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by RayVR 9y ago
Based on EPA estimates of global greenhouse gas emissions, converting every US passenger vehicle to electric, assuming those vehicles are then driven for at least seven years, the net reduction to global emissions is roughly 1%.
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by RayVR 9y ago
Tesla will also need to raise cash. Look at accounts payable.
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by RayVR 9y ago
The bottleneck is absolutely not batteries. From the document, they specifically state that they have multiple steps which are only able to operate for short periods at 500 cars per week, which basically means 500 cars could be produced if
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by RayVR 9y ago
Tesla received no money from tencent. Tencent acquired their shares in the secondary market like nearly every other investor.
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by RayVR 9y ago
Why was this flagged?
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by RayVR 9y ago
First line of fastai imports is a big "Fuck you" to usability. Don't import *.
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by RayVR 9y ago
Given how painfully slow wireless charging is, I'd prefer they go for the rapid charging feature. May not be as sexy but it's way more useful.
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by RayVR 9y ago
I can't wait for someone to pick up my phone, point it at my face and have it unlock. Hope it has a "User sleeping, can't unlock" feature.
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by RayVR 9y ago
Even converting all of those sectors to electric/renewable, you don't remove all greenhouse gases, you cut them down. In the case of personal transportation we see estimates of ~53% reduction in carbon footprint. I don't know
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by RayVR 9y ago
> it would be so incredibly easy to stop 80% of anthropogenic emissions. Please provide some evidence for this massive claim.
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Tesla loses $336M in Q2 [pdf](files.shareholder.com)
2 points by RayVR 9y ago|0 comments
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by RayVR 9y ago
They fail to consider that venmo and other simple cash transfer applications lower the barrier to payment of items down to the penny. Time isn't free and I would be annoyed if a friend demanded I reimburse down to the penny for somethi
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by RayVR 9y ago
The extremely simple answer is: No. Cryptocurrencies require significantly more power to verify a single transaction[1]. The ability to scale to a meaningful size does not exist now. They need to improve efficiency by 3-4 orders of magnitud
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Cryptocurrency energy consumption unsustainable(digiconomist.net)
3 points by RayVR 9y ago|0 comments
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by RayVR 9y ago
I did read the patent but I don't understand exactly what moom does. If a tiling window manager defines a set of inputs for defining grids and moving/resizing windows on that grid, where is the difference?
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by RayVR 9y ago
knowing absolutely nothing about patent law, I'm surprised that tiling window managers are not considered prior art or would at least mean this idea is not novel.
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by RayVR 10y ago
Anyone that would benefit from this style of learning (rapid, focused on structure and rules) may actually be hurt by the rush to cover many topics without treating any precisely. I'm by no means an expert but here are some issues in j
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by RayVR 10y ago
The water is warm. Come trade.
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by RayVR 10y ago
Shouldn't really have to go to google for you but here's the first link: http://www.landtrustalliance.org/topics/taxes/income-tax-inc... And by the way, Trump uses these deals extensively. When he builds
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by RayVR 10y ago
If you simply google this incentive you'll see that it's history long predates any popular notion of environmental preservation.
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by RayVR 10y ago
This is a tax scheme to offset massive amounts of income. I have looked at many of these deals. You can generally get multiples of 3-10x the value based on the government discount tables. Congrats to him for playing it this way.
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by RayVR 11y ago
I'd rather have more freeloaders than more bureaucrats.
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by RayVR 11y ago
This is really not possible. If there's any truth to this story at all you have forgotten the real version.
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by RayVR 12y ago
I frequently fly out of JFK. I have lived in three very different areas of Manhattan. Never has it taken me more than 1.5 hours to get to JFK. I would say the mean time is more like 45 minutes. Yellow cabs are fixed rate $55 + tolls. I can
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by RayVR 12y ago
I would have been working in a three person team (including me). This results in spending a TON of time with your teammates, usually more time than your family. Not liking someone is a reasonable filter in this case. I happen to work on a t
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by RayVR 12y ago
Just a side note that the chief talent officer I met with is no longer at the company.
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by RayVR 12y ago
I've already mentioned that the director of talent acquisition was part of my interview process. She gleefully told me stories of firing people. It was not "We monitor performance and those that do not meet our required level are
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by RayVR 12y ago
I had a wildly different experience interviewing at netflix. I met with the *Chief talent officer (had to look up this title from my original schedule with them...) for one of my interviews and she spent half the time telling me why the sto
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by RayVR 12y ago
An example that you should try: d = addict() d['__dict__'] = None
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by RayVR 12y ago
this is an idea that I've seen used many times in the past. One of the first refs I saw to this mashup of the keys of a dict and the values in __dict__ was on Activestate in 2006 or so. There are also multiple versions on Stackoverflow

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