nd they didn't eliminate the fluffiing, they just eliminated the insanely complex robot in favor of a few humans doing it for cheaper and faster.
I can see why you may have thought that reading only part of the response. Elon starts saying how the robot is complex and the human could do it easily. But that wasn't the solution. He went on to say, immediately after that:
One of the questions I asked was, do we actually need that? So, we tested a car with and without and found out that there was no change in the noise volume in the cabin. So, we actually had a part that was unnecessary. That was forced â" line kept breaking down because fluffer bot would frequently just failed to pick up the fluff while put it in, like, a random location. So that was one of the silliest things I found.
If that's too confusing, before he told that story he introduced it as
we had these fiberglass mats on the top of the battery pack
Ironically, it was the very next paragraph that talks about how they needed to eliminate from the battery design AWD compatibility to make their numbers. Again to quote Elon:
So, for example, the car battery pack has a port for the front drive unit, which we then put a sealed blanking plate on. So essentially we punched a hole in it, then put a blanking plate over the hole and do that for all rear-drive unit cars, which is kind of crazy. We've added cost, we've added a manufacturing step, we've added a failure mode, and for something that is unnecessary. So, that is an example of something that's changed.
While this is true,PayPal and Square (and until this announcement) Amazon are/were all priced the same. It's nice to see some price competition in the payment space for small businesses. However, turnabout is fair play. I'd like to see CapitalOne start undercutting Google/AWS in cloud services.
So does that mean some hotels will close and be reconverted as apartments, driving rent down ?
Nope. Regulatory issues aside (which wouldn't be a problem in NYC), the fact that AirBnBs are driving up rents means that the hotel rooms are still more profitable than rentals.
It's rather silly to expect homeowners to pay the tax rates of a multinational hotel chain to rent out their home or apartment for a couple of months while they go on a cruise or something
It's rather silly to claim that's the primary use case for AirBnB as opposed to professional, permanent rentals. It's also silly to think that it's outrageous to expect the same tax rates of homeowners... taxes are on profit (income) or per room (occupancy.) The fact that they are rates fixes that.
There were regulations with licensed people only able to participate. Those are actual BnB rules. AirBnB,and their operators, just ignore them.
. So you flood an area with tourists and the rents go up?
There's no reason to think there are more tourists visiting NYC. Occupancy rates in hotels are down, year-over-year.
You are right that you have to look at mutliple factors, but you probably would want to compare rents, inflation and wages. After all, the important thing to the average renter is what percent of their money goes to rent.
the original poster is not like the police chiefs, DAs, and elected officials because... they could allow communications through their computers -- even via domain fronting -- but choose not to do so at all.
Nope. If the original poster owned a giant cloud computing operations then they would be just as culpable. The thing is, Google/Amazon can do it and not get blocked (at least without great cost to the blocker.) So they have the power to do something about it. A random poster on the internet does not.
Oh, and fuck everyone else attempting to use Google's and Amazon's services in those areas who will be/are being blocked because it's Google's and Amazon's moral responsibility to support domain fronting (but not yours, or anyone else's...).
That's exactly it. Google/Amazon can say "if need to block Signal even though we allow domain fronting, we're taking all our balls and going home." and that's a lot of balls. It's a threat. If you do it from your home computer it's not a cost to block you.
Sure, but I was also quoting full replacement every year. If the satellites average a 3 year life, then my dual omissions cancel out.
I don't know why FB couldn't get around the Chinese government from space. I mean, sure the Chinese could DF the people on the grounds transmitters, but I'd imagine that's a sometimes thing.
Except, there was a lot that seems to be contradicted by other things Musk said. For example:
1) 5k is targeted at the end of Q2 (actually 6k, but that's to make sure they can at least get to 5k). From the newsletter: "After achieving a production rate of 5,000 per week, we will begin offering new options such as all-wheel-drive and the base model with a standard-sized battery pack."
Except Musk also said they changed the battery design to no longer accommodate all wheel drive to raise the production numbers.
) Concerning the FUD that Tesla is "giving up" on factory automation, Tesla is actually doubling down on it. What they were getting rid of was a small number of specific systems that were cases of serious automation overreach. One that Musk couldn't restrain himself from self-deprecating laughter on was "FluffBot"
They didn't give up on automation, nor did they double down on it. And they did not "get rid of an automated system/" They changed the car because they couldn't automate part of it. And the change is for the worse (less noise isolation), bu they think no one will care.
Umm... way to try to sneak Apple, Amazon and Alphabet in as investors. But Fidelity and JP Morgan have never been wrong before - with exceptions for being heavily invested in mortgages in 2008 and internet stocks in 2001, and stuff from last millennium.
I'd imagine it would take a bit longer than 2000 seconds, because the data has to be fetched from RAM, etc. That said, their map would be far smaller than 5 trillion bits. If it was only a few megs, it would fit in the L1 cache at least.
o in your analysis of the original post that started this I'm supposed to analogize Google and Amazon to the "police officers"
Nope, I'm comparing them to police chiefs, DAs and elected officials. That is, people who have the power to restrain the cops, but don't. Similarly, Google and Amazon have the power to restrain a dictatorship (to a limited degree), but aren't.
