The users create every bit of value on reddit. The backend code is a joke, the moderation is a joke to the degree the only way the site could ever work is people volunteering all that work for free. Users should all be compensated for their contribution FAR more than Reddit the tiny company that has done very little meaningful updates and brings no real value to the table. The business model is basically don't get in the users way because they are the only value the site has. The code, backend, advertising and management are all very generic and easy to replace. The beauty of reddit is that the code is so under-developed and simple compared to other sites. Things like chat and inbox are just complete trash code that nobody cares about.. because the only value is in the comments, posts and voting... which really isn't much more than a 1990s web forum with little up and down arrows. It's hard to actually bring any more value to reddit than that without getting in the way of the users and eroding the site. Maybe they will find that out the hard way.

There's no real advantage. Right now the biggest use of Bitcoin for a normal person is simply that it's an easier version of Western Union. For the average consumer it has no currency potential Even years later with a much higher market cap. There's no meaningful amount of retailers that accept it and It's not a problem with adoption It's simply a problem with the fact that people have no actual use for another currency, Especially one that requires the internet and is fairly complex to set up from an e-commerce perspective compared to other payment systems. One of the big benefits of a credit card is the fact that there isn't real money on the card. That's why debit cards kind of suck and why anything like Bitcoin kind of sucks. You giving up one of your biggest security buffers and You're getting almost nothing out of it. It's also horribly inefficient when it comes to electricity and it's way way too easy for any country that just decides it doesn't like Bitcoin to start blocking the whole network in their country which means all the sudden you lose access to your money. You have to realize the only reason Bitcoin is still around is cuz the banks allow it to be around and the only reason they allow it to be around is cuz they don't see it as a threat. If the bank saw Bitcoin as a threat they would have easily legislated it out of existence. Even if Bitcoin was more robust and widely accepted I still don't see the actual need or benefit for all that complexity Just to essentially create a far less secure version of a credit card. I'd rather pay the fee on the credit card to not have to worry about moving real money around and having access to credit.

A simpler language being more popular than a more complex one is not somehow impressive. It's more like a predictable outcome. The days of programming language and loyalty is long gone. The difference in programming languages matters less and less and that trend will continue so these types of conversations are pretty pointless. You pick the language that's reasonably easy to accomplish your goal with and that's about all that matters. Long-term support and all that's all BS because a decade later or something it doesn't matter what language you wrote it in it's still going to be a nightmare. In the big picture of things It doesn't matter if you write a project in Python or see it matters if the developers are committed to the project and skilled programmers. Most applications are just not complicated enough that the long-term benefit of Python versus C versus any other capable language really matters. Look at Java for an example of a very capable language where programmers constantly produce trash anyway. In some ways the more popular the language gets the worse the quality of the programs created with it will be. Some of the advantages of seeing C++, is that it filters out the laziest programmers.

Laptops are currently way behind the power curve and something like Apple's ARM specialized tip combination is a clear sign of that based on performance per watt. This means almost no current laptop designs I have any real long-term value. You'll be better off just buying a new model in 3 to 5 years until the market matures enough that the rate of improvement declines a bit more. You can still buy decent laptops for about $400 so you definitely not going to beat that with a 1000 dollar repairable model that'll be outdated in 3 to 5 years. Especially right now Apple has accelerated the pace of hardware improvements in laptops. Now is I'm on one of the worst times to invest in a laptop talk term because apples probably going to mostly dominate the market with that massive wattage to performance advantage. Those risk processors tend to scale more easily and there's currently no real competition though and video will eventually be there. We're about to see a epic battle between Nvidia and Apple and maybe somebody else as laptops to get somewhat reinvented. Because of all the incompatibility between arm and x86 even though Windows has an arm version I don't think Windows is in a good position at all. The one upside is that if the hardware platform was ever opened enough that you could get similar performance for a lot on a Linux platform as you can from Apple's new platform then Linux would get a little bit of a boost against Windows, but both of them are probably going to get stopped by Apple the short term.

