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Hyperbolic? Literally both are backed by factual examples. Did you read the article?
Some companies are horrible to their customers, is there something wrong about posting literal facts and comparing to marketing lies?
Yes, this was their TV Advertising for a decade.
I don't watch TV much, but they seemed to have pivoted to the word "privacy"
"I'm a Mac
And I'm a P----Error"-Apple ad year 200x
And as you mentioned, like politics, you can deny it and fanatics will believe you..
It really goes to show Apple Advertising has no basis in reality. "Security" claims are obviously debunked on a weekly basis if you work in tech.
"Privacy" claims are just as nonsensical as we've seen Apple bend to multiple governments (PRISM). You bet Apple will sell your privacy if the deal is good enough.
That being said, I don't think anything can be secure, we must treat everything as potentially compromised and act accordingly. I diversify my emails/bank/HDD/etc... So if one gets hacked, I didn't lose everything. Edit- Also those Superstars may be known, but you bet there are experts that would take the money rather than prestige.
Same reason people don't like Apple. A low quality product sold by massive advertising/marketing campaigns.
And yes Tesla is unreliable, there's no debate here. A new car company is going to be unreliable. And why are you using Absolute numbers? 1 roof, 7 million Ford cars. You made a statistical error here.
And what is this about combustion engines? It's 2020, everyone sells an EV. Only Tesla sells a low quality EV.
It's not free when you need to pay someone to update your website.
Grandma might be able to edit HTML, but "what's sudo? What's ssh? This one website says I need to pay for certs?"
One of my biggest complaints is how https flags text based websites for being dangerous.
What danger could possibly happen if I'm reading about a Physical Therapy clinic?
They don't take credit cards, there's no information for me to enter on the website.
But unless the Physical Therapist knows how to manage the server, they get this scary warning.
Maybe it isn't a big deal to US healthcare because they make lots of money. But I imagine there are others that don't have the technical abilities to upgrade to https. Could your grandma do it for her sewing store?
This is telling. The user expects a software experience, but Tesla software is notoriously buggy.
This same experience with a Ford logo would end in a negative review.
Wow that chart is telling.
But I designed interior parts, so it's my own Engineering take. Tesla's were not competitive at all. The gaps between panels were so bad, you could stick your finger in it. That's not just an appearance issue, kids and adults will mess around with large gaps and put stuff inside.
And features in the interior were non existent. (Especially for a luxury car)
Safety issues are recalled, so you would see them regardless.
Since Tesla has less than 1 million cars built IIRC, it's actually much worse of a problem. Other automakers have hundreds of millions of cars on the road with different designs, each with potential problems.
Yet something safety critical like a roof falling off happens rarely, but get recalled.
Has there been any Tesla recalls?
I'd hardly call it a "great design". From a specification point of view Tesla is below Kia on everything from exteriors to interiors.
It's a low cost design, not a great design.
You don't buy a Tesla for reliability. You buy one to show your friends.
No other automaker gets this pass(except maybe Jeep vehicles).
Anyway, as bad as Tesla quality is, customers getting new cars from new companies should have little expectation of quality. (Although Tesla made it's first car in 2006, at when do they stop getting such sympathy?)
If "security" is just Apple marketing, can we safely say "privacy" is just marketing too?
Maybe today things seem fine, but with declining sales, desperate companies are likely to do whatever it takes to make money. Doing something Anti-consumer is not new to Apple's core philosophy.
It's a huge security issue. Physical device access is reasonable. Stolen phones, people incarcerated, etc....
How difficult would it be to steal someone's phone, but illegal stuff on it, and call the police? Could you figure it out for 10k USD?
IP was never about society. It was a tool for the rich to create a monopoly on a product.
IP disproportionately helps organizations rather than individuals. And the major owners of those organizations are the 0.01% class
As a little guy, I can't afford a lawyer, copyright only hurts me.
I don't really care about the "projections" of a few people.
The bigger takeaways were our options for how to handle the pandemic and expected outcomes.
It's extremely hard to prove things in programming.
