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by codex 13y ago
Reasoning from first principles is a symbolic approach. Reasoning by analogy is the intuitive approach. Both have their place. Intuitive thinking works especially well on fuzzy problems with incomplete and/or conflicting data, where
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by codex 13y ago
The risk of default in an auto loan is just as high, if not a bit more, as loan payments are typically higher than lease payments. But yes, you pay more for a lease than if you bought the car outright, assuming you couldn't get a high
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by codex 13y ago
I'm saying something a little bit different, but I was not being very clear. Yes, the cost of leasing is born by you, the lessee. However, the risk of fluctuations in value of the car itself is born by the lessor, for which you pay a
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by codex 13y ago
It looks like this is a lease, but instead of using an expensive repo. man to haul away the car when you can't pay your bill, the car stops charging instead. When your account becomes current, the battery unlocks. Progress marches on
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by codex 13y ago
Note that the treaties themselves are not secret (as strongly implied by the EFF), but the negotiation process is. The EFF has always been a fundamentalist organization, but shame on them for resorting to such blatant misinformation to ma
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by codex 13y ago
There is some evidence that working with one's hands relieves depression and promotes happiness. I would like to see a clinical trial which attempts to measure the opposite effect from Soylent: that removing the food preparation ritua
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by codex 13y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720969 for the Google cloud version.
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For $2M a day, your company can run the third fastest supercomputer in the world(extremetech.com)
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by codex 13y ago
When I interviewed at Amazon most of the teams I spoke to revolved around billing and logistics--which of course do require some algorithmics, but are also fantastically boring. Has the situation improved?
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by codex 13y ago
Use C++ if you're interested in writing high level abstractions that resonate with the underlying hardware. Assembly and C map very closely to actual hardware, but don't have a very high abstraction capability. Haskell, Erlang,
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by codex 13y ago
You don't need to know the accident rate--you just need to know the rates of fire from an accident per car-year driven. Tesla doesn't have a long history here, but they do have 10K cars on the road.
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by codex 13y ago
Before humans learned to write, and before the scientific method, stories and songs were the method that knowledge was passed on from generation to generation. Memorization was the storage medium, and since there was no controlled experime
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by codex 13y ago
It's important to realize that the EFF is not a research institution--it is an advocacy institution. In other words, the EFF doesn't start off with an unbiased view of an issue and then decide what is in the public interest.
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by codex 13y ago
Agreed. Age has less to so with it than the tech worker's self identity, which is that they know better than everybody else--including the government. It's a common belief among people with IQs between average and genius, if a bi
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by codex 13y ago
Because they believe in Facebook's vision 33% less than they used to?
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by codex 13y ago
Simple calculations show that the Teslas are roughly 25x more likely to catch fire in a collision, but I suspect they are much less likely to catch fire for other reasons. So just don't hit anything.
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by codex 13y ago
Are .02% of all car drivers injured every year by road debris which punctures the cabin from the underside of the car? Because that's the percentage of Tesla drivers who claim the design of the car saved them from this very thing.
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by codex 13y ago
Mass surveillance is the natural state of man. When humans lived in clans and tribes, everybody knew everyone else's business, including the leaders. Today, that social surveillance network still exists (tips given to police, etc.) b
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by codex 13y ago
There are 6,000 collision related car fires in the US every year, out of 250M vehicles. There have been 3 collision related Tesla fires out of ten thousand vehicles in roughly six months of total drive time. That works out a 25x higher fi
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by codex 13y ago
It occurs to me that these fires do not pose a direct risk to the occupants, but do carry indirect costs: - Firefighters will take longer to rescue injured from the passenger compartment - The fire can possibly ignite spilled gas from other
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by codex 13y ago
Abuse of state apparatus has been a risk throughout history. The Internet has now joined the informant, undercover agent, letter, telegram, phone, microphone and video camera as technologies of surveillance. The state has had these older
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by codex 13y ago
Linux From Scratch?
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by codex 13y ago
From another article: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “absolutely has to investigate” the Nov. 6 Tennessee incident, Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, based in Washington, said in a phone
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by codex 13y ago
A quick back of the envelope calculation shows that, at this rate, the Tesla Model S is roughly 25x more likely to suffer a fire after a collision than a non-Tesla. While gas powered cars must, out of necessity, carry a tank of flammable li
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Third Tesla Model S Fire In Past 5 Weeks Breaks Out After Accident(insideevs.com)
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by codex 13y ago
This article is at least as valid as the technical blog bike shedding that is normal HN fodder--possibly more so, as an actual experiment was performed. Would you like sources that fasting is bad for you? Every clinical study I've c
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BMW expects good things from i3 program, has 100,000 reservation holders(m.green.autoblog.com)
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by codex 13y ago
Something doesn't add up then: if Tesla can produce 7150 cars per quarter, why is next quarter guidance only for 5K cars sold? Another new market with long lead times?
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This is one reason Nissan makes their own batteries in their own plants.
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by codex 13y ago
What complicates this analysis is the fact that these other companies sell in the millions--hundreds of times more cars than Tesla does in a year. Tesla's market cap is one million dollars per car to be sold in 2013.

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