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by flexie 10y ago
They sold 21,934 in the S class, so less than Tesla: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mercedes-benz-usa-re... Your figures include vans etc.
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by flexie 10y ago
I truly feel the S class is inferior in driving experience than the model S. To me it's like comparing trucks to airplanes. It's probably mostly a question of taste.
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by flexie 10y ago
Just to address a few of your points: I believe Tesla's idea behind solar panels is to extend the range a bit (5 percent or so) in order to alleviate the range anxiety drivers have, not to charge the batteries fully. At least not befor
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by flexie 10y ago
Right now, the only issues holding people back from buying a Tesla is: 1) Range 2) Price 3) Habits With the new upgrade, the largest model S can drive 613 km on a charge. And this year or next year Tesla covers basically all of North Americ
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by flexie 10y ago
And new trade deals were entered into with many of those with the EU as a party. Now they are EU trading partners, interested in remaining such, and to the extent UK agreements would collide with their EU agreements they are not prone to gi
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by flexie 10y ago
Ah, but if you are old enough, you might remember that long before 1973 the UK spanned the world: India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada. You even had 13 colonies south of Canada. And if you are that old, you might re
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by flexie 10y ago
Not at all. The UK is a 65 million population stagnant economy that derived most of its strength from the globalization it now wants to part from. It is likely to go to a 60 or 55 million population depressed economy in a few decades if Bre
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by flexie 10y ago
I agree. I think most people come here for a business / political angle on tech, not just for tech itself. I also often notice that the best discussions disappear really fast here.
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by flexie 10y ago
EU is telling Ireland to levy the general corporate tax in Ireland on Apple. Ireland has had that obligation all those years. EU legislation on state aid has always been this way. It's a usual thing to force a company (Apple) to pay ba
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by flexie 10y ago
What a load of corporate BS. How does it make first place on HN? "The European Commission has launched an effort to rewrite Apple’s history in Europe, ignore Ireland’s tax laws and upend the international tax system in the process.&quo
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by flexie 10y ago
Ireland is hardly a scape-goat. The commission has dealt in a similar manner with Amazon in Luxembourg, Starbucks in the Netherlands, and Anheuser-Busch InBev in Belgium. Whether or not there is an agreement between Apple and Ireland or jus
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by flexie 10y ago
Yes, it is Apple's problem and no, Apple is not a victim in this thing. The EU treaty is Irish law as well and lawyers from all over the union (myself included) have been looking on at this blatant violation of EU rules for years wonde
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by flexie 10y ago
I have been wondering if Google hasn't already lost the self driving race to Tesla. Google still drives a few test vehicles around and has totalled some 2.7 million km: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_self-d
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by flexie 10y ago
I would say that node.js is very liked on HN. Half the stories here are about Node.js. But I rarely see any positive mentioning on HN about c#, .NET, C++ or Java.
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Airbus flying car(gizmodo.com)
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by flexie 10y ago
Pretty much, if the observer is standing down on the beach. If he is standing on high cliffs he might be able to see them if he really tries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon
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by flexie 10y ago
Exactly. It's often very educative. I am raising Danish kids abroad myself so I have watched a fair share of the Ramasjang shows from here. To be fair, Danish children's shows are often inspired by American shows, to the point whe
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by flexie 10y ago
Medal count in absolute figures says little about which country does well in producing athletes, and a lot about the size of the population. One would think that the US, Russia or China are good at producing great athletes when looking at t
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by flexie 10y ago
Let's see. In 20 years your field might have made large parts of my field redundant. I truly hope so :-) Programming is still a young profession and it's growing at a tremendous pace. The population pyramid of Programmers' La
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by flexie 10y ago
I am not. Programming is just a hobby and I am not very good at it. I am a lawyer, and my comments would apply to law as well (except that the barrier to entry is a bit higher since regulation forces people to go through law school). Your c
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by flexie 10y ago
Not all, but the one in my example did, and many do: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=High_School_Teacher/... I am sure that by getting a master's degree, teaching in private schools, being in cer
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by flexie 10y ago
I think it's mostly supply and demand, timing and where you live. But those are the factors we rarely talk about. Instead, people complain they are not compensated enough relative to the importance of their work, their intelligence, th
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by flexie 10y ago
Yesterday I saw the same study mentioned in Washington Post and I got really bummed about how journalists always seem to miss the point or at least chose an angle that twists everything (1). This article from The Atlantic gives a more nuanc
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by flexie 10y ago
A lot of the consumer tech I like the most is Chinese made: laptops, smartphones, cars, drones. Another decade of this trend and China will have all production engineering knowledge in the world and the US and Europe none. Maybe China stack
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by flexie 10y ago
What counts as one of those startups? Any new business - then its not impressive at all. New tech companies - then it's something to notice. Or venture backed - then the figure is really something, especially if they are no more than 2
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by flexie 10y ago
I don't recognize France on spot 156. As for United States on spot 121, Netherlands on spot 93, Denmark on spot 97 etc. it looks like they have included all overseas territories. But it does look weird.
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by flexie 10y ago
They are confidential in Denmark, or rather they were supposed to be.
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by flexie 10y ago
Just to give some perspective: These are the confidential ID numbers and health records, including for example psychiatric information, of more than 90 percent of the Danish population. It's not legal, but many organisations still trus
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by flexie 10y ago
Good point, but it doesn't explain the Nice or Bruxelles attacks where the weapons were a truck and bombs, items that are as common or uncommon on the continent as in the UK.
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by flexie 10y ago
Even if 100 percent of the electorate had given the politicians a mandate to kill drug dealers it would not be okay. Democracy does not trump human rights and rule of law.

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