You can either develop both options and pick the best, or you can use "best practices", which is non scientific. Authority and tradition make best practices.
Also "don't @ me" about basic logic like nested loops and bigO. That's not what I'm talking about here.
Handling of coronavirus was a failure of Politicians and Physicians.
From the US standpoint, the shutdown should have happened in January. After the first US case, there was no purpose in locking down the boarder. Politician fail.
Physicians stressed harsh lockdowns and played into the fear. This wasn't science or statistics, this was fear. Physician fail.
After hundreds of coronavirus cases in the US, governors created their own lockdowns, but had no control over traveling between state lines. This created no benefit but created poor economic conditions. Politician fail.
You know who has been correct but seemingly unheard during all of this? Scientists/epidemiologists.
They predicted the spread perfectly but Politicians, citizens, and Physicians did not listen.
Citation needed.
"Plenty" is not statistics.
And "healthy" is difficult at best. Is an overweight person healthy? Is a normal weight person that doesn't exercise healthy?
And "healthcare system would rapidly collapse." Makes no sense. You mean our hospitals would be full for a few months. It's not like the healthcare industry would be destroyed.
"There are obviously still people arranging test-drive promotions for YouTubers but their role isn’t in a traditional public relations capacity."
Remember when people used to say Tesla doesn't do marketing?
The last few years of Tesla has been quite sobering for myself as I had my worldview flipped upside down. With Elon/Tesla, as more information has come out with time, it's been disenchanting.
I was sold a capitalist trying to save the environment by making a car affordable to the masses who is also going to have humans on Mars in a few months. I was inspired, now I'm disgusted in myself for believing it.
Yes, our Politicians and physicians failed us here. Epidemiologists have been correct in their pandemic physics.
Harsh violent lockdown for 2 or 3 years can eradicate coronavirus.
Soft lockdowns "flatten the curve". From the NYT study, this reduces death by 12% due to availability of ventilators, and find potentially other helpful drugs.
No government lockdown, where people must be personally responsible for their own health. This sacrifices the old and obese that refuse to comply with voluntary lockdown.
And all of this effort is focused around a few percentage of the population, which is disproportionately unhealthy.
No worries, Excel is nice for small/medium sized data and has the UI/Visualization which is nice.
The story I mentioned was because I wanted to look at the data before I started parsing it. I had full expectations to use either sqlite or Pandas.
I had Excel error out when I tried to open 10 million rows.
We aren't talking about a physics professor, we are talking about a medical doctor that didn't get his degree in the United States.
Also on the flip side, a non degreed technician fixes your car, not a 15 year degree.
Basically that's a false equivalence
If Apple isn't getting their developer license and hardware brought, they will find a way to make it impossible.
Apple needs to force developers to use their hardware or it won't have a native/refined feeling and developers will stick to Windows/Linux without the extra step of Apple.
Interesting to hear about a major international company reducing their investments in Europe.
"European pessimism" is this weird common knowledge about the decline of Europe. It's been written about in I, Robot. There is population decline but their GDP numbers look on-par with the United States.
It's the major/minor events rather than numbers that seem to push this mindset of inevitable decline.
Is it bad government policy? Or culture?
I believe the reasoning goes, Chrome isn't processor limited. Spotify isn't processor limited. Etc...
The use for multi core at performance is rare, I'm potentially writing a program for the first time in my life that uses parallel processing. The goal is to run this program a few times a year. No one would be buying a processor for me. They buy a computer for CAD guys, video card priority, ram, etc...
And the event that you are doing large scale performance computing, was Intel a monopoly there?
The more pressing issues in science-
Where's the cutoff of real science? Biology? Medicine? Psychology? Politics, economics?
If Medicine is science, we need massive deregulation to allow scientists to practice medicine instead of a singular group.
If psychology is science, there needs to be an effort to validate studies.
This makes me think I should take emails/comments less important. These are not customers, they are fans.
If it's my project,I should just enjoy it for myself.
While it sounds great to personally respond and research what people tell me, it's a major distraction and time waste when I could be doing research.