<<Tesla pulled a fast one on the morons at GM and Ford, who signed stupid deals that handed the future back to Tesla>> It's always curious to see someone with such strong conviction that somehow they have an insight,…
This comment is either neither a constructive criticism of him, nor does contribute anything substantive to the discussion. Please review the site guidelines against name calling:…
This is by far the most important point in this discussion. According to this article (https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107109_teslas-own-numb...), Tesla's statistics are deliberately wrong, and Tesla compared its…
<<Actually it is not what we're talking about, because they're not blind, they can use usual means of inquiry, and the technology. How comes already there are no firearm firing sound detectors, or remote-controlled…
<<Was hoping Gates would be less naive in thinking this legal precedent has anything to do with this specific case which has close to 0% chance of providing any real-world information and more to do with the fact that…
<<The FBI is the opposite in every way, mostly because of budget constraints and the subsequent lack of training. I hope that this is a good learning opportunity for them and a chance for them to increase their training…
I think you are mixing up the law enforcement and intelligence community. These request are coming from the law enforcement side of the government, not the intelligence community. Given their mission, the intelligence…
I did not downvote you, but I think people might feel that you seem to let your personal disdain for Apple color your response regardless of the facts of the case vs. having a real discussion. Even this point is a bit…
Regardless of the merit of the FBI's request and Apple's refusal, this is rather hypocritical response from the FBI, since their insistence to make the request public is what triggered Apple's public response in the…
<<Haha, really? Isn't that how Uber started out, and the quote could well be verbatim from a taxi driver in 2011?>> Yes, This this is completely disingenuous... They did not only start out like this in the US, but this…
<<Yes I do think that they would attempt to discourage unauthorized repairs in such a way for less-than-noble reasons.>> I have added some additional information to the parent comment (i.e., only bricked updates via…
Anybody with common sense. Do you really think that Apple, who prides themselves on having outstanding customer satisfaction, would deliberately try to brick their customers phones through something this obvious? Apple…
No, that information was already mentioned in the second BuzzFeed article: <<That was how executives discovered the macro, which Conrad had created based on a belief that 52 hours was too long to spend in training, the…
I understand your concern, but depending on what product(s) you are selling, startups (and by startups I am referring to the PG definition of startups) are actually great customers for a couple of different reasons: -…
<<purchased by professional buyers at Japanese auctions>> How did you find these buyers? Are these just auto brokers (e.g., these guys are popular in SV: http://www.hammerauto.com/) or is this something different?
According to the article, Sacks discovered the issue in January, and then forced the company to report it to the California regulator - if you believe that sequence of events, he can't really be held accountable for the…
While there may or may not be a darker side to having an entire engineering team in the 25-30 age range, according to the reporter that wrote the article, this hacking came straight from the CEO, who also set the tone…
I both appreciate and agree with your point, but in this case I think the issues was that their new CEO had to assume that, given the high visibility of the company, whatever message he was going to send out to his…
<<Currently, as long as people are online, there's a certain guarantee that they will see it.>> I understand your concern, but this seems to contradict reality... According to this article, only a small percentage of…
<<The reason why most communiques are generic is because there's very little upside to being abrupt publicly.>> You are quite wrong, if anything, employees appreciate openness and decisiveness, vs. sweeping changes…
We ended up going with Trinet as well after looking at them. If you look what Zenefits is really doing, they appear to be just another rent seeker - their entire goal seemed to be to get you to use their software, and…
<< It wasn't possible to get from point A to point N (where Parker took the company) without breaking these "rules" but he didn't actually break any rules because this is all new territory.>> This is complete nonsense.…
Looks like the WSJ article has some additional information, including this rather telling quote about the current company values, which seem rather different than the set of values Sacks espouses: <<Mr. Conrad, 35 years…
I don't know that this is even a particularly strong conspiracy theory - when Sacks joined, A LOT of people were predicting that he would be the CEO within 12-18 months. Parker always felt like he was the wrong person…
This is a great question, especially since it seems like he would have been in charge of the salesforce (where a lot of these issues happened). So unless he wanted to change these processes and Parker stopped him, it…
