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New comment by Latteland in "No Calls"

Latteland — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:53:21 +0000

I think your wife is right. I have a tesla and I always think about that indicating something. Also Tesla's are so ubiquitous it doesn't matter that much like it used to be, and you can get a used one for pretty cheap. But that rich guy reputation still persists.

And then now that we have Elon Musk following the Howard Hughes self destructive cycle (greatest video game player AND ceo of 5 companies who posts all day on social media), there's a very possible negative takeaway - especially in tech it's hard to know. I live in a ridiculous world, I actually see 'got mine before elon was a doofus' bumper stickers. We should all try to judge each other on actual behavior and choices. I'm an asshole completely separate from buying a tesla a decade ago, people.

New comment by Latteland in "No Calls"

Latteland — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:46:23 +0000

And also, the customer has the money and gets to make a choice. Sure, supply and demand is a real thing. But there is also a notion of friction blocking the sale. Everyone absolutely hates considering a new purchase that doesn't give you clarity on details and price.

So that CTO says I'm probably not going to bother with you if you don't have a clear price. I also practice this purchasing way. Everyone should. So sure, someone in sales will fight to the death to justify their strategy of obfuscation and charging what the market will bear, and to try to justify their presence in the sales process with some kind of commission and argument about how they caused pain for the buyers and got more money. Meanwhile, company B sold me a widget for whatever, I already paid them, there was no salesperson wasting time on either side.

New comment by Latteland in "Snake oil or genius? Crown Sterling tells its side of Black Hat controversy"

Latteland — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 04:52:31 +0000

It still sounds like they are spouting bullshit. Their credentials lower my respect, they seem like the kind of things that impress an idiot "thought leader in ai".

New comment by Latteland in "I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is"

Latteland — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:46:24 +0000

Where is the place that mid level software engineers think there are not good career prospects and they'd get paid more? I can only guess it's a place where there aren't many dev jobs. My experience is in the Seattle area and we are begging for people to even apply for jobs. There are 10,000 jobs easily in Seattle. My company would love to grow its dev force 50% and we can only get people by hiring them away from another company (perhaps an obvious comment :-)), and by hiring new college grads.

If your job is working you too hard, with not enough pay, then people here get another job. It seems harder to high people with some experience at my company anyway. New college grads make 120k+ at top companies (we are a startup but not a unicorn, we pay a little more than that).

New comment by Latteland in "Camera vs. Lidar"

Latteland — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:39:14 +0000

But that's a clearly inaccurate view. The cars work, very well. They have sold mass numbers, in opposition to car dealers, conservative oil and gas industry opposition, the automotive industry. They have little maintenance (far less than regular cars). They seem pretty safe overall. I've owned a number of high quality cars, such as an audi s4, and my tesla since 2012 (7 years ago they had all this stuff!) has worked well. These cars are made and driven by humans, so there will be some mechanical problems, people with crash them occasionally, they are filled with energy and can catch on fire occasionally.

New comment by Latteland in "The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket"

Latteland — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:15:05 +0000

Did they terminate other people's tickets? The interesting article does mention booking the extra seat and not using it.

New comment by Latteland in "Seattle Faces Backlash After Easing on Crimes Involving Mental Illness"

Latteland — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:31:46 +0000

Your example illustrates to me why moral hazard isn't the best title for this. We should provide free housing to people in need so they don't do things like commit a crime to go to jail.

New comment by Latteland in "Tesla increases price of all Model 3 variants, even ‘off-the-menu’ base model"

Latteland — Tue, 14 May 2019 17:13:12 +0000

GMs big ev promise was that it would have real competitors in volt and bolt, that kind of didn't get there.

New comment by Latteland in "Tesla increases price of all Model 3 variants, even ‘off-the-menu’ base model"

Latteland — Tue, 14 May 2019 17:11:58 +0000

Gee, sounds like tesla pushing prices up or down all the time.

New comment by Latteland in "Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future"

Latteland — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:57:04 +0000

The US isn't in the same league. We have independent and trustworthy federal police (the fbi). They are under attack by the president but they are more trustworthy than I ever realized in general. I don't see political investigations of opponents of the govt, like happens commonly in China. I don't see endemic corruption.

New comment by Latteland in "Time protection: the missing OS abstraction"

Latteland — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:43:20 +0000

4 more years till that 2013 plan reaches the 10 year threshold.

New comment by Latteland in "Michigan Is the Center of the 'Pickleverse'"

Latteland — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 04:51:24 +0000

Who else came here to hear about Pickle Rick?

New comment by Latteland in "Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon"

Latteland — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 15:53:37 +0000

There is nonneglible cost in the pack. Tesla's have heating and cooling and individual battery wiring. Not sure of the cost difference, maybe 10%more wag

New comment by Latteland in "Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon"

Latteland — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 15:21:50 +0000

If you follow the area there are continuing new tech every month that are better than lithium but nothing ever comes to market.

New comment by Latteland in "Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon"

Latteland — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 15:20:48 +0000

Tesla is already at $100-150/kwh.

New comment by Latteland in "German chemicals giant Bayer victim of year long cyber attack"

Latteland — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 22:01:20 +0000

It wasn't like foreign autos weren't successful in the us until 5-10 years ago. BMW, Audi, VAG were not just suddenly crushing us companies.

New comment by Latteland in "Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry"

Latteland — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 20:45:36 +0000

Said another way, she works for an organization that supports extremely dubious scientific anti-global warming 'research'. I won't repost the other postings by people up above that were basically saying transgender people don't exist, or shouldn't exit.

New comment by Latteland in "Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry"

Latteland — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 06:47:08 +0000

She hated on trans people. And science.

New comment by Latteland in "Another potential bribery case, is buying your coach's house okay?"

Latteland — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 05:48:02 +0000

Another potential bribe to get someone into a prestigious school. This one is interesting because the student seems well qualified and had a brother already at Harvard. The father bought his son's potential future fencing coach's house for about $350k over its estimated value, and then sold it a year later for a loss of around that much money.

I didn't go to a prestigious school; indeed they paid me to go there! (because I had a scholarship). This is years later, should these probably innocent kids lose their degree? Your life is ruined if that happens. I didn't get into Harvard but somehow I managed to work at the FANGs, lead teams, get advanced degrees etc.

Another potential bribery case, is buying your coach's house okay?

Latteland — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 05:45:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html#comments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19580031

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