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by flexie 9y ago
Hyperloop is near vacuum, not vacuum. When assessing Musk's success, note that Tesla has singlehandedly pushed the entire auto industry towards electric vehicles. Before Tesla, electric vehicles were funny experimental things for hipst
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Agree
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Lobbying is a way for the rich to legally shortcircuit democracy. It’s legal corruption and as bad for democracy as the illegal counterpart. In Denmark we have had prefilled tax forms for I don’t know how many years. More than two decades.
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Mankind has not had any rights for 99,9 percent of those hundreds of thousands of years you mention and we have only had such accessible records on each other for the past 25 years.
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How do you make money if there are no fees?
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Interstitium: New Organ Discovered in Human Body(independent.co.uk)
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Google may seem powerful and almighty to us now, but at the end of the day they would have to cave if - despite lobbying efforts - one of their major markets demanded a breakup.
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That would be a very unlikely consequence of breaking up Google.
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What backlash? Save from a well run PR and lobby campaign by Google, few consumers would mind.
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Well, if data on European citizens have been exposed, then ideally Facebook's management would be charged with breaching national European laws on data protection, trialed and sentenced to prison. The legal base for imprisonment for se
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"Parakilas, 38, who now works as a product manager for Uber, ..." So from one reckless company that doesn't give a damn about the law to the next. Who teaches developers that it's okay to work for anyone as long as the t
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With that logic anyone making a quiz should be able to get data on 50M users and that’s not a problem?
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Heard a similar myth about a Danish king. We was tired of cannons blowing up so he ordered the manufacturer to sit on top of the cannon when it was fired the first time.
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I believe it’s true, yet some of the best work of man was done largely alone. Einstein had his miracle year not at a university but by himself at the patent agency in which he worked and at home in his apartment in Bern. He was all but isol
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The parent starts by saying ‘a significant part of the establishment’. He is not trying to describe all leavers, just the small part of them that are a significant part of the establishment. Also many of those same leave politicians want mo
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Why stop there? What about assembling the computer? In fact, he should be able to make the electronics if he truly knows about computers. Now that I think of it, given a mine, our superhero should be able to find ore needed, and given a fie
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This is for once a great article about Tesla that is neither too critical, nor too rosy. They actually do some intelligent estimations instead of just going with whatever anonymous "analysts" or "experts" in the financia
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Thanks for taking the time to answer! If the SaaS provider takes customers' credit card information up front when they start the trial period, and he charges the customer automatically when the trial period ends, but a number of those
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When you take people's credit card details, and 60-70 percent of them regret the purchase / don't continue after the trial period ends, what do the credit card companies say about that?
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Would be awesome! I do fear that he political hurdles humanity would have to overcome for that route to be safe are larger than the technical ones, though.
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And nuclear power, solar and wind. And even if it only ran on electricity created at coal plants, it would be more efficient than a combustion engine.
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The e-up has a range of 99 miles. That might impress VW who says: "One charge, 99 miles. The e-up!’s impressive range makes it perfect for day to day driving." But it's less than half of the standard Tesla Model 3. It's
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The e-Golf has a range of 125 miles (200 km). The standard model 3 has a range of 220 miles. The upgrade has a range of 310 miles. The model S and Y have even longer ranges. Now, if VW had a charging network, that would be less of an issue,
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Yes, but Toyota’s and VW’s cars run on dead dinosaurs - Tesla’s are electric. Who cares how many combustion engines the veteran car manufacturers can peddle? Show me some EVs and I would happily buy VW.
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Google should be split up. It's wrong to have a company that controls search, one of the major browsers, and one of the two major operating systems for phones. And then of course it should be made to pay tax where the search results ar
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I feel like most yeahsayers miss the point of why people dislike Uber. It's inherently wrong to replace tens of thousands local companies all over the world, who have had to follow legislation, with one large American company with comp
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It’s by no way given that they would during WWI and maybe the war would have been a few years shorter without his explosives and gas. And maybe a shorter war would havve led to less humiliation of Germany afterwards so that WWII wouldn’t ha
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A lot. In Denmark, if you go out with 3 friends, one pays the bill at the restaurant and the others transfer their share to him (with one swipe on the phone to the friends phone number or email address that you already have so no need to se
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But NYC’ black or latino population is (mainly) Christian and mainly speaks Englsh
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English, German, Irish, swedish descent = Christian, white population, all speaking English as a first language, all from similar cultures. It’s way more diverse in Sweden. I lived in NYC, and have travelled a lot in Sweden. Nowadays, large

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