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Wow, oil company offers vs Tesla... I think you should choose Tesla and burn some of those golden years for the future of American manufacturing rather than scooping out more dead dinosaur goop.

table-cloth is embellishment, but four-course does seem to be part of the system: https://karenlebillon.com/french-school-lunch-menus/

I can't help but think that # of employees and pension systems should be a bigger factor in valuations.

GM and Ford have 200k+ employees each and so much legacy baggage where-as Tesla, even with Scty, only has around 40k employees.

And they mostly tend to be fanatically hard workers.

Illegal immigrants ballooned under Bush and decreased under Obama... thanks Obama.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/03/5-facts-abou...

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/why-is-t...

Reading hackernews and smiling can make you happier. /gratuitous

Might be an interesting indicator of increasing paranoia in our increasingly connected media saturated society.

Found this article, but maybe there is some more recent research out there. https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/paran...

Like you said, product placement is already here.

As long as people broadcast content, consumers are free to modify it for personal consumption.

The next level filter might filter all brand names from an article or movie.

I think the intelligentsia do better when they have some manual labor in their lives too. I posit that the gig economy is just a modern take on classism and indentured servitude. We would be better served to improve robotics, automation and efficiency rather than grow a servant class (again).

If you listen to his interviews, he qualifies most of his statements, certainly more than 90% of the professional business BSers I know. Definitely he qualifies and hesitates much more than most CEOs, that's probably why people emotionally invest in his statements, they trust he at least performed some critical analysis before spitting out the conclusion or tweet.

Any keyboard task switching on iOS yet? That would be awesome.

http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/misc/government.htm "I know a man (Walt Anderson), who has been in jail for a decade because the IRS disagreed with how his foundations were set up, so it isn’t an academic statement." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Anderson_(entrepreneur)#...

Interesting, I would have hoped for a more nuanced view on social justice from such a brilliant guy.

Kinda works with http://popjisyo.com : http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/AddHint.aspx?d=8&e=GB2312&r=...

seems fairly easy in pg et al too: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058327

NoSQL always seemed like a misnomer, should be SomeSQL, postgresql can do the same kinda ops and usually faster than your average NoSQL db: http://www.enterprisedb.com/nosql-for-enterprise