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by flexie 10y ago
Well, the pound goes up and down. Surely, rule of law is more important than currency fluctuations.
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Electric car boom fuels interest in Bolivia’s fragile salt flats(theguardian.com)
1 points by flexie 10y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 10y ago
Anyone knows what it is that makes the short Paris - Rome trip (1,400 km) cost $64, whereas the New York - LA (4,500 km) costs only $120? Is it because of taxes, or is electricity just more expensive in France/Italy even without taxes?
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Faraday Future's first car secures over 64,000 reservations(engadget.com)
3 points by flexie 10y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 10y ago
This post is a good reminder that innovations are so often made by people with zero or little education. Scientists don't agree on when humans learned to control fire. Some say 200,000 years ago, some almost 2 million years ago. But cl
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by flexie 10y ago
What is a KSPer?
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by flexie 10y ago
Related; the factory is said to be 1.3M square meters when completed. So each employee will have 200 square meters for himself and his robot coworkers. Except of course that they are probably not at work at the same time. So maybe 600 squar
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by flexie 10y ago
Easy now. It's not an analysis, it's a question. Here are the costs of just a single nuclear disaster, one considered minor: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/getinvolved/They-... Please be
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by flexie 10y ago
Are you sure about that? Wouldn't a 1 or 2 degrees temperature increase be preferable to nuclear meltdowns becoming more frequent because we get much more nuclear power plants?
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by flexie 10y ago
Universities are not so divided into good and bad ones. Almost nobody think that way. Social mobility is higher than in the US but the highs are lower. Almost nobody makes $200k in Denmark, and fewer make it year after year. Even lawyers, d
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by flexie 10y ago
Why lisp? Kid should have learned assembly, or better yet; pure math. Now he is corrupted already.
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by flexie 10y ago
I grew up in what is generally considered an extremely successful socialist society; Denmark. All media is fully or partially state sponsored, a third of the adult population is on some kind of welfare (incl public pension or student grants
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by flexie 10y ago
Good. And then please expand the network to regions and countries they are not in. There is still not a single supercharger here in Bulgaria although the chart has shown they would set up some 3-4 stations here by 2016.
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Galileo, Europe's own satnav, to go online(phys.org)
121 points by flexie 10y ago|30 comments
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by flexie 10y ago
Whenever I sit (on the passenger seat) in an S class or a 7 Series I find the interior so outdated. Wooden panels, leather, chrome, sometimes even gilded. It's too bling bling for me. That style is more suitable for the Queen's ca
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by flexie 10y ago
Civil war? Last time America had a civil war was 150 years ago, and not due to election fraud. Who exactly in today's America do you see potentially engaging themselves in civil war? Most young people - those that would usually be recr
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by flexie 10y ago
I would love to believe that mainstream car manufacturers have caught up but I don't. As you mention yourself, the product cycle for cars is easily 3 years and the EVs that most mainstream car manufacturers have announced here in 2016
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by flexie 10y ago
Why would anyone own a house when they can rent an apartment? Why don't we share bathrooms with the neighbors? Why have a small garden that needs maintenance when there is a huge park nearby? Why did I just buy a printer when I need it
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by flexie 10y ago
Great to see that the HN week of censoring politics is over.
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by flexie 10y ago
Off topic: Would it be possible to submit links to walled off websites like the Economist as google searches? Maybe there could be a tick box that, when selected, made the link into a google search like this: https://www.google.c
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by flexie 10y ago
Violation of privacy laws is one thing and bad enough in itself. But let's not forget that Uber violates various taxi laws as well. In Denmark, just now, the state prosecutor has formally prosecuted Uber for colluding to violate the ta
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by flexie 10y ago
What are you talking about? Even the most worried climate scientists talk about a few degrees celsius in the absolute worst case scenario.
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by flexie 10y ago
Absolutely, there is no harm done in double checking. In a way it's weird that in 2016 there is no automatic auditing of all elections for congress and president, given how much is at stake.
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by flexie 10y ago
This is a combustion engine issue. Electric cars don't have gears. Did you see the new jaguar EV: http://www.jaguarusa.com/all-models/i-pace-concept-car/index... Or the new Audi EV: http://www.busi
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by flexie 10y ago
They wouldn't have to sell "only EVs". They could have continued selling EVs while selling their soon to be vintage cars. All three companies have several brands (VW has Porsche, Audi, Skoda etc.) and each of their brands hav
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by flexie 10y ago
They will face tougher times if they have to rely on their home market. They are already operating on razor thin margins as it is. Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, Alcatel were large, and valued EU companies producing cell phones. Where was the EU
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by flexie 10y ago
I don't know (m)any company as innovative and disruptive as Tesla. Apple, maybe. And if anything, Tesla is internalizing risks with the strategy of vertical integration. Do more Teslas catch fire than ordinary cars? I doubt it. Tesla h
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by flexie 10y ago
Not only has Tesla created the greatest external challenge to the German auto industry that I can think of. They also have the nerve to attack them in their own backyard where they can take advantage of German suppliers etc. What will be ne
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by flexie 10y ago
I don't know if that's true but save for electric vehicles, has there been any major interest in improving batteries much beyond what they do? Batteries have been mass marketed for laptops and cellphones in the past couple of deca
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by flexie 10y ago
That is good news. How long time would it take this research to result in improved batteries being marketed for electric vehicles?

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