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JawnV6 posted:huh, imgur kept my pictures around: https://imgur.com/a/uGOGN i love all the quartz windowed things in that one picture 
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When I was living in Shenzhen my company wouldn't reimburse me for the RAM I bought at one of those electronics towers because the seller gave me some sort of receipt with a particular stamp that wasn't legit enough for the finance dept. At the moment I got pretty irate about "official stamps" on documents. Still am when I have to do trade with the ME.
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sonatinas posted:When I was living in Shenzhen my company wouldn't reimburse me for the RAM I bought at one of those electronics towers because the seller gave me some sort of receipt with a particular stamp that wasn't legit enough for the finance dept. At the moment I got pretty irate about "official stamps" on documents. Still am when I have to do trade with the ME. well, theres a bunch of hunan women downstairs at those places selling receipts for a % fee of the face value. you coulda done that.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:they are backed by venture capital and have burnt through too much cash to be able to pivot to just doing the s though. selling off everything outside the s would look a lot more like ejecting the s from the actual tesla doesn't tesla not actually have that much venture capital behind it at this point? and wasn't most of tesla's venture capital raised by or outright from ol musky himself? like that was the entire reason he got to be an honorary founder and the head of the company, he dumped a bunch of daddy's money and paypal money into tesla. so in the end the primary vc for tesla is the guy in charge so its not much of a threat
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fart simpson posted:well, theres a bunch of hunan women downstairs at those places selling receipts for a % fee of the face value. you coulda done that.
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JawnV6 posted:is that the "fa pi ao" folks when you get off the subway? fapiao fapiao fapiao yes
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fishmech posted:doesn't tesla not actually have that much venture capital behind it at this point? daddy's money for musko was <100k it's paypal money and raised from ipo money
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:edit: tesla has a working business that turns a profit, but it's a lotus or caterham-sized business, not a mazda or a jaguar-landrover. this seems an especially appropriate comparison since wasn't the tesla roadster basically just an electric lotus?
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fishmech posted:doesn't tesla not actually have that much venture capital behind it at this point? i thought "musk paid for tesla out of his own pockets because he's so kind and wanted to give the world a better car and he lived on a friend's couch while he was doing that!" was a complete myth though
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just got an email that Amazon is discontinuing their Prime Surprise Sweets box because i guess people don't want to spend  on a grabbag of nearly expired sweet thingsalso jokes on me for actually getting a physical dash button to order a $20 box of nearly expired sweets (the whoopie pie from Maine was very good)
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ate all the Oreos posted:i thought "musk paid for tesla out of his own pockets because he's so kind and wanted to give the world a better car and he lived on a friend's couch while he was doing that!" was a complete myth though tesla was in fact started via a sweetheart loan from the department of energy using a program designed to fund businesses like that
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ate all the Oreos posted:i thought "musk paid for tesla out of his own pockets because he's so kind and wanted to give the world a better car and he lived on a friend's couch while he was doing that!" was a complete myth though yes but what does that have to do with the true fact of elon musk being a prime investor in tesla including apparently leading all their pre-ipo vc funding rounds?
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ate all the Oreos posted:i thought "musk paid for tesla out of his own pockets because he's so kind and wanted to give the world a better car and he lived on a friend's couch while he was doing that!" was a complete myth though at that point the guy was like $50 million post-ipo so lol at the couch, but it was definitely cuz of basically no reason
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as the guy who, without a doubt here, deals the most with china shipping, the gov't has got to pay for it all. I get 2 day air freight on all kinds of poo poo for totally free from my factories. like 10,000 nickel enamel pins. it weighs like half a ton and they ship from inland china and arrive in 2 days.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:at that point the guy was like $50 million post-ipo so lol at the couch, but it was definitely cuz of basically no reason he lived in one of peter thiel's mansions, not exactly slumming it
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Beast of Bourbon posted:as the guy who, without a doubt here, deals the most with china shipping i beg to differ. let me tell you about all of the dried tiger penises i consume...
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JawnV6 posted:naw it'll be like a 60's mustang, the line's soooo popular that every part still in current manufacture the difference being that when the 60s mustang was being made, you could buy parts for it
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sv got its start by being the same sort of place (albeit at a smaller scale) that shenzen is today: a place where you could source and assemble and entire computer from loving sand entirely inside a 1 sq mile radius the fact that apple was founded in a garage in cupertino ca and not loving fargo nd ain't exactly an accident
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sv in turn got that way as a result of a big old spigot of defense spending, which in turn was attracted by a large concentration of high-caliber public research universities. and of course pretty much everything elon "john galt" musk has done was entirely dependent on government spending and subsidies and the chinese government today takes a very active role in the levers of its export economy almost as if government and private industry have a symbiotic relationship despite what today's WHO IS JOHN GALT crowd might crow
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are you saying silicon valley needs to compete with china after all?
