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by codex 13y ago
“It was clear that we were not going to see electric cars from incumbent manufacturers,” says Musk." Clear, perhaps, but not correct. Ford, GM, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi, Mercedes and Toyota all sell electric cars (though the latter two us
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by codex 13y ago
Daily meetings are not really for obtaining useful status information. They're about habituating people into doing real work every day, so that they don't feel like jackasses when they have to report to their peers that they didn't do anyt
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by codex 13y ago
TL;DR if you spend 35 years as an engineer, you'll still need to work for a living, but if you spend 35 years as an entrepreneur or VC, you'll likely be retired long before that. In other words, it's better to be at the top of the pyramid
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by codex 13y ago
One primate study verified the effect and one did not; see http://www.davidstipp.com/on-calorie-restriction-monkeys-mag... for an interesting, if biased, analysis of the NIH study.
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by codex 13y ago
Just because plants produce toxins doesn't mean humans don't benefit from them. Humans and plants coevolved over millions of years, and it's not unreasonable for the human body to "expect" certain chemical triggers in the environment, and
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by codex 13y ago
People hate the Google bus because humans do not want to feel inferior or that they are being treated unfairly. SF has a lot of poor people and a lot of rich people, and the number of rich are increasing. When you're poor and your neighbo
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by codex 13y ago
"The Math Gene" goes into some of the links between math and language--but that's not really central to my argument, which is that some people are not predisposed to attack problems linguistically. I only mention it to explain why there ar
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by codex 13y ago
"The truth is that Lisp is not the right language for any particular problem. Rather, Lisp encourages one to attack a new problem by implementing new languages tailored to that problem." This is why I don't use LISP. It is the case that ma
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by codex 13y ago
Not according to Google: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATSLA&fstype=ii... Oh, you're looking at gross profit, which excludes sales, G&A, R&D, etc. Yes, on that basis Tesla is profitable even without ZEVs.
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by codex 13y ago
It's almost impossible to drive an EV so much as to go over the lease miles, due to range restrictions and charging times. A LEAF can be had for $200 a month.
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by codex 13y ago
I don't think that's true. Tesla took in $68M from ZEV last quarter but only made $11M in profits--thus, 600% of their profits came from ZEV. This is a bit of a hand wave, though, because if you know you have ZEV income coming in the door
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by codex 13y ago
Hydrogen, being the smallest atom, tends to leak. For this and energy density reasons, the hydrogen must be cryogenically stored, at low temperature and high pressure. I don't think that nut has been cracked. Creating pure hydrogen cheap
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by codex 13y ago
The success of these EVs may actually impact Tesla profitability: if Spark and LEAF sales take off in California, it means less of a market for the ZEV credits that Tesla sells. However, I doubt any mainstream manufacturer will have surplu
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by codex 13y ago
This car seems to offer a DC fast charging connector which is incompatible with CHAdeMO, the current de-facto standard. Does anyone have the scoop on the dueling standards?
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by codex 13y ago
According to Nissan (which has sold 63K LEAFs worldwide so far) the average American drives 30 miles a day. One competitor to the Prius Plug-in is the Ford Fusion Energi, which sports much higher all-electric range, and the Chevy Volt, simi
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by codex 13y ago
There's one more reason to repay the loan early: it prevents the US from exercising 3M stock warrants worth about $250M. The fund raising also allowed Elon to borrow money against his other holdings to purchase more Tesla stock off the ope
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by codex 13y ago
Tesla's early repayment of their DOE loan has prevented the U.S. government from exercising three million warrants, which would have netted America around $250 million at the current stock price. Smart move for Tesla, almost a huge boon
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by codex 13y ago
Bootcamp in the Marine Corps is an example of a tough hiring practice. Are your friends and family doctors or lawyers, per chance? Both professions use grueling hiring marathons which are much, much worse than a software engineering inter
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by codex 13y ago
It's the worst method out there--except for all the other ones. The problem with the "here's my portfolio of work" screening method is that companies generally expect a certain level of productivity (and IQ), and there's no way to tell how
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by codex 13y ago
These kinds of interviews essentially ask: are you willing to put in the time to be one of the best in the world at what you do? Are you gritty, or wishy-washy? If the answer is no, don't bother to apply. That's not an unreasonable way t
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by codex 13y ago
Impressive--but likely uncomfortable to wear because of the thickness and square edges. Perhaps a comfort fit finish on the interior, with rounded corners, and a third less thick.
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by codex 13y ago
This effect also holds for one's own estimates that one's startup will not fail.
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by codex 13y ago
At first glance, this looks like it shares much in common with DTrace--so why not DTrace?
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by codex 13y ago
Likely they would only do this the first time you sent money to someone, or depending on a score from their abuse prevention system.
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by codex 13y ago
Surely there's at least a nominal rationale for these laws, even if the real reason is manipulation by special interests. Some kind of monopoly prevention? It seems a stretch.
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by codex 13y ago
Don't get too excited about these sophomoric features. All modern IDEs have copied the best features from various editors. You can get the kill ring and set mark in IntelliJ, for example, and various other things besides. These features a
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by codex 13y ago
Agreed; they have bullshit specs for the S.
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by codex 13y ago
I'm not sure it's a lie, per se: they're comparing to the $50K model which doesn't exist anymore. But even the current low end model at $67K doesn't include navigation. EDIT: No, looking further at their database, they have no data at all
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by codex 13y ago
Not yet, but there is a bill pending in the legislature.
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by codex 13y ago
They're comparing the $50K model, which is the most spartan Model S.

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