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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I just meant specifically 3D visual modeling. I think some fears are known to be innate among apes - fear of the dark, snakes, and falling. Also paying attention to faces? The cataracts thing was an article I saw on HN a few years ag
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by fossuser 5y ago
I don't think brains are pre-wired to recognize 3D objects. There was an example case of a blind man with cataracts getting it fixed at around 50 years old. People were curious if he would be able to know if a sphere was round just by
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by fossuser 5y ago
Not my area of expertise, but people that claim to be experts suggest that global electricity generation is enough: https://www.barrons.com/articles/theres-enough-electricity-i... My intuitive guess is your simple mode
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by fossuser 5y ago
Apple's value went up over 10x from ten years ago. You may not like the result, but many others did and do. The people ten years ago talking about why Apple would fail or why what they made wasn't what people wanted were wrong. Si
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by fossuser 5y ago
Dealerships suck and they dislike EVs (for political reasons, and for low maintenance cost service reasons) - I'm bearish on their ability to roll out charging via dealerships. They might try, but I wouldn't be surprised if dealer
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think good marriages work with the couple in close proximity for extended periods of time. Many people are in bad relationships. Many married people spend little time together.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Not what you were going for, but the people talking negatively about Apple's strategy ten years ago were similarly extremely wrong.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think people get blinded by status quo bias. Imagine we were operating with 100% EVs today, would people be advocating for adding in gasoline tech as hybrids?
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by fossuser 5y ago
I found this via the r/hnblogs subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/comments/optip1/the_magic_o... I thought it was great so sharing it to HN.
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The Magic of Boredom(salman.io)
2 points by fossuser 5y ago|1 comments
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - plus superchargers are typically in busy public areas often with security (unlike many gas stations). It feels fairly contrived, I'm skeptical it's not just anti-ev motivated reasoning.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Part of the difficulty was that when starting off early EV adopters already had charging infrastructure in their homes the same isn't true for hydrogen. Tesla later was able to build and expand superchargers, but initially people just
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by fossuser 5y ago
There are a few superchargers there, destination chargers aren't that important. I think non-Tesla EVs are a lot less viable an option for this reason.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I'm also curious - I looked at a lot of EVs (maybe all that were available?) before getting the Model 3 (and had a Fiat 500e prior to that). None of them really came close in features and most were not competitive on cost either.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I pretty often make the drive from SF to Tahoe which requires a supercharger stop for ~40min. For this distance it's really not an issue. People typically stop once for bathroom or food anyway. The tradeoff of low cost fuel is also a f
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by fossuser 5y ago
Many people are afraid of the range, but don't actually drive anywhere near it day to day. EV range is also continuing to improve. I suspect/predict we'll see adoption continue to accelerate. I think a lot of the resistance i
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by fossuser 5y ago
Trucking has tradeoffs in both directions - EVs are cheaper, and easier to maintain, trucks are huge and can have a lot of battery capacity. I think what's better depends on specific circumstance. For large apartment complexes there wi
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by fossuser 5y ago
I'd bet against you. The majority of people with cars can use EVs today fine. There are some exceptional outlier cases and even those people can rely on super chargers or charging stations (which are expanding rapidly).
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by fossuser 5y ago
Toyota was still going on about how EVs were not viable and hydrogen fuel cells were the future while anyone who looked outside their window would see EVs all over the place. Elon's early responses to this remain true (grid already exi
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by fossuser 5y ago
Link is wrong? This just links to axios homepage for me.
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by fossuser 5y ago
That’s not what this lawsuit is about. Frankly that’s a bullshit excuse viasat is making and thankfully the court system knows that and the judge is throwing it out. With 5+ years of notice of the changing landscape and seeing starlink&#x2F
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is one reason I think urbit is cool - it makes self hosting way easier. I run mine in digital ocean, but if you want to run it off your home network it’s basically just figuring out the vpn bit to safely get on your home network and ev
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by fossuser 5y ago
I hope starlink bankrupts these companies. It really bothers me when companies that have failed to adapt throw their weight around by trying to leