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vgt··on Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand
Tesla's ICP are highly educated affluent liberals who believe in climate change, vaccines, women's rights, lgbt rights, and so on. They buy expensive EVs to make a statement and contribute to green economy. Musk is very quickly alienating these people.

Imagine if Trump sold cars.

And you continue your toxic language in virtually every musk related thread.

vgt··on Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years
He specifically proposed terms friendly to Russia
vgt··on Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years
I just finished reading the Twitter files.. can you politely, if that's possible for you, show me specific examples of what you claimed violations of 1st and 4th amendments??

FBI warned Twitter about Russian adversarial actions, which is known and documented by anyone not blinded by their made in China maga hats

vgt··on Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years
All this reminds me of MAGA treatment of Trump's ambiguity. A straight shooter and a troll at the same time..
vgt··on Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years
He specifically said Crimea needs to be ceded to Russia.
vgt··on Caroline Ellison, CEO of Alameda Research, pleads guilty to seven offences
I wonder why anyone would downvote this factual information...
vgt··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
fair point!
vgt··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
That's fair for some (I say niche) use cases. Both BigQuery and Snowflake have a plethora of security and compliance features (including ML-driven automatic PII identification, masking, and categorization), and they certainly do not move data to another country without your explicit direction.
vgt··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
As a former PM on BigQuery, I'll offer my perspective:

- I agree that, by default, the on-demand pricing model is pure consumption, and folks can and do mess up sometimes.

- I had a habit of refunding folks when they asked, and if they made obvious mistakes, even though it took me an average of 3-4 hours to process each refund.

- BigQuery has cost controls to prevent runaway costs, sounds like you must check it out ASAP

- BigQuery also has a DDL option to require users to include a partition filter predicate in queries

- BigQuery also has flat-rate pricing, on which the vast majority of folks above SMB on. There are no runaway costs with this one.

I think generally BigQuery is a great example of an extreme serverless consumption-model. You have thousands of cores at your fingertips, and, well, if you do something that overuses, you are allowed, but you do pay for it.

vgt··on IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
Can you help us understand why one would use a data warehouse from Oracle as opposed to a plethora of arguably far better options like snowflake, BigQuery, and so on.
vgt··on Waymo's collision avoidance testing
did I? Here's a direct quote I was responding to:

>I see a lot of bad things on Tesla FSD and I totally get the critics...I think FSD is quite impressive compared to any other self driving software I've seen. > >Would you mind to direct me to similar videos from Waymo for example in similar situations? I can't find anything even remotely as good as what Tesla is doing now.

I can't believe one can make an honest argument that Tesla is ahead of Waymo on FSD

vgt··on Waymo's collision avoidance testing
Compare Waymo[0] with Tesla [1]..

These are easily searchable which leads me to question your sincerity in feinting ignorance.

[0]https://youtu.be/mWvhw1KCmbo

[1]https://youtu.be/3mnG_Gbxf_w

vgt··on Tesla Market Cap falls below $500B
From my experience the IONIQ5 is a much much better car than Tesla3/Y
vgt··on No, You Aren’t Going to Get Rich by Options Trading
I am not a fan of Taleb these days (he went off the deep end in conspiracy land), but it's worth reading his "Black Swan" book.

These tail risks are impossible to predict, and volatility of volatility of these events is incredibly high. So your expected value is better to think of as a "very broad range with a positive mean" - are you comfortable with this?

vgt··on No, You Aren’t Going to Get Rich by Options Trading
I've heard this strategy referred to as "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller" - it works until the CEO is discovered to be a fraud, goes to jail, and stock loses 80% of its value in a week. Then you lose everything on a single position.

Market makers do this as a free way to cover delta risk in that direction. If you have +100 delta, selling 100 "units" (way out of the money options) is a nice way and doesn't carry any other greeks.

I've seen speculators do this, but they're playing with fire. I've seen an investor risk 9 digits to pick up $50k a minute before strike expiration, not realizing that the actual settlement is the next day (so adversarial events can still happen).

vgt··on No, You Aren’t Going to Get Rich by Options Trading
(I worked in equity options market making in the past)

I'm not sure this is such a good idea.

Professional companies that do equity options market making have major natural advantages over you:

- They are at the front of the line of any order if they're on the NBBO, so they're going to capture the spread

- They get order flow from offline brokers, which tends to be high volume and have higher edge

- They do gobs of volume every day and hope to make a fraction of a penny per transaction.

- A typical market maker makes markets in 500+ stocks at any one time. Good luck doing that on your own.

- They've invested in being as physically close to the actual exchanges as possible so that they can be first to respond

- They're rarely greeks neutral beyond delta

- As registered market makers, they have tax advantages you do not

vgt··on Kanye “Ye” West Buys Parler
Now i haven't indulged in that particular platform so i don't know with certainty. Isn't Parler heavily moderated???
vgt··on Elon Musk scolds Tesla driver criticizing $199/month Self-Driving subscription
I am amazed at the velocity any Tesla criticism goes grey on social media.
vgt··on Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
I think Snowflake cultivates a very careful public image, but in private their sales people use.. how do you say.. aggressive techniques.. databricks is addressing the source of market confusion head-on
vgt··on Modern Data Lakes Overview
Yes!!!! I wrote some words just on this topic recently!!

https://medium.com/@vtereshko/data-warehouse-storage-or-a-da...

(Pm on BigQuery)

vgt··on Modern Data Practice and the SQL Tradition
If that is your jam, check out BigQuery' ML in SQL
vgt··on PartiQL: One query language for all your data
We've improved our floor latency by a factor of 5 since two years ago, we've introduced clustering, and newly introduced BI engine gets you into dozen digit millisecond range, so give it a try again :)

(Product manager on BigQuery)

vgt··on Google makes BigQuery available in Sheets
Check out the newly announced data fusion
vgt··on Show HN: Open-Source Business Intelligence for BigQuery – Looker Alternative
BigQuery PM here. Nice work!

Here's a recently built Graphite connector as well:

https://twitter.com/vadimska/status/1112816503055843330

vgt··on Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery
Geospatial for BigQuery just went Beta:

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/gis-intro

vgt··on Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery
noted :)
vgt··on Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery
(and clustering in BQ! [0])

[0] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/clustered-tables

vgt··on Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery
Great post!

A couple of thoughts:

1. It'd be interesting to see these benchmarks "under real-world adversity". For example, as data is ingested into the DW, as data shapes change, as concurrency of workloads varies.

2. It'd be great to measure "effort" to reach and maintain this performance.

DW vendors are trained on optimizing for static TPC benchmarks with concurrency of 1, which are useful, but can miss the boat on what users actually experience.

(BQ PM)

vgt··on Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery
Did you guys implement cluster keys in BigQuery as well?

(BQ PM)

vgt··on Machine Learning in Google Bigquery
This video gives a walkthrough of the new version of Dremel that's been running in production for past 3 years (no paper sorry!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueWySREWvk

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