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It's different:

Holmes' board going into the scandal included an unusual roster of names for a healthcare startup, with leaders who had more experience in politics and government than healthcare

OTOH, JetZero's board include former executives of:

Airbus

Learjet

Gulfstream

AirFrance KLM

Pratt & Whitney

Major aircraft and jet engine makers as well as airlines. In other words, very strong industry knowledge and connections.

> If you think any major social media site is not willfully ignoring some percentage of the bots, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Sell me. How do they usually do that? Any concrete example?

Landmark moment because it's the first time? Don't you think that's an accomplishment in itself? Just like the first flight, or the first satellite, none of those were particular impressive.

You just proved the Elon hatress is just as strong

> Sales growth has ceased entirely for them since 2022.

I'm pretty sure you're wrong. But feel free to provide numbers to prove you are right.

SLS flight cost is $2B. Each launch. Did you forget to include the decade prior? It's so expensive that it can fly no more than once a year. The next flight is scheduled for Sep 2025, three years after the first flight. I bet you think that isn't absurd.

SLS use leftover engines from the Shuttle era. Yet it still cost 160 millions. Each. Thrown away after each flight.

Vulcan is a conservative design with no reuse. It also uses BE-4 engine, which costs them nothing to develop.

> Many times maintainers will use open source projects on their resumes, advertise them on forums, give presentations, and then will be antagonistic towards even very friendly and objective issues and PRs.

Is it different than someone advertising their FAANG's credentials?

I'm in the US and a frequent Uber users, and I've only tipped once over 10 years. My rating is 4.93, so I don't think the drivers see me as an asshole.

> I concur, using credit cards is rather dangerous

Your link is about chargeback. I'm pretty much exclusively using credit cards for daily payment and I can't even remember the last time I got any problems. I never pay interest either.

I get that you don't like or trust credit card, and it isn't popular in Europe, but don't be generalizing. Even in Europe my credit cards work well, except for the unpopularity of Amex.

> This is exactly the definition of a "bubble".

There is no such thing as bubble definition. Everyone has one depending on their point of view. You have one.

> the market might have an overly optimistic view on the success of AI

What is overly optimistic? How much overly is overly? Nuance matters, as with everything. Also timing. Most if not all of the outrageous ideas during the dotcom era have been realized in the 20 years since.

I wasn't trying to convince you. I was telling you that your arguments didn't make sense, and that people love car for valid reasons. Address their need and they will use public transportation.

You chose to shame people who don't share your opinions instead. Pity.

You can say that pretty much about any personal items -- laptop, phone, clothes, shoes, even your house. Manufacturing them cause harm to the environment and they're idle most of the time. Some of your clothes may stay unused for years, or forever. Yet nobody advocates for sharing them. That's because they are personal, reflect the owner's personality, and they're there when you need them.

Why is car different? I love train and tram (not so much bus) and would love to see them doing well, but I understand why people love car, and not only in less dense countries. Do you know that car ownership in Netherlands is on the rise? [0]. One of the reasons cited being people preferring cars as they get older.

If you want to advocate for public transportation, make sure you understand why people love cars, and strive to make public transportation suck less, primarily with flexible schedule, quicker, and more readily available.

[0] - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358798695_The_wides...

What makes this a "release" compared to the release of non-Google models?

> Part of what makes hackernews worth participating in is that the owners are not profit-maximizing and trying to extract the maximum possible value from the site.

How do you know? Just because there is no ads doesn't mean they don't have any benefits from keeping HN thriving.

Also for me I like HN because of the content, not because I care about YC's motive. You are obviously different.

The point is that thing can change. Intel was king a decade ago. TSMC is on the summit at the moment. Intel can be back in a few years if their plan works out:

https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-roadmap-2025-explainer/

> things are plainly obvious.

To you. You are projecting.

Doesn't mean iPhone was underspeced.

N95 was priced at $750 vs. $500 for iPhone.

N95 could have up to 4hrs talk time, 8hrs with WiFi turned off! iPhone could do 8hrs. iPhone could also browse the web for 6 hours, play videos for 7hrs, play audio for 24 hours.

N95 was more expensive, with worse software, worse screen, worse battery life.

Symbian the OS was solid. Symbian the devices were mediocre. iPhone was much more polished and consumer friendly. Touch screen, size, weight, iOS, the browser, data -- it's hard to attributes iPhone's success to a single thing, but the overall package was head and shoulder above anything else.

Cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game, nobody made their methods public, on any side. How do we know that you aren't from Chinese intelligence who is trying to figure out why they could trace back to the Chinese hackers in this case?

If Mandiant said they caught a Chinese hacker red handed by tracing the connection to his house in Beijing, and they were able to record his keystrokes, would you believe them?

When Kapersky said they discovered zero days by US intelligence, they gave no evidence either:

[FSB] goes on to claim without evidence that the attacks amount to a plot between Apple and the NSA to build a powerful surveillance infrastructure to snoop on those with ties to Russia.

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/apple-zero-day...

There are no lack of spending for schools and housing and infrastructure and welfare.

15% of federal spending is for defense, of which F-35 spending is part of.

To compare, 22% is for social security, 14% is for health, 10% is for medicare, 3% is for education. Note that this is federal, most of education spending is at state and local level.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

> The choices being made for the F-35 have much more to do with government tender processes, military red tape, corruption, and general government incompetence than physics or engineering.

Say who? what were the competing solutions and how did F-35 go with the selection?

> oddities in American flights

And you framed it as if every American airline charges extra for any baggage of any kind

Why do they need to pack an extra phone instead of using their primary one?

> We should not aim for endless productivity

There is no such thing as endless productivity. We should always aim for higher productivity, because that means getting more for less. What we should not do is to reward solely based on productivity.

Automation is always a good thing in the long run for the society collectively. If you have a counter example of bad automation please elaborate.

It's the short term pain, or individual lost that needs to be addressed.

> Looks like technology can only help people to create a more sophisticated ways to kill each other.

If technology can help to create more sophisticated way to kill each other, it can also be used to create the defense against the same. Laser can be a killing weapon, or can also be used to shoot down drones.

And this is saying nothing about civilian application that save instead of killing each other.

> Then again, Bill Gates thinks it may have plateaued

He didn't say AI may have plateaued. He said the OpenAI may have reached the limit of the current design. Very different thing. From your link below:

He anticipates a stagnation in development initially. The billionaire said that, with GPT-4, the company has reached a limit, and he does not feel that GPT-5 will be better than its predecessor.

It wasn't obvious. Otherwise it wouldn't be a bet! Everyone and their dog would want to be deep in the game, like what's going on with LLM at the moment. Nvidia revenue and R&D budget has traditionally been, and still are, smaller compared to Intel. Likely to AMD as well.

Did you know that car ownership in the Netherlands, the country renown for its cycling culture, has been on the rise?

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/10/car-fleet-growing-fast...

Most of them look exactly like the ICE versions of the same maker. Can you give example of EVs that you don't like, and the ICE vehicles that you like?