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Sapozhnik posted:sv in turn got that way as a result of a big old spigot of defense spending, which in turn was attracted by a large concentration of high-caliber public research universities. and never forget that the original SV gambit was largely backed/spearheaded by noted eugenicist piece of poo poo James Watson
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A good book about the SV/Federal government is The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Private-Economics/dp/0857282522 quote:Debunking the myth of a laggard State at odds with a dynamic private sector, Mazzucato reveals in case study after case study that in fact the opposite situation is true, with the private sector only finding the courage to invest after the entrepreneurial State its basically all about how libertarians are ignorant morons which is extremely my poo poo
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Jonny 290 posted:and never forget that the original SV gambit was largely backed/spearheaded by noted eugenicist piece of poo poo James Watson also the first actual "silicon" in silicon valley was Shockley Semiconductors, run by creator of the first transistor and noted paranoid schizophrenic eugenicist William Shockley Literally the man that put the Silicon in Silicon Valley posted:My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and, thus, not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in the environment.
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Shaman Linavi posted:also jokes on me for actually getting a physical dash button to order a $20 box of nearly expired sweets ill say. typically a story that ends with someone installing a bulk candy delivery button in their home begins with, "yo mommas so fat..."
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ate all the Oreos posted:also the first actual "silicon" in silicon valley was Shockley Semiconductors, run by creator of the first transistor and noted paranoid schizophrenic eugenicist William Shockley i bet that guy had some chill ideas about jewish people
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psh, everyone knows shockley was super-racist, but... did u ALSO know that he was an incompetent lab manager who literally wedged himself in between brattain & bardeen in photos and hogged all the credit??
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Jonny 290 posted:hosted by their own petard i know this was autocorrect but i love it anyway
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Tesla ‘on Autopilot’ slams into parked fire truck on freeway
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self driving cars are right around the corner of a firetruck
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gently caress self driving cars. id settle for self aware drivers!
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ate all the Oreos posted:also the first actual "silicon" in silicon valley was Shockley Semiconductors, run by creator of the first transistor and noted paranoid schizophrenic eugenicist William Shockley hey ask my dad about all the wonderful non-semiconductor opinions he had and how the liberals suppressed his research  there's nothing quite like the moment when you realize as a young adult your father has terrible racist opinions based on bullshit
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Driver's thought process as the wreck approached: "Look, out the window! A fire truck! I've seen drawings of fire trucks in my picture books, of course, but how could I have ever known how pale and insignificant those crude representations were in comparison to the real thing! Fire truck! Oh, great God in heaven, fire truck! This has got to be the most moving of mankind's creations, and perhaps of nature's, as well. This whirlwind of sensory input is almost more than my tiny mind can process! Mere words cannot begin to convey what I am feeling! This incredible, life-changing, soul-shattering wonder is… Why, it is beyond description!"
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Xaris posted:self driving cars are right around the corner i was driving somewhere tonight and it was raining and i don't know what kind of fuckall paint they use on the lane markers on the highway but they basically become invisible at night when it rains and this was during rush hour so your head better be on a swivel and it takes all your concentration to figure out where the lanes might be. then it had started snowing and on the way home the lane markers were totally gone and you basically just subdivided the road into three lanes in your head and kinda stayed where you hoped a lane was. and then i though about how self driving cars are right around the corner as soon as they can handle those conditions and i laughed and laughed and laughed
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humans never hit the back of emergency vehicles.
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lol he wwas probably sleeping in his car on his hour long commute to work
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quote:Tesla, after the incident, said Autopilot is “intended for use only with a fully attentive driver.” The Model S owner’s manual has numerous warnings that attention to the road is vital while using Autopilot and other Tesla semi-autonomous driving functions. look, if i have to keep my hands on the wheel and pay attention to the road, it's not loving autopilot.
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crabrock posted:humans never hit the back of emergency vehicles. why is there always someone who posts this like it isn't the dumbest loving argument? like, without fail, any time some attempt at autonomous driving fails in a hilarious and or fatal way, some loving genius pops up to say "yeah but humans also crash cars", like it's in any way insightful or even relevant.
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well you’re supposed to be paying attention when using an autopilot on a plane too
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wonder what the world would be like if "silicon valley" had stayed in the heart of vacuum tubes/radio/early tv - north jersey/newark/new york city
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infernal machines posted:why is there always someone who posts this like it isn't the dumbest loving argument? if global warming why cold????
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