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by codex 14y ago
The company would be profitable now if not for the several cases of Ramen needed to pay for the acquisition.
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by codex 14y ago
Once most of the cars on the road are self-driving, even more opportunities for traffic optimization arise.
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by codex 14y ago
On private property you will need the owner's permission to record video; in malls you can be forbidden if signs are posted. Given the unease that some people feel being recorded, I wonder how soon it will be before these are banned in sho
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by codex 14y ago
Bluetooth headsets used to be cool. Now they just seem obnoxious when worn all the time. I wonder if Google Glass will ever reach the obnoxious level. A curved-screen watch device would be more subtle, and is probably the better all-arou
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by codex 14y ago
It's human nature to tool worship. I am no exception. But please, let's worship tools that enable radical innovation. The Linux kernel was that tool--in 1999. It's still improving, but it's not worthy of this much attention. It merely
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by codex 14y ago
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." -- Hamlet, Act III, scene II
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by codex 14y ago
Agreed, but the point was not to make developers' lives easier. Were it, they would have put a monster multicore X86 CPU in the PS3. The idea was to get maximum performance for minimum hardware cost (that is, minimum number of transistors
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by codex 14y ago
It's a shame the PS3's Cell failed so badly. As far as theoretical general purpose performance per transistor it was a great design, but was stuck in a no man's land between general purpose CPUs and GPUs, each more specialized. However, yo
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by codex 14y ago
It looks like this allows setting focus without using the mouse and without tabbing. That's a great feature just by itself.
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by codex 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Musk were sued for libel on this point. Were he a journalist, I suppose what he had done could be called journalistic malpractice.
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by codex 14y ago
Sometimes you have to leave a Tesla unplugged overnight: on a ski trip, in a cold airport parking lot, when traveling and a charger is unavailable, etc. In addition, the Tesla can lose range even when not parked overnight; it can simply be
792.
by codex 14y ago
Will the driver leave the car unplugged overnight in freezing temperatures? I'd like to know if the range loss is reproducible. I'd also love if the data points from the telemetry of all these trips were overlaid atop each other for compar
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by codex 14y ago
That's a good point; I don't. I assume not, though, because I view YC as a program for those without much experience. Otherwise, one wouldn't trade so much equity for being but one out of a huge crowd of YC companies.
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by codex 14y ago
That sounds great, but in practice I believe it is difficult and wastes time. You cannot be as good a filter as someone who does it for a living. Division of labor is the foundation of civilization. I don't try to fly my own 737, diagnos
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by codex 14y ago
Wow--the author wasted five years of his life trying to get into YC? Talk about a huge opportunity cost. He could have founded multiple companies in that time and learned air more by year 2013. Sometimes you just have to stop making ex
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by codex 14y ago
I think we're seeing a trend, common in politics already, where the masses are much more susceptible to propaganda put out by special interests, simply because they're listening directly to the special interests themselves, rather than to a
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by codex 14y ago
I think many people assume you should always charge a Tesla fully "just in case", but that takes much longer (hours longer) than filling up at a gas station. In practice people take shortcuts, especially when its freezing outside and they'
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by codex 14y ago
The battery's heating system likely drained the power overnight. The battery pack must be kept above a certain temperature or it will become irreparably damaged.
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by codex 14y ago
He called early that morning complaining about the drop in mileage overnight. He was told the mileage drop was a glitch and to recondition the battery. When he called again, he was told to recondition the battery again--this time though a
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by codex 14y ago
The tit-for-tat details here don't matter. The story is simply, "The Tesla lost a ton of range overnight, unexpectedly. Tesla said it would come back after an hour of low-power charging." Is that true? Clearly the former statement is tr
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by codex 14y ago
Had the reporter ignored Tesla's advice, the review would have been tainted. It's either "do what Tesla says, they're the experts" or "I'm doing to do my own thing sgainst Tesla's advice, invalidating all conclusions in this article." The
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by codex 14y ago
This is consistent with other quotes from Broder: "When I parked the car for the night at a hotel, the range meter showed 90 miles remaining, and I was about 45 miles from the Milford Supercharger. As I recounted in the article, when I awok
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by codex 14y ago
Earlier in the article, Broder claims that Tesla blamed the mileage inaccuracies on a computer glitch, and that some battery reconditioning would restore the range lost overnight. So it's not impossible that either he, or Tesla, (or both)
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by codex 14y ago
Thank you; Google agrees with you. I've changed the wording.
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by codex 14y ago
The most interesting point on the range graph isn't mentioned in Tesla's repsonse (or anyone else's), which is the huge drop in range overnight at mile 400, fron 80 miles of range to approximately 20. That is the Achilles' heel of the Tesl
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by codex 14y ago
There are only two questions to answer here: 1. Did the reviewer take off on the final leg with insufficient charge at the advice of Tesla, or against the advice of Tesla? This caused the towing incident that created a sensational news stor
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by codex 14y ago
Thank you for this book recommendation. I have ordered it and can't wait to read it.
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by codex 14y ago
There is another downside to the YC credential, which is the paltry funding in return for a huge chunk of a startup's equity. Is the program worth such a substantial cost? YC uses its reputation and an almost cult-like glorification of th
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by codex 14y ago
Actually, I think everything Elon said appears to be technically true--the car wasn't fully charged, and the driver took a detour. What he didn't say was whether or not the car can be normally "partially charged" after a "charging complete
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by codex 14y ago
In reading the rebuttal here, I can't shake the feeling that one cannot take anything uttered from Elon Musk's mouth at face value when it concerns his baby, Tesla (and probably also SpaceX). He appears absolutely dedicated to the success

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