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AeroHorn

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  1. me too in two. Wordle 333 2/6* 🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  2. nice word. Took me a while. Wordle 331 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  3. I think Musk's comment was more an observation than a wish that we all become working robots. Everything else being the same, you have country/company X where people are like ants/bees constantly working in a ruthlessly efficient system, and you have country/company Y where people do their little farming/reading and are happy. I want to live in Y because it has been proven many times that stuff doesn't make you happy and there are many poor communities even now where the people's happiness/contentment is higher than those in materially advanced ones. But the two countries are not in isolation. X could dominate Y in the future. This is the same dilemma I have regarding defense spending and nuclear arms. I very much don't want to develop nuclear weapons or spend a lot on defense. But imagine the dynamics if one of India or Pakistan didn't have nuclear weapons or if Palestine had nuclear weapons to match Israel's. The moral choice and its varying adherence is the human's achievement and downfall. Musk, possessing a mind that is more a calculator than a perception device, did the simple math and extrapolated. In his mind, he is giving more of a helpful pointer to US workers than demanding a match to Chinese behavior. It's just that what he thinks is a good example is the wrong one.
  4. unusual word, took me a quarter hour Wordle 325 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  5. Last used it while in grad school in 1990s writing programs in Fortran so that I can leverage LINPACK libraries on Sun Workstations. Yeah, a horrible spaghetti results with GOTOs.
  6. you need to add "GOTO 40" between 20 and 30 lines, otherwise either the program crashes because it can't find an unposted tweet or the tweet gets removed that was just posted. Regarding monetization, Twitter can follow LinkedIn model. There is high confidence that anyone there is a real person and that real data gets monetized nicely by offering services to hiring companies, etc. If Elon can get even something similar by getting rid of bots and making people real, there are possibilities to monetize besides just ads, while leaving room for those who don't want to pay. If this succeeds, those free people will be gradually restricted, similar to what LinkedIn does by hiding profiles, connected networks, etc.
  7. Exactly. Rivian made couple of thousand vehicles and lost couple of billion last quarter, and their market cap is about half of Ford and GM. I have invested in Rivian and Lucid (and lost >50%) but still holding because I like their vehicles more than any other competing offerings such as Mercedes EQS against Lucid and F150/Cybertruck/Model X against Rivian truck/SUV.
  8. I see more whining about blind Elon defending than actual blind Elon defending. People have pointed out his achievements and have backed them up with numbers. I find his actual personality (makes Mack Brown thick-skinned in comparison) quite repugnant but his ventures and entrepreneurial drive are the top over the last 2 decades. So, this throwaway explains the reason for investing in Tesla? Do the startups Rivian and Lucid also have cult of Elon to explain their market caps? Look at the macro events. Every country big and small have said that they want 100% EV in the next 1-2 decades (top down push). There are no EVs on the lots despite being marked up (bottoms up demand). Mach-E, ID4, Ioniq 5, EV6, Bolt, Leaf, etc. are all from traditional big companies and are all facing battery challenges. Tesla is unquestionably the leader in trying to get battery eco system lined up for their auto and energy businesses by not just depending on deals with battery manufacturers but actually getting to make their own batteries, optimizing to their needs, and getting to the mining sources for raw materials. Over the next 5 years, there are going to be serious issues about raw materials. As Rivian CEO put it, this problem will make the chip shortage look like a "small appetizer". One may reasonably say that Tesla is overvalued, but it has lived up to its "overvalued" price from 3 years back and may make current price reasonable over the next 3 years, or it may not. Every car maker has seen the writing on the wall and committed to make themselves into "Teslas" (100% EV). This is akin to Dell/HP/Lenovo committing to making their laptops like Macbooks. They have succeeded in making their laptops better but Macbooks still lead, now with custom silicon. Can Tesla keep its edge with its own "custom battery" or "custom Autopilot" or "custom supercharger"? Time will tell.
  9. You must be new to Indian attitude to objects of reverence. This is very typical; anything and everything, from people to mounds of clay, are all a fair game for their 15 minutes of divinity.