How many thousands of political dissidents have Google and Amazon enabled totalitarian dictatorships to murder?
I don't know, how many have you?
I mean, you've defined "enabling murder" as simply not allowing someone else to run their communications through their computers. Do you allow that?
I know. I also ask random posters on the internet why they keep allowing police officers to shoot unarmed people, instead of just asking those police chiefs/department/DAs/elected officials. I mean, I've defined "enabling police officers to shoot unarmed people" as "not stopping them/imposing consequences," so they're both equally guilty.
The same is true of most major American cities. Especially true of luxury real estate. Apparently, there are whole condo buildings/subdivisions with no one living in them, just to act as an external to China asset if some billionaire needs to flee/be audited in China.
A third person we work with just "retired," and does work for 5-6 other companies and likely well over 50 hours per week. Should he pay social security tax based on the base salary at each employer, or in aggregate as his own business?
Umm.. aggregate. It's always aggregate. If he works for 6 jobs for two months each, and makes 200k at each of them, he only pays the limit for social security once. 6 jobs instead of contractor status would mean you'd have to get cash back instead of pay the money upfront.
but for my business we hire two very experienced mostly-retired engineers (72 and 77 years old). One of them goes away for a month or so at a time, and the other (older) one is easing into retirement. Both want flexibility, and it does provide each with a tax benefit. Neither wants any of our benefits, nor the pay penalty associated with them.
So, should they be part-time employees?
It sounds like "yes". Sucks that it's a little less useful for both of you.
The last election's consequence is a return to normal policy with input from all stakeholders, including manufacturers. This is contrasted with policy dictated by zealots and academics with no skin in the game.
Not to let the facts get in the way of hyperbolic partisanship, but...
(1) The Obama decision was made with input from (and the endorsement of) car manufacturers.
(2) Long term plans and regulations, as a matter of both law and public policy, are not subject to the chief executive's whims. This makes sense, because how would business proceed if regulations were substantially overhauled every 4 years?
(2a) Just because someone doesn't like a deal, doesn't mean it wasn't accomplished and cannot be backtracked on.
Will this change also affect contractors that were independent contractors long before this new gig economy trend?
Maybe!
if a family owned rug store... are those contractors now under threat of becoming employees
Nope! The reason Uber's drivers are now considered employees is because they are performing the "usual course of business" of Uber. The Rug Store sells rugs. Now, if they sold specialty rugs that had to be installed and where the vast majority of customers would buy the rug if and only if the rugs were installed by the Rug Store or their contractors, such that "buying a rug" was synonymous with "buying an installed rug" then they might have to W2 the installers. If it wasn't expected that the rug purchase and the rug installation were supplied by the same company, then no.
What if the store offers to arrange the timing of the appointment for installation?
That's the same "control over contractor's actions/methods" test that existed in both standards. So, while there is clearly some line of control, it should remain the same.
Half of the gig economy is companies trying to cheap out on traditional worker benefits
Half? I was going to object that it seems like that's 100%, but then I remembered the other half is avoiding taxi/hotel/[whatever industry] regulations. It's not like Hyatt couldn't have (technically) converted apartments to rentals, it's that they have to obey the law (well, not flout it that blatantly.)
Now, we are NOT a totalitarian nation, however, you are sadly mistaken if you think that we are truly open and free.
We are simply more so than MOST nations.
Which makes us open and free. I mean, "No True Scotsman" if you like, but we both claim to be open and free and are doing a pretty good job.
There are other societies that are also open and free.
I was going to highlight this as a headline example where the obvious answer is "yes". Studio executives seem like they can be replaced by the AI of a magic eight ball with no loss in efficiency. (At least on the script picking side. I'm sure there's a lot of work that goes into Hollywood accounting.)
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I can see why you may have thought that reading only part of the response. Elon starts saying how the robot is complex and the human could do it easily. But that wasn't the solution. He went on to say, immediately after that:
If that's too confusing, before he told that story he introduced it as
Ironically, it was the very next paragraph that talks about how they needed to eliminate from the battery design AWD compatibility to make their numbers. Again to quote Elon:
While this is true,PayPal and Square (and until this announcement) Amazon are/were all priced the same. It's nice to see some price competition in the payment space for small businesses. However, turnabout is fair play. I'd like to see CapitalOne start undercutting Google/AWS in cloud services.
Nope. Regulatory issues aside (which wouldn't be a problem in NYC), the fact that AirBnBs are driving up rents means that the hotel rooms are still more profitable than rentals.
It's rather silly to claim that's the primary use case for AirBnB as opposed to professional, permanent rentals. It's also silly to think that it's outrageous to expect the same tax rates of homeowners... taxes are on profit (income) or per room (occupancy.) The fact that they are rates fixes that.
There were regulations with licensed people only able to participate. Those are actual BnB rules. AirBnB,and their operators, just ignore them.
There's no reason to think there are more tourists visiting NYC. Occupancy rates in hotels are down, year-over-year.
