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marticode··on Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market
Tesla has about 26% of the world's EV market share so their products aren't that unique. Making an EV isn't that hard - it's in fact a simpler product than an ICE vehicle.
marticode··on The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
This might be a mistake though. There's a reason all car makers moved to a heavily subcontracted, complex supply chain.
marticode··on Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic
Doesn't really matter: if you are making a phone app or service (especially one that has any sort of network effect), you need to support both ecosystem which means you must submit to Apple's ukases.
marticode··on Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic
The US gov really cares about the US market. Apple owns half the mobile US market (possibly even more in revenues and way more in profits)
marticode··on Ethnic violence in Ethiopia has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook
The messenger here goes out of its way to push engagement and spread content that cause outrage and anger, while encouraging that anger to bounce and amplify into echo chambers.
marticode··on SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B
Apple is clearly tied historically to ARM, and might have gotten something like that, but I've yet to see a definite source about this so called perpetual license.

For all we know they just pay for that license like everybody else.

marticode··on SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B
> making nvidia gpus part of the arm ISA

That would be amazing. Nvidia has arguably the best GPU designs in the market, this would be a boost for ARM IP business.

marticode··on Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
This is very true. They got this profitable though by gutting every long term investment in new forays: they sold off their ARM business, their modem business, they never bothered to make a serious GPU or mobile chip, etc.

The margins on those big Xeon chips have been so good that they ditched everything else, and painted themselves into a corner, sitting by the sidelines for the past 20 years as new markets emerged.

marticode··on Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018)
I knew someone teaching it in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
marticode··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Came here for this. It's a visual mismatch of varying Windows versions, from modern 10 all the way to some pieces still having a Windows 95 icons and layout. Why such a wealthy company can't afford to get every part of its OS updated in 25 years is beyond me.

The file Explorer is sometimes super slow (especially when dealing with media files, which it insists on analyzing first before displaying their folder), hangs on some FLAC files and frequently crashes.

It somehow can't handle pretty standard media files (again some standard FLAC that work everywhere else, variants of H264 or H265, etc.)

The networking works when it wants to - I still struggle to swap files between two Windows 10 systems on my home networks (one always can't see the other machine, and when I move files it's slow as molasses despite having blazing fast Wifi).

marticode··on Don't set the language of your website based on user location
> we don't know the user's language preferences until we reach the browser and can execute some JavaScript

This is untrue: the HTTP "Accept-Language" header tells the server what language the browser wants to get, right before any request get served. There is no need for Javascript.

marticode··on TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions
He is saying that Google could have kept operating in China if they had agreed to follow local (but Orwellian) regulations.
marticode··on Junk-Bond Sellers Desperate for Funding Swallow Yields over 10%
It doesn't directly. The central banks have lowered "safe rates" down to zero and sometimes below, but desperate businesses still have to offer high yields over 10% to find willing lenders.
marticode··on So I reverse engineered two dating apps
...and restricting yourself to the 14% market share that iOS has worlwide
marticode··on Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for everyone
Duo works on any browser at https://duo.google.com
marticode··on France could nationalize big companies if necessary: finance minister
I remember the EU saying they were suspending rules on government aids (as well as budget and debt) during the covid-19 outbreak.
marticode··on Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4
Google. Chrome is the most popular browser, Gmail the most popular email, Android the most popular mobile OS and Google the most popular search portal. If you go online you are highly likely to use Google, even if you don't want to as AdSense or Analytics are used on many web sites too. I can't think of a more ubiquitous brand.
marticode··on Electric Cars Threaten the Heart of Germany’s Economy
I think you overestimate the importance of the EPA rating for a worldwide vehicle (Europeans really don't care about the EPA for ex). The reviews are overwhelmingly positive and full of superlatives - this is the true "high end electric car" to beat now. Yes Tesla might tweak the Model S to make it a bit faster, and it's significantly cheaper, but it also feels significantly cheaper to sit in and drive, and it's unlikely to magically improve tomorrow because Porsche has had decades of refining those qualities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vq6KEOIiMg

marticode··on Electric Cars Threaten the Heart of Germany’s Economy
The Taycan seems a huge success. The reviews are extremely positive (many pointing how much better it's put together than the Teslas) and production has been doubled to cope with the high amount of reservations

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/porsche-taycan-reservation...

marticode··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
I concur. I handle video files on a SSD, it can take 2-3 seconds to just view a folder with one file inside. All I want is the file name and an icon but apparently in 2019 this is an Herculean tasks.
marticode··on 23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M
If curing and saving people has the side effect of some company making money, I think I can live with that.
marticode··on United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze
Cars are heavily regulated. They have a visible registration plate on them, with a unique number associated to the owner. Operating one requires to be a license given after a test on both theory and operation. They need to be insured. All these are actually enforced by police.

If you are arguing for all this to be equally applied to guns (as would be fairly rational) then congratulation, you are pro-gun control.

marticode··on Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice
Libreoffice supports plenty of scripting options but documentation is abysmal, and there's barely a thought given to web service integration.
marticode··on The “mail is hard” myth
I tried it a couple years ago. Delivering to large providers wasn't the problem. The problem was smaller ISP, one of them flat-out banned all IPs from my host provider (Digital Ocean), others for no reason I could find banned my specific IP. (I was not on any public block list BTW)

Getting off their block list was either impossible or involved digging some old forum posts to find an email address that you could try your luck with, usually with no result as it seems nobody was reading it anyway.

marticode··on Germany in Uproar as Negative Rates Threaten Saving Obsession
Spending more could be done by converting all those coal plants Germany has into renewables, or building better mass transit, or doing R&D for its industry, or providing better benefits for parents to raise its abnormally low birth rate, etc. Having money to spend is a good problem to have.

More generally speaking, Germany has excess saving and insufficient spending which creates problems for the other members of the Eurozone. Excess deficits are bad, but excess surpluses are also not good.

marticode··on Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
Apple has had a 13 billion Euro tax bill out of it. Google is adding browser and search selection in Android in a pro-active move. I would say this is certainly a show of teeth.
marticode··on Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
Go into Netflix or YouTube on your phone. Press the cast icon.
marticode··on Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
The EU is already investigating Apple management of the App Store. Regulation is coming and one has to wonder much walled and profitable the garden will stay.
marticode··on In Venezuela, life has gone from bad to worse. And the world has quit noticing
There are plenty of guns in the population - the regime has armed supporters and organized them as militias.
marticode··on Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go
Alternative that uses the system webview rather than requiring Chrome: https://github.com/zserge/webview
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