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by codex 14y ago
Elon might know a thing or two here, as just last year Tesla's battery testing facility caught on fire [1]. In the absence of more information, allow me to publicly speculate that perhaps that facility is fundamentally unsafe. <g>
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by codex 14y ago
A battery on fire is not necessarily an indicator of a problem in the design. It could be a manufacturing, software, or maintenance defect. It's too early to jump to conclusions. However, unless it's a maintenance defect, it's almost cer
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by codex 14y ago
I've found that humans are much better at doing than they are at thinking. Humans can generate countless hypotheses and evidence to support those hypotheses, and yet most human theories are flat out wrong. This is why we have the scientif
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by codex 14y ago
Those numbers don't take into account vesting. Assuming vesting 25% per year with no acceleration on change of control, the exit must be around $38M for any year 1-4. Assumning 20% equity dilution every year, the number goes up to $45M by
845.
by codex 14y ago
The first three and half of the fourth can be had at Google, though perhaps not to the same degree.
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by codex 14y ago
From what I can tell these devices cannot look under one's clothes. The image is just too blurry. In fact, these scanners could be considered cameras that capture light outside of the visible spectrum. Are we to now say that one can't ta
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by codex 14y ago
I am pleased to see this app written in C++11. I hope it will inspire others to create more fast, beautiful, cross platform apps with the language.
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by codex 14y ago
Possibly. I see the larger sites supported by ads. With ads, you get paid regardless of whether the review is positive or negative. With affiliate links, you only bet paid if people buy.
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by codex 14y ago
Tesla needs to innovate quickly because they're in a bad spot. It turns out that creating electric vehicles just isn't that hard. BMW has the i3. Nissan has the Leaf. Ford has the Focus Electric. These are not has good as the Tesla, bu
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by codex 14y ago
This is the funniest comment I've read in a long time. Kudos, cs702!
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by codex 14y ago
Without affiliate links, people write about products out of a passion for the product. With affiliate links, you also get people copywriting to get paid. In fact, whenever I see affilate compensation I assume a professional copywriter, th
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by codex 14y ago
I can't shake the feeling that this "content," which is effectively a new form of infomercial, will not be taken seriously by the public. How can you guarantee the author's integrity when they're working on commission? With ad supported c
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by codex 14y ago
Will members of these thousands of online communities also write content merely as a vehicle to embed referral links? If so, I'm not sure that's socially redeeming. It feels like a content farm operation. At least with legitimate ad supp
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by codex 14y ago
Argh, more bait from refer.ly founders. The refer.ly modus operandi seems to be: a) write evergreen content that HN users are likely to upvote or read (HN catnip) based on current HN trends b) fill content with paid referral links c) post
855.
by codex 14y ago
First of all, the responses to this post are breathtakingly good. This is one of the best threads I have ever seen on HN, and I am proud of the community. Take time meditate on the content here, because it is gold. I have little to add, s
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by codex 14y ago
The birth is the easy part.
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by codex 14y ago
A battery may not be necessary--you could recover sufficient energy from the first shot, but that's obviously problematic. I was thinking a fuel cell in the ammo clip--maybe one which looks like a bullet and is sold with every n bullets of
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by codex 14y ago
I think that ending the drug trade would actually increase violence against the average citizen. Drugs provide a lucrative means of employment for a large number of people with few skills. Take that away, and the world looks much bleaker.
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by codex 14y ago
In this age of smartphones, it would be possible to mandate that all guns radio 911 with the current location whenever all the following events occur: - they are withdrawn from the holster - the safety is disabled - there is ammunition lo
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by codex 14y ago
Genes which are harmful to individuals can indeed propagate if they are beneficial to the group. If a group that contains a gene is fitter than another which does not, a gene may propagate even if it is harmful to individuals in certain si
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by codex 14y ago
In my opinion, suicide is an evolutionary trait design to unburden the group when the self is no longer felt to be of any worth; e.g. contributing positively. If this were true, then placing the suicidal individual in a completely differen
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by codex 14y ago
This strongly depends on the definition of poverty. If poverty is: a) Objectively defined, such as "no person goes hungry" ... then I think this statement may be true. However, if poverty is defined as: b) Look at all these poor people! T
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by codex 14y ago
From the FAQ: "We did not know how to make use of ASN.1 without making Blink a lot more complex." This is the same reason Protocol Buffers exist: it was more fun to write something new than to understand how to use a better but more complex
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by codex 14y ago
It's amazing how geeks continually fall for Musk's simple propaganda. If you want to believe, you believe.
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by codex 14y ago
If Linux kernel code looks like UNIX C code from 25 years ago, I'd argue it is C which hasn't aged well. C++'s true merit lies in its flexibility to evolve with the latest understanding of how to write good, abstract code with little runtim
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by codex 14y ago
EDIT: By my calculations, even in Anchorage the average slew rate would be only two minutes a day, which seems practical enough to me. With two dimensional time zones, each region could choose the strategy that works for them. If the slew
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by codex 14y ago
In an era of smart timekeeping, I would much prefer the opposite: minute DST adjustments every single day to ensure that sunrise is always at the same time of day, everywhere. This is how we evolved, after all: to awake with the sun. This
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by codex 14y ago
Yes, hence the "approximately." The current system is a compromise; you can't go slewing the time continuously across latitudes and day of year, at least not yet, but you can't shock people with three hour jumps, either. I for one would w
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by codex 14y ago
UTC everywhere simply moves the complexity somewhere else. You still need time zones to know when the locals get up and go to sleep. My flight gets into Fiji at 22:07? Is that morning or night? Will they be serving breakfast during my l
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by codex 14y ago
DST doesn't shift daylight hours earlier in the day; rather, it ensures that the sun rises at approximately the same time every morning, regardless of season.

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