One of the many shitty parts of capitalism is that if your CEO doesn’t come up with as many shitty ways to turn an already successful company that’s already saturated its market into one that makes more money this year than it did last year, the shareholders (always Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, JPMorgan and a few others who all own each other as well) will fire them and appoint a psychopath who will.

Skill issue

My LinkedIn feed continues to be a barrage of posts about how EU regulations choke and stifle innovation, and yet all I see is a succession of wins

This is exactly what I’m talking about what I say I fucking hate capitalism.

Apple already make more money than just about anyone else in the world, but because shareholders expect infinite unending YoY growth they’re not allowed to just keep making billions of dollars. Every year senior management have to find new ways of bilking more cash than the year before, otherwise they’ll get replaced by someone who will.

Every now and then I get reminders like this that most people don’t pay that much attention to the news

Yeah this is kind of conflicting feelings for me because definitely fuck both megacorps and ICE, but on the other hand I don’t know any other countries where it’s common practice for individuals hang around hardware stores for work.

The author of the piece would have been better served leaving out the attempts to portray drinking Diet Coke as bad or weird behaviour. Lots of people drink Diet Coke without forming fascist governments. Mentioning it multiple times in one article makes it sound like you’re desperately reaching, which isn’t necessary.

It’s not even about profit any more, Elon’s ego just won’t let him admit that he was wrong about a camera-only system, when the entire rest of the industry is using LIDAR. Genius businessman doesn’t understand the concept of sunk cost.

Post is in the correct sub and yet everyone in the comments is taking it entirely at face value. Are you all new, or are you just playing along?

I’m glad someone explained the reference before I got too many downvotes.

Basically yes. You can’t usefully put a car into one of “crashes” or “doesn’t crash” categories the way you can with e.g. what colour an M&M is, or whether Drug X did or didn’t lower blood pressure in a patient, so miles travelled is a reasonable metric.

It’s possible you might be getting hung up on notions of sample size having to be above a particular fixed number and therefore miles sounding like a cheat, but actually there never has been a universal “correct” minimum sample size; it all depends on the data. A billion of one thing might not be enough, but 4 of another might be plenty.

For me, sports is like religion. As in, if you take it seriously enough that you start bullying whole groups of people over it, you need to be put in time out.

They gave you all the numbers you need to calculate the sample size for the Robotaxis, and it’s safe to assume the sample size for regular cars will be much higher.

Tesla Robotaxis are involved in a crash for every 40,000 miles they drive. For comparison, the publication reported, cars driven by humans crash about once every 500,000 miles, meaning the Robotaxis so far have crashed 12.5 times more frequently than human-driven cars.

That’s not how you measure sample size. There were 8 Tesla crashes. The crash is the outcome, not the sample.

8 Robotaxis crashed, having collectively driven the same distance that human-driven cars average two-thirds of a crash on. That’s statistically significant and then some.

If we could only train everyone to loudly hiss whenever they hear GDP or Tax Rate used as a metric to gauge a country’s value, a lot of people would be a lot better off.

Poor old Goebbels…

LibreOffice is as good as Word. Which sadly means there are still no really good document editors out there.

I thought she was calling herself Robert Galbraith these days. Which is a man’s name.

I don’t know about online, but in my day to day life most people who talk shit about vegans are exactly the sort of people you’d imagine; edgelords who think masculinity is congruent with being a dick.

The Soviet Union lost somewhere between 20,000,000 and 27,000,000 lives fighting the Nazis in WW2. Canada lost 43,600, and the US 419,400. But it’s never been popular to talk about the Soviet contribution to the war because that makes you a tankie.