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by ckastner 7y ago
This current trend of of "disrupting" the market by flouting or circumventing regulations may have worked for Uber, AirBnB and so on, but Libra might just be a step too bold. Unless Libra aims to uphold the same regulations that
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Autonomous EV bus service being tested in Vienna [German](wienerlinien.at)
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by ckastner 7y ago
It's a simple and frequent mistake to believe that sovereign autonomy is wholly self-determined, and seasteading is the prime example for this. Sovereign autonomy is not determined by oneself. It is determined by others , specifically
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That sounds great in theory, but in practice, you really start to question how far you'll go for your client when there are clear indications that something illegal is happening.
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I admittedly assumed that, as the grandparent comment spoke of a judicial order. However, there linked page indicates that in some cases, they have indeed complied with mere requests by authorities as well.
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by ckastner 7y ago
What exactly should ProtonMail have done in this case? Refuse to comply with the court order? Not defending ProtonMail's actions mentioned in the topic, only puzzled why you seem so surprised in your comment.
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by ckastner 7y ago
Why "or"? Tesla and Musk do a lot of things. Some are clever, eg: Tesla gets marketing that other car companies can only dream of, for free . Other things are insane, eg Musk's "secured" bid of $420 for a company t
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by ckastner 7y ago
Speaking as someone who actively boycotted Sony products for a decade because of this fiasco, I also think it's time to put this to rest.
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by ckastner 7y ago
One of my favorite quotes [1]: "I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." -- Comment [by Seymour Cray] on Apple's purchase of a Cray which was intended to help them design the next Mac. [1] https://en
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by ckastner 7y ago
Can you please provide a source for that. That sounds like material information, but I couldn't find any mention of this in their last quarterly report.
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by ckastner 7y ago
> They establish the demand and build anticipation in the product. Who's left to do that? The article says that they gutted the solar sales team. > Or is it more likely that they lost focus on Solar Roof during the Model 3 ram
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by ckastner 7y ago
> California state data shows 21 Solar Roof systems were connected by the state’s three investor-owned utilities as of Feb. 28. Only a few others were connected in the northeastern United States [...] Amazing that Solar Roof got so muc
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by ckastner 7y ago
This is not "eating your seed corn", as that story is about a single resource, and the short-term planning of when to consume it.
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by ckastner 7y ago
Nobody drives a shitty, old, inefficient, dirty gas guzzler because they are addicted to them. They drive them because they can't afford something better. A solar panel is probably an unaffordable object for at least a quarter of the w
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by ckastner 7y ago
> But I think the problem is that people care about today a lot more then they care about tomorrow Absolutely, and to change that, you need to ask why this is the case. There are many reasons for that. Some people are selfish, some a
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by ckastner 7y ago
It most certainly was not just about cold war propaganda. The dream to reach for the heavens has existed since antiquity. ad astra per aspera , as the saying goes.
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by ckastner 7y ago
I've noticed with my own posts that some people here tend to downvote purely factual information simply because they find it unpleasant. Although that usually happens on some of the more controversial topics (and much more frequently o
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by ckastner 7y ago
> The underlying value of the dollar isn't so badly effected because bank robberies happen Since you and a number of other sibling comments have raised this point: This comparison is poor. There are tens of thousands (probably eve
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by ckastner 7y ago
> But all that is a function of the prisoners and their choices and actions, not the government. Seeing as the prisoners are in government custody, I don't see how the government can be ruled out as a factor of the aforementioned fu
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by ckastner 7y ago
> Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter? Like, ever? There is no doubt that Twitter dramatically changed public dialog. It was/is revolutionary. Whether this revolution was a net positive or n
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by ckastner 7y ago
You know what else keeps going up? The world population, from 5.2 billion in 1989 [1] to 7.7 billion today. Yes, the PPM and global emissions charts keep going up. However, they are doing so at a much smaller rate than would be the case if
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by ckastner 7y ago
> For the last 30 years governments and politicians have proven incapable to do anything about global heating. That's just disingenuous. Climate change has been a major point for numerous governments, there have been huge pushes
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by ckastner 7y ago
> A lot of people want to trash Musk and Tesla A lot of people also seem to forget that it is in the very nature of outrageous statements to be challenged and criticized. Musk was right with his predictions a few times, but the same co
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by ckastner 7y ago
This is from the Economist article that Musk was tweeting about: Well before it confirmed the latest missed production target, investors worried about the firm’s cash-burn rate in 2018. In addition to the $2bn or so of capital that may be
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by ckastner 7y ago
Quoting Musk on Twitter[1], about a year ago: The Economist used to be boring, but smart with a wicked dry wit. Now it’s just boring (sigh). Tesla will be profitable & cash flow+ in Q3 & Q4, so obv no need to raise money. [1] htt
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Waymo is a technology demo, not a functioning operation that spits out self driving cars by the tens of thousands per quarter. Waymo last year ordered 20.000 cars from Jaguar Land Rover, then 62.000 cars from Fiat Chrysler, with deli
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by ckastner 8y ago
Personally, I believe it for two reasons: First, it seems that everyone but Musk is claiming so, so either everyone else is wrong, or Musk is wrong. I find it far more likely that this is just another "funding secured" type of cla
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by ckastner 8y ago
Well, I guess that explains the Autonomy Day [1] event from just two days ago where they presented themselves as the Pack Leader, when everyone else knows it's Waymo (by far). Quoting user RivieraKid [2]: Take a moment and think about
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by ckastner 8y ago
That symbolic Euro is important because it makes the deal a purchase instead of a gift. Legally, the consequences are significant. There are numerous situations when paying nothing for something is entirely reasonable, for example when you
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by ckastner 8y ago
Panasonic's issue seems to be: > Panasonic's Tesla EV battery business had operating losses exceeding 20 billion yen [~180m USD] in the financial year that ended in March, up from a year earlier. The losses were exacerbated by

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