censorship is bipartisan, they just want to censor different things

Yes, I understand that the 2nd amendment alone can’t stop a dictator if they have the army on their side… even though that was at least partly the intention when it was written

This is the actual reason why there is a 2nd amendment

You’re right, but those old ones kinda suck. Recently, they figured how to make them sound good. Example: Bose Ultra Open Earbuds, but every major brand has some

I think they meant open ear style headphones / earbuds, not closed ear ones with pass-through function.

Personally, despite having a pair of those, and they are great, I still prefer using the car’s speakers while driving, but that’s me.

It’s gonna be a looooong time before he can redeem himself in any possible way, and by that time, if ever, he’ll be likely dead. The best he can to for Tesla is to disappear, step down and fully divest his Tesla stock, then maybe Tesla (not Musk) will be redeemed.

As an engineer, I’m not really an activist or anything, but I’ll be living under a bridge before I accept a job at a “defense” company that makes weapons, of which there seem to be many these days. And yes, I have this statement (with slightly different wording) as a note to recruiters in my linkedin profile.

Good to know I’m not the only one taking a stance on this.

You raise good points, but even if Apple was able to take some hit on the profit margin, and was able to find cheap-ish labor in the US (minimum wage likely higher than $7.25/hr though), the biggest issue in my opinion is that all the component the iPhone is made of are still imported and affected by tariffs, and making them in the US might be outright impossible for some, based on current manufacturing capabilities, or very expensive for the ones that can be made in US.

Nice to know I’m not the only one that dislikes autocorrect on phones, and autocomplete / autoindent (and also auto close parentheses and quotes for me) when coding

Signal is better for privacy than whatsapp, and of course whatsapp is owned by meta and it leaks some … metadata to them (pun intended), but as for their end to end encryption, it actually uses the same exact scheme as signal, so even if you’re forced to use it, it’s still not that bad. Way better than telegram, for example (avoid telegram).

Using Signal or other secure messaging apps should be normalized, not reserved for people who are at risk, else the simple fact that you use it raises suspicions. Not sure if this argument is enough to convince your friends … maybe just tell them you like it better due to some feature it has?

If the competitors developed a highly wanted feature before you, either you were already in the process of developing it, can do so quickly (and let’s say it’s not patented or other legal issues), or if not, it’s better IMHO to spend time to do it better then your competitor, or to come up with some even more compelling feature, to regain the lead. Of course, they’ll try to do the same and so on.

So, more like:

CEO: competitor X just released Y, how can we make something better to get ahead? how quickly can we get that?

CTO: hold my beer

(actual dialogue irl might be a bit different 😄)

First, while everyone thinks the CEO is the boss, they aren’t. They are hired and fired by the Board of Directors. The Board has a strategic objective for the company and has tasked the CEO with making that strategy reality

Unless the CEO also sits on the board of directors … but at least they won’t be making the decision unilaterally.