mrgordon

Yes because if they're saying they have tons of USD-equivalent and buying other coins with it then they've been artificially inflating the other coins with bogus funds

Right, I said “on many issues” expressing nuance. As compared to the other poster who claims SF is so liberal that it has problems and Berkeley is not liberal so it doesn’t…

Sounds like you should stop hanging out in the Tenderloin. The rest of us lived there for years without being stabbed or hit with bottles. No doubt there are parts of the city with problems but you’re exaggerating greatly for no reason.

Thank you. Not sure why people are spreading this dumb “scandal”

Let’s be clear:

1. He sold index funds, not individual stocks like the other officials.

2. His “boss” (Trump) was holding up legislation to save the economy so it’s possible he was worried about the economy for reasons outside his control

3. The stock market went up drastically since then, so he would have much more money if he had just held his Vanguard funds since then. SPY went from what $330 to $450? So he missed a gain of 33%.

This is a really dumb “scandal” that makes no sense. Leave the dude alone. Go after the Senators like Richard Burr and probably Kelly Loeffler who really were insider trading

They’re finally copying the best designed MOBA that was unfortunately late to the party, Heroes of the Storm. The lack of cross-team chat greatly reduces toxicity compared to League and DOTA even though MOBAs as a whole tend to be a bit toxic. Blizzard also put in some other mechanics like team experience instead of individual experience so that you don’t have one person at a much higher level raging at the rest of the team to “get good”

Seems far too simplistic. Berkeley is actually even more liberal on many issues so your explanation doesn’t really make sense.

Yes Miami has much worse and much more dangerous traffic than SF. The number of accidents on I-95 is insane. Meanwhile many people in the Bay Area just take BART or walk to work which is essentially impossible in Miami.

I believe even a lot of the IPFS NFTs have gone missing already

Yes Lucid Motors is at half the valuation and doesn't rely on only one customer who may not purchase any vehicles. I think this IPO will not go super well due to the valuation and Lucid will ultimately benefit from the attention.

I'm surprised they didn't price a bit lower so they could guarantee a first day pop. At this price, many of the people I know who have loved Rivian for years will not be buyers. I'll be curious if there are enough others to support the valuation. I believe it will be the second most valuable car company after Tesla?

Tesla is also focused on subscription services (more and more over time). I haven't heard much negative sentiment about them using the model other than from people who don't think certain features (notably self driving) are complete enough to sell.

I don't think its about looks at all. If anything its mostly been about range followed by price. Now that some of the newer cars like the Lucid Air go 520 miles on a single charge, its going to start to be a much easier sell especially with gas prices spiking to records in many places.

This is the last of the big three EV startups to go public. Lucid Motors (cars), Proterra (buses) and now Rivian (trucks). The valuation seems too high but they have a lot of momentum and enthusiasts behind them so I imagine there will be many buyers. I believe it will likely bring renewed focus on other EV makers especially Lucid who is somewhat in the same niche.

Yes anyone who is screwed out of millions is free to quit. But it doesn’t make it less unethical or remove the sting. Now they need to go on a hunt for a new job instead of retiring.

Sure but it doesn’t mean your employer should lie to you to keep all the shares for themselves

For what’s it’s worth it’s more of a bag scan rather than a full security check like at the airport. Certainly the full security check is not something I want to deal with but it wasn’t too bad. They only do it at the main stations in Spain and only if you’re riding the high speed trains, so I imagine if France did it then it would only be at TGV stops which are not so numerous

Haha!

Not sure about the other poster but I know Stripe existed by another name first as they iterated on the product. I remember being there when Twitter tried to buy the early startup to monetize tweets. They sure missed out on that acquisition. Stripe is now worth more than all of Twitter :)

Yes the 520 miles on the Lucid Air shipping in October is a total game changer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28689432

Amazing how Norway is so far ahead on electrification. I feel like many people are still skeptical of EV range in cold weather but clearly it hasn’t been an issue.

With 520 miles instead of around 350 for most current models on the road, the Lucid cars are going to eliminate range anxiety. Can’t wait to see the prices come down as they scale up production!

You can root it and sideload on their end of life devices. Not exactly what most people are trying to buy new.

Spain has security checks at their major stations for high speed trains including to go to France, but France does not

CrowdFlower / Figure Eight is now part of Appen FYI

Sounds like they were talked into profit sharing instead of equity and now the profit sharing won’t apply at Intuit so they likely got almost nothing from it

> Not promising equity if you do sell can be a sensible decision, because you keep more of the money to yourself. As long as you're transparant about not selling

Yes it’s always sensible to take more money for yourself lol. But they weren’t transparent about not selling (they said they wouldn’t and then they did so they lied). Hence why the employees feel screwed

Well you’re not distinguishing between two situations:

1. Someone chooses not to have equity because they want more cash now, don’t want to risk part of their compensation on equity, etc.

2. The company says their equity will never be liquid so you definitely don’t want it. You accept a cash offer with profit sharing instead. Then they sell the shares for $12 billion leaving you unknown job security and low expected future compensation while they profit off their lies

$ASTS and others are launching large LEO constellations starting in March from what I understand. They have major partnerships with Vodafone, AT&T, and more.

My iPhones have always gotten software updates much longer than my Android phones so I’m always curious why Apple gets targeted so often when talking about phasing out old phones. Heck half of the new Androids had trouble getting software updates in a timely manner.

Most people I know keep buying bigger phones even though smaller ones from the same companies exist now

Notice you said in the past. Samsung got rid of those things to save space and cost while making room for other things

You missed the point. The virus is usually much worse without the vaccine.