Walmart is more evil, even here, and reading the comments, their tweet actually worked!
Amazon has invested at a HUGE loss for years. And that's a good thing. You see, the federal government understands that investment in your business is a good thing for you and it and everyone involved, so it taxes profits, rather than revenue. Now the problem is, some investments take more than one year. So the federal government allows business to make multi-year investments and "carry over" the loss. This way, when something takes more than a year of investment (like constructing a huge Datacenter or a factory or something) the total cost over up to 5 years can count against future profit. This is what amazon did. They invested a ton of money in AWS, logistics, and operations. So, now that their income is exceeding investment, they profited $11B. So, they owe $2.31b in taxes. But their past "carry over" losses count against their current taxes, so they went to $0. They might next year too, and for a few years, until their total investment expenditure is satisfied. What's better, anyone can do this! No, Amazon didn't get a tax gift from Donald trump.
Walmart know this. But, they spread it falsely, thinking everyone will think amazon is ripping us all off, when in fact, they are doing exactly what we want corporations to do for our economy, invest in the future.
Walmart is playing on the tax code ignorance of the masses, and judging by what I'm reading on Slashdot, it's working.
This wouldn't work on a freeway since they are generally divided by K-Rail which are too heavy to move without a crane.
Lane markings are standard and set in a way for a very specific reason. There is a ton of regulations around how they work.
Plus, even if you got the Tesla onto oncoming traffic, who's to say it wouldn't see the approaching car and ABS itself to a dead stop, which it is supposed to do. Hopefully, the other driver does the same!
Is these sort of stupid comments that make me sick.
Poor people have huge potential to produce goods and services and be productive. They just need help getting organized. Look at China, or India. 50 years ago, they were suffering recurring famine. Now, they are wholly productive because some "sick person" invested in their productivity. That's not a bad thing.
In a free economy, both people benefit by the whole pie expanding. The investor/entrepreneur/industry benefits, the consumers of those goods and services produced benefit, and yes, the poor labor benefit through on the job training, capital acquisition over time, and an end to their daily plight. This is what is considered "the rise of a middle class".
Take your superior, smug, shitty comments elsewhere. No one is enslaving the poor.
MacOS isn't the only operating system. iOS isn't the only mobile operating system.
That's like complaining that the Tesla OS is only available if you buy a Tesla, and you can only use apps on the Tesla in car dashboard that Tesla has approved. So? Doesn't make Tesla a monopoly, you can always buy a different car.
Tell that to the masses shot and killed trying to get over the Berlin Wall, or the starving and parasite riddled North Koreans. Or the masses waiting for a Visa to enter the US.
Microsoft had > 90% of the desktop OS market, which is why they were considered a gateway to users. There was no other option. That's why they were a monopoly. They dominated the market. IOS world wide is in the 'teens in terms of market penetration, so yeah... bullshit to your bullshit on my bullshit.
Bullshit. You knew there was only an App Store on the iPhone. But it is not a monopoly because the iPhone is not a monopoly.
The country you were born in, or the country of your descent precludes choice in the matter, and a government is a de facto monopoly on your rule.
The App Store is apple's way of distributing third party apps. If you don't like it, feel free to develop on another platform. If you don't like it, feel free to buy any other phone.
That's what precludes it from being a monopoly. Apple's success is that they have given consumers and developers what they want, and stayed in-bounds enough not to drive their users and developers away.
No people under the jurisdiction of the FAA have died in those two crashes. Incase you are unaware, the FAA is an American agency, and only has control over US skies, and US bound flights.
The FAA pays attention to world wide flight data and bases some decisions on what it sees there. The Lion and Ethiopian crashes we're under the jurisdiction of the counties in which they originated from and crashed.
Similarly, China has its own agency too, and that agency grounded the planes well in advance of when the FAA did.
Why con? I put X miles on my car, loved the experience. Love the autopilot, and love the free supercharging. It's a deal in my mind. Sorry you are so biased.
As with anything new, they are pushing the boundaries on what is currently available and moving at a quick pace. Full Self Driving is supposably coming later this year (though I suspect more like later next year) and includes hardware changes. I read they are going to put a second forward-facing radar unit, changing the driving computer out for one with a 10X faster chip that sits behind the glove box, and enabling the technology slowly as reliability increases, regulations allow, and hardware developed. The current chip works by processing 200 FPS of video from the 8 cameras, and the new chip processing 2000FPS.
