musk's lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank.
first they assure him that they can make him walk out of the deal.
he pays them.
then they assure him that their angry letters to twitter will suffice.
he pays them.
then they assure him that he has good chances of winning the lawsuit.
he pays them.
this racket probably ended this morning when Zuckerberg texted musk saying "yo bro forget it my cousin jim got sued and lost so yeah just bite the bullet bro"
After 3 seconds of reflection, musk decided to follow Zuckerberg's rigorous and sophisticated legal advice, because that's how he makes important decisions worth $40 billion
A fool and his money are soon parted, lawyers know this very well.
You are assuming he is consulting with and listening to his lawyers before all his antics. It's obvious that their role is more damage control after the fact.
Elon Musk increased his wealth by $121 billion in 2021. Let's say he spent $5 million on lawyers. That's like someone on $121k spending $5 on a lawyer.
Most traditional approaches to voice isolation are essentially a combination of EQ and filtering, it's interesting to see an AI-based approach to the problem.
This is probably the most pathetic PR move we've seen this year so far.
Acton sold off his userbase to Facebook in 2014, with full knowledge of the Snowden revelations of 2013 where we learned about Facebook's involvement in PRISM.
You need a digital estate planning protocol that is comprehensive, privacy-preserving, reliable, and convenient. The best solution is to use a secret-sharing scheme.
The following sequence is suggested:
1. Alice encrypts her digital testament using a symmetric encryption algorithm, splitting the key according to a
secret sharing scheme.
2. Alice publishes the encrypted testament.
3. To each executor, Alice gives one of the shares of the encrypted key.
If you use a password manager, this is equivalent to giving each of your executors a slice of your password.
And my linter, or flow, typescript will pick that up in the same way the compiler will. Just because tooling these days catches these things in 'type safe' languages doesn't mean it's not a pointer to a chunk of memory that's defined at runtime beneath it all.
> That being said, I always try to be respectful when I get one and politely reply. Always remember there's a person on the other end trying to provide for his/hers family.
Eichmann was also trying to provide for his family. Respect is something you earn for not being mediocre.
Banks' greed ... not so much. Government pushing banks to do this ... yes. As documented in this case. Think about it: for a bank to risk stuff like this without assurances that the government will be behind it when there is pushback ...
Besides, if you know economics even a little bit you know that there are 2 sets of accounting rules : one for banks, one for everyone else. No bank can satisfy the normal rules for solvency, so they simply don't apply to them. Banks can't exist without government backing, even in individual cases of small banks.
Yes this is the banks' doing. But ... the government is not the solution, sadly.
"Right now, entrepreneurs are trying to fix things that aren’t broken. And we can all name a lot of things that are broken: healthcare, education, homelessness and poverty, food waste, climate change…"
Damn right. Those are real problems.
But then the author praises Elon Musk for sending people to Mars. For prioritising space exploration over alleviating famine, poverty, illiteracy, whatnot.
The author's utter inability and unwillingness to distinguish between frivolous and meaningful is precisely the problem he's denouncing.
Well, one could argue that spreading humans outside this single planet is a requirement for long-term survival of the species, and thus as important or more important than those other causes you mention.
I don't personally subscribe to this belief, but many people do.
The primary obstacle of the "real problems" mentioned is people.
For example, consider that:
Sometimes people don't want to be helped (see: many homeless)
Sometimes leaders don't want their people to be helped, because they gain from keeping them down (see: African warlords / government leaders embezzling aid)
When faced with SOCIAL problems like these, it's no wonder that someone of a 'hacker' mindset like Elon instead prefers to devote his time to solving problems which instead have technological roadblocks (well, maybe not entirely applicable in the case of Tesla or SolarCity).
I actually got excited when I saw this, I thought about like minded people on github pinning stuff, and being able to find projects that like minded people pinned. This doesn't seem to be that though.
This seems to be much more like instructables, but without original content.
libhunt (from the comment above) is closer, so looks like I found something cool today.
first they assure him that they can make him walk out of the deal.
he pays them.
then they assure him that their angry letters to twitter will suffice.
he pays them.
then they assure him that he has good chances of winning the lawsuit.
he pays them.
this racket probably ended this morning when Zuckerberg texted musk saying "yo bro forget it my cousin jim got sued and lost so yeah just bite the bullet bro"
After 3 seconds of reflection, musk decided to follow Zuckerberg's rigorous and sophisticated legal advice, because that's how he makes important decisions worth $40 billion
A fool and his money are soon parted, lawyers know this very well.