maximinus_thrax

I don't really understand why Tesla is part of the MIC. They don't do anything for the military and has no strategic value. In terms of foreign policy, considering the US has soft-power due to Tesla, the company continues to under perform year-by-year while European and Chinese companies are gaining market share.

I am not a fan of Elon Musk, I've been skeptical of his accomplishments way before his involvement in politics so I may be a little biased. But it seems to me that Tesla is a failure. The last new model launched was a flop and a subject of general ridicule, they've stopped innovating, the existing models are last in reliability scores and no promises were kept wrt to self-driving, robotaxis, hyperloop or whatever other sci-fi scam was talked about at every shareholder meeting.

I really don't understand how in other areas (such as Enterprise AI or cloud computing in the past) investors want to see actual growth and huge returns and they threaten to pull their money constantly. But when it comes to Tesla in particular, the company keeps getting years and years of leeway while it's failing and failing.

Perhaps the hope is that it will get nationalized or be in some sort of public-private partnership that would ensure perpetual bailouts and it's just a way of sucking off money from the taxpayer?

And yet TSLA sits comfortably at ~$450. If someone knowledgeable can explain this to me, I'd be very grateful.

So thankful for this development. This was the final nudge I needed to finally ditch Gmail, after 20something years.

Just a couple of days ago, this account was anti-censorship https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567052

Wanted to let you know you're arguing with a Russian troll, the type you hear about in the news.

Tons of rightwingers on HN. The 'don't tread on me' people who are now in the 'the secret police should check everyone's papers' camp.

Montlake Terrace WA did https://www.heraldnet.com/news/mountlake-terrace-cancels-flo...

My hope is that https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules... will make Flock get the fuck out of Washington state.

> * over Ukraine

Only tankies use the expression 'the Ukraine'

https://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/

> Google needs to fix this, it's really bad.

Do they really? It seems the incentives are aligned so that they continue making the big bucks regardless of 'petty grievances' such as these..

> The top people are all who kissed each others ass and looked out only for their cohort (e.g. people who were in same positions as them in early 2013). So teach your kids to kiss ass and play poltiics.

After more than 20 years in big tech, I agree, this is basically it. Your work can only get you so far. If it makes you feel any better, you can reframe politics as 'people systems' and work on optimizing the relationships in the system. Or whatever. But the gist of it is to find a powerful group and try to become a member of that group.

Russian troll operations mirror the narcissist prayer short of 'they deserve it' + whataboutism

- There are no such monuments in all of Russia

- If there are, they raised by some guy in some insignificant villages

- If there aren't in insignificant villages, they're in next to communist landmarks which makes it ok

- bUt wHaT AbOuT UkRaiNe reNaMinG CeNtRal aVeNuE In CapItal!??!??!?!??!??!??

Denial is not just a river in Egypt, товарищ. Soviet nostalgia has become central to Putinism and thanks to the non-stop brainwashing, in 2020 '75% of Russians agreed that the Soviet era was the "greatest time" in the history of Russia.'. This is used to justify the illegal invasion of Ukraine by the Russian terrorist state.

Any random Eastern European sees right through your bullshit, protomolecule.

Of course. I forgot, when discussing Russian imperial ambitions you need to be specific about which stage you're referring to. I was referring to the latest (late) stage.

Yeah no shit. Remember when the Soviets operated nukes in Cuba? It's the same thing now, but we're pretending we're not at war with Russia.

The swan song of the new Russian empire.

Is that supposed to be some sort of insult?

> Why plural?

Belarus and Ukraine

> What? By which rule the US invaded Iraq in 2003? By which rule NATO changed the borders of Serbia?

None of those instances are wars of conquest, of annexation of a sovereign country by military force or of trying to erase a national identity.

How's the Putinesque Koolaid tasting, protomolecule? Good enough to grab a rifle in the name of the fatherland? Or do you just do internet battles? I'm surprised you're allowed on the broad internet. Are you VPNing or are you some sort of silovik?

Your cowards launched quite a bunch of drones and missiles at Kyiv last night, targeting civilian infrastructure. Lots of civilians dead. The civilized world will never forget this.

And yet it has been done with different approaches, it's complicated, yes, as I said. But nothing nightmarish about it.

I wouldn't say it's a 'nightmare'. It's just more complicated than what regular folk think computers work when it comes to time sync. There's nothing nightmareish or scary about this, it's just using the best solution for your scenario, understanding limitations and adjusting expectations/requirements accordingly, perhaps relaxing consistency requirements.

I worked on the NTP infra for a very large organization some time ago and the starriest thing I found was just how bad some of the clocks were on 'commodity hardware' but this just added a new parameter for triaging hardware for manufacturer replacement.

This is an ok article but it's just so very superficial. It goes too wide for such a deep subject matter.

I see you ran into our resident Russian troll, protomolecule's new HN account. Don't engage. Flag and move on.

I do notice, it's called sealioning

Don't. Check the user's history, this will not be a good faith debate.

> It would be a painful for both sides

Not seeing what's painful for russia in this plan. They basically get new territory, a weaker Ukraine, lose all sanctions, back in G8, complete amnesty for war crimes. It's a win for them. This was likely written by them.

Is this a personal opinion, your opinion as a Google employee or Google's position on the matter?

Have you cleared this statement with comms/PR?

Do you want OP to 'get the fuck out' if they don't upskill or is this a general statement related to artists?

And yet, Stalin was the one who actually did do a genocide in Ukraine. He also did one at home, but the Putinesque approach to history is to ignore all of that.

You guys are the experts on this [1][2][3][4][5][6][7], so please educate us how it's possible. It's very well known fact that Russia was always friendly with the nazis. It all started with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_National_Unity

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_nationalism

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Imperial_Movement

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryno-Skachevsky_gang

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Organization_of_Russian...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group

> Like all populists

Like Trump?

Interesting perspective. In contrast, people see Russia as a miserable shithole just like they did in the 90s and generally throughout history. Basically both Europe's and Asia's backwater at the same time, which is remarkable.

> Let’s talk about the fact that we’re sort of ok with these murders.

I am definitely not ok with these murders but I know the press is working hard to manufacture popular support for them.

Nobody would be this stupid. Except for president Trump, who's flattered by the idea of having an infrastructure project carrying his name. This is how the Russians keep successfully manipulating the president of the USA. We have arguably the weakest leaders in the history of the nation.

Hey protomolecule, long time no see. How are things?