I have a Tesla ModelX, with enhanced autopilot and I paid for the FSD upgrade when purchasing. I read all of the fine print, the purchase agreement, and made an informed decision to bet that they would deliver on it. Why not? They have delivered (eventuallly) on many of their other goals. Worst case scenario they refund me my purchase of that option. I still think with everything else I got, it was a hell of a purchase and I am very satisfied with it over all. Honestly the worst part of the owner experience is the service timelines.
No other car gets software upgrades like this, and every time they do, I get excited again to see what new functions they enabled. Drive on Nav is super cool.
No where have I read that you will never be able to summon your car from across the US one day. Tesla have shown videos of the development vehicles driving, both in the city streets and on the highway unaided successfully. What I think they need to do is answer for a high number of so many thousands of edge cases before they can go "unaided" as well as seek regulatory approval.
Now, we are waiting for the HW 3.0 upgrades and drive-on-nav to work off the freeway.
Also. One final thought: Super charging is going to have to work with that snake thing they use to auto plug in, or Tesla is going to need an attendant at the Super Charger for personless cross-country travel. The new faster SC is nice and all, but I was hoping for self-plugging in.
Crap you are right, I totally switch-arooo'd that. Brain fart. My bad. Yes, negative = x; positive = negative, b = positive. Thanks for the correction.
I think the licensure is mis-guided today. I'll elaborate.
Making sure the plants are safe is obviously a goal. But licensing them at the costs of billions, and making the licenses hard to get only increases the price, and stunts growth.
The right solution in my opinion is for power companies with loads of assets to be the direct owner of the power station. That way, you can't spin up a corporation and use a liability shield to protect the Fortune 1000 entity from liability.
So a simple law that says "To build a NPS, the owners of a majority in interest and control must have assets > $10 billion". Now every power station opens up all those companies to risk. Companies hate risk. They will avoid it, and build the plants safely. If a disaster occurs, the operators will have to prove it was unavoidable or be subject to severe restitution.
When you buy a piece or property, you have dominion over it, and can be private in it if you wish. You effectively make a contract with the state that this property is yours, and you are (somewhat) free to do in it what you please. So, it's private. Which is why the police can't barge in and search, absent a warrant. A homeless man has made no such covenant, since he didn't buy a home. He could try the homestead act if he goes to an unclaimed part of the public space .
CFCs reduce Ozone, not cloud cover. Nor do they fix the tilt of the earth to reduce that pesky little thing called "winter".
Nuclear power is fantastic. We're just too obsessed with spent fuel and fear-mongoring to do it right. Nuclear power plants now-a-days are built with a positive coefficient. The nuclear power plants you have to worry about at night are the plants built with 50+ year old designs with negative coefficient properties.
The bigger challenge is the overly difficult task of licensing them. It costs billions to license a plant, and the licenses expire. If you can't guarantee you can operate your plant in year 21, it's not worth the investment. SONGS was shut down and dismantled because the repair costs of a mal/formed component exceeded the potential profit on the remaining license (energy prices are regulated), and the state wouldn't grant a license extension if the repairs were made.
We need to build better, newer plants. We need to make them more cost-effective to operate, and we need to do it now. What electric cars will do to the grid in the next decade will exasperate the problem. Imagine all the energy in petroleum to cars having to be shifted onto our grid. There isn't enough power.
No, it isn't inadmissible if you overhear something. There is no expectation of privacy in the jail cell where others can hear you.
Just like that cell, you have no expectation of privacy in public. It is very legal to follow someone in public spaces and record what they do, and use that information for financial gain. Want proof?
Hedge funds pay people ( and dispatch) interns to count the number of people outside of an Apple store, and record their gender and approx. age to gauge the excitement the public feels about a new iPhone, in hopes of gathering data on real market demand on launch days. The same rules for mass-targeting like that are also allowed with individuals. When CEOs or activist investors are seen walking into a company headquarters, it can have a positive effect on the stock when it gets reported.
All of this is legal because "there is no expectation of privacy" in public.
