rainyMammoth

I think (and hope?) that the parent comment was sarcastic.

It is outright scary how many Tesla fanboys think that Tesla are at the front of the pack. How much Koolaid can you drink without even checking what the experts in those industries are saying?

They definitely are not. Anyone working in this industry overwhelmingly agrees that Tesla is far behind the well established self-driving car companies (Waymo, Cruise, ...) mainly because they continue to rely on cameras only (and not lidars)

As Facebook is one of the worst companies in existence today, I really hope they will not succeed in that new market.

Fintech (And indeed Stripe, Square and Plaid in particular) are grossly overvalued. They all play the hype game, with statement such as "Stripe powers the internet". Way too many people are buying into those valuations without looking at the fundamentals.

This hype tech nonsense is ready for a big time disruption.

you are clearly out of your depth. Waymo gathers way more data than Tesla, mainly because they can. Each Waymo car is free to transfer Terra bytes of data through their hard drive after each shift. Your average tesla car can only upload a couple hundred MB, if even that.

> Elon says we should see 300mbps soon and less than 20ms ping (iirc).

Mini rant: Can we stop calling that guy by his first name as if you were his acquaintance?

That is my conclusion as well. I have tried Autopilot and it's basically as good and useful as any modern lane steering and cruise control system out there.

Ah yes because any voiced criticism of Tesla must be rooted into big short money.

I cannot believe that smart people still repeat that argument.

Until you have something like the human brain powering the car you cannot just use "two eyes"

you made me curious and I logged into the IRS to find those "transcripts". I really cannot tell if they generate that information from your own tax report or if they generate it from what they already got in their own databases.

unfortunately dogs owner seem genuinely incapable to realize that some people are allergic and are simply not comfortable with unpredictable animals in public places.

I have worked with Deloitte type consultant in the past. It was exactly what I was expecting. A couple 20-something dressed up in suits, really good at talking and bullshitting high level visions.

Very little technical knowledge overall. It was a disaster.

Sounds like lane steering and adaptative cruise control on my 19k$ Toyota Corolla.

The shift over the last few days is that where WhatsApp was seen as the default way to communicate, Signal now became the default. I'm still on WhatsApp but reduced my usage by 95% in favor of Signal now that most of my thread or individual users switched to Signal. It will take time but hopefully WhatsApp will become irrelevant in the long run.

It was very entertaining seeing all my group chats move one by one to Signal now that there is a critical mass of users that agree that it is the right choice. I tried to make it happen in the past and it was too much a pain to convince people that Signal was way better than WhatsApp.

Facebook guy tells us that the changes are harmless and that there is nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here I guess.

Amazing what some internal koolaid can do to you (well more than this,it's really probably greed). Please rethink critically the ethics of your employer.

Did you ever try a 45k$ sedan car before or are you comparing your tesla M3 to a couple years old Toyota Corolla? I also drove a tesla for a while and it didn't impress me. The acceleration is nice but it's not something you realistically care about in the long term (also acceleration kills your battery)

It seems pretty common that people compare Teslas with the car they had before. It's like comparing an entry dell laptop with a MacBook pro.

I think it's an immature car and most buyers are attracted to the brand appeal, and use it to appear next gen to their neighbors. As usual, no owner will recognize this but it's a well known phenomenon that manufacturers use against us.

interestingly I have had private chats with some Silicon Valley tech workers lately that find those bans and censorship repulsive but are too afraid to state this publicly.

I'm wondering if this is not the result of the ultra loud vocal minority once again?

I always saw ads as a zero sum game. We all have limited dollars and attention. When you advertise, you might slightly change the allocation of attention and dollar to your product.

When everyone advertises, it is back to the same status quo. And when everyone stops advertising it ends up being the same.

I really hope more companies would stop advertising or at least question the value they are getting out of those money pits. Ads created some of most horrible companies the world ever saw (Google, Facebook).

For some reason this type of behavior is very specific to Tesla. There is something to be said about feeling as part of a community (or as some would say, a cult).

Your post reads as if you have already decided to discount everything that is not Tesla. You seem to be in a cult.

I test drove the Bolt and the Tesla, and the Bolt is a MUCH better value for the dollars paid (you can get it for around 30k$ with a bit of haggling). Saying that GM doesn't know how to make car is laughable.

When Tesla pops, it will potentially lose 80 or 90% of its values over a couple days/weeks. Even though that's only 2% of the SP500, it will trigger a panic sell for related companies in the same industry, and it might eventually become a macro indicator.

At this point, pretending that TSLA has anything to do with the company Tesla is grotesque. I applause the length to which you go to justify yourself.

TSLA is a meme stock that operates on a narrative that "TSLA always goes up". It's pure speculation and that bubble is going to pop very badly. And it might take the whole economy with it now that it is in the SP500 with a ridiculous valuation.

How long before all the Californians make Austin the exact same place they fled from?

There is a middle ground to be found here.

Musk is managing his companies as pure hype-machines. This can only successfully work for a couple companies that operates as cult.

If there is one thing that made Tesla successful, is the charismatic leader personality of Musk. Tesla is only a success on the stock market. They are not profitable, and the coming years will be the turning point for EVs. I don't see them coming out ahead.

Exactly this.

I said this before, but I hate the direction the workspace is going. Interruption driven work seems to become the new normal.

I think the key here is to use it as a pivot in your life. Retiring on 1M$ is pretty hard (in the US), but do you really want to retire? Or work on something that matters to you and might be more enjoyable and less stressful.

For example, you could take a couple years to try to build a one-man startup. Working on building an MVP that would resolve a niche problem? You will be less stressed because you would know that in the worst case you can always go back to a comfy engineering job. With 1M$ you already did better than 99% of the people your age.

I hate what the workspace has become. It all started with Slack.

Productivity is now equated to busy-ness on corporate chat. You are being judged on how much "chats" and "mentions" you send. If you are offline (because you want to do actual work), people now automatically think that you are not working.

The only goal of those hearings is to create "gotcha" moments that will then be used to gather votes and divide us further down the line.