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by btian 13y ago
No. "some 250,000 gas-powered vehicles catch fire in real-life settings every year." [Washington Post's WonkBlog, 1/9/12] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/are-elec..
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by btian 13y ago
There is one - power consumption.
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by btian 13y ago
Misleading title. The article clearly says "64 percent in gold and silver miners, 21 percent in real estate and 15 percent in cash"
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FDA approves new drug to treat HIV infection(fda.gov)
1 points by btian 13y ago|0 comments
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by btian 13y ago
This is not reddit. Please stick to facts.
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by btian 13y ago
Citation needed. If what you said is indeed true, then can you explain why people are so outraged when such things happen?
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by btian 13y ago
Works perfectly fine for me. Centos 6.4 with Chrome 26
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by btian 13y ago
Your comment is irrelevant and quite wrong. No one is disputing that nVidia & AMD cards (in general) have better performance, but very often Intel's offering is good enough, and people don't need more than what's enough.
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by btian 13y ago
Compatibility. Every device that supports OpenGL also supports OpenGL ES, but not vice versa.
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by btian 13y ago
What?! Fixed function rendering pipeline continues to be fairly widely used because it's easier to develop. While I agree that modern programmable pipeline has its advantages, but backwards compatibility is crap? Why?
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by btian 13y ago
It's somewhere in between, I'd say more towards the latter. At around ~60k units it's hardly a "major" commercial product considering even Microsoft sells millions of their Surface RT tablets in a quarter. I think i
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by btian 13y ago
The FDA. Many drugs (especially low volume ones) cannot get approved for human use in the United States due to cost.
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by btian 13y ago
Intel processor can be remotely patched?! Then why did Intel spend $475m to fix the FDIV bug?
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by btian 13y ago
Increasing number of people
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by btian 13y ago
While your point is valid, how often do you expect to have a battery swap? How often to you refill your car? Battery swap is for long road trips, not everyday usage.
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by btian 13y ago
Based on the leaked PRISM presentation, they could send your search log to NSA, and NSA can identify you based on your IP address that your ISP provides.
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by btian 13y ago
That has questionable legality in the United States. I won't want to run it on my corporate PC.
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by btian 13y ago
Not to dispute your point, but the number should really be normalized by population. EDIT: If you click on "Immigrants as percentage of national population", you'll realize that the US is one of the lowest in developed countr
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by btian 13y ago
you could short real estate derivatives. just keep in mind that Federal Reserve is on the other side of the contract
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by btian 13y ago
That so-called history is just wrong. First, Wikipedia is not a primary source. Martin Eberard is a primary source and he says that Elon Musk is a co-founder. The last time I checked there is no rule that says you can't be co-founder and in
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by btian 13y ago
Have you seen real poverty? Just take a trip to Mumbai and visit the slums there.
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by btian 13y ago
UK for example. International tuition fees are more than twice the rate for EU citizens.
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by btian 13y ago
His CV on his website http://jelv.is/resume.pdf . Seems he's fairly experienced. Anyway such things are highly subjective, and YMMV
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by btian 13y ago
Email is killing USPS jobs, so should emails be banned? Exactly, and nothing is stopping independent dealers from buying new cars from Tesla and selling to consumers with a markup if they're so sure that their service is as valuable as they
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by btian 13y ago
Absolutely but it limits Tesla's ability to provide service and test drives in the states that ban it. It's practical for someone to take delivery from another state, but driving to another state just to get a test drive is probably too muc
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by btian 13y ago
Can't upvote this enough. I'm so sick of the constant haggling needed to get a good price on a car, getting quotes from a dozen dealers, and all the trouble with dealers during service. Looking forward to the day when consumer gets the same
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by btian 13y ago
I'd have gotten a SSD if I were you but otherwise it's perfectly sensible.
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Tesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers(npr.org)
46 points by btian 13y ago|51 comments
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by btian 13y ago
The article is a massive fail. I don't see where the "robot" is. Is Sal Khan not a teacher? Andrew Ng is a "robot"?
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by btian 14y ago
As if Chinese made goods are not perceived as inferior. Claims are just claims after all.

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