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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The weird thing is that android was already free and open and you could already sell google free android. That is exactly what amazon does, the kindles all use modified android and use bing as their default search engine. But doing so limited you from accessing the official google play store. Using the play store on a heavily modified OS seems like it'd be just a bad experience from every angle. Like the ouya would definitely have clicked the button to put android play on their bad device if that was a possibility and that seems like a nightmare for google, the companies that make the stuff in the store and for a user trying to run standard software on nonstandard hardware. They're not getting fined for making sure android-with-play would be compatible, it's for making companies install 50 other apps and prominently feature google etc. And any company accepting that contract for one model had to accept it for every model they sold.
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Dylan16807 posted:They're not getting fined for making sure android-with-play would be compatible, it's for making companies install 50 other apps and prominently feature google etc. They don’t make you install apps though. The kindle is an android tablet with no google apps that has bing as default search. They don’t make you install anything. Only if you want the play store do you need to install all the google stuff.
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Another day, another Uber exec gone. Meal delivery service DoorDash hires Uber finance head as CFO quote:Meal delivery service DoorDash Inc has hired Uber Technologies Inc’s head of finance to be its chief financial officer, positioning the startup closer to an initial public offering and dealing another executive loss to Uber. Maybe they'll get lucky and Uber's third string will be the Tom Brady of finance.
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Jul 19, 2018 21:20
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How many C-levels does Uber even have left at this point?
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Jul 19, 2018 21:26
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Arsenic Lupin posted:How many C-levels does Uber even have left at this point? They're all C-level at best if you ask me. 
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Maybe that's their path to profitability. :Khosrowshahi taps finger to temple: "Don't have to pay C-level salaries if you never hire any C-level execs."
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Jul 19, 2018 21:39
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now i see why he blocked me last week for saying using his wealth to elect progressive politicians would do a lot more than his electric cars to combat global warming.
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Jul 19, 2018 22:06
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Well, well, well... https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1020150202060034048
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RandomPauI posted:Here's something that's actually getting clinical trials in a few months. It combines two established technologies to produce a color x-ray. Instead of colorizing black and white x-rays it measures how the wavelengths change when they go thru different materials. New thing for airports scanners too https://www.gatechecked.com/geneva-airport-3d-scanner-no-laptop-liquids-removal-266
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I wonder if it'll be able to replace MRIs.
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RandomPauI posted:I wonder if it'll be able to replace MRIs. Maybe if you combined it with ultrasound scans through some sort of algorithm.
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Bates posted:Maybe if you combined it with ultrasound scans through some sort of algorithm. "Dr., what did the scan show about my tumor?" "Well, it's either metastasized - or it's boy!"
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Well, well, well... unprecedented move from the company that refuses to ban nazis from its goddamn platform
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Catboy Autonomist posted:unprecedented move from the company that refuses to ban nazis from its goddamn platform No company is gonna ban like half their userbase.
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Tesla shares drop after carmaker reportedly asks its suppliers for refunds to reach profitabilityquote:In its report Sunday, The Wall Street Journal cited a Tesla memo asking a supplier last week to return a "meaningful amount of money of its payments since 2016.”
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Jul 23, 2018 16:11
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Doing stupid money tricks to make this year's/quarter's numbers look good for the 1 day it takes to print the report while totally demolishing next year's/quarter's numbers is straight out of the Corporation 101 textbook.
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That's a huge sign of things tumbling down. Trying to strongarm suppliers never works well specially if you can't source those components from another supplier like much of Tesla stuff
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Yeah, "make my customer profitable" is not high on most suppliers' priorities.
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And back to 2016? Yeah, you've created, delivered and been paid for IP or physical product not being used at Tesla's computers or warehouses because they still can't get their poo poo together to integrate or ship into their products? Pay back, please. A "meaningful" amount.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Yeah, "make my customer profitable" is not high on most suppliers' priorities. pangstrom fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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No a theranos or Enron accountant
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pangstrom posted:If you make mostly/only tesla parts, though, "don't let my customer go under" is a priority, I suppose, but yeah it's not your only consideration and I'm with withak in that I think this stinks of juking the financial snapshot stats. "Hey once all these credits that totally will roll in roll in we will have broke even" or whatever. Being a Tesla accountant is probably a lot like being an Uber lawyer. That would definitely be true, but I don't think it is applicable for Tesla. The suppliers they use have contracts with most major automakers. Tesla is a tiny drop for any automaker; despite its market cap suggesting it is on the level of GM or Ford. Strong arming suppliers is a tried and true practice. I have never seen someone try to do it for goods already paid for, especially not ones from over 2 years ago. Most companies get a supplier onto something like Net 180 or worse then delay delay delay. Then they'll require them to take a haircut to get paid and any future orders. Places like Walmart do this especially after they get a supplier to have them as their main customer, preferably after requiring them to grow (while having to take out debt to do so!) to meet increased supply demands. They get the supplier to the point where they can't afford not to have Walmart even if it means cutting into their margins. Tesla has absolutely no pull with its suppliers past or future. They're just too small of a fish. And if the suppliers smell bankruptcy blood, they will have no reason to try and generate goodwill with them.
