Thanks man, I appreciate the honest response, and that's exactly what I was imagining (skepticism towards self-driving tech, that I share to some extent).
I think it's fair to have both positive and negative articles about companies shared around, I just wish to understand if there is a personal story to be shared too, specially given I am skeptical about self-driving cars as of today, and public claims about their success rates.
Danso, by no means I wanted to "stalk" you but I noticed you posted at least 5 negative/harsh articles about Tesla last month, which is fine to me as HN has a lot of Musk fanboys to counterbalance, anyways, I was wondering if you have any customer story to share about Tesla that affected you, i.e. did you own one and it was a bad car or did you lost money investing in them? I am genuinely interested in that background so if it may read offensive to you please let me know so maybe I can rephrase it! PS: I would like to buy a Tesla myself but I can't because of where I live, so I can only read people's account about them
Thanks for the vocabulary fix. As for the risk, google for the effects of too much acidic drinking to teeth and esophagus. People remove deep rust from iron using vinegar, I'd rather don't underestimate it myself.
I don't have any links off hand now but if you are interested in a more "natural" (add yourself a few extra nested quotes in there please) try googling for ACV or apple cider vinegar drinks, which promotes the same results with far less risk. Folks into ketogenic eating habits and intermittent fasting love this, although I couldn't get past the first glass due to the bitter taste.
One thing that drives me crazy (and to be honest has been impacting even my own family) is that companies learned to use gamification technics to engage young ones at work so they eventually don't think they are spending time at the office with overtimes, they are being psychologically rewarded constantly so it is not a social burden. Perhaps people in China just started to hit the upper limit of that and other countries will follow in some years once people get it does not pay off.
At the same time I think the change was overzealousness and that still it's a fair debate to have and why not remove it if they eventually reach consensus (as per their own official definition of consensus [linked somewhere in those e-mails])? It's only to show glibc still have governance problems after the Ulrich Drepper era, it has nothing to do with abort() and its possible meanings in a manual.
The author is a known soft-skeptic regarding SpaceX and a funny Bezos groupie, I have never read any trustworthy piece about such safety risk in the past few years so I tend to believe this is a just another Old Space lobbied article. See https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/85tf3x/crosspost_ch... for a bit more on how Davenport usually lacks deep info.
"Frappacappa thing" made me laugh and reminded me of what usually is used to make drinks and shakes frothy, something called Vana-Cappa in the industry, which ultimately is not much different from "powdered wood".
You think it's technically incorrect usage because you didn't know other uses of it nor its root. Technically the quoted sentence is 100% correct, concerted also means something you tried hard, struggled with, strived to get done. The musical concert actually derives its meaning from that, but done by a group put together: https://www.etymonline.com/word/concert
"Tesla also expects to achieve full GAAP profitability in Q3"
That would be a massive hit at skeptics as Q3 is almost around the corner (I wasn't even expecting it to happen this year), but even being a fanboy myself I still doubt such bold statement.
If someone managed to make a lot of cash and success adapting LOTR (for a long time thought to be "impossible" to adapt to big screens) someone can equally adapt Foundation, given a bit of space for fixing quirks and changing a few things here and there. Let's remain skeptical, alright, but this is actually pretty awesome news if true and I certainly hope for the best.
Just a sidenote from the other side of the world: Brazil has been offering free HPV vaccines for girls under 15 for a while and since last year to all boys at 12; they plane to have it available to both sexes between 9 and 15 in the next couple of years. It is estimated that nearly half of young people (16-25 years of age) have some form of the HPV in the country. I don't have any results numbers to share or source from now, however, my apologies. Let's hope Australia is not the only country to do that though!
Why do you think this pin-point for-hire internet sat service is better than a constellation? Is it because you can profit right away without an initial setup cost of the constellation? But in the long run the constellation pays off and might drive you out of business, right?
It's currently summer where I live and my wife has been sleeping upstairs at our room with two freaking blankets (one of them pretty heavy). Since NYE I have been sleeping at the ground level of the house where it's cooler, practically naked every night, desperate to be able to sleep without sweating profusely. I guess my wife really likes her serotonin bump.
To anyone curious about the cooking part: I also cook every single day and my meals have very little salt and nobody had complained so far because we are used to use salt as condiment to make stuff tasty but you need to learn to use real condiments (all those colored powders, you know?) and herbs and build up flavor thru caramelization of the food you prepare (nearly everything edible can caramelize a bit, which enhances flavor and mask out "lack" of salt), then use coarse salt when serving. People will taste the salt, but it will be just a twist and to finish the flavor. If you need a bunch of pinches of salt in your meal you have done something else wrong much earlier. Of course, you eventually need to learn how to live with less salt than you are used to today, but that's another story :-)