I am a self-taught web developer and between all the available technology stacks out there I still love LAMP. Linux, Apache, Mysql + PHP is like the Walmart of web technology. It isn't shiny or cool but does the job and you can create products people pay for.
The very first "scandal" she uncovered at Apple was her getting feedback on a presentation from another employee. She called it sexism and publicly shared private messages which basically proofed it was just that, professional feedback.
It looks a lot like this is a mental health issue rather than actual wrongdoings at Apple. What she is doing now might really harm her ability to ever get hired again by a company in SV.
> What she is doing now might really harm her ability to ever get hired again by a company in SV.
If what Apple is doing is representative of how companies deal with things in SV, then good riddance. There are plenty of companies not in SV that don't intimidate employees.
The person claiming to be Ashley is posting in this thread, and their past posts have evidence of them sockpuppeting another post about this issue months ago, except its about their apartment being built on toxic waste, while this one is about their office being built on toxic waste.
A) they’re looking for a problem where none may exist
B) they have no context on working with her, listening to her presentations, and her previous dialogues with her manager
Her entire MO starting with her apartment housing “scandal” is to be a resilient victim fighting the oppressors. As you dig in you can quickly see she’s a nutcase who wants issues and a blind detached twitter army backing her to validate her despite none of these people actually having any real context to what’s going on.
Because I’ve read a ton of her material, and I work for Apple so I have some idea of what it’s like internally (although it’s a big company and many experiences are different). I also don’t have that context of working with her so I can look at that text message thread and easily imagine the problem is her affect and not some gender issue. She’s trying to provide absolute proof, but it’s very one sided and inconclusive by itself. Which just goes to show how she twists everything going on to be a great plot of the world against her. I’ve known people like this, and they’re disasters.
Look at this thread and her twitter bio. She’s trying to wear victimhood on her sleeve as a primary identity. Why post this random thread rehashing everything you’ve already posted a million times and all the press you’ve tried to put out? She WANTS to be a giant victim. Remember we’re talking about being fired; no one physically abused her, no one poisoned her, etc. Yet you’d have to assume as much given she doesn’t want to move on with her life. If you read the commments she gets on twitter it’s clear she’s getting what she wants from them (encouragement and sympathy), but ultimately she’s shooting herself in the foot. Who would ever want to hire her again, or provide her housing (after her whole anti-apartment rant toxicity rant)?
Seems bad but I also have no context for this. She’s commented on the radar when it was created, so it’s not like it’s some hidden secret. I can see internally she also blacked out bits like the summary that are very strange edits as they’re not secrets at all… like indications that this is tagged literally as a joke task.
It easily could have been a joke rather than malicious… perhaps she had a ton of work to do and this radar was a tongue-in-cheek way of acknowledging that.
That’s the problem with these pieces of “proof” — when it’s one sided and completely devoid of commentary from the other people involved, it’s easy to spin a story one way or another.
In fact, looking at that and her editing choices only further confirms to me she’s grasping at straws and it’s not at all what it purports to be publicly.
The more I think about this the madder I get, because it discredits to me those who are actually getting abused and their ability to tell a story and be believed.
Let’s look at the facts with this:
1. She blacks out context and parts from the beginning that tag this as a joke task.
2. She comments on this right away, so it’s not hidden from her.
3. If you’re trying to abuse a co-worker, are you really going to do it not only with permanent record, tagged as a joke, but also comment “MUAHAHAHAHA”? Like some generic evil villain?
Notice she doesn’t give ANY context around this, who the people are, and what this could possibly be referring to. When you look at this with all the other “evidence” across her claims at Apple and beyond, she had negative credibility in my mind.
Keep in mind her job category (from what I can surmise about these people) is one that involves a ton of work and corralling cats. Apple is notorious for high ambitions which can stressfully lead to a lot of work, and the timing of this is around product announcements when people work their asses off. I just don’t see it.
How about she's making it her identity because she feels unheard and that the US justice system is so toothless that they've not done basic investigations after hundreds of complaints have come in?
America doesn't give a shit about corporate culture even when they're toxic and actually illegal. She has a full right to keep talking about it and keep bringing attention to it.
Your defense, even though you're just a basic employee, is pathetic and tone deaf. As a random employee you have absolutely zero idea of what's happening at the scale of a company like apple. Claiming otherwise is disengenous.
There needs to be a federal investigation of these claims at apple, and if found that she was lying then we could make claims like this.
I’m sure she’d be very happy to know that she can very extremely loud on Twitter and blogs and get people like yourself calling for federal investigation into her claims.
I also said nothing about my role; your attempts to discredit me are against HN guidelines, are assumptions on your behalf, irrelevant to the discussion, and are quite rude.
> Your defense, even though you're just a basic employee, is pathetic and tone deaf
Was this necessary?
Because it would affect my perception of your comment, I must ask, do you work at Apple, and are you the person, or closely related to the person this is about?
Polestar is Chinese owned brand(Geely), and their polestar cars are basically the Volvo xc40 ev version. (that's why their sedan is so tall/high ground clearance).
They have yet to build a fully independent ev first platform.
