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New comment by dmode in "OpenAI and Elon Musk"

dmode — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 02:56:09 +0000

The emails clearly show that Elon had no interest on this being a non profit. Especially because he advocated for OpenAI to be absorbed by Tesla multiple times. The only reason he is suing is because xAI is dead and he needs some AI love.

OpenAI leases office space in SF

dmode — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:58:49 +0000

Article URL: https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/27/openai-uber-headquarters-mission-bay/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38042475

Points: 7

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New comment by dmode in "California population size projected to stagnate"

dmode — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:43:53 +0000

This is such a ridiculous hyperbole, I am surprised it is the top comment on Hacker News. There are still 40 mn people in California, and people still move here.

- Housing is ridiculous -> pay can also be ridiculous. And housing can be cheap once you move out of Bay or Los Angeles

- Utilities are ridiculous --> You don't really pay that much because of temperate weather

- Political issues are rampant --> Not sure what this means. I mean, political issues are rampant everywhere. Have you seen Florida ? Whole politics is based on around being "anti woke". Or Texas ? Ridiculous stunt (flying migrants, banning abortions). I prefer not to live in a Christian theocracy

- Homeless and crimes everywhere --> Do you get your news from Fox ? There is like zero homelessness and very little crime outside of very large cities. Even in SF, once you are out of downtown, there is very little homelessness. In fact, SF has some of the lowest violent crime rates

- Own a car and bike is a hassle --> LOL, what ? Is that why every family has multiple cars and bikes ? And is by far the leading EV ownership rates in the US ?

- Racial and political ideologues.... --> Again reads like a Fox news headline. Perhaps you prefer the book banning ideologies and "benefits of slavery" being taught elsewhere. My kid goes to a public school here and it is amazing the amount of effort is put in to be inclusive

- One can lose entire livelihood.... --> Can't even, insanely ridiculous

New comment by dmode in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging"

dmode — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:41:34 +0000

But doesn't alcohol trigger a wildly different reaction than hard drugs ? Which alcohol triggers schizophrenia, psychosis, hallucination and make you violent ? And these are triggered very very easily by using a small amount of meth or fentanyl. To get to a comparable state with alcohol, you would have to drink copious amount, but then you are more likely to be passed out than exhibit violent behavior.

I agree with your other point though - permissiveness of use shouldn't come with ignoring all societal norms, just because you are a vulnerable drug user. In fact, permissiveness of use should be paired with stricter enforcement of quality of life laws

New comment by dmode in "Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints"

dmode — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:15:56 +0000

Teslas absolute don't have long-lasting materials or great reliability or great performance. There have been hundreds of thousands of articles and experience about poor materials, build quality, reliability etc. I have owned both a Model S and Model 3, and I did own them because I wanted to support an EV maker, but they are by far some of the worst made cars I have owned. I switched back to a BMW EV and its like night and day.

New comment by dmode in "Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints"

dmode — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:12:01 +0000

You are extremely biased. I have both owned a Tesla and non Tesla EV. Non Tesla EVs are way more conservative in their range estimates and you can actually beat their estimates. People routinely beat BMWs advertised EPA range - something you will never hear for a Tesla

New comment by dmode in "Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints"

dmode — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:08:21 +0000

I had a Mazda 3 once which would routinely beat its EPA estimates, especially highway driving. You are too forgiving of Tesla's business gimmicks

New comment by dmode in "Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints"

dmode — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:06:21 +0000

I have the BMW i4, and I would echo the same comment. BMW is extremely conservative with range estimates and would almost certainly meet or beat their range estimates.

New comment by dmode in "Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints"

dmode — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:59:37 +0000

When I used own a Model S, it nearly left me stranded in a mountainous highway, in winter with its optimistic range meter. Ultimately, I had to drift behind a truck, drive at 45 mph, and reach the Supercharger with 2% charge remaining.

New comment by dmode in "Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’"

dmode — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:40:14 +0000

PayPal was not founded by Elon. SolarCity was run by his brother / cousin (?) and was about to go bankrupt before being questionably acquired by Tesla. Boring is not a thing. Even Tesla wasn't founded by him. So his track record is really creating SpaceX (and jury is still out on long term success) and executing on Tesla (where technology, concept was founded by someone else).

New comment by dmode in "X, the moonshot factory"

dmode — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:19:12 +0000

Is this the Alphabet X or the Elon X ?

New comment by dmode in "S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’"

dmode — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:59:49 +0000

I really think incidents by autonomous cars are the least of SF's problems

New comment by dmode in "Moving the Evernote center of operations to Europe"

dmode — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 10:01:04 +0000

Evernote is still around ?

New comment by dmode in "Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]"

dmode — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 11:20:36 +0000

I think they stole the core concept from Twitter - engage users and then show ads. Sue them

New comment by dmode in "Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]"

dmode — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 05:11:49 +0000

I thought Musk had said that there is nothing worth stealing from Twitter because it’s codebase was so bad

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-down-elon-musk-ex...

New comment by dmode in "Airbnb Collapse Is Real"

dmode — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:41:04 +0000

Try staying in a hotel with two kids

New comment by dmode in "Airbnb Collapse Is Real"

dmode — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:38:34 +0000

I feel like I read about Airbnb's collapse every other month. Anyone showing random data on twitter and expecting a brand- which is literally a verb and doesn't even require paid marketing - to collapse 40% is laughable. I must also point out that a 40% drop is not reflected in the stock price (which is actually up quite a bit) or in the forward guidance. It is also interesting, that supposedly data driven people in Hacker News would fall for some random tweet.

New comment by dmode in "Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work"

dmode — Mon, 15 May 2023 06:26:56 +0000

I really don't think he is saying that. There is not quote for him saying anything like this. I think he positioning the trade-off.

New comment by dmode in "Apple reports Q2 2023 results"

dmode — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:35:30 +0000

Apple is now making $20bn on just service PER QUARTER. This is their failed product.

New comment by dmode in "Elon Musk plans artificial intelligence startup to rival OpenAI"

dmode — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 07:16:56 +0000

Perhaps, he can fix auto wipers first ?