Realistically though considering all the infrastructure out there significant hacks are pretty rare. It's not that hard to limit hacks to just causing compartmentalized damage which is more or less why most advanced infrastructure using any type of computerized automation is not constantly being shut down by hacks. Soo yeah paying the ransom is lame, but It won't really be that hard for them to make massive gaibs in security within just a few months if they just stop being complete slackers and pay for the upgrades. The money they saved by getting the system up and running can more than pay for upgrades in their infrastructure that makes similar attacks impossible. Beyond that it just takes a little bit of time and competent engineers and security experts. They don't have to make a perfect system, just not a system that's a vulnerable to monolithic attacks that can take down the entire system. That's not to say their systems will be invulnerable and just that It can be compartmentalized to the point where large-scale outages are just about impossible.

It's kind of unnecessarily large for the moon, but that advantage to move so much cargo would be a big deal if China and Russia get into it.

It's an experimental system and valuable intellectual property for Tesla if the system becomes robust and reliable. Simply allowing every idiot to slander their beta self driving system would be a mistake for now. Once these things are standard tech maybe just let people be stupid, but probably not because it means more death.

It's not an argument, it's just somebody showing it's easy to bypass the safety features on an experimental self driving car and Tesla should probably improve that if only for the sake of PR.. oh and maybe human lives.. but DEFINATELY PR!!

We don't need people using precious metals OR electricity or any other useful commodity for currency. Those things have better uses and currency in no way requires that kind of intrinsic value and to make things worse crypto doesn't have intrinsic value like precious metals nor can it resist a rapid global disaster well, so it's an even worse idea to invest real value into to produce when a free token can do the same.

Your brand is worth A LOT more than your current senior management. Don't be afraid to flush them periodically! There is always more upper management!

Really both of them have ridiculously bad interfaces and Facebook is so bloated for doing so little it's ridiculous.

A solar ROOF is an actual full blown high end roof, not just solar panels. It's like getting a slate roof that generates electricity.

I don't think any stock share price is a representation of anything worth worrying about. Tesla as a car company just has the best tech and steady output of models and progress. Units sales isn't as important as the value of all the tech other companies would pay billions to not have to go through all the design cycles themselves. Plus.. it's just money, It's not like any of that has real value. Once AI rolls through the value of everything ever built will drop to fractions of what they are now OR everything will inflate massively. It hardly matters once you start really automating labor. Just the beta self driving software is worth tens of billions of dollars. I mean Skype was worth 10 billion and it's junk. Minecraft was worth 2 billion and it's a game with bad graphics. This isn't a car company so much as a tech company with wheels, so it does make sense cutting edge tech gets higher values since OTHER competitors cannot easily replicate it yet. It's kind of just supply and demand with a little speculation on top, nothing abnormal. There will be many companies making insane amounts of money on automation and tech in the coming years because computers are basically moving into real life and becoming useful everywhere, not just as stand alone devices. We always knew adding computer to EVERYTHING would be a bigger market than just making desktops and phones.

Solar subsidies aren't going anywhere. If anything like most other energy efficiency they will keep getting subsidized because people like solar and green stuff more and more. It doesn't take much profit to make billions of dollars, it mostly just takes a lot of sales. That's why Amazon and Walmart have done so well.

I would say cash has been around forever and it in every country and it less tracible AND is FAR more disaster proof since you don't require electric and internet and your nation to not all of a sudden decide to block the bitcoin nodes and online wallets. Digital currency's end game is always going to be that the use it track you more. That's why China loves it. I also don't trust this newbie/amateur run markets with any real money because hackers/lack of backups/major global disasters that knock out internet and electric are all just too likely considering there's almost no real practical benefit to the average person. Even as a computer nerd who knows have to use bitcoin and has mined and made thousands of dollars on cryptocoins... I don't think they are useful for anything bit pump and dump and after awhile that got boring and pointless for me. BUT there is money to be made in any market with RELIABLE volatility, always remember that if you have a need for quick/easy money. Personally I have no need, but plenty of other people might. Just keep in mind the only thing you can trust about crypto is short term gains (and losses). If bitcoin ever stabilizes it actually becomes useless to all those people making money on the volatility. Seriously the biggest draw is just that the value goes up and down a lot, not that there are all these great uses for it. All the greedy assholes see that and think IT"S GENIUS, but it feels a lot like a pyramid scam to me.