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by codex 13y ago
Just as I predicted, Tesla's one quarter of profitability was just an enabler for them to raise more money for development of future models, which will most assuredly take them onto the red again, albeit probably temporarily. In this respe
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by codex 13y ago
Is the best culture for a startup one of hubris and poor emotional intelligence?
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2013 Nissan Leaf Review(nydailynews.com)
43 points by codex 13y ago|48 comments
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by codex 13y ago
For quick little tasks, writing blog posts, or system administration, Emacs or VIM or Sublime all work fine. For most professional software engineers, reading code and thinking take up 80% of the job; typing the changes takes up about five
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by codex 13y ago
They're not even deterministic. Even if your input is totally ordered, entropy from the memory subsystem will bubble up to communicating threads if you have more than one. Sometimes one thread will read the newly written value, sometimes
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by codex 13y ago
I've often wondered what the defect rate is for various projects as measured by hours spent. I've often seen commercial code written quite quickly, while open source code, being written more for self-actualization, artistry, and social pro
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by codex 13y ago
You make an excellent point. I am worried about the case where the driver, distracted, looks away from the intersection for a second. Returning their gaze to the light, they see it red. They never observed it yellow, and thus they have no
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by codex 13y ago
Did Bezos learn this practice at DE Shaw?
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by codex 13y ago
How goes giving someone less time to stop before someone else goes not decrease safety? Why not shorten the yellow time to zero?
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by codex 13y ago
"Presumably the reporters who wrote this article should have been able to gather this information (since the article is itself written by the AP)." This sums it up--the reporters who wrote this article are the ones whose records were subpoe
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by codex 13y ago
The U.S. did not secretly obtain these records. It notified the AP that these records were obtained using a valid subpoena, which by law needs to be approved by the attorney general. Subpoenas of phone records happens all the time in both
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by codex 13y ago
The author should do more research rather than just blindly copying Tesla ad copy: Tesla's batteries are not the most efficient in the industry. The LEAF is rated at 140 wh/kg [1]. Nissan makes their own batteries. The mid-grade Model S
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by codex 13y ago
I don't think this legislation breaks any existing monopolies, does it?
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by codex 13y ago
I would love a la carte TV, but make no mistake: it will destroy the profitability of cable companies. Bundling allows cable operators to segment the market: to sell the same product to different audiences at different prices depending on t
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by codex 13y ago
Actually, I admire your courage to pivot refer.ly and I wish you all the best. I do like reading your articles but, unfortunately, I'm cursed with extreme, clumsy bluntness. That's really not as sexy as it sounds. I myself have terrible
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by codex 13y ago
I can't help but suspect that this blog is a subconscious reflection of the state of the author's venture. SXSW not in the cards this year? Attending conferences is for chumps. Site not generating revenue? Revenue isn't important. Et c
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by codex 13y ago
Sounds like the person who's sitting next to me in the coffee shop will be able to log in to my bank if he loads the web page faster than I do.
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by codex 13y ago
This can be explained without bringing in accusations of fraud or incompetence [1]. Basically, if you have a bazillion experiments running and only publish the results which are significant, you still have a huge predictability problem, bec
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by codex 13y ago
Wolfram Alpha is only showing you last year's losses, not the integral over all years.
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by codex 13y ago
I wonder how the marginal cost of an ICE compares with the marginal cost of one or two electric motors + regen + batteries + charger, and how those change over time. I suspect the electric drive train isn't cheaper now, but will be cheaper
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by codex 13y ago
$1B is roughly the GAAP losses for TSLA since they went public. I think that in order to resell ZEV credits more than 13% of a manufacturer's cars must be electric, which is not true of any other luxury manufacturer.
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by codex 13y ago
By increasing vehicle prices, these ZEV credits do, in fact, cost taxpayers. But that's a price everyone has to pay for their own carbon emissions.
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by codex 13y ago
It's because Tesla makes an extra $7.5K from each car via the federal tax credit and an extra $70M each quarter selling ZEV credits. Without these they would not be profitable. So they have more money to apply to the fit and finish of the
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by codex 13y ago
My theory: it all comes down to the maturation of the underlying technology. Tesla has been around for ten years. Why is their mainstream car only coming to market now, after all that time? Part of it is that creating a new car company t
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by codex 13y ago
Without the cash from selling California ZEV credits gross margin on the Model S would have actually decreased quarter over quarter. It will be interesting to see how it gets to 25% without ZEV, and whether Tesla needs to sell more stock t
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by codex 13y ago
The DoJ doesn't need warrants to produce email and chat evidence in a lawsuit just like they don't need a warrant to produce other kinds of physical evidence from third parties. A subpoena will suffice and always has. People seem to be un
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by codex 13y ago
The food truck business is actually great--or at least better than the restaurant business. By owning the truck, which is mobile, the operator is freed from the tyranny of landlords, who simply raise the rent on successful restaurants to t
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by codex 13y ago
There is also a disincentive for patrons to preserve any good thing they have going on.
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by codex 13y ago
I don't understand; Clustrix (which rocks) isn't on the April index at all [1]. Is closing a round sufficient for it to debut at #5 for May? That doesn't seem very predictive. [1] http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/05/april-2013-startup
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by codex 13y ago
Women probably do not want to hang with the men these tweets will attract. The incentive for disinformation is large.

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