You are right that you have to look at mutliple factors, but you probably would want to compare rents, inflation and wages. After all, the important thing to the average renter is what percent of their money goes to rent.
Nope. If the original poster owned a giant cloud computing operations then they would be just as culpable. The thing is, Google/Amazon can do it and not get blocked (at least without great cost to the blocker.) So they have the power to do something about it. A random poster on the internet does not.
That's exactly it. Google/Amazon can say "if need to block Signal even though we allow domain fronting, we're taking all our balls and going home." and that's a lot of balls. It's a threat. If you do it from your home computer it's not a cost to block you.
Sure, but I was also quoting full replacement every year. If the satellites average a 3 year life, then my dual omissions cancel out.
I don't know why FB couldn't get around the Chinese government from space. I mean, sure the Chinese could DF the people on the grounds transmitters, but I'd imagine that's a sometimes thing.
$5 billion dollars is cheap for FB if it gets them access to the Chinese market. $5 billion a year is cheap too.
Except, there was a lot that seems to be contradicted by other things Musk said. For example:
Except Musk also said they changed the battery design to no longer accommodate all wheel drive to raise the production numbers.
They didn't give up on automation, nor did they double down on it. And they did not "get rid of an automated system/" They changed the car because they couldn't automate part of it. And the change is for the worse (less noise isolation), bu they think no one will care.
And that's just the first two bullets!
With Domain Fronting. Exactly what we're talking about in this story. The Exact Thing they just stopped doing. FFS, that's the whole point.
Umm... way to try to sneak Apple, Amazon and Alphabet in as investors. But Fidelity and JP Morgan have never been wrong before - with exceptions for being heavily invested in mortgages in 2008 and internet stocks in 2001, and stuff from last millennium.
They already bought the TLD .dev...
I'd imagine it would take a bit longer than 2000 seconds, because the data has to be fetched from RAM, etc. That said, their map would be far smaller than 5 trillion bits. If it was only a few megs, it would fit in the L1 cache at least.
Title II regulated the phone company. Please base any analysis on, historical Title II in the US, phone or otherwise.
Then the installers would probably be employees.
A business has a lot financially riding on the answer. There's no reason to suspect that they will be honest.
In fact, Uber keeps claiming not to be a taxi company for various reasons. And had to get overruled.
Nope, I'm comparing them to police chiefs, DAs and elected officials. That is, people who have the power to restrain the cops, but don't. Similarly, Google and Amazon have the power to restrain a dictatorship (to a limited degree), but aren't.
I know. I also ask random posters on the internet why they keep allowing police officers to shoot unarmed people, instead of just asking those police chiefs/department/DAs/elected officials. I mean, I've defined "enabling police officers to shoot unarmed people" as "not stopping them/imposing consequences," so they're both equally guilty.
The same is true of most major American cities. Especially true of luxury real estate. Apparently, there are whole condo buildings/subdivisions with no one living in them, just to act as an external to China asset if some billionaire needs to flee/be audited in China.
Umm.. aggregate. It's always aggregate. If he works for 6 jobs for two months each, and makes 200k at each of them, he only pays the limit for social security once. 6 jobs instead of contractor status would mean you'd have to get cash back instead of pay the money upfront.
It sounds like "yes". Sucks that it's a little less useful for both of you.
Not to let the facts get in the way of hyperbolic partisanship, but...
(1) The Obama decision was made with input from (and the endorsement of) car manufacturers.
(2) Long term plans and regulations, as a matter of both law and public policy, are not subject to the chief executive's whims. This makes sense, because how would business proceed if regulations were substantially overhauled every 4 years?
(2a) Just because someone doesn't like a deal, doesn't mean it wasn't accomplished and cannot be backtracked on.
You missed the most important one (and the one this case hinges on) - is what you do core to the business that's hiring you.
Maybe!
Nope! The reason Uber's drivers are now considered employees is because they are performing the "usual course of business" of Uber. The Rug Store sells rugs. Now, if they sold specialty rugs that had to be installed and where the vast majority of customers would buy the rug if and only if the rugs were installed by the Rug Store or their contractors, such that "buying a rug" was synonymous with "buying an installed rug" then they might have to W2 the installers. If it wasn't expected that the rug purchase and the rug installation were supplied by the same company, then no.
That's the same "control over contractor's actions/methods" test that existed in both standards. So, while there is clearly some line of control, it should remain the same.
Half? I was going to object that it seems like that's 100%, but then I remembered the other half is avoiding taxi/hotel/[whatever industry] regulations. It's not like Hyatt couldn't have (technically) converted apartments to rentals, it's that they have to obey the law (well, not flout it that blatantly.)
Which makes us open and free. I mean, "No True Scotsman" if you like, but we both claim to be open and free and are doing a pretty good job.
There are other societies that are also open and free.
I was going to highlight this as a headline example where the obvious answer is "yes". Studio executives seem like they can be replaced by the AI of a magic eight ball with no loss in efficiency. (At least on the script picking side. I'm sure there's a lot of work that goes into Hollywood accounting.)