Arun Singh

Tomorrow is my last working day at Amazon. These messages are always hard to write but I think necessary for a sense of closure to a remarkable part of one's life. And my last 5 years at Amazon have been nothing short of remarkable! #1/8

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@Guesty is there an ongoing outage? Guesty app just started telling me I have no Airbnb account connected (I do!). I tried to log out and log in. It’s been spinning for over 2 minutes after I entered my username and password. I really need to update my calendar 😔

7. If you’re a host and have instant book on I strongly recommend you reconsider your choice!

6. So, lesson learned, do not trust instant book on Airbnb. I had support cancel and apologized to the guest with a message.

@AirbnbHelp @bchesky just had an incredibly poor experience with the app and support that convinced me to turn off instant book ok my property and keep it off. Here’s what happened:

Is it time to relabel the Central Processing Unit (CPU) the Compute Processing Unit? With computers like Nvidia’s Digits project serialized compute provided by general cpu cores is fast losing its centrality.

Adversity, real crushing adversity, is a harsh teacher. I stared it in the face once before decades ago and thought I had learned all I had to learn. I was wrong. Class is open again. I am open and ready to learn. Teach me. Make me a better creature.

This moved me

Very disappointed in @airtelindia @Airtel_Presence Internet to our place in Delhi has been out 2 days straight. Promised callbacks that never happen, field agent numbers are never answered, and getting the runaround from everyone on phone. Where’s customer care? #Airtel

British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher famously once said, “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” Nearly all European nations trace their beginning to a common ethnic kinship or a cultural characteristic, but America was created by exiles united in voluntary assent to shared political beliefs. That’s why British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time and remarked that America was “a nation with the soul of a church,” not because of its religiosity, but because of a common creed enshrined in “sacred texts” of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. In 1776, a near-miraculous stew of ideas and leaders came together to form a Declaration of Independence, and 11 years later an equally miraculous gathering formed the Constitution, both centered on a belief in universal human dignity. Government does not grant you the right to free speech, assembly, religion, press, protest, or redress of grievances. We believe that these rights are inalienable and government’s role is simply to protect those rights and ensure human dignity. Government is just a tool, not a source. That’s really a remarkably profound idea we take for granted and fail to celebrate enough. Of course, the sad irony is that the very Founders who argued these ideas so frequently fell short of those same principles. Some owned slaves, and nearly all opposed equal rights for women. So it naturally caused upheaval when nineteenth century Americans increasingly adopted a view held that “All men are created equal,” including black Americans, and a few generations later it came to encompass women as well. Abraham Lincoln believed that the Declaration of Independence did not necessarily proclaim people equal in all respects. Instead, it meant that all people were created with certain equal, inalienable rights—they are ours by right of simply being human—among which are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” A free society should always strive to achieve these equal rights, even if, as in the case of the Founders, it fell short of that goal in the past. The Declaration’s concept of equality is an aspiration, Lincoln said, “constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere.” That is the genius of Lincoln’s argument: that the Constitution is concrete (at least until amended), but the Declaration of Independence is aspirational, and the American project is a move toward the aspiration. Despite its roots in American independence, the 4th of July is incomplete without understanding and celebrating Lincoln too. His unique view of the Declaration as an aspirational goal helped properly frame American independence for what it was and what it was bound to be.

@davewolfusa @Arkypatriot @Tesla @SpaceX 5 year old model 3 here. Full range used to be 310 miles the day we bought it. It’s 393 miles now. Less than 3% range loss over 5 years ain’t bad. Also note that gas engines also lose “range” (miles per gallon) over their lifetime and most need serious work after 10ish years.

@Arkypatriot @Tesla @SpaceX That's as valid of a question for a new car as "How much for that replacement V8?". @Tesla has shown that over 10 years their batteries only lose ~12%. The likelihood of needing to replace it is very low. These are not the same as the batteries that you use in your home.

If people understood how good the driving experience is with a @Tesla, they'd never be able to build enough at any price. My trip to Texas to see @SpaceX's SuperHeavy/Starship initial launch was my first time driving a Tesla Model Y for an extended trip. I drove 1500 miles across Texas, from San Antonio to Brownsville, and then all the way up to near Fort Worth over 10 days. For 7 of those days, I camped out in the back of the Model Y using its "Camp Mode", keeping me cool in the heat and humidity of the Texas Gulf Coast. All of that driving and the AC only cost me $151. The integration with your phone is amazing: 1) You never have to lock your car, it locks it when you walk away, and unlocks it when you return. 2) Want a comfortable car when you get in, turn the climate control on from your phone. 3) Some idiot parked too close to your driver's door? Just use your phone to back it out. I can't wait to get mine! Starting July 1st, Colorado will provide a $5000 rebate to the $7,500 federal rebate. This means that you'll be able to get a base Model Y for $29,740. Note: The price below only includes $2000 Colorado's 7/1/2023 $5000 rebate.

@paulg Faster air travel has been on the cards for a long time. We almost had it with the Concorde but it was too expensive and too inconvenient (sonic booms et al). I’m hoping I can go see my folks in Delhi (from Seattle) in under 10 hours in my lifetime. That would be a 2.5x improvmnt

Electric cars, fake meat, AI. All three have been around since I was a kid. They were never good enough, so we learned to ignore them. But all three have now crossed the line where you can't. What's next?

@s3rioussam You're in the broken bit of Canada. BC == Better Canada :P

feels good to be in a city where they have actual spring. canadian spring is nature's broken promise.

Ugh! Death and taxes right? I think it might be time to consolidate some investments. My list of tax forms gets longer every year :|

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