Now, a website isn't a public space, but the operator dictates what he does with the information in his private space. If you go to someones house for dinner, and he invites a third party (Mark Zuck), and Mark records the fact that you showed up, that isn't against the law. You agree'd to enter the house and be subject to its operators' terms of use when you navigated there. If you are unhappy with those terms, don't visit the site. Do not however, try and infringe on the operators freedoms because you do not like how he chooses to exercise them.
No, this is what happens when manufacturers and other people with interests want to confuse the market so that they can present their non-top-of-the-line products as top-of-the-line. "New Motherboard with USB 3.2 Gen1!!!" on the packaging.
To see if he was right before saying this tweet was wrong? He did correct himself and say it was closer to 400k but would end with a run rate of 500k (10k / week).
The Web has its day, and frankly, couldn't be more of a failure in terms of desktop compute. Sorry, but it's the truth. Remember how shitty flash on the web was? Remember endless updates to the desktop clients, slow sites, and browser wars that lead to vast amounts of incompatibility? Remember when Steve Jobs wrote thoughts on flash?
If the web was the answer, then it would have already done it, and there would be nothing Apple could do to stop It. The iPhone and the Mac both support the Web, so if you really think that's how your app should work, fine. Write your app in a site.
Apps have code vetted by Apple, which is miles better than the shit show happening on Android. Not a week goes by where there isn't a story about more malware-ridden apps on Android, whereas Apple's App Store, while not perfect is significantly less buggy and way more trust worthy. Perfect? No. But better.
I use both iPhones and Macs, and I love this idea. I develop on my Mac, and it annoys me that I have to grab my phone to do things on Apps i don't have on my Mac, like turn on my Car's climate controls before I head out of the office. There are so many apps that just work on iPhone and I don't have the same app on my Mac, it would be great to run those apps on both.
I don't see why this is a bad thing. Especially since Apple hasn't said they will block third party apps on Mac.
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Walmart is more evil, even here, and reading the comments, their tweet actually worked!
Amazon has invested at a HUGE loss for years. And that's a good thing. You see, the federal government understands that investment in your business is a good thing for you and it and everyone involved, so it taxes profits, rather than revenue. Now the problem is, some investments take more than one year. So the federal government allows business to make multi-year investments and "carry over" the loss. This way, when something takes more than a year of investment (like constructing a huge Datacenter or a factory or something) the total cost over up to 5 years can count against future profit. This is what amazon did. They invested a ton of money in AWS, logistics, and operations. So, now that their income is exceeding investment, they profited $11B. So, they owe $2.31b in taxes. But their past "carry over" losses count against their current taxes, so they went to $0. They might next year too, and for a few years, until their total investment expenditure is satisfied. What's better, anyone can do this! No, Amazon didn't get a tax gift from Donald trump.
Walmart know this. But, they spread it falsely, thinking everyone will think amazon is ripping us all off, when in fact, they are doing exactly what we want corporations to do for our economy, invest in the future.
Walmart is playing on the tax code ignorance of the masses, and judging by what I'm reading on Slashdot, it's working.
This wouldn't work on a freeway since they are generally divided by K-Rail which are too heavy to move without a crane.
Lane markings are standard and set in a way for a very specific reason. There is a ton of regulations around how they work.
Plus, even if you got the Tesla onto oncoming traffic, who's to say it wouldn't see the approaching car and ABS itself to a dead stop, which it is supposed to do. Hopefully, the other driver does the same!
Is these sort of stupid comments that make me sick.
Poor people have huge potential to produce goods and services and be productive. They just need help getting organized. Look at China, or India. 50 years ago, they were suffering recurring famine. Now, they are wholly productive because some "sick person" invested in their productivity. That's not a bad thing.
In a free economy, both people benefit by the whole pie expanding. The investor/entrepreneur/industry benefits, the consumers of those goods and services produced benefit, and yes, the poor labor benefit through on the job training, capital acquisition over time, and an end to their daily plight. This is what is considered "the rise of a middle class".
Take your superior, smug, shitty comments elsewhere. No one is enslaving the poor.
MacOS isn't the only operating system.
iOS isn't the only mobile operating system.
That's like complaining that the Tesla OS is only available if you buy a Tesla, and you can only use apps on the Tesla in car dashboard that Tesla has approved. So? Doesn't make Tesla a monopoly, you can always buy a different car.
Apple also has a monopoly on iOS cameras... but iOS itself isn't a monopoly. That means it doesn't make the App Store a monopoly.
