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by codex 14y ago
The cheapest 2013 Model S is $60K. The price was raised last year. This works out to be 5% inflation per year since 2006--however, at this point I suspect the fatter margin on the pricier models are subsidizing this $60K version. The pric
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by codex 14y ago
"Without giving away too much, I can say that the second model will be a sporty four door family car at roughly half the $89k price point of the Tesla Roadster." A Model S for $45K? Where do I sign? The average selling price of a Model S
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by codex 14y ago
The bank's costs also include bad debt and fraud, which are high for credit cards; are you including those in your figures? At any rate, the opportunity cost to the bank of giving free credit to the consumer (by structuring the billing cyc
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by codex 14y ago
"The financial system in the U.S. is horribly inefficient. Retail transactions conducted with credit cards cost 2-3%, which is a ridiculously high cost given today's technology." No. The reason banks charge high transaction fees on credit
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by codex 14y ago
Please, don't write content-farm articles and submit them yourself in the hopes of earning referral fees from affiliate links to products. I don't really trust any article where the author receives hidden compensation for product placement
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by codex 14y ago
I think that's a laudable goal, but I think the reality is that humans are objects with human firmware. Activate the firmware routines as they were meant to be activated and you're in business. Humans have all kinds of customs modeled to
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by codex 14y ago
Men have a hunting instinct that must be engaged, and if it's not engaged, the courtship software routine just doens't run. Men need to bat their claws at a string.
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by codex 14y ago
Almost everyone who is rich enough to own a high-end MacBook also owns a fast phone with a data plan, which can be used for tethering. How many cellular radios do I need to carry with me at once, anyway? Note that this is in contrast to th
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by codex 14y ago
It's unclear from the article whether or not the author has actually used Google Glass. It's pretty vague, so I assume not. It's easy to wax on about the greatness of a device if, having never used one, you're free to project all of your
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by codex 14y ago
Criticisms of the hiring process from those who didn't get hired are hard to take seriously--they may or may not be valid, but humans have a way of rationalizing defeat to protect their ego, and this cognitive dissonance tends to dent the
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by codex 14y ago
It sounds like you're applying post-decode linear transformation to the data, but, if so, the video would only appear stabilized in your own custom player. Does MPEG-4 allow one to specify per-frame linear transformations beyond simple ROI
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by codex 14y ago
The director is not responsible for HBO's bottom line, so I'm not sure he's as qualified to comment as others within HBO. For example, he doesn't know how HBO subscription numbers are affected by piracy. In fact, from his perspective, he
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by codex 14y ago
Say, what is refer.ly's position on the FTC's required disclosure of affiliate relationships? It looks like they want disclosure on every article. http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus71-ftcs-revised-endorse...
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by codex 14y ago
I'd like to coin a new effect, "Pop Psych Geek Blogger Effect", which describes the tendency of bloggers to write about pop psychology, which is catnip to geeks, and the tendency of these posts to be upvoted.
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by codex 14y ago
If you're clever, you can do this kind of postprocessing without a big CPU hit on mobile phones. Phones compress video in hardware, and as part of that process the hardware looks for blocks of video that are roughly the same across frames.
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by codex 14y ago
I am, admittedly, handwaving here. "Best" is so subjective that's hard to define, so I define it as "the ones who move the field forward with original work." In other contexts it could mean something completely different.
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by codex 14y ago
Absolutely. Doctors are particularly egoistic and don't deal well with long-tail problems. But that doesn't make yours the best doctor; the best doctor wrote the original material. Willingness to research the answer just makes your doc
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by codex 14y ago
"The best doctors are the quickest to Google." "The best scientists are the quickest to Google." "The best engineers are the quickest to Google." Are the above statements true? Quite possibly. I would argue that the best in their fields a
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by codex 14y ago
Also, OpenDNS entries should be cached after the first lookup.
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by codex 14y ago
Can most of this be accomplished more easily by using OpenDNS?
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by codex 14y ago
I don't think it has ever been disputed that piracy helps the pirates, as is confirmed by this article. I think most of the debate has centered around whether it helps society as a whole. In some ways the patent system discourages the ind
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by codex 14y ago
One of Boeing's fixes is to add insulation between the cells, which is exactly what Elon Musk proposed.
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by codex 14y ago
Capital expenditures are actually up over last quarter, to $72M. I don't see that as sustainable with a gross margin of only eight percent at twenty thousand cars a year, as that leaves a gross profit of only $120M a year at a $75K average
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by codex 14y ago
This petition asks the President to interfere with the implementation of law, and to politicize the decisions of the Librarian of Congress, a non-partisan post. While the President may use his office to champion new laws, he cannot make the
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by codex 14y ago
Another place for root kits to hide.
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by codex 14y ago
Tesla's gross margins are currently 8% (whereas BMW is something like 19%) and they expect it to increase to 25% in one year alone. It's already up significantly from negative territory (I shudder to think what it was on the Roadster), but
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by codex 14y ago
The lesson I draw from Tesla is that it's possible (even straightforward) to produce an amazing car if you're willing to lose a ton of money on each one and your competitors (mainstream auto makers) aren't. I say this because Tesla has, to
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by codex 14y ago
This just does not work well unless there is overarching enforcer, because the majority can decide to steal from the minority, or those not in the group. And there are some patents so valuable that no social penalty can keep a company from
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Tesla's Q4'12 & Full Year 2012 Shareholder Letter(files.shareholder.com)
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by codex 14y ago
Does YC keep any metrics regarding submission and comment quality?

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