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Comment · 2 years ago
Damn, he really stuck his whole ass out in the wind with this branding then.
Comment · 2 years ago
Tesla's gonna take over the car market, like, any day man, I swear.
Comment · 2 years ago
Vetting them for what? How much abuse they can take?
Comment · 2 years ago
> The obvious fix is to stop animating when the step gets below some threshold, but that's inelegant.

Why? It's simple, easy to implement and validate, and provides the desired visual impact. Seems perfectly elegant to me.

Comment · 2 years ago
Given that the canopy itself modulates the moisture in the air, this explanation seems to provide a bound on the outlier of height relative to other trees more so than an absolute barrier.
Comment · 2 years ago
The thousand character classic was also used to teach the reading of chinese characters in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, though perhaps to a lesser extent than the three character classic. I have no idea to what extent this is true today, but it certainly held up until the 19th century.
Comment · 2 years ago
Musk has lost a massive amount of credibility because of failing to deliver on most of the self-proclaimed potential of his businesses—basically, all of them outside of the potential of SpaceX, and even there he should be grateful the perceived value of the company isn't tied to going to mars.
Comment · 2 years ago
Eddie Chapman even more so!
Comment · 2 years ago
Sure, but they can also easily ask anyone. I don't know why it makes sense to shrug off that responsibility onto some nationalist bullshit.
Comment · 2 years ago
Easy! Maximization of index funds.
Comment · 2 years ago
> I don’t understand what you are saying here. How many months does one need to stay to hover up the trade secrets / IP?

Presumably the more valuable the IP, the harder it is to access.

Comment · 2 years ago
Ah. Grim. Thank you for the context.
Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe i'm not looking in the right place, but this does not strike me as an endorsement of Hitler.

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