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by fossuser 6y ago
Hydrogen fuel cells were a stupid option paraded out repeatedly (usually by legacy companies using it to say EVs were bad) and Tesla said as much at the time. The predictions about battery tech improvements were reasonable ones and publicly
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by fossuser 6y ago
But it turns out their livelihood does depend on them understanding it. Should be interesting to see what happens - I’ll never buy from a dealership again (and today there’s no non-tesla option for anything that’s not a strict city car).
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by fossuser 6y ago
This is a topic that won’t make much progress on an Internet forum (too heated, too personal for people). I think there’s a difference between using the word to target someone who is disabled and using it the way it’s used on wsb. I also th
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by fossuser 6y ago
What’s wild to me is that the legacy car companies watched tesla do this over a ten year period and basically did nothing except mock them during that time. Even now the legacy companies are held up by few EV models, bad range, bad software
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by fossuser 6y ago
You seem to think “retarded” is magnitudes worse than all of the other negative words you used and worth shutting down a community for. I think most people do not think this is true. I think moderation is hard and I’m generally in favor of
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by fossuser 6y ago
This one is particularly great. At the risk of quoting the entire thing - some highlights below. If you're not subscribed to Matt Levine's Moneystuff, you should be. -- Should [GME execs] sell a ton of stock to all these redditors
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by fossuser 6y ago
I grew up in a suburb and pretty isolated intellectual vacuum where it was hard to learn anything. I got internet access I could use regularly when I was around 12. Things were less developed then ~2002 and I didn't have FB until 2007
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by fossuser 6y ago
Thanks - I'll check those out :). For Stories of Your Life and Others the first short story (while entertaining) is not really representative so don't let it discourage you if you don't like it. My favorite in the collection
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by fossuser 6y ago
If I thought Consider Phlebas was bad should I bother with Excession?
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by fossuser 6y ago
You need to read True Names: http://www.scotswolf.com/TRUENAMES.pdf
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by fossuser 6y ago
I'm an outlier on this one, but I thought Consider Phlebas was bad and disappointing. The Culture was cool and interesting, and the world had some interesting detail but everything else was pretty weak. I generally agree with this revi
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by fossuser 6y ago
I wrote a bit about this a while back and I largely agree and think she’s right: https://zalberico.com/essay/2017/02/21/asking-questions.html There’s a lot of nuance to this I think is worth going into.
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by fossuser 6y ago
It's really great and one of the rare ones that's great until the end, and it ends purposefully and well. My only comment about it is the first handful of episodes are the weakest. After the first half of the first season they ton
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by fossuser 6y ago
For an example: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/3785-Park-Blvd-94306/hom...
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by fossuser 6y ago
This article was really interesting to me and something I want to try: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html I've used flash cards in the past to memorize things for school - and I'd believe what he describes wo
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by fossuser 6y ago
Interesting to see BMPC for the high end - I've heard it's not great as a set it and leave it option (also bad battery life). For the capture card: elgato camlink 4k works well. Is the Sony software any good? I've hard that p
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by fossuser 6y ago
Norway isn’t that big - a lot of the advantages tesla has don’t matter as much there so it’s not as easily comparable. Beyond that I don’t know the specifics (price in Norway, etc.)
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by fossuser 6y ago
I’m not sure how bad a deal that would have been for the legacy companies - I’d guess most of their patents are worthless (maybe good for defense). The legacy car companies are held back by the dealer model and failing to execute for ten ye
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think it’s better UX and convenience on net today than a gas car and has been since the supercharger network was put in place. Daily driving and charging at home is much better than filling up and paying for gas. Trip supercharging adds 4
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah - Nikola is fraud, I think it’ll go to zero it’s just hard to know when. This is also the general problem I have with SPACs. The incentives are all wrong. If you’re a founder and some SPAC approaches you wanting to merge to take you pu
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by fossuser 6y ago
Central PA to northern New York is no big deal with the super charger network, I’ve done drives of that length. Tesla has offered access to their superchargers, but legacy car companies haven’t taken them up on the offer. Day to day, Tesla’
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by fossuser 6y ago
I suspect charging will be more prevalent in time. Charging in apartment buildings, on the street, etc. Even now you can make trips to the super charger on occasion and just pick one where you can get dinner, though this is obviously not as
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yes - I'm a customer who paid for it and I'm happy with it, I know it's a bet on a future capability. I think Karpathy's talks make sense, their bet on vision makes sense. I think the comments from Waymo are tedious - we
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by fossuser 6y ago
A Bay Area house that isn’t total trash is easily 3M on the peninsula. Elsewhere, yeah - you’d be fine if you don’t spend stupidly.
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by fossuser 6y ago
> "to be effective at async communication, you have to not only ask your question, but also anticipate all the context that person will need to give a good answer. then you do your best to condense that into a clear and concise init
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by fossuser 6y ago
Is it harsh to say that the people I know who do this are also just not as sharp generally? I’m not sure if this is unique to me, but there’s a tight correlation between people who send naked initial “hi” messages and people who can be more
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by fossuser 6y ago
Well whatever it is, I think it’s a stupid decision that harms their potential customers. They did nothing for ten years while tesla built out an entire network (except publicly complain about EVs). It’s like Steve Ballmer’s video trashing
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think most people would disagree with you on the point that Toyota software is “light years ahead in software and updating”, but there is some subjectivity here.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I'm confused - I thought the reason that it's hard for Intel to add more decoders is because x86 ISA doesn't have fixed length instructions. As a result you can't trivially scale things up. From that linked article: -- W
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by fossuser 6y ago
Most HN accounts are pseudonymous with the occasional anonymous throw away for something specific. HN also has great moderation (thanks DanG) and a strict set of rules which helps. If HN was truly anonymous (everyone posted under anon accou

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