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by davidf18 10y ago
I think that uses the Snapdragon 810 which has a better modem than the iPhone 6s/6s+ which has a Category 6 modem. Your phone, the 6P has a Category 9: https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors&
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by davidf18 10y ago
I realize that he has hired people who are degreed engineers with work experience. My point is that he never had an engineering degree and never was mentored as an engineer. It is my belief that any technical manager such as CEO of technic
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by davidf18 10y ago
Just curious. What is your handset? Wondering which modem you have.
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by davidf18 10y ago
> You do realise Musk is very competent engineer among other things? He is fairly far removed from "business type" In certain fields, such as engineering of products as opposed to general software development, such as designing
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by davidf18 10y ago
A few minutes ago I just ran a Speediest on my iPhone 6s+ in Manhattan near a busy intersection on the Upper West Side. 47.6 Mbps download / 23 Mbps upload I use Verizon, which has deployed LTE-Advanced which allows for the carrier a
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by davidf18 10y ago
The countries simply need to pass laws or use some sort of legal intervention that counter this abuse of the law. Many US firms were buying out foreign firms and transferring their HQ to the bought out firm, simply to avoid taxes, not for a
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by davidf18 10y ago
Please cite your sources. I have BS EE with CS concentration from U Illinois/Urbana and was mentored as a computer chip design engineer for four years in a major computer firm. For Musk, I see no engineering degrees nor work experienc
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by davidf18 10y ago
The countries simply need to hire higher competent people to construct their laws including addressing those newer types of firms such as Apple and Google. Since Wal-Mart and Starbucks are both "brick and mortar" it seems strange
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by davidf18 10y ago
Well, you can threaten to throw them out of the EU if they don't fix their unfair (to other member countries) laws. The EU should have more statutory authority for laws like this just as in the case of the US Federal Government over St
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by davidf18 10y ago
Well, I was wrong. Here is a list of cars effected with recalls for using the "save a few dollars" airbag using a propellant that was known ahead of time to be problematic. http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/n
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by davidf18 10y ago
Amazon and Starbucks spend a lot of money to hire highly competent tax attorneys and other staff to minimize their payment of taxes. Instead of complaining, countries need to pay more money to hire even brighter people to write better tax
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by davidf18 10y ago
Sorry to hear about the 3 month delay and provides some insight in the construction of luxury cars at least Lexus. Auto manufacturers were warned that the propellant for the airbags was dangerous and were warned by other airbag vendors who
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by davidf18 10y ago
Well, that's clearly wrong. I would ask for my money back. You spend $100,000 on a car, and the manufacturer can't be bothered to care enough for customers to ensure that there are enough spare parts available. Someone like Henr
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by davidf18 10y ago
Actually, if you read the references by the economists that I cite, in most situations the developers want to maximize profits which means building for higher density. In much of Manhattan, for example, there are many areas with low 6 stor
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by davidf18 10y ago
The reason that housing is increasing in cost is because of a market failure where politics is used to create housing scarcity, called "economic rents." In this case, the use of politics to create zoning laws that place artificia
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by davidf18 10y ago
1. The costs you cite, is assuming $6 per gallon for jet fuel. But the 2016 TYD is $1.39. http://www.transtats.bts.gov/fuel.asp Thus, the values would be about $11 for the 747-400. 6.37 for the 787-8. In addition, at the
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by davidf18 10y ago
But there are certain ethnic groups that if you are a member, you have a higher likelihood of being wealthy. For example, take a look at the Forbes 400.
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How algorithms rule our working lives(theguardian.com)
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by davidf18 10y ago
Conversely, bad luck can play a big role in making you poor. For example, Nick Leeson singlehandedly brought down the world's second oldest merchant bank, Bearings Bank which was founded in 1762. Lesson was working in Singapore in a
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by davidf18 10y ago
The high rents are caused by "economic rents" -- politically created scarcity by using zoning laws to artificially limit housing density and also by the overuse of historic landmark status. Both of these actions make the land art
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by davidf18 10y ago
I lived in Boston (Inman Sq, Cambridge, later Back Bay, Boston) for 5 years after my undergraduate education. NYC is far, far more interesting and exciting than Boston. As an indirect indicator, NYC draws far more VC than Boston.
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by davidf18 10y ago
To be most competitive in today's environment, GE should be broken up into separate companies listed separately on the stock exchange so that management can focus on improving a single (if large) product line. For example: 1. Jet Engi
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by davidf18 10y ago
They should hire as CEO someone who helped build a software startup into a large company to show the appropriate leadership. Otherwise there will be too much corporate inertia and the old way of doing things. Like Google, they should open
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by davidf18 10y ago
I'm not certain, but I think there was a Supreme Court ruling that said you can't shout, "Fire" in a movie theater as an action of free speech or the First Amendment. At any rate, people pay good tuition money to get an
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by davidf18 10y ago
There was intent on the Takata and automobile manufacturers to ignore safety problems brought up by another airbag vendor. At least 14 people died. There needs to be structural changes in automobile safety: 1. CEOs and executives part of t
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A Cheaper Airbag, and Takata’s Road to a Deadly Crisis(nytimes.com)
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At a time when many prestigious private schools had Jewish quotas for students and faculty, the U of C did not. There should never be bans of free speech consistent with that of the First Amendment (i.e, you can't shout "Fire&quot
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by davidf18 10y ago
Unfortunately, there was a limited number of offers and I was unable to get one. The SF, SD, Boston offers don't have that limit.
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by davidf18 10y ago
Hey Uber, it is very nice to offer this in SF, SD, Boston, but what about NYC? :-(
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by davidf18 10y ago
Perhaps better than using the word competitive, is to use the word efficient market. Efficient markets increase wealth creation which leads to a better economy for all of us. Today, cellular data is an essential, not a luxury as it may ha

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