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721.
by codex 14y ago
You're kidding, right? They're making the best of a bad situation. They'd love to have a normal leasing program like all other car companies, but they can't--they cannot finance leases themselves and no bank wants to risk losing money re
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by codex 14y ago
That's the household cost, not the per-car cost. Most households have more than one car.
723.
by codex 14y ago
My last lease was through US Bank.
724.
by codex 14y ago
True, and this counts for something. That said, Elon is not putting his money in escrow, and a large portion of his wealth is in Tesla, which disappears with Tesla.
725.
by codex 14y ago
Even if Tesla couldn't take advantage of the tax credit, they can find a bank who could. Leases are riskier than loans for banks for a few reasons: - The bank has to place a bet on the value of the car 36 months from now--a huge risk. Wit
726.
by codex 14y ago
This product kind of sucks for the consumer, but it's great for Tesla--and it's is the best that Tesla can do due to their shortage of cash and the risky nature of electrics. The main advantage of a traditional lease is an extremely low mon
727.
by codex 14y ago
This looks like a precursor to asking for more money--scale back development costs for a few quarters to achieve profitability, then go back into the red to pay for future models. I am curious to see if Tesla goes back to the public market
728.
by codex 14y ago
If an angel loses all of their money on their prior round of investments, they will have no more capital to invest in that "single best investment" just around the corner in the next round. That is why they insist on onerous terms--to keep
729.
by codex 14y ago
I agree that this is an Internet wide problem. And yet, I suspect it is worse for women. This abuse is generated by the "long crazy tail" of the Internet populace. In general, this crazy tail is mostly male (testosterone/societal/genetic
730.
by codex 14y ago
Phil Schiller is Apple's marketing head. It's his job so manipulate Apple (and Android's) public image. IIRC, he regularly mocks Android and has done so for several years (see this link from 2011 [1]) [1] http://www.gottabemobile.com/201
731.
by codex 14y ago
My thesis: Health care costs are higher in the US largely because the US has more per capita wealth than other counties. Look at per capita spending: http://www.oecd.org/norway/BriefingNoteNORWAY2012.pdf The biggest spenders are the US,
732.
by codex 14y ago
Certain medicines which are prone to abuse have mechanisms in each pill that make it difficult to be cut up and snorted. Dynamite has chemical tracers added to it to make its use easier to trace. Photocopiers cannot duplicate currency. I
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by codex 14y ago
You can embed a private key in the TPM module of a DRM hardware player with signed boot and it will work reasonably well. This is the PS3's approach and, had they actually salted their keys, it would have remained effective. Business-wise,
734.
by codex 14y ago
Think Google ads don't matter? Stop advertising and wait for an upstart competitor to gain a foothold through those empty slots.
735.
by codex 14y ago
When you have a hammer with 10,000 cores, every problem looks like it has been fundamentally limited by our computational abilities.
736.
by codex 14y ago
Given that the TSA allows common lighters and matches to be taken on board, apparently not. I think aircraft cabins are designed to be "fire resistant" (for obvious reasons) though I'd be surprised if they were fireproof.
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by codex 14y ago
I should clarify that I think the TSA wants to prevent airline bombings (that is, loss of a plane) above all else. Hijackings are much more difficult than they were before 9/11, even if the terrorists were in a group and allowed some wea
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by codex 14y ago
Given that Elon libeled the NY Times and Broder with claims of "fakery"--an extraordinary claim which was not supported by the meager evidence presented--I'd say Tesla itself is guilty of quite a bit more than an ethics violation.
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by codex 14y ago
I don't think this TSA screener understands that the TSA does not need perfection to be effective. The purpose of the TSA is not to catch every piece of contraband; it is to reduce "aircraft attacks" [EDIT: by aircraft attacks, I maan "atta
740.
by codex 14y ago
An iPad 2 battery contains about 90 kilojoules of energy. This is equivalent to about 20g of TNT, which is only 1/3 of the TNT used in a WWII-era "pineapple" hand grenade. However, the real reason one can bring a laptop battery on a plane
741.
by codex 14y ago
Both Microsoft and Apple have patents in the H.264 patent pool. It is in their interest for H.264 licensees to go through MPEG-LA; it is not in their interest to give away sublicenses.
742.
by codex 14y ago
H.264 is obsolete. MPEG-LA is moving on to H.265, the new hotness. It is telling that MPEG-LA's sub-licensing for VP8 only covers one subsequent revision of the codec. If VPx+ is augmented with H.265'ish technology in order to stay compe
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by codex 14y ago
A bar is not a public place when it comes to restricting video surveillance. As private property, the owners can ban video and prosecute you for trespassing if non-compliant.
744.
by codex 14y ago
TL;DR Google gave MPEG-LA a bunch of money. Yep, Google sure showed them!
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by codex 14y ago
I applaud this move. It's difficult, emotionally, to pivot this radically, but I think in the long term it will be a more rewarding and meaningful route for the founders.
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by codex 14y ago
A Mac Pro with a Xeon Phi would be a genius move--satisfying the core graphics market while not requiring the use of insanely priced general purpose Xeons, which are intended for the datacenter, not the PC. Most buyers don't want to run a
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by codex 14y ago
I'm not sure hackers brought their "A" game to this event. In contrast to earlier events, winners must disclose their methods to participate in return for only $150,000 per exploit. A black hat hacker could make much more from their metho
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by codex 14y ago
I think this an example of the typical maturation process of a young entrepreneur, which is characterized by initial focus on cargo-cult superficialities and glam, optimism born of naiveté, and Dunning–Kruger-like and overconfidence in one'
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by codex 14y ago
This isn't really any different from the President authorizing the Air Force to shoot down a civilian airliner in a 9/11-like scenario, in order to prevent mass casualties. If one is legal, the other is also legal.
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by codex 14y ago
Oracle has also finished an official port, though they released it only for Oracle Linux.

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