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Comment · 4 years ago
He didn't mean that literally. It's a tongue in cheek way of saying "when you're a 23 year old and you think you've mastered the markets, you don't think about wealth preservation."

Original quote: "When you have mastered the market at 23 years old, and you're up 6000% in less than a year, you don't think about wealth preservation."

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Comment · 6 years ago
This narrative ignores the fact that many of the executives have been replaced whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
Comment · 6 years ago
On macOS, the PDF reader Preview.app runs sandboxed by default.

The Preview.app sandbox is not quite as secure as what is used by browsers such as Firefox or Chrome on macOS for web content, so there is probably still a benefit to viewing PDFs in the browser, depending on whether the browser or PDF viewer is more hardened against these attacks.

Comment · 6 years ago
That seems really disingenuous. Can't you update the article with this important detail?
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't think you mentioned that the student doesn't have to pay back Lambda after 60 months of deferred payments. That seems important. From the Lambda site:

"The income share agreement has no interest. It's a flat percentage that goes away once you've reached the $30k payment cap, you've made 24 payments, or after 60 months of deferred payments (even if you haven't paid us anything)."

But you wrote in the article:

"Students with no safety nets experience real financial pain from the nine-month hiatus from work, in addition to the looming dread of possibly having to pay Lambda $30K one day."

Comment · 7 years ago
> FTFA "People who drank hot tea daily but didn't smoke or drink alcohol every day had no increased risk of oesophageal cancer."

Actually, it's the opposite.

From the article, "Some studies have suggested that only people who drink alcohol or smoke are at risk of cancer from drinking hot tea. This study suggests that is not the case."

The conclusion section of the article addresses some of the questions raised here. I would say the conclusion was a refreshingly well written summary of what the results mean and some outstanding questions.

Comment · 7 years ago
Apparently, the two are related. From the post,

"We’ve recently learned that Google Accounts has slipped their schedule for using Web Authentication to register new credentials. This delay is attributed to security key support on Android being, for most devices, non-upgradable."

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Comment · 8 years ago
> What prevents a new update to revert this or cause other safety problem?

One would hope it's a culture of safety first at Tesla where all software changes are extensively reviewed, heavily tested in the real world and using whatever kind of simulations are possible, deployed in a reasonable manner to a small set of cars and only deployed to the main population of cars after a satisfactory amount of time.

> Pushing updates in a rush is not a good sigh for critical software.

Yeah, it's pretty scary to know the braking software in your car was tested for less than a week.

Comment · 8 years ago
Which simply means it is because the car's AI isn't good enough to classify that object as something it should slow down for versus something it can ignore (like an empty plastic bag drifting across the road.)
Comment · 8 years ago
That is very significant!

Your comment suggests that Tesla's claims about the driver having his hands off the wheel for x seconds before a crash could be wrong. If the sensors detect the drivers hands are not on the wheel when they actually are on the wheel, then data logged about how long the driver's hands were off the wheel should be considered suspect.

I hope that's being investigated.

Personally, I'm having trouble believing the driver who died in the recent accident ignored the warnings for six seconds before the head-on collision, especially when he knew Autopilot didn't work well at that section of road.

I'm not familiar with how the system works. If the warning engages, is there a guarantee that the driver will have to take over shortly? Or are there scenarios when the warning turns off by itself and so the driver could have been waiting to see if the car would correct?

[Edit: lolc and Vik1ng pointed out that the warning isn't related to unsafe conditions as I implied. It's used whenever the sensors think the driver's hands are off the wheel.]

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