't really add anything. Credulous people are easy to trick.

I had minor brain zaps when coming off an SSRI but terrible ongoing brain zaps for two months earlier this year coming off an SNRI. It was truly debilitating and horrible. I was concerned I was going to be one of those rare cases who has them permanently. Thankfully they did subside. But now I don't want to try any more psychiatric medication.

This is a terrible post. Most professional typesetters/publishers use macOS for a reason and have for decades.

Also this blog post is 5 years old and woefully out of date anyway.

No, it's because most Americans know nothing about actual issues and treat politics as a team sport. So there's as much point in talking about it with other people as there is talking about the Mets vs the Yankees or whatever.