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by flexie 9y ago
Older than 5 years
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Project tango is great but not a product with hundreds of million users. It is a tool for developers. Chromecast has sold 30 mio units since it was launched 4 years ago. Whereas that might be a lot for you and me if we launched a company, i
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Google used to be this unique company that again and again would launch exciting new services or products. Often it was services that helped them sell ads, but it was services that users found very helpful. Gmail, Google Translate, Google M
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That's deep
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Why would anyone try to understand the ramblings of a twisted person who murdered 3 and maimed many more?
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That' almost 100 trillon litres. In a few hours it is. So 1 with 14 zeros after. A cubic meter is 1,000 litres. So we are talking 100 billion cubic meters. Or the same as 100 cubic km. Or the same amount of water as in a deep square la
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So 'Trust me, I can't say why, but they are okay'. FTC applies US rules, the EU Commission applies EU law. You can stay clear of one while still violating the other.
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It's very consumer friendly, but generally speaking it's also not that bad for corporations since they don't have to fear frivolous lawsuits in Europe. European consumer law is full of mandatory rules (rules that you cannot d
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In the EU you cannot bind consumers by such arbitration clauses: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A3... Consumers can usually sue corporations at a court in their own jurisdiction. Ma
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Many people including other journalists before her. I honestly don't think anyone before this incident would think it involves any danger at all. A subway dive with a well educated, white middle aged man who is regularly in the media i
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You forget charging at home. There are currently around 100M home charging stations in the US, most of them completely underused :-) So every home is a charging station and if the range for EVs keep increasing 10 percent per year we will re
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Maybe the amount of geniuses grew proportionately, maybe there are more geniuses per billion capita today. My guess is that there are vastly more geniuses today but that they are spread out more geographically and to many more types of art.
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I think it's because it is both hard to understand and hard to explain cryptocurrencies at the moment. It's like discussing email or social networks based on papers and ideas without really ever having seen it in action. We tend t
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I expect the opposite. Manufacturing, farming, fishing, etc were much more common industries for those who are now 85 than it is for those who are now 55. There is a huge difference between retiring from manual labor at 60 after having work
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I love the Prius but it's a hybrid, not a full EV. Now when we've seen that full EVs can have long range why would we bother with internal combustion engines at all?
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Let's see. I hope they will become competitive. They know how to produce quality combustion engine cars at scale, that's for sure. But that the world's largest car manufacturer has to team up with another of the large manufac
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Charge cycles are important but energy density is king at the moment. EVs need longer range. The 500km(300mi) of the larger models S, X and 3 and are the absolute minimum if you want the broader consumer market to consider EVs as viable alt
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Whether Tesla survives or not, these billions are some of the best spent money on the planet in the last 50 years. What are the accumulated losses so far? $5-10B? Even if Tesla were to spend another $50B and go bankrupt, I would still maint
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by flexie 9y ago
"smaller players like Hyundai" With around 5M cars every year (8M together with Kia), Hyundai produces more cars than Mercedes (2M) and BMW (2M) combined. It's hardly a smaller player. Hyundai/Kia is actually the 4th lar
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German car makers don't have infinite money. They run huge operations on tiny margins and cannot afford to cannibalize the sale of their upper-end cars with cheaper electric cars. The Model 3 is comparable to the C-Class in both price
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That's some accusation. Maybe the poster just didn't spend as much time reading HN in the last few days.
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in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is the king. Move to McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX.
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Ok, so let's say there is 350 km in an almost straight line. A great tunnel boring machine excavates around 20 meters per day in average (80 m on good days; next to nothing on other days). So that's 140 meters per week or 7 km per
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Most is more than 50 percent. 'Most all' means almost all which sounds like what you meant :-)
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Really? While WTO negotiations in the Doha round largely failed, China perfected its firewall. When Turkey's negotiations with EU failed, Turkey tightened its firewall. When it becomes increasingly likely that Britain will crash out of
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These firewalls are traditionally viewed as censorship from a free speech perspective. And I don't disagree with that. But I have started to wonder whether the Great Chinese Firewall, the Turkish one, and what seriously looks like a bu
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And an equal wealth being destroyed for the 2-4 most immediate neighbors
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Isn't that better than a couple of private companies, Visa and Madtercard, holding the information (and taxing you meanwhile)?
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We have had a related rule in the EU for a decade and a half: If a consumer buys an item from a professional, and the consumer complaints about a defect within the first 6 months from the purchase, then the assumption is that the defect was
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I quite enjoyed the writing style.

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