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by danhak 10y ago
> Case in point are the tremendous number of bankrupt alternative energy companies built upon favorable treatment by the government That's like saying the top VC firms are all inept because most of the startups they fund fail. It
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by danhak 10y ago
Ford can have fewer employees per car because they're at full scale, they've outsourced nearly all their engineering and have outsourced their sales as well via an antiquated dealer model. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by danhak 10y ago
Tesla's other advantage is a global fleet that is actively logging millions of real-world miles a day. I don't think that can be understated at this stage.
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by danhak 10y ago
I'm on board with most of this. The goals here are obviously ambitious by any standard, and would seem totally absurd if put forth by anyone who didn't happen to berth a private spacecraft with the ISS earlier this morning.
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by danhak 10y ago
"Insolvent" implies inability to continue mortgage payments.
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by danhak 10y ago
It's even worse than that. In California, Prop 13 has de-coupled property taxes from market value altogether, essentially subsidizing landlords in perpetuity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_1
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by danhak 10y ago
There are plenty of places in California where you could buy a home for $100K. The article does a very poor job of demonstrating a causal relationship between "regulation"--he doesn't even cite any specific ones--and basic
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by danhak 10y ago
Real estate is usually leveraged. You don't simply get to keep living in a house if you are insolvent and owe more on the property than it is worth. See also: 2008 Global Financial Crisis.
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by danhak 10y ago
Tweezers are not prohibited (by TSA) on carry-on bags
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by danhak 10y ago
From the Article: > The driver in Montana was headed from Seattle to Yellowstone National Park when he crashed on a two-lane highway near Cardwell. ..."It's a winding road going through a canyon, with no shoulder" From
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by danhak 10y ago
I've never owned a car in a city as dense as SF or New York so maybe it's different in places like that, but this strikes me as yet another example of the "Uber-For-X" SV startup that doesn't solve any real problem.
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by danhak 10y ago
Venice is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in L.A. right now and is no less "urban" than anywhere else on the Westside.
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by danhak 10y ago
Don't know why this is getting downvoted--it's spot on.
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by danhak 10y ago
> If L.A. is worried about housing affordability, the real solution is to build more housing And that's precisely what the city is doing. Housing permits are up around 40% YOY, about 70% of which are for multi-family units. But tha
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by danhak 10y ago
PG's Tweet is pretty off-base and disingenuous. He makes it seem like AirBNB is being persecuted and that there are no legitimate grievances with the way AirBNB is negatively impacting local communities and housing markets. The city o
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by danhak 10y ago
And don't forget the costs of all the overseas entanglements associated with securing fossil fuel supplies.
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by danhak 10y ago
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766621
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by danhak 10y ago
Obligatory plug for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F -- a really fantastic documentary that dives into many of the factors that led GM to kill the EV1 program. Warning: may cause diminished
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by danhak 10y ago
I think you're misunderstanding a bit. The factory will produce 35 GWh in cells per year and also receive 15 GWh in cells shipped in from other suppliers like Panasonic. Thus it'll produce finished packs totaling 50 GWh / ye
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by danhak 10y ago
Right, but as I stated above that debate is out of scope. I'm just disputing the notion that fostering addiction amounts to "creating value."
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by danhak 10y ago
And some people are legitimately addicted and unable to stop despite their sincere desire. In many cases, companies engineer products and services to be as addictive as possible. The techniques used by casinos, for instance, are well known
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by danhak 10y ago
Tesla has received about 400,000 pre-orders for the Model 3 in the span of one month. Mass-market demand for the car is no longer a question. But their ability to execute on these production plans is a different story. Time will tell...
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Tesla Model 3 Pre-Orders Begin in Australia(gizmodo.com.au)
2 points by danhak 11y ago|1 comments
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by danhak 11y ago
> Then again, I'm reminded of that Paul Graham article about working with newspapers Precisely: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-electric-vehicle
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Apple will argue that the FBI's court order violates its free speech rights(latimes.com)
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by danhak 11y ago
Maybe I'm out of touch, but I just don't consider a fledgling electric car manufacturer to be an "established interest."
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Your point is well taken, but an educated professional moving to Nevada is not likely to affect the state's economy enough to move the needle. I'd contend that there is equal access to incentives like this for any entity with su
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by danhak 11y ago
Shouldn't states be able to compete among themselves, in a free market fashion, in order to attract business development that is likely to pay huge dividends over the long term? It's a little disingenuous to divide the incentive p
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by danhak 11y ago
Not a gamble at all. Aside from the land swap, all the incentives are performance based. If Tesla reaches its target 50 GWh / yr production capacity in 2020, we're talking at least $5 Billion / year in economic output throug
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by danhak 11y ago
18650 refers to the cell form factor--the size and shape--and has nothing to do with the chemistry inside. It's like saying two PC motherboards are the same because they're both ATX. The cells in the original roadster were 3.7 V

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