Hypx

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by Hypx 8y ago
I wonder if Reddit has surpassed Twitter, Snapchat, etc, for the title of most popular non-Facebook social network. You rarely see anyone do any kind of comparison of them.
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by Hypx 8y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2018/05/18/musk-has-... It's close to 13.775M, and growing. The worrying sign is that the company is losing tons of money at the same time. As the author
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by Hypx 8y ago
Unless it is "diworsification," where companies or individuals water down successful investments with tons of bad ones.
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by Hypx 8y ago
The answer might seriously be D) All of the above.
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by Hypx 9y ago
The original plan was to use profits to fuel the expansion. However, there was no profits and they used debt and capital raises instead. Unfortunately, the expansion generated no profits of its own, only huge losses, requiring even more deb
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by Hypx 9y ago
If you read the original Moody's announcement, Tesla needs a capital raise this year and next year. A company that needs annual multi-billion dollar injections of capital to survive is indeed, uncomfortably close to bankruptcy.
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by Hypx 9y ago
Your argument is a long winded way of saying: The market believes in Tesla, so any and all losses are acceptable. Look, at $671M in losses per quarter, nothing about this company suggest it is viable. Worse, the "cash burn" rate,
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by Hypx 9y ago
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla/financials/... Tesla's cash flow from investment was -$1.21B last quarter alone. I can scarcely think of a startup that consumed cash at this rate. T
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by Hypx 9y ago
We should be careful with apply Moore's Law style of thinking when it comes to battery innovation. These things can and will hit hard limits at some point. Real progress can be much slower and much less predictable than in the semicond
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by Hypx 9y ago
Actually that's pretty cool. Any serious attempt to utilize the scientific method will inevitable lead to something that resembles current scientific knowledge.
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by Hypx 9y ago
TSLA is taking on $1.5 billion in debt every quarter or so. Not sure if this is the same situation.
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by Hypx 9y ago
Quite a few short sellers are making that very case. In fact, one of them said something to the effect that every shorter seller should short Tesla before any shorting other company.
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by Hypx 9y ago
It's pretty self-evident if you read the next two paragraphs: > (Ironically, the Fremont plant is prominently featured in “The Machine…” as the locus of the ultimately failed GM-Toyota cooperation.) > As I watched Tesla’s messy,
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by Hypx 9y ago
> I couldn’t help check off the sins against the “Toyota Bible”, prescriptions for car manufacturers that are lucidly detailed in The Machine That Changed The World (a great and, in parts, sad read). In particular, one mustn’t stockpile
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by Hypx 9y ago
Wouldn't be so sure about Tesla since it has yet to turn in a meaningful profit. SpaceX is a maybe since we don't know its internal finances. We're also ignoring SolarCity, which by any metric was a failure.
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by Hypx 9y ago
There are far more people who tried crazy ideas and failed, and are promptly forgotten. The whole point of survivorship bias is that you have to be cognizant of the data points that failed and therefore aren't recorded, not just the on
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by Hypx 9y ago
This is also a good time to introduce the concept of survivorship bias. There's a fair chance that it was mostly luck, not ability, that it ultimately succeeded.
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by Hypx 9y ago
This claim needs some scrutiny: >> * the first to prove out supersonic retro-propulsion > Here the key is supersonic retro-propulsion . They really were the first people to light up a rocket engine facing the 'wrong' w
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by Hypx 9y ago
Just want to point out some misconceptions here: Arguably, the Space Shuttle was the first launch system to reuse the first stage, and the first to prove retro-propulsion landing was the Delta Clipper (on Earth anyways, supersonic retro-pro
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by Hypx 10y ago
About $165 million: http://fortune.com/2015/08/07/this-is-why-elon-musks-spacex-... Which will soon be $165 million Tesla owns to SpaceX.
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by Hypx 11y ago
I certainly hope this will be the end of coal. It would be the biggest single step forward in reducing GHG emissions.
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by Hypx 12y ago
You've described the problem that a lot of developers I know have. Linux just isn't easy to understand, even for programmers, if they don't have a *NIX background to start with.
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by Hypx 12y ago
JavaScript is definitely getting better. The only question is whether they are changing too much too fast. There'll be a lot of headscratchers when running into unfamiliar ES6 code.
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by Hypx 12y ago
It basically means you try to model your rendering engine as close to the real world as possible. That in-turn implies that every aspect of your rendering engine is analogous to how light and real world objects really behave.
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by Hypx 12y ago
State of ECMAScript-6 support in current browsers: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
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by Hypx 12y ago
You do realize that just because problem A is a big problem, doesn't make problem B not a problem.
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by Hypx 12y ago
If it took a huge development effort for SEL4 to get to the state it is currently in, doesn't that make it unlikely anyone can easier go in and change thinks or add features? Not knowing too much about SEL4, but it just seems like a ve
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by Hypx 12y ago
I've only briefly heard of that kernel, and I suspect the same is true for many people at HN. It's also been open sourced pretty recently so maybe it needs more time for people to become aware of it. It may catch on if we give it
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by Hypx 12y ago
Since rust is a true systems programming language, without a mandatory GC, I wonder if there will be any serious attempt to build a kernel entirely in Rust? It certainly sounds possible, and I suspect it would quickly be better than any FOS
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by Hypx 12y ago
Solar power has been growing at an exponential rate for the last several years. The interesting thing about exponential growth is that it isn't actually all that fast in its first stages, and easy to dismiss as meaningless. Once adopti

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