Tell that to the masses shot and killed trying to get over the Berlin Wall, or the starving and parasite riddled North Koreans. Or the masses waiting for a Visa to enter the US.
No, not everyone has that freedom.
Microsoft had > 90% of the desktop OS market, which is why they were considered a gateway to users. There was no other option. That's why they were a monopoly. They dominated the market. IOS world wide is in the 'teens in terms of market penetration, so yeah... bullshit to your bullshit on my bullshit.
What? What state do you live in? Not California, where these companies are located.
But iOS 2 isn't compatible with Spotify, not is the iPhone at the time. Once FairPlay was removed, you were free to switch, but didn't.
Bullshit. You knew there was only an App Store on the iPhone. But it is not a monopoly because the iPhone is not a monopoly.
The country you were born in, or the country of your descent precludes choice in the matter, and a government is a de facto monopoly on your rule.
The App Store is apple's way of distributing third party apps. If you don't like it, feel free to develop on another platform. If you don't like it, feel free to buy any other phone.
That's what precludes it from being a monopoly. Apple's success is that they have given consumers and developers what they want, and stayed in-bounds enough not to drive their users and developers away.
No people under the jurisdiction of the FAA have died in those two crashes. Incase you are unaware, the FAA is an American agency, and only has control over US skies, and US bound flights.
The FAA pays attention to world wide flight data and bases some decisions on what it sees there. The Lion and Ethiopian crashes we're under the jurisdiction of the counties in which they originated from and crashed.
Similarly, China has its own agency too, and that agency grounded the planes well in advance of when the FAA did.
Just relaying what I'm reading man: https://www.teslarati.com/tesl...
But if you insist...
Why con? I put X miles on my car, loved the experience. Love the autopilot, and love the free supercharging. It's a deal in my mind. Sorry you are so biased.
As with anything new, they are pushing the boundaries on what is currently available and moving at a quick pace. Full Self Driving is supposably coming later this year (though I suspect more like later next year) and includes hardware changes. I read they are going to put a second forward-facing radar unit, changing the driving computer out for one with a 10X faster chip that sits behind the glove box, and enabling the technology slowly as reliability increases, regulations allow, and hardware developed. The current chip works by processing 200 FPS of video from the 8 cameras, and the new chip processing 2000FPS.
I have a Tesla ModelX, with enhanced autopilot and I paid for the FSD upgrade when purchasing. I read all of the fine print, the purchase agreement, and made an informed decision to bet that they would deliver on it. Why not? They have delivered (eventuallly) on many of their other goals. Worst case scenario they refund me my purchase of that option. I still think with everything else I got, it was a hell of a purchase and I am very satisfied with it over all. Honestly the worst part of the owner experience is the service timelines.
No other car gets software upgrades like this, and every time they do, I get excited again to see what new functions they enabled. Drive on Nav is super cool.
No where have I read that you will never be able to summon your car from across the US one day. Tesla have shown videos of the development vehicles driving, both in the city streets and on the highway unaided successfully. What I think they need to do is answer for a high number of so many thousands of edge cases before they can go "unaided" as well as seek regulatory approval.
They demonstrated this two years ago: https://youtu.be/VG68SKoG7vE
Now, we are waiting for the HW 3.0 upgrades and drive-on-nav to work off the freeway.
Also. One final thought: Super charging is going to have to work with that snake thing they use to auto plug in, or Tesla is going to need an attendant at the Super Charger for personless cross-country travel. The new faster SC is nice and all, but I was hoping for self-plugging in.
For the hard-earned money you pay for something that costs us practically nothing.. you're welcome, ass-hat.
Crap you are right, I totally switch-arooo'd that. Brain fart. My bad. Yes, negative = x; positive = negative, b = positive. Thanks for the correction.
I think the licensure is mis-guided today. I'll elaborate.
Making sure the plants are safe is obviously a goal. But licensing them at the costs of billions, and making the licenses hard to get only increases the price, and stunts growth.
The right solution in my opinion is for power companies with loads of assets to be the direct owner of the power station. That way, you can't spin up a corporation and use a liability shield to protect the Fortune 1000 entity from liability.
