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by codex 13y ago
Nissan will sell its 100,000th all electric LEAF early next year. They sell around 15,000 a quarter.
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by codex 13y ago
There's a worry Tesla is hiding softening sales. They had the capacity to produce 7150 cars this quarter but only sold 5550, a difference of 1650. Some of those cars are en route to Europe, but still, the number seems high. Talking
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by codex 13y ago
I am very impressed with TSLA's 24% GAAP gross margin, and the relative lack of ZEV income. Great job, Tesla! Kudos.
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by codex 13y ago
I like your point and it is a valid critique of HN commenting. Many dismissals are perfunctory and incorrect. All the same, though, it is expected that almost all new startups will fail and most products will not be "the best" or
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by codex 13y ago
I would say that it's more likely your life is over when you get accepted to YC--slaving for peanuts with little chance of success, when the expected value of other opportunities are much higher. It's all a bit exploitative, bu
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by codex 13y ago
I was half expecting some if the words to blink at me, but, of course, support for the blink tag has been removed from modern browsers. Hooray for opinionated code.
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by codex 13y ago
Amazon may be making more profit on these purchases, rather than less--utilizing the potent marketing skills of non-profit organizations to direct more dollars to Amazon without Amazon having to pay higher affiliate fees. I'm not an
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by codex 13y ago
Most of the comments here try to spin this story as anti-TSA, which is laughable. Fact is, a man with an assault rifle targeted a vulnerable spot at an airport. That man was batshit insane , which means that while today that man targets
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by codex 13y ago
The compensation at these is substantially better than what you've mentioned. Some offer regional offices around the country and world. I can see how the extra autonomy and reduced workload would be nice, but I'm not sure you ca
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by codex 13y ago
Agreed. Blogging is a tool of the mediocre. It's like the blind leading the blind. And those who do have a clue are trying to manipulate you to their hidden agenda.
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by codex 13y ago
Progress marches on, but as much as I enjoy some good kernel porn, only one in a thousand HN readers will be affected in any way at all.
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by codex 13y ago
This seems strictly worse than a job at Google, Facebook or Twitter assuming the same 40 hour week. Are there lifestyle advantages?
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by codex 13y ago
Sadly, tulips were not invented during the great tulip mania, either.
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by codex 13y ago
It also describes Amazon, whose stock has been on a tear.
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BMW considers more production capacity for i3 with more than 8,000 reservations(myelectriccarforums.com)
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by codex 13y ago
Junking DST completely is an unimaginative, backward solution to an imperfect system. DST just needs to be improved a bit more. The advent of computerized timekeeping and GPS means that, for the first time since timekeeping began, we can
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by codex 13y ago
Ideally we would measure success in terms of happiness / GDP, not GDP alone. That said, services like airbnb have externalities in cost which are born by all citizens. Transients staying next door? No thanks. Increased rents? Ouch!
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by codex 13y ago
Or it's simply luck. If the odds of succeeding are random, say 1%, then the more you try, the greater the odds you will eventually win the lottery. It would make sense that most of the winners had tried multiple times. I'm not
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by codex 13y ago
It's interesting to me that the auto industry has been around for a hundred years, and while some components are standard (wheels, battery), 95% of the components in a car are not interchangeable. Until recently, the performance of ca
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by codex 13y ago
Can't you alert the driver using an audio-only system that doesn't require Glass? And aren't audio-only GPS directions safer than video-delivered directions in general? Perhaps dash-mounted GPS screens should be outlawed as
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by codex 13y ago
She was speeding--in the seventies while in a 65 mph zone. Additionally, from an article on the web: "Under California rules, video screens are prohibited anywhere ahead of the front seats unless they're displaying GPS information
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by codex 13y ago
How many of these were first time founders?
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by codex 13y ago
What does "stored" mean? Does it mean "temporarily buffered?" If so, most networking technologies meet that criteria, and iCloud might too if it merely buffers in RAM. Does it mean "unreadable in cleartext"
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by codex 13y ago
Do you believe the US is intentionally targeting civilians? If not, this war seems pretty similar to all wars.
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by codex 13y ago
Presumably the Kindle and Matchbook names are designed to evoke book burning, unless there is an alternative interpretation I have missed. Matchbook = taking a match to a book, i.e. burning it, just as you should use your now-obsolete pape
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by codex 13y ago
"Can I just say how much I love the title of this service?" The name kind of reminds me of Nazi book burning or Fahrenheit 451. In fact, anything with "Kindle" in it does. I can't shake it even though this service
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by codex 13y ago
Sometimes people need to drive. Sometimes they need a boat. Why not combine two into a boat-car? They both have engines. They both have steering wheels. It's perfect!
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by codex 13y ago
Yes but does it run OS X?
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by codex 13y ago
Mild inflation promotes growth by encouraging money to be put to use rather than sit idly in savings. Banks make more aggressive loans to keep yields high.
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by codex 13y ago
It is like a Ponzi scheme in that it requires continuous expansion to maintain. Switching metaphors, it's also like a Catch-22: Amazon is successful precisely because it makes no profit. How, then, do you value future cash flows?

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