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Who is "us"?

Yeah that is a good question to OP

The predicted conservative win if the election happens right away, would be a landslide in every sense of that word


No, it would be a landslide only in one sense, the first past the post sense. Not in any other sense. The majority of individuals would still not want the cons in power, but with FPTP the left vote gets split.

Would it be possible for it to not happen right away? They are in a minority government without a PM, I really wonder if there's a way the elections aren't triggered basically instantly.

With Trudeau leaving, I suspect that at least one of the other parties will give them enough time to elect a new leader before bringing down the government. The government may even last until the required election date of late October however, nothing of any importance will likely be passed in that time

He stays on until late march, they need to select a new party leader and then an elections held

Unfortunately, the liberal party rules say they require a minimum of four months to elect a new leader. They may be able to fast track it in three months, but it’s entirely up to the liberal party so I suspect Trudeau will still be leader when Parliament resumes.

They will ask the Governor General for a prorogation during the leader selection process so Parliament will not be resuming any time soon.

So you're saying there is literally nothing good about Sora?


Unless we’re reading completely different comments, that’s not at all what they said. They said OpenAI waited too long to release it and their competitors beat them to the punch with similar quality offerings and have already cornered the social media AI slop market.


Just did a CTRL-F and I am shocked nobody is talking about the magnificent McIntosh. Does the rest of the world (outside of Canada) not get them? The fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. They've converted many, many people from other variants...


Macoun and Mcintosh define apples for me- from a pic-ur-own stand in new england. I would eat so many that my teeth started to feel sensitive from the acidity.


I like McIntosh apples they are a favorite of mine but I've been having them since I was a kid and I'm pretty sure it's nostalgia and familiarity that makes me always pick it


A great variety that we can get in season where I live in the US. I think they don’t keep or transport well, and they’re mostly only available at farm stands around here.


They are so mealy. The flavor is nice, but I hate the texture. Empire apples have a similar tart flavor, but with a crisp flesh similar to a golden or red delicious.


If it was mealy, it was probably improperly stored or grown in too warm weather. They aren't normally mealy. They're more tender and less crisp than Honeycrisp and have a pleasant texture.


I'm referring to whatever texture Macintosh usually have. It's not pleasant to me.


You're likely not getting good McIntosh apples in your area. The texture should be similar to a typical apple, but not as crisp as Honeycrisp. A slice of McIntosh should snap if you try to bend it.


I'm not going to repeat myself at this point.


I never had a McIntosh whilst living in the UK but since moving to BC they've become a firm favourite.


No offense, just a joke - one of the ranking sites has a humorous appraisal of McIntoshes:

https://applerankings.com/


It was, in fact, the booster ("coming in harder and faster"). The upper stage's orientation was being tested (nose down until final flip) as was the removal of 2,100 heat shield tiles.


How do you know with certainty that you do not dream? You spend zero minutes in REM? Do you track with Whoop or something similar?


I’ve tracked with both Whoop and Sleep number, I’ve gotten good “sleep scores”


6 million cars equipped with the ADAS (FAR more than anyone else), so your statement is misleading.


No, the statement is accurate.

To put things in perspective, Toyota and Ford each sold 1.5 million cars with ADAS in the U.S. last year alone (they both sold more than 1.5 million cars in the U.S., but the remainder were the low-end models without ADAS). GM sold 2 million cars in the U.S with ADAS last year, out of more than 2.5+ million cars sold). These numbers don't include vehicles with ADAS sold in other markets.

IOW, three companies alone sold more cars in the U.S. with ADAS in a single year than Tesla has sold globally in its entire lifespan. And yet...Tesla's ADAS is responsible for fatalities than every other automaker in the world combined.

And that's because no other automaker gives its customers unrealistic expectations of what the ADAS will do, so all of their customers use the ADAS systems responsibly.


The losses are currently in the neighborhood of $1B per year. That may or may not reduce... scaling is hard. For every car they add right now, the worse the loss becomes. So I'm a little skeptical on your valuation estimate.


Are they losing money when they add cars in regions they already support? That's more important than the cost of expanding into new areas.


Looks like YC is moving to 4 cohorts annually -- and I agree with you on the AI product density in the past few batches -- but I've heard (from two alum) that the smaller sub-cohorts (i.e., within a batch) make it feel smaller and more intimate.


Yes.

250ish per cohort meant the partners were spread very thin, and founders could realistically connect with just a subset of batchmates.

I'm glad they're scaling back the batch size.


I took a Waymo this past weekend in SF. 8 miles, $41, and 51 minutes to cross town in light-medium traffic. It clearly has to avoid certain routes due to insufficient HD mapping -- like construction. 51 minutes is way too long, fun as the experience is with no driver...


To be fair, the entirety of SF across is around 8 miles and even if you are taking a private car, it probably takes the better part of an hour to do that voyage. 51 minutes does seem too long but not an extreme


I get such a laugh out of the negative sentiment about Tesla and Musk on HN. Such a predictable crowd.


#MuskDerangementSyndrome.

When Trump left office, leftwing folk needed a replacement boogeyman for their Two Minutes Hate.

Musk hate is entirely political.


Or maybe it's because Musk runs around calling people pedophiles: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/03/media/elon-musk-testifies...

Maybe it's because his behavior is increasingly erratic and he doesn't seem to care about Tesla anymore: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2024/06/11/elon-doe...

Maybe it's because Tesla employees describe him as a pigeon CEO because "he comes in, shits all over us, and then leaves.": https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-t...

Maybe it's because he advocates for the submission of Taiwan to China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...

And for the submission of Ukraine to Russia: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-russian-war-plan-infu...

Maybe it's because he says "China rocks" while the US is full of "complacency and entitlement": https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...

Maybe it's because he pledged his commitment to China's core socialist values: https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-signs-letter-pledgin...

Maybe it's because he called California's covid measures "fascist": https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-corona...

But praised China because "Shanghai's COVID-19 measures helped lay the foundation for the city's future development": https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

Maybe it's because in 2016 Tesla claimed "that, as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver". That was a lie: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

Maybe it's because Tesla lies about things as dumb as quarter mile times. There's simply no need to lie about it, but lying is just too much a part of the company culture:

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE

https://insideevs.com/news/699260/tesla-cybertruck-porsche-r...

And so on and so forth. There's a lot not to like.


You make some very sinophobic arguments in your posts. While I think it's right for the West to be cautious about China, I don't think wanting to cooperate with China makes a man a bad person.

Your post also quotes a number of opinion pieces that are politically partisan against Musk. It's easy to compile a list of hit pieces against a popular individual if you go looking in sources like Electrek, whose editor Fred Lambert spends most of his time bashing Elon on Twitter (usually without much substance, and certainly without any semblance of balance)


> You make some very sinophobic arguments in your posts

There is nothing sinophobic in seeing China as it is. There's nothing russophobic in seeing Russia as it is. There's nothing Muskophobic in seeing Musk as he is.

> I don't think wanting to cooperate with China makes a man a bad person.

Musk offers up plenty of criticisms of the US government. Here's a fun exercise for you: show me a single criticism of the Chinese government from Musk.

> It's easy to compile a list of hit pieces

Uh huh. Tell me, have you (like Musk) pledged your commitment to China's core socialist values?


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