  10. I could be wrong, but just as the "rich people are driving Priuses because they don't want to pollute" was an epiphany to justify/start Tesla, I think he sees the Facebook/Twitter rut in social sphere as an interesting stage to fundamentally alter it. His other ventures have all been primarily driven from identifying problems in existing markets (SpaceX, Boring Company, NuraLink) rather than a great solution looking for a market, which is the typical R&D thing. At the time and in retrospect, the reasons for his companies make sense, even the Boring Company with its promise of significantly faster drilling to flip what it means to add traffic lanes, but he hasn't been clear on Twitter except for vague notions of free speech. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he sees a compelling problem that needs to be addressed, with the solution being still unknown. His personality will drive the creation of the solution. To @Brisketexan 's point, he is not a traditional CEO that one has to worry about fitting into a new business; he is a problem identifier and resource driver to address it. If we he were a traditional business head, none of his businesses would have survived, let alone thrived.
  11. KD is in a zone: shooting, assisting, blocking.
  12. And also the barbequing of the opponent visitor's (was it Colorado?) pet dog story. It was like the horror version of the aggy fanfic "visitor in awe of aggy hospitality".
  13. My usual start word was on the mark today Wordle 294 2/6* 🟨🟨🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  14. up 3 with less than 5 seconds. Just hold for the foul.
  15. nice word Wordle 281 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  16. Well, there is lb (mass) and lbf (weight or force), and kg (mass) and kgf (weight or force). 20 kg mass has a weight of 20 kgf (196 N on Earth). Similarly 44 lb mass has a 44 lbf weight (I am not going to find the g value in these funny units).
  17. It is an acronym that is being pronounced as a word. The person to decide how to do it is the one who came up with the acronym. How actual words are pronounced is not relevant.
  18. True, being part of US/EU is lot better than with Russia, but Ukranians are paying a price for it, however we may rationalize it away. That's all the video was leading to, that Ukraine will unfortunately get wrecked. Same unfortunate stuff happened during Arab spring. The people rose up by peacefully protesting and paid the price. It's a choice, and from afar, we are probably not in the best position to say which one is right for them.
  19. This is nice and all, but we are not in a community of nations; we have superpowers, fading powers, regional powers and the rest with each driven by national, not universal interests. Our forays in every corner of the globe should tell you that we don't see "sovereign nations have the right to control their own destiny", we see our interests above others. Didn't Kissinger say, "Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs."? Our support to Ukraine is primarily driven by our interests and secondarily by Ukraine's. Many other invasions and ethnic cleansings have happened without us jumping in to help. Given this reality, Mearscheimer's comments are that Ukraine should have realized that they are being played and should have to played it more diplomatically.
  20. What's that? One Charlie Strong?
  21. What you are saying works for normal mode. I play on the "hard" mode (selectable in settings), where, once a letter is identified as green or yellow, you have to use that letter in all of your subsequent attempts.
  22. my first fail. There are at least 6 possibilities for the first letter. Wordle 270 X/6* 🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟩🟨🟩⬛ 🟨🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
  23. I am looking forward to an academically focused P5 conference (Pac12?) to go semi-Ivy League and deemphasize football by capping costs such as coaches' salaries and reducing ticket prices. Let SEC become the NIL/bag driven conference. The only way to compete is by paying players through alumni, and this basically makes it a professional league run by shadowy alumni groups. The coaches are like the willing cops/DAs in this alumni-led mafia world. Not a good place for the universities to be in.
  24. I used to buy used cars but my current two cars were bought new because I keep my cars until they fall apart and found that used cars were not as cost-effective. I have a 2014 Sienna XLE that I paid 35k including tax that still runs like new, and a 2021 Honda Clarity PHEV less than a year back for 31K including tax and nets to 22.5K after 1K state and 7.5K federal tax rebates. It is such a good car with ~50 miles of pure EV and about 50mpg afterwards. I (my daughter mostly) drove ~2000 miles between the last two gas fillings since we charge every night and her commute is about 45 miles.
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