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Customer tried this at a company I was at, called in every vendor they had and had a meeting about the future of their company then ended it with a "Also to continue getting our business we are going to require a flat 10% decrease in your quotes and a 10% rebate on this years orders also reduce your lead times by x amount we don't care if its not possible in this spacetime " That didn't go over very well with anyone as you can imagine. Amazingly enough its a great way to lose all the local vendor relations you have which is awesome when half your product requires specialized equipment only said vendors can make or are qualified by ISO to produce!
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"Free market is what we need for electric cars on the moon!" "Okay maybe not so free guys please" - Elon Musk
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I’m going to laugh when their battery maker instead cites tariffs and asks Tesla to pay more instead.
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Cheesus posted:And back to 2016? I'd offer a discount of $1. That's meaningful. The meaning is "take your dollar and go gently caress yourself"
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Lote posted:I’m going to laugh when their battery maker instead cites tariffs and asks Tesla to pay more instead.
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ShadowHawk posted:Doesn't Tesla make the batteries? Or whoever supplies their lithium, materials, etc.
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ShadowHawk posted:Doesn't Tesla make the batteries? Technically Panasonic does. Tesla leases out a portion of the gigafactory to Panasonic to manufacture the 2170 battery.
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Materials have to come from somewhere, so with ell dumbass in chief those will have tarrifs
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After tasting blood, Uber's self-driving cars return to the streets to kill again. -or- Uber’s self-driving cars are returning to public streets—in manual mode quote:"We're starting with cars in manual mode, with a Mission Specialist sitting behind the wheel and manually controlling the vehicle at all times," writes Eric Meyhofer, the leader of Uber's self-driving car program. "While we are eager to resume testing of our self-driving system, we see manual driving as an important first step." To me, I see an important first step as coming before the senselessly murdering someone step, but I guess that's why I'm not the head of a company valued at billions of dollars.  quote:Perhaps most importantly, Uber says it will no longer disable the collision avoidance systems on its Volvo vehicles. At the time of the March crash, Uber had reportedly disabled this software, relying on the human driver to brake if the car was on a collision course. Drives autonomously? No, braking required!
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corn in the bible posted:In what way is this a test of the driverless cars It's Disrupting driverless cars
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corn in the bible posted:In what way is this a test of the driverless cars i'm going to guess that it's gathering more training data for the cars and testing how similarly their NNs are replicating behavior of a human driver not that i'm happy they're getting to put their hosed up technology on the road again, even in a data gathering/readyness testing sense Condiv fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jul 24, 2018 |
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It turns out that that whole 'ghost ride the whip' craze from way back was just cover for Uber illegally testing their autonomous vehicles.
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Doggles posted:After tasting blood, Uber's self-driving cars return to the streets to kill again. “Mission specialist”
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Be careful what you say about Elon Musk. He might contact your boss and threaten to sue.quote:Yesterday afternoon, the principal of the family office in which I am employed received a communication from someone purporting to be Elon Musk. Doubtful that Elon Musk could actually be attempting to contact him, my employer asked one of my colleagues to investigate and respond.
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IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' https://gizmodo.com/ibm-watson-reportedly-recommended-cancer-treatments-tha-1827868882 Internal company documents from IBM show that medical experts working with the company's Watson supercomputer found "multiple examples of unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendations" when using the software, according to a report from Stat News. Stat reviewed documents that were included in two presentations given in June and July 2017 by IBM Watson's former deputy health chief Andrew Norden. The documents were reportedly shared with IBM Watson Health management. According to Stat, those documents provided strong criticism of the Watson for Oncology system, and stated that the "often inaccurate" suggestions made by the product bring up "serious questions about the process for building content and the underlying technology."
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