lucideer

(assume when you say "permanent DST" you mean "permanent Summer Time" since "DST" is just a description of the overall switching convention, not any particular season)

Interestingly, in Ireland, the time definitions are reversed from most places - summer is standard, "Winter Time" is the deviation. This has the effect of aligning the "official" time with mainland Europe (Irish Standard Time = Central European Time) in theory, but never in practice.

Given that, if Ireland were to adopt the EU's plans to drop DST, there's a reasonable chance they could keep summer time.

Affiliations aside I think I'm happy to see shade thrown at anyone who hasn't bothered to even issue a patch 10 days after what has been one of the biggest news weeks in security in memory.

Fwiw, as critical as I am of Mozilla in recent years, they (along with the Chrome team) have been pretty solid on this whole debacle over the last week. Apple has been far from the only target of their collective shade-throwing.

Yup, exactly.

Overall I was attempting to be as generous in my post as possible - I think median software engineering incomes in SV are actually a lot closer to 250k pre-tax, & 20 yoe is far from the median experience level.

I'd be surprised if most SV engineers are even millionaires, & even if they are, the gap from 1m to 2m is not trivial, nevermind 5-10.

> Most people here probably have around $5-10M in assets given we’re mostly in tech

Even in a SV world I'm trying to get my head around the logical leap that gets you to this number. Median comp in SV is <500k - that's 20 years in the business to earn $10m ignoring taxes & your actual living expenditure. Obviously we can jump that with equity, but that's still not moving the dial far enough for the "majority" to be up at those heights.

I don't see how we're getting anywhere near these figures without generational wealth (assume this is the answer).

Possibly the most surprising part of this is the extremely quiet reporting on it. I've not seen many news outlets pick it up, & even on HN - they were down for almost 8 hours & I didn't see even see this post hit the frontpage (it might have briefly at some stage).

I guess service reliability is just no longer something we consider a big deal in today's tech landscape.

It isn't but that wasn't the point. It's that sovereignty & redundancy aren't mutually exclusive

> can be stored

Rogue apps doing whatever when consistent standards exist seems more of a dishonest/inaccurate depiction

It's not centrally about practicality, it's about appeal. If practicality isn't the appeal, what is? It's not looks, it's not speed & it's not a Veblen good (relative to other cars - a Tourbillon is 16 times the price of a Roadster).

I mean, everyone buys cars for different reasons, but in that range you're buying it for 3 reasons I can think of: to drive it fast, to look at it in your garage, or to boast about how much you paid. It's not ticking box 2 or 3. The non-flying model does seem to tick box 1, but the exclusive flying model seems to add nothing there (presuming it ever gets made how many billionaires are even going to survive using it?)

Tesla's assisted driving is allowed in a lot of EU countries under varying conditions & caveats. It's a modified version of what's called "FSD" in the US, & while Tesla still market the feature under the "FSD" name in Denmark & NL, the name has been challenged as false advertising in other EU countries (e.g. Germany) & they've had to market it under a more conservative label like "Assisted" or whatever.

> falls under the purview of

Yup I wasn't making out that your statement was technically incorrect, just irrelevant.

There are levels of impractical - this is so far beyond useless even compared to the most ostentatious luxury cars.

He says in that video that they opened up the doors to show them that model, so it's unclear it's the same one "driven" for the demo.

Even if it is, they show interior, wheels & a distance shot of the rear opening showing a large air tank - very little can be seen of the actual chassis or engine.

Whatever tricks were done for the demo - whether the car is real or fake - it's highly unlikely what was shown today will ever be like-for-like accessible to consumers in the production model.

I'd assert that it being something other than a car is an extremely reasonable assumption given all evidence available.

EU safety regs are pass/fail - there's no sources stating Tesla have exceeded anything there, they need to pass in order to be sold in Europe, so they've done whatever the minimum required is for that. To do so, they've needed to make numerous compromises & changes to their cars to make them fit for the EU market - notably no FSD. Hardly indicative of a car brand that exceeds anything.

As for US safety standards, that seems a lower bar...