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by dublin 6y ago
Yeah, I'm sure that'll work out just like the Model 3 for $35,000... There was one strippo version of the Model 3 available (as special-order-only to severely limit the number sold) for what, maybe three or four months?
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by dublin 6y ago
Only until you actually need to haul anything.
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by dublin 6y ago
It's also competing with low-mileage $12-15K used cars that you can actually take on a cross-country trip. The Tesla store here in Austin recently confirmed for me that a trip to South Florida would take more than three times as lon
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by dublin 6y ago
Tell that to the people facing 5-digit battery replacement bills at mileages that are far short of what a good ICE car or truck can deliver. (I know several people here in Texas with old pickups that have 300-400K miles on them. One has o
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by dublin 6y ago
It takes someone young to be this ignorant. The emissions of modern car engines are truly negligible. And air quality used to be really horrible. Modern electronic engine controls have slashed emissions so effectively that the exhaust
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by dublin 6y ago
Edge isn't IE. At all. It's a fully modern browser that does everything Chrome does, and them some. I need to use a Chrome-based browser for work (too many web app devs write crap code that only runs on Chrome), and I'm work
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by dublin 6y ago
IMO, the new Edge is a better Chrome than Chrome - and has the advantages of bing nearly 100% compatible with it. For a while, there wasn't much reason to use it, but it's gotten quite good over the past year - you might be surpr
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by dublin 6y ago
And what, exactly is wrong with a child on the back of a motorcycle? That's part of how I learned to ride, and on top of that, we all rode up to the ranch just sitting in the back of Dad's pickup on countless weekends to ride mot
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by dublin 6y ago
I echo this - after Zen, Lila was a huge disappointment, eventually degenerating into a long rant about the author's unhappiness with aspects of his existence.
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by dublin 6y ago
Using a static site generator (or even a well-designed set of scripts) can easily scale to 1000s or 10s-100s of thousands of pages/posts. I've built these as shell scripts in the past, and used Blosxom when it was about the only
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by dublin 6y ago
When financial transaction privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have financial transaction privacy. Interestingly, things like cryptocurrency are increasingly used as the crowbar that governments use to pry their way into anything they li
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by dublin 6y ago
And yet, despite far-from optimal allocation, no one is worried about running out of 48-bit MAC addresses, which need to be globally unique. That's because 64K the size of the Internet is more than adequate.
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by dublin 6y ago
The Harmony remote without the display works better, lasts longer, and is more durable and resistant to obsolescence than the ones with the display and touchscreen. Buttons last a long time. I bought one for the living room 15 years ago
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by dublin 6y ago
Congrats, sir, I don't think I've ever exceeded 2400. (I almost always work in one window to reduce the session recovery risk of accidentally closing a window with a bunch of tabs I want to keep.)
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by dublin 6y ago
It's easier to use Chrome for my work browser, so it only has a few dozen tabs open, but my primary home/sidejobs browser is Firefox, currently running at somewhere in the 1600-2000 tab range. Only Firefox can do that without bar
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by dublin 6y ago
Also, thought I should add that if it's your name on the door, this isn't much of a discussion.
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by dublin 6y ago
No hard and fast rules, but generally: founders have to be present before founding (incorporation) - this usually means they will be doing work for free before that time; in many cases, founders may also need to put in money. (Once you&#x
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by dublin 6y ago
If your servers are in AWS, then Route53 is a no-brainer - it lets you do things no other DNS host can do, and it's infinitely better plumbed into the AWS ecosystem (CloudFormation automation, etc.)
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by dublin 6y ago
For DNS hosting, not just name registration, EasyDNS is far and away the best. Epik and Namecheap are also really good, and a bit cheaper, if you don't need all the services EasyDNS provides. Both EasyDNS and Epik have a strong commi
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by dublin 6y ago
FWIW, though I love and grew up in Austin, it an extremely dysfunctional startup/VC community, so unless you just have to have the cool factor, find almost anyplace else to start your company - real estate will be lots cheaper, too,
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by dublin 6y ago
^^THIS! Trust is THE most important factor. Treat this like finding someone to marry, because (sadly) there's a decent chance your startup could outlast your marriage. (Pay attention to that, BTW! Your family is really important,
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by dublin 6y ago
Compaq grew nearly as fast as some of those SaaS companies, and was engaged in design, manufacturing and sales of a complex technology product that actually had to work, not just buggy web software. IIRC, they reached $1B faster than any co
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by dublin 6y ago
You're forgetting Infoseek, which was a dramatically better search engine than anything else out there (including Google, Excite, and Yahoo), until it was bought by Disney/Go and was emasculated before finally being dumbed-down li
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by dublin 6y ago
Overloading names is a good code obfuscation strategy, but tricky and best done with code for obvious reasons (unless you like your regular code to present the challenges of BrainF ). For instance, depending on your language, you may b
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by dublin 6y ago
I call BS: The NY Times is in no way a "mainstream American centrist take on things", and they now freely admit their Socialist biases. I will agree the writing there is better than most other sources, but that's a low bar t
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by dublin 6y ago
Fake News is far more common than people think (not just the Gell-Mann effect, but that helps...) I quit trusting anything I saw in the media in 1998, when my wife and I saw NBC totally faking a hurricane report in Corpus Christi. The repo
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by dublin 6y ago
Because, unless you already run Pock, it's the only way to make the touchbar useful...
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by dublin 6y ago
My monitors rarely last that long (at least, before I find it's worth it to upgrade), but like a lot of folks, I put most of my money into good monitors, keyboards, and color laser printers rather than the computers themselves, because
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by dublin 6y ago
I'd settle for the Mac being smart enough to let me resize each external display to its actual physical size, so dragging between them works. Apparently, Apple thinks it's perfectly OK to assume that all your displays have the s
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by dublin 6y ago
Maybe you don't use radio waves at all: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10361792B2/en?oq=US10361...

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