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  1. Re: Waiting to hear... on Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Revenue is recognized upon customer delivery. Do you expect a factory making 4500+ cars a week to instantly deliver them in 15 minutes like a pizza?

    If they only had 2500 cars in inventory at the end of Q2 I'd say they aren't holding back much. That's only 3 or 4 days of inventory.

  2. You can install more than one PowerWall. This is exactly what Tesla did in community centers and schools in Puerto Rico after the hurricane.

  3. Re: Waiting to hear... on Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Huh. Then my wife got one hell of a discount on her AWD model 3, since we paid around $60k...

    TL;DR: You are wrong.

  4. Re: Waiting to hear... on Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet made a $300M profit somehow, even after repaying $80M in debt. Explain your statement, and show your work.

  5. Re: Waiting to hear... on Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Except every company says that, in every quarterly report, ever. Just like they open every call with a statement about how it's forward looking and subject to revision. People like you would sue them if they didn't.

  6. Waiting to hear... on Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm waiting to hear how Tesla is losing money on each car it sells, such as some people have been saying around here (FALSELY) for months. If they lose money on each car they sell, how did they wildly beat all the analysts by selling more of them?

    When everyone is telling you that you are wrong, sometimes it's a good idea to gain a little objectivity and at least examine the possibility that you actually are wrong.

  7. Re: Still pretty useful to police on Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack (forbes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    When you activate a PIN / Touch ID / FaceID it uses the computed has as an encryption key for the entire user filesystem. Everything gets encrypted, and has for years.

  8. Re: Go, Apple! on Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hilarious to see people bashing apple for positioning data security over fashion.

    GTFO.

  9. Re: Better than SJW/PC COCs on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    No, you are still free to think whatever you would like. But to be a participant in organizations with a code of conduct, you aren't allowed to be a belligerent shithead douche to people and remain a participant.

    I don't know why it's such a big deal that you have to actually be cordial to people. It's really not that hard to just not be an absolute fuckwad.

  10. Re: Coca Cola in plastic vs glass on Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except it is highly recyclable. Glass just happens to be more expensive than plastic.

  11. Re: Long term debt .. am I missing something here? on Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Could be. I have no knowledge of overall subscriber trends. I know that I have to keep my account or my wife will have a small household coup if she didn't have access to the 20+ seasons of network sitcoms she seems to love...

    The netflix monthly streaming charge is a small pittance in comparison to that.

  12. Re: Long term debt .. am I missing something here? on Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want me to read anything you post, you probably shouldn't just start with insults and name calling.

    Grow up and have an adult discussion.

  13. Re:APK Hosts File Engine for MacOS... apk on Why the Google Pixel 3 Charges Faster On a Pixel Stand Than Other Wireless Chargers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Fake APK, doesn't even say "see subject" even once.

  14. Re:Apple charger still overheating? on Why the Google Pixel 3 Charges Faster On a Pixel Stand Than Other Wireless Chargers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Or your post was completely off topic, and modded as such. We get it, you don't like Apple. That doesn't give you the right to spam off-topic crap wherever you choose.

  15. Re:Apple charger still overheating? on Why the Google Pixel 3 Charges Faster On a Pixel Stand Than Other Wireless Chargers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I want to know what Apple's unshipped wireless charging device issues has to do with Google putting vendor lock-in proprietary DRM-esque garbage in their phones and chargers, screwing their customers and their accessory makers at the same time.

    Misdirection much?

  16. Just because Apple's wireless charger hasn't shipped yet, doesn't mean that the phone doesn't wirelessly charge at the advertised spec.

    Two completely separate things. But nice work with the knee-jerk FUD response.

  17. Re:Qualcomm's Quick Charge is against the standard on Why the Google Pixel 3 Charges Faster On a Pixel Stand Than Other Wireless Chargers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    USB-PD is proprietary? Is that why I can use an Apple 87W USB charger from a MacBook to charge my Dell XPS 15?

    Yeah, that sounds horribly proprietary, and is the worst kind of Vendor lock-in.

  18. Re: Huge Mistake! on Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, they should just force content owners to license to them... Somehow...

    It's not Netflix's fault that every content studio under the sun tanks their licensing in order to give their own streaming operation a go. It does suck for us though - no way I'm subscribing to that useability and payment nightmare.

  19. Re: Long term debt .. am I missing something here? on Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Content begets subscribers. Make good content, you get more subscribers looking for that content. And then they discover other stuff you have already done, staying around and paying fees for stuff you are only paying bandwidth to serve.

    That's the game, and it's one Netflix appears to be good at - others are trying to replicate it (Amazon, Apple, HBO, Cinemax, etc.)

  20. Using would require both discovery and proving damages. These companies really don't want the defense digging through their records and datacenters for reasons that should be obvious, and proving damages would be difficult if not impossible.

  21. Re: There's no There There on AWS CEO Andy Jassy Follows Apple In Calling For Retraction of Chinese Spy Chip Story (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    News organizations get taken on stories. It happens, even with rigorous attempts to confirm. The New York Times has been taken on some false stories not too far in the past due to over-zealous reporters that think they are on something big, and lose objectivity. It happens. And it's also why some news organizations don't run shit until they have two named sources on the record, so if it's horse shit they can point to where they got the bad information.

    Bloomberg won't name their sources, and they won't produce photos or the actual hardware to prove any of this. Until they do, it's horse shit that they shouldn't have run. This could end up being their Jayson Blair moment.

  22. Re: There's no There There on AWS CEO Andy Jassy Follows Apple In Calling For Retraction of Chinese Spy Chip Story (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is it on multiple companies to prove a negative, instead of Bloomberg showing the proof of their accusations?

    You have it completely backwards. If I say that that someone buggers goats and I have evidence I'd better be able to produce that evidence - it's not on the alleged goat-buggerer to somehow prove he hasn't buggered a goat.

  23. Re: There's no There There on AWS CEO Andy Jassy Follows Apple In Calling For Retraction of Chinese Spy Chip Story (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet they can't produce even one of thousands of server boards that were allegedly removed from the data centers after the denied discovery of alleged hardware.

    Where is the hardware if this is real?

  24. Re: There is more to understand going on here on Germany Urges Global Minimum Tax For Digital Giants (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm disappointed. Saw "modest proposal" and found no mention of eating orphans.

  25. Re: Tax on the final sale is the only way to do it on Germany Urges Global Minimum Tax For Digital Giants (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Those sales happen on the Internet, so Google can say they happen in California.

    Does Germany get some taxing authority over California now? Good luck enforcing that.