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by danhak 11y ago
The link you posted is from 2010--roadster days. The cells used in the roadster are not the same as those in the Model S. And Model 3 will be using new cells as well. There's been immense R&D by both parties since 2010, and the l
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by danhak 11y ago
I don't believe that's true. Could you please paste the pertinent text from the 10-K? I was not able to find it. As far as I know the cell chemistry in use was developed jointly and I believe Tesla holds patent although I'm
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by danhak 11y ago
I love this work but the entire underlying premise is shaky! It assumes that a person's discomfort is proportional to the quantity of wetness they experience rather than the total amount of time spent in wet conditions.
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by danhak 11y ago
Because Facebook--not LinkedIn--is a threat to Google's business model (and is worth 18x as much by market cap).
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> Electric cars shifted the emissions to the power plant so drivers will have less feelings about their contribution to global warming. Even the filthiest conventional power plants are significantly more efficient than the internal combu
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by danhak 11y ago
Tesla has proven that electric cars can be fundamentally superior to their ICE counterparts in nearly all respects, except for cost (for now) and the speed to refuel (which is made moot by the convenience of refueling from home if you have
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by danhak 11y ago
Making it less easy for the wealthy to accumulate wealth exponentially !== attacking income of the rich. Poverty is always relative and is inextricable from the issue of inequality.
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by danhak 11y ago
Regressive in the general sense--privileging those who already have access to wealth. The long term capital gains rate is a good example.
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by danhak 11y ago
It seems to me that there is probably some optimized point between total economic equality and extreme inequality. I believe we are drifting further away from that point. In concrete terms, I don't believe those with pre-existing acce
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by danhak 11y ago
No, it has nothing to do with the pie fallacy. Yes, even the poorest in America lead better lives in absolute terms than most people have throughout history. But regardless of the absolute "economic level x" of the poorest, the
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by danhak 11y ago
But taxes on inheritance and investment are totally regressive (and have become even more regressive), which undermines the benefits of a progressive system for earned income.
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by danhak 11y ago
> I'm simply saying that you can have income equality and still lack a healthy business environment where ideas compete on merit. And I don't dispute that at all. What I am saying is that society's prosperity is optimized
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by danhak 11y ago
Adjustments to the tax code can be revenue-neutral. Lower rates for earned income and higher rates on inheritance and investment income.
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by danhak 11y ago
> In communist societies everyone had very similar income... Again we're reverting to the straw man of 100% (or nearly) equal society. Our society must be unequal to some extent because capital is a reasonable and effective reward f
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by danhak 11y ago
The issue is always inequality and not absolute wealth, so your hypothetical of everybody having 100x the resources is not fundamentally different than the current situation. The issue is that wealthy people do not have a monopoly on talent
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by danhak 11y ago
> Coming from a former communist country, I don't understand why smart, capable people want to give away their money to a corrupt, incompetent state to manage it for them. You are inventing a complete straw man. That is not what I
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by danhak 11y ago
> Further, there are an abundance of studies that show that reducing economic inequality (even through redistributive means) actually boosts overall prosperity. To me, this sentence and the ones that follow are by far the most salient po
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by danhak 11y ago
> One screenshot hurts their entire argument, because I cannot take the rest of what they say at face value. Notice that the $18.49 package gives five razors while the $14.99 package gives four razors. The $3.50~ markup is due to an addi
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by danhak 11y ago
Nobody disputes that Tesla currently operates at a net loss. They sell only one product at the moment but incur R&D expenses on several products that are not yet shipping in significant volume (Model X, Model 3, PowerPack/PowerWal
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by danhak 11y ago
Having a realtime feed of your friends' and acquaintances' lives pushed to you 24/7 is a completely new thing in the history of human social interaction. We are not, as you say, "engineering people to be terrible at han
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by danhak 11y ago
Here, cleanse your palette with some architectural masterpieces that only LA could produce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Observatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheats_Goldstein_Residen
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by danhak 11y ago
How bout the part where they're sending expiration date and last 4 digits over http?
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by danhak 11y ago
> Just curious, how do you know that your car produces less pollution? This data is available: http://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_01.html Even in the absolute worst case, energy generation f
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by danhak 11y ago
You're incorrect. Employers are allowed to contribute to an employee's 401K plan up to a $53,000 combined limit. The $18K limit applies only to employee contributions.
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by danhak 11y ago
Your post assumes that the point of rent control is to provide some housing inventory that is below market value for new tenants. In actuality, the point is to ensure that long-time residents will not be swiftly priced out of their communi
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by danhak 11y ago
Did you even read past the first paragraph? The piece addresses your point directly and shows how the situation is getting worse, with the older generation having become increasingly likely to be wealthy over the past few decades and vice
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by danhak 11y ago
Uber's problems are not Airbnb's problems, and I find this continued trend of always mentioning the two in the same breath when it comes to regulation quite baffling. Opposition to Uber is a clear case of regulatory capture. Ever
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by danhak 11y ago
> The business model was made illegal by people who were voted into office to make business models like these illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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by danhak 11y ago
Not totally true. I pretty much only use Uber pool these days unless I'm with more than one companion.
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by danhak 11y ago
> The Google cars have been rear-ended seven times, often when stopped "but also on the freeway," wrote Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car program. In other collisions, the cars were side-swiped or "hit by

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