Volvo is owned by Geely so it's kinda all flopped around in the frame of reference. By all intents, the XC40 platform was designed for Polestar and with Polestar because Polestar IS Volvo. It's just more fuzzy. All in, investing in polestar is investing in Volvo one way or annother.
No, owned by Geely, which owns Volvo as well. It is an attempt from Geely to gain foothold in the western markets without being associated as a chinese brand, but as a swedish one.
I think it's more complicated than that - it was certainly owned entirely by Volvo as recently as 2015 and seems to share basically all engineering resources with Volvo. Seems like a funny attempt somewhere to make it seem like something other than Volvo - not sure why as Volvo has a reputation that's fairly decent already, if a bit dull and parental. I guess that's why Polestar is separate - to be more fashionable. Polestar still 'engineer' Volvos - I think it was at some point like BMW's 'M' thing - like a badge?
Polestar was a firm that did trim and racing cars for Volvo. Volvo did aquire Polestar and a few years later they spun it out to be a ev-company owned 50/50 by Geely and Volvo (and volvo is owned by geely). The cars are designed in Sweden but built in China.
The founders of Polestar now runs the Cyan racing company which is the official racing partner of volvo and geely...
A big difference is that Audi was an established car maker that had made a lot of cars long before VW bought them. Polestar wasn't a car maker before being bought by Geely and has never made car independently of Volvo/Geely.
polestar has been around for ages kind of like bmw m. geely kind of killed the performance division of Volvo and spun it off into separate company kind of how Harley did with its live wire. love Volvos but we have to see how successful polestars will be
I know it will be unpopular here...but if Polestar decided to go against the trend and make a Gas only turbocharged Polestar-1 at a 30k price point it would give the Dodge Charger a run for its money.
Simply put it they'd sell a ton of them. The Dodge/Mustang brand will always have traction among a certain demographic but their design language looks tired.
New generations are looking for something which has the design of the Polestar_1.
Also the elephant in the room: Everybody wants and touts EVs, up until it's their turn to make a purchase, then the tradeoffs in terms of price, look and build quality make themselves feel strongly.
I don't think its about looks at all. If anything its mostly been about range followed by price. Now that some of the newer cars like the Lucid Air go 520 miles on a single charge, its going to start to be a much easier sell especially with gas prices spiking to records in many places.
Okay. Porsche Taycan, Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo, Audi e-tron, Audi e-tron GT, Audi Q4 e-tron, Skoda Enyaq, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, Genesis GV60, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Jaguar I-Pace, Mercedes EQS, Mercedes EQE, Honda E, Mini E, Fiat 500e.
This. I have an EA charger 5 minutes from home and it's always so fun to look to see what is charging today, I see the wildest stuff that is just a 'Look!' having seen all the US cars on this list (plus the Nero and Bolt) I would say most EVs look better than most gas cars these days because they allow companies to open their design up a little for some wow.
I would also add the Lyriq (which is gorgeous), the Polestar 2, the R1T, and then just say the Honda E again from your list twice, because WOW, what a timeless design. It is just a Concept car...actually executed.
Almost all of them look exactly the same as petrol or diesel cars. Sometimes the grill looks different as they don't need air-cooling. Is that a big deal?
They don't. There's an element of artificial/forced "futurism" in their appearance, generally: rounded bits in the wrong places, weird curves/shapes to trunks and lights, etc. Not to mention the poor and shoddy interiors. Tesla looks like it was going for a hospital surgery room level of sterility in the cabin--no thanks.
This is a reference to the Princeton study. The authors claimed to have found "brain abnormalities" by inspecting MRIs of the diplomats. Other neuroscientists criticized the study. The MRIs themselves are classified and has not been released to the public.
Thats sadly wrong, Chinas solar industry was heavily subsidized by the state to purposely crash the market prices of panels and ruin the solar industry of western countries. Once they succeeded they raised prices again to make profit.
So Chinese subsidies are “purposely crashing the market”, while German subsidies are... what exactly? Well, they did not crash the market, but they crush innovation and competitiveness, while China improved.
Have prices actually increased? Lazard's Levelized Cost of Energy analysis shows a steady decline in cost https://www.lazard.com/media/451447/grphx_lcoe-09-09.jpg but that also includes operating costs. I can't find a source for the solar panels themselves.
They just didn't decrase as fast as they could have, given falling prouction cost. But then again, the market was heavily distorted by German and Chinese subsidys anyways, so it is hard to know what the subsidy-free "real" market prices would have been.
TBH thats bollocks as well as the frequent platitude that 'Its already priced in..' or that the professional investors are so sophisticated that normal people don‘t have a chance so why bother
Don’t know why downvoted, it’s clear what’s meant here. Nobody’s expecting to find inside info and if GP is going to only offer platitudes then why bother even clicking in the thread?
A working strategy stops working the day everyone applies it. It's not that you don't have a chance, simply don't expect people to tell you what to do.
That's not really true. Mine has been working and I have been posting my trades for people. What's funny is as the number of people following the trade grows, the odds of the trade hitting has been going up since.
https://transfershops.com a marketplace for ecommerce businesses and shops, I am currently trying to sell it.
The problem is that with two sided marketplaces you have a chicken and egg problem. Without buyers nobody will take the time to create a sale listing and vice versa.
