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by bruce511 3mo ago
If you've built 10 products and hot no-where then perhaps your strategy is a bad one. And yes, building something then looking for customers is a bad strategy. I strongly recommend you spend the next month finding a market. Don't
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No there won't be clauses about rental amounts. It's not that straightforward. It boils down to collateral for the loan. A building has a value based on future rents. The owner borrows from the bank based on that value. The buildi
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That's your product description. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that you identify who your customer is (ie who is writing the check) and how you plan to reach them. Selling to mid-level-managers at orgs running Jira sou
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You call them "customers" not "users", implying you'd like to earn money from this? In which case no, I don't think you should Open Source it. Getting paid for Open Source, especially by companies, is unlikely.
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The answer to your question depends on your goals. Without understanding what outcomes you are hoping for it's difficult to reply. You should also tell us more about your market research. Who is your target customer? (Are you expecting
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I'm not sure about maintenance hours. That matters as a function of proximity to maintenance staff, parts, new supply and so on. Flying from home bases, with no shortage of skilled labor can cover that. Supercruise also matters a bit l
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But interestingly their ambitions are "local". This has a large impact on the machines and materials required. In other words, let's says the Chinese military jet engine is 15 years behind is say fuel economy. Which reduces r
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Currently I generate about 66% of my annual power requirements with solar alone. If I had even a small 10kw battery I'd be moving that closer to 80%. But demand for base load is irrelevant to my thesis. My point is that financially
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>> Solar power, wind power, hydro power, nuclear power are all heavy on capital costs and light on operational costs I'm not sure I agree. Firstly, I can get solar panels without building a solar panel factory. Hence the capital
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The overriding impression I get is that the whole facility is complicated. There are lots of processes in place, and lots of very trained people required to keep it all running. The size and complexity of the control rooms for example, but
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I'm intrigued. A 90/10 split of what exactly? I mean, where does the "100" come from? I'm guessing you mean some sort of subscription approach? But if node servers make 90% of the money, how would you stop all machi
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Cricket 26. Not sure you can learn cricket from that, but it may help solidify the concepts.
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I agree. Depending on what you measure,total US subsidies are far larger than Chinese ones. I'd say you can certainly compare them though, and US ones are in the same order of magnitude- although it gets worse if you adjust for populat
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Everytime the issue of Chinese state subsidies comes up, two things occur to me. First, a "subsidy" is just govt tax money. In other words it comes from somewhere. It is, in effect, the Chinese people, contributing to the creation
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Yes. Actually "wicket" is used for 3 different things. Behind the batter, between the batter and the catcher are 3 vertical sticks. This is called the wicket. The batter is protecting those sticks, the bowler is trying to hit them
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Let me frame it like this; If GLM-6 is made publicly available[1], will that change your predictions of how they will behave in the future, or your understanding of their motivations in the present? [1] I am certainly no expert of Chinese
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True. Assuming there are buyers. And I'm not sure why buyers would pay more than value. In other words, the sale wouldn't really achieve anything other than lock in the capital write-off. The return would be trivially small.
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Companies being devalued is not news. It happens on the stock market everyday. For companies that rely on outside investment to survive however it can become a slide to oblivion. If the company itself is profitable, then typically it can co
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by bruce511 4mo ago
With any luck the latest debacle is so clearly a fail, that future presidents may be reluctant to get involved again (at least for a while). In the aftermath of Vietnam, the US was reluctant to get involved militarily (at least overtly.) Th
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Look, sure. No one is saying "no ICE ever". Some people still ride horses. 125 years ago cities were built around horses. Stabling. Breeding. Feeding. Grooming. Street cleaning (turns our horses poop a Lot). By 20 years later that
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Because they are focused on short term returns, not long-term strategy. In the short term cutting r&d, killing off "not yet profitable" lines etc all lead to improved results this quarter. Who cares about 5 years, or 10 years
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Historically being WW2. I'm not sure they've contributed much to the "war effort" since then. A legacy of WW2 was the explosion of the whole defence industry. While a lot of the civilian factories got repurposed in WW2 t
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Yes, it won't happen all at once. And some use cases will survive longer. I'm not sure size is the qualifier though. Electric busses are becoming more and more common. I think city vehicles make good candidates for EV - they don&#
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But is "it" in this context EV's or just protecting ICE production? That's the real heart of the issue. Building EVs would seem to be a logical goal. But is that what the policies are promoting?
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The Ford CEO is not wrong. Allowing foreign imports into the country at prices far below what US producers are able to make will decimate the local car industry in the US. There are 4 possible solutions to this problem; a) convince American
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Regarding range, and this is true for ICE too, how you drive matters enormously. There are lots of techniques that improve gas consumption or range. And yes, I'm sure there are places where gas and electricity get closer together. In
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Yes, this. I notice most people unhappy with the EV concept are also not EV owners. Which makes sense, they've chosen not to get one. And yes, there are also EV owners who are unhappy, but they are much less common. In general, when I
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Not to be picky, but 1600w is a really small solar system. These days a panel is around 500w. Where I stay 8 panels is a "small" system. I have 20. In summer that generates 85% of my household needs. (It would be 100% but I delibe
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The cost of EV energy (to the driver) is about half that of the cost of gas energy. And that's if you buy electricity at charging stations [1]. If you charge at home it gets less. If you have solar at home it approaches zero. Yes, the
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>> The “dirty electricity” angle is less obvious to me. A power plant typically gets about 60% of energy from a fossil source. A car does about 30%. So even if the electricity comes from say coal, it's still more efficient than b

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