That certainly might explain why Kinja now requires a minimum of 2 loads per page (on mobile, at least) to get the comments to even load. Actually a pretty genius way to artificially inflate page views/ad impressions when you have a community heavily invested in the comments.

Man, we’ve really gotten to a strange place where a site that has traditionally been extremely pro labor (and an actor holding out for compensation he felt he was contractually owed is definitely labor holding out against management, even if there are more 0's on the end than your average factory line worker’s…

On the other hand, in a year it’ll happen again, and this time your island friends will have a whole year of accomplishments with you to celebrate, rather than just a few days or weeks. Will probably make the party even more special :)

Ah, sure, that makes sense. Yeah, definitely the article doesn’t highlight that point at all.

I mean, it wasn’t always like that. It’s just that at some point (cough cough the 80's cough cough) people realized speculation makes a lot of money a lot faster than dividends do, even if it also means you lose a lot of money a lot faster. (the reality is a little more complex than that. People have always known…

I mean, it’s not just his compensation, all equity compensation works that way. And yes, the shareholders of basically any public company believe that taking a small amount of dilution to be able to pay market rate for talent is a worthwhile trade. Basically no company (except maybe Apple and Google) could afford to…

I agree that the statement was ridiculous, but I think what Westbrook was trying to get at was the notion of marginal utility. When you have $20bil in stock (Elon’s approximate total ownership of Tesla), the stock value _decimating_ still leaves you with $2bil, or more than enough to live i unfathomable comfort for…

This is a great, detailed breakdown.

It also does a fantastic job of highlighting why there might be an engineer that spends their entire career just designing one category of part on a car to shave a few cents off the cost to build, and why you rapidly decided that writing about cars was more fun :)

If you watch the original video, the reason they were so displeased after the teardown was that the majority of the problems found were ones that have had known solutions in the automotive manif industry for decades. Basically, his summary was “this is a fantastically engineered electric propulsion device, but a very…

They also require a physical, original copy of both your birth certificate and social security card to get a drivers license. No photocopies accepted.

PA has some really weird requirements related to cars.

As the CFO of my company put it: 2008 was primarily a wall-street problem. It had knock on effects on main street, but the impact was pretty contained in terms of material effect on business. Corona is a Main Street problem, that is directly impacting the ability for people to do business at every single level. As…

Most large businesses do have some amount of capital cushion. Most small businesses do not. In fact, most small to medium businesses have active debt well in excess of their cash reserves, because it takes a large amount of capital to start up a business. The banks don’t stop expecting to get paid because the economy…

most likely at some point the fools in charge realized that this many “I’m leaving” articles this close together was a bad look, and so now they have to do it more indirectly.

You know you say all this jokingly, but, like, this isn’t that unreasonably far from certain oligarch’s actual stuff:

Yep, today is last day:

Yeah, the reason you disable p-states is because the processor can’t switch them fast enough. That was kind of reasonable in the first generation of the system, it took 10'ths of a second for the p-state to change, which could result in very real frame hitches. Also it was global, so every core was downclocked if any…

I don’t think so though. If that were true the fans on the Xbox One would need to be running like a jet engine all the time. They clearly up and down cycle. I can’t imagine the same isn’t true for the new system. PS4 is the same way.

I think someone at Sony just got creative with marketing to make up for not having the…

Great write up!

Definitely. It lit up her coat perfectly which is really the focal point of the shot anyway. You’re totally correct though that Sabers frequently ignore the rules of lighting whenever they aren’t specifically going for an actual color-fill effect with the shot. Coming from someone that paints models, specular lighting…

If you don’t mind the asking, what do you shoot with?