DenverR

You can look at historical percentile by year and score though.

it's written to provoke thought and reflection.

the title does the reflection on behalf of the reader which is a disservice.

The actual takeaway question is "is Elon Musk on a frontier of his own — or is the market extrapolating one proven outlier onto an unproven one?"

The HN title editorializes its own answer to the author's question.

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real Free Laptops has never been tried.

Congratulations you’ve just described central planning.

So “society” should be able to veto a sale, but when payroll is due the owners are on the hook?

How was Figma able to generate any value operating in Adobe’s powerful monopoly?

Love the FTC getting to decide if you’re permitted to sell your startup or forced to deliver more shareholder value.

Came here to comment the same. One of my favorite reads of the year.

Clearly a rorschach for people. The cars were driving autonomously and the improvements in Optimus’ form factor were impressive, so to me it seems pedantic to complain that the bar tending and rock paper scissors weren’t 100% autonomous.

Are you a Trevor Milton fan? I didn’t see as much merit in his body of work.

I’m not sure why everyone is positioning this as a “gotcha”. I may be off base, but was it advertised as 100% autonomous? I’m just impressed with the form factor, dexterity, and battery life. Feels like everyone’s grasping at straws to cast the event as a failure.

India

Apple has closer to $93b[1] on hand vs. $1t quoted.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/balance-sheet/

Former GE investor here - everything you've said is spot on.

Our modus operandi was that a growth equity investment should _never_ go to zero. The new portfolio thinking has shifted to the right: 1/3 make 1-2x, 1/3 make 2-3x, 1/3 make 3x or more.

Why does facebook continue to allow the running of political ads and all the headache that comes with it (despite it being a minuscule piece of it's overall revenue)? Power. You can see this as being the most tone-deaf way possible to address the problem, or as a power grab to become an arbiter of truth.

They clearly learned the power of the preorder with the Model 3! This is a great way to raise funding without going back to the equity markets.

Say they can fill up all the founder series slots along with 5,000 regular slots, that’s $500,000,000. Smart :)

shoot me an email drayburn[at]nvp.com, happy to jump on the phone and discuss

shoot me an email drayburn[at]nvp.com

It's seems pretty obvious to me that they replaced the human curated news section with a far (and intentionally) inferior product. They knew people would eventually begin complaining about the new system and ask for the old system back.

It's less about raising funds and more about liquidity for current shareholders

Apple will be able to appeal this and continue selling phones in the mean time. Pretty interesting regardless considering their investment in Didi last month to gain favor with Beijing.

Two possible takes are that this is either a low enough court that the judge had autonomy in his ruling and wasn't influenced by the investment, or Beijing is sending a message that the Didi investment will not grant Apple any sort of impunity going forward.

I think there should be cameras installed in every happy meal as heart disease kills over 600,000 Americans per year.

I always wonder if anyone notices that, the animation is one of my favorite parts of the site! Thats a great idea about having the collage adapt to the number of photos uploaded. I may see what I can do with that.

The more MVPy version was seeing about 1,500 sign ups per week, but I am hoping this improved feature set bumps that closer to 5,000.

I think you're right. It was out of laziness that I made FB login required, but I think it might help conversion rates if I nix that.

I'm looking into that now, thanks for the heads up!

Sure, we actually use Lob.com as our printer. They take care of both the printing and shipping, and have been great so far.

Thanks for the (attempted) support! It seems like there are quite a few people that have the same problem with Facebook. I'm going to add a non-social login as soon as I can.

We actually use Lob.com for our printing. Their API is very easy to use, and the print quality is fantastic.

After reading HN daily for over a year, I finally have something to submit!

I would love to get any feedback from the community that helped inspire this.