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by durkie 10y ago
i own a decent amount of tesla stock and 2016 was a great year for lending it out. since tesla is such a controversial company, lots of people want to own the stock (expecting it to go up) and lots of people want to short sell it (expecting
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by durkie 10y ago
Solar City used to (and night still) offer solar bonds that were exactly this. The future of these is a bit uncertain after their Tesla merger though. It sounds like they might be changing strategies
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by durkie 10y ago
Anyone that finds this interesting should pick up the book "Ship of Gold" by Gary Kinder. It's a quick read and a great tale of eccentric folks pursuing deepwater wrecks and having to develop all sorts of new tech (and fight
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by durkie 10y ago
this dovetails nicely with our existing problem of excess heat on the earth :)
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by durkie 10y ago
that's a good point -- i suspect the s&p 500 receives so much attention in comparison to any particular individual stock that there is very probably little change to fish out of its couch cushions
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by durkie 10y ago
it sounds like you're basically advocating something like an s&p 500 buy-write index investment instead of just an s&p index investment, right? basically selling covered calls on your index investment. I agree with your premise
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by durkie 10y ago
yeah, it just seems like if it were really optimized for smt, they would have milled the back side of the CHIP and placed the flash et al components in there so that you wouldn't have to find the extra real estate on your own board.
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by durkie 10y ago
How is it optimized for SMT? It seems like the PCB that you mounted it to would need to have a hole or milled pocket in it to accommodate the backside thickness of the CHIP. Not sure how feasible a pocket is, but a hole would mean you then
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by durkie 10y ago
How are Uber and Lyft related to Tesla?
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by durkie 10y ago
missing the best video about teaching computers to play video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY
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by durkie 10y ago
We're just now getting them up and running, so I don't exactly know yet. I'm pretty sure that we can do it though. There are some interesting data analysis techniques (PCA, neural nets) that can be used to get meaningful resu
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by durkie 10y ago
we're building electronic noses with gas sensors to monitor fruit ripening and tell us when we should pick fruit trees. arduinos are cool because they make physical computing really easy. they're just a nice tool.
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by durkie 10y ago
but tesla's production rate is increasing. the end of q2 saw rates of over 2k cars/week, which would be on target for >100k/year, over twice 2015's rate.
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by durkie 10y ago
What are you making? We went through the same process with the now-defunct-and-sued-by-patent-troll Comingle, trying to make open source sex toys. We'd get all those same questions over and over...
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by durkie 10y ago
this is the same as the "electric cars are actually powered by coal!" argument. it seems like it ignores all side effects of an incremental improvement in pricing/availability of technology: proliferation of EVs leads to remo
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by durkie 11y ago
a little bit tangential, but is it known how received imessages are able to be decrypted on multiple devices? if the sender's message encryption key is encrypted with my iphone's public key, then my iphone's private key is th
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by durkie 11y ago
If you're looking for evidence that non-oil sources will get more profitable, less expensive and widely available in the future, Ramez Naam has a series of excellent blog posts (with lots of cited data) that are a good starting point.
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by durkie 11y ago
this was super easy! i just got it HTTPS setup through your site for an API backend I'm working on, and the hardest part was moving nginx off of dokku so that I could get it to serve static files. thanks!
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by durkie 11y ago
have no fears brother -- i also got stopped at a cheap smoothie out on the town.
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by durkie 11y ago
If you're interested in a higher-power version, I just used the SC189 3.3V switching power supply in a design of ours. It can supply 1.5A (provided of course your upstream power can too). The datasheet (at http://www.semtech
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by durkie 11y ago
and a kilowatt-hour from the power company costs $0.13. As much as I love bikes and wish I were riding one right now, it just makes no sense.
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by durkie 11y ago
Why a giant tent? Why not normal MIG/TIG welding that floods just the weld area with argon?
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by durkie 11y ago
Are you talking about the Ohio pawpaw festival? We drove up there one year just for the festival -- super fun :)
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by durkie 11y ago
you still own the repo and don't have to allow changes to it and can review any changes that folks submit.
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by durkie 11y ago
hey! nice to get some coverage here. i'm with comingle, one of the companies being sued here. we're building a cache of prior art and are looking for all the help we can get!
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by durkie 11y ago
what do you have against ceramics? obviously you're not going to get one from an old japanese dude that's been making them for decades, but they seem like they'd be way harder and hold and edge for longer.
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by durkie 11y ago
Thanks. The last question is: does YC have restrictions about the types of companies that can apply? Our company makes open source sex toys, and we've got an ever-growing list of places that just won't work with businesses related
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by durkie 11y ago
Hi Kat! We're considering applying and wondering if you folks have a conception of companies that would be considered too far along for this program. In our situation, we're have not yet taken investment, but we would definitely l
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by durkie 11y ago
Hah, the Fiat 500e is the one that the Chrysler CEO explicitly said "I hope you don't buy it"[1] [1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1092315_chrysler-ceo-und...
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by durkie 11y ago
for real -- i feel like the entire existence of the stock market depends on lots of people disagreeing about what things are worth.

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