<<Tesla pulled a fast one on the morons at GM and Ford, who signed stupid deals that handed the future back to Tesla>> It's always curious to see someone with such strong conviction that somehow they have an insight,…
This comment is either neither a constructive criticism of him, nor does contribute anything substantive to the discussion. Please review the site guidelines against name calling:…
This is by far the most important point in this discussion. According to this article (https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107109_teslas-own-numb...), Tesla's statistics are deliberately wrong, and Tesla compared its…
<<Actually it is not what we're talking about, because they're not blind, they can use usual means of inquiry, and the technology. How comes already there are no firearm firing sound detectors, or remote-controlled…
<<Was hoping Gates would be less naive in thinking this legal precedent has anything to do with this specific case which has close to 0% chance of providing any real-world information and more to do with the fact that…
<<The FBI is the opposite in every way, mostly because of budget constraints and the subsequent lack of training. I hope that this is a good learning opportunity for them and a chance for them to increase their training…
I think you are mixing up the law enforcement and intelligence community. These request are coming from the law enforcement side of the government, not the intelligence community. Given their mission, the intelligence…
I did not downvote you, but I think people might feel that you seem to let your personal disdain for Apple color your response regardless of the facts of the case vs. having a real discussion. Even this point is a bit…
Regardless of the merit of the FBI's request and Apple's refusal, this is rather hypocritical response from the FBI, since their insistence to make the request public is what triggered Apple's public response in the…
<<Haha, really? Isn't that how Uber started out, and the quote could well be verbatim from a taxi driver in 2011?>> Yes, This this is completely disingenuous... They did not only start out like this in the US, but this…
<<Yes I do think that they would attempt to discourage unauthorized repairs in such a way for less-than-noble reasons.>> I have added some additional information to the parent comment (i.e., only bricked updates via…
Anybody with common sense. Do you really think that Apple, who prides themselves on having outstanding customer satisfaction, would deliberately try to brick their customers phones through something this obvious? Apple…
No, that information was already mentioned in the second BuzzFeed article: <<That was how executives discovered the macro, which Conrad had created based on a belief that 52 hours was too long to spend in training, the…
I understand your concern, but depending on what product(s) you are selling, startups (and by startups I am referring to the PG definition of startups) are actually great customers for a couple of different reasons: -…
<<purchased by professional buyers at Japanese auctions>> How did you find these buyers? Are these just auto brokers (e.g., these guys are popular in SV: http://www.hammerauto.com/) or is this something different?
According to the article, Sacks discovered the issue in January, and then forced the company to report it to the California regulator - if you believe that sequence of events, he can't really be held accountable for the…
While there may or may not be a darker side to having an entire engineering team in the 25-30 age range, according to the reporter that wrote the article, this hacking came straight from the CEO, who also set the tone…
I both appreciate and agree with your point, but in this case I think the issues was that their new CEO had to assume that, given the high visibility of the company, whatever message he was going to send out to his…
<<Currently, as long as people are online, there's a certain guarantee that they will see it.>> I understand your concern, but this seems to contradict reality... According to this article, only a small percentage of…
<<The reason why most communiques are generic is because there's very little upside to being abrupt publicly.>> You are quite wrong, if anything, employees appreciate openness and decisiveness, vs. sweeping changes…
We ended up going with Trinet as well after looking at them. If you look what Zenefits is really doing, they appear to be just another rent seeker - their entire goal seemed to be to get you to use their software, and…
<< It wasn't possible to get from point A to point N (where Parker took the company) without breaking these "rules" but he didn't actually break any rules because this is all new territory.>> This is complete nonsense.…
Looks like the WSJ article has some additional information, including this rather telling quote about the current company values, which seem rather different than the set of values Sacks espouses: <<Mr. Conrad, 35 years…
I don't know that this is even a particularly strong conspiracy theory - when Sacks joined, A LOT of people were predicting that he would be the CEO within 12-18 months. Parker always felt like he was the wrong person…
This is a great question, especially since it seems like he would have been in charge of the salesforce (where a lot of these issues happened). So unless he wanted to change these processes and Parker stopped him, it…