So a simple law that says "To build a NPS, the owners of a majority in interest and control must have assets > $10 billion". Now every power station opens up all those companies to risk. Companies hate risk. They will avoid it, and build the plants safely. If a disaster occurs, the operators will have to prove it was unavoidable or be subject to severe restitution.
When you buy a piece or property, you have dominion over it, and can be private in it if you wish. You effectively make a contract with the state that this property is yours, and you are (somewhat) free to do in it what you please. So, it's private. Which is why the police can't barge in and search, absent a warrant. A homeless man has made no such covenant, since he didn't buy a home. He could try the homestead act if he goes to an unclaimed part of the public space .
Facebook doesn't install anything surreptitiously on your phone or car, or anything. You elect to install those things.
CFCs reduce Ozone, not cloud cover. Nor do they fix the tilt of the earth to reduce that pesky little thing called "winter".
Nuclear power is fantastic. We're just too obsessed with spent fuel and fear-mongoring to do it right. Nuclear power plants now-a-days are built with a positive coefficient. The nuclear power plants you have to worry about at night are the plants built with 50+ year old designs with negative coefficient properties.
The bigger challenge is the overly difficult task of licensing them. It costs billions to license a plant, and the licenses expire. If you can't guarantee you can operate your plant in year 21, it's not worth the investment. SONGS was shut down and dismantled because the repair costs of a mal/formed component exceeded the potential profit on the remaining license (energy prices are regulated), and the state wouldn't grant a license extension if the repairs were made.
We need to build better, newer plants. We need to make them more cost-effective to operate, and we need to do it now. What electric cars will do to the grid in the next decade will exasperate the problem. Imagine all the energy in petroleum to cars having to be shifted onto our grid. There isn't enough power.
No, it isn't inadmissible if you overhear something. There is no expectation of privacy in the jail cell where others can hear you.
Just like that cell, you have no expectation of privacy in public. It is very legal to follow someone in public spaces and record what they do, and use that information for financial gain. Want proof?
Hedge funds pay people ( and dispatch) interns to count the number of people outside of an Apple store, and record their gender and approx. age to gauge the excitement the public feels about a new iPhone, in hopes of gathering data on real market demand on launch days. The same rules for mass-targeting like that are also allowed with individuals. When CEOs or activist investors are seen walking into a company headquarters, it can have a positive effect on the stock when it gets reported.
All of this is legal because "there is no expectation of privacy" in public.
Now, a website isn't a public space, but the operator dictates what he does with the information in his private space. If you go to someones house for dinner, and he invites a third party (Mark Zuck), and Mark records the fact that you showed up, that isn't against the law. You agree'd to enter the house and be subject to its operators' terms of use when you navigated there. If you are unhappy with those terms, don't visit the site. Do not however, try and infringe on the operators freedoms because you do not like how he chooses to exercise them.
Thunderbolt 3
You can't power the little device at the end with it either. Everything would need a battery or a plug.
No, this is what happens when manufacturers and other people with interests want to confuse the market so that they can present their non-top-of-the-line products as top-of-the-line. "New Motherboard with USB 3.2 Gen1!!!" on the packaging.
To see if he was right before saying this tweet was wrong? He did correct himself and say it was closer to 400k but would end with a run rate of 500k (10k / week).
The Web has its day, and frankly, couldn't be more of a failure in terms of desktop compute. Sorry, but it's the truth. Remember how shitty flash on the web was? Remember endless updates to the desktop clients, slow sites, and browser wars that lead to vast amounts of incompatibility? Remember when Steve Jobs wrote thoughts on flash?
If the web was the answer, then it would have already done it, and there would be nothing Apple could do to stop It. The iPhone and the Mac both support the Web, so if you really think that's how your app should work, fine. Write your app in a site.
Apps have code vetted by Apple, which is miles better than the shit show happening on Android. Not a week goes by where there isn't a story about more malware-ridden apps on Android, whereas Apple's App Store, while not perfect is significantly less buggy and way more trust worthy. Perfect? No. But better.
I use both iPhones and Macs, and I love this idea. I develop on my Mac, and it annoys me that I have to grab my phone to do things on Apps i don't have on my Mac, like turn on my Car's climate controls before I head out of the office. There are so many apps that just work on iPhone and I don't have the same app on my Mac, it would be great to run those apps on both.
I don't see why this is a bad thing. Especially since Apple hasn't said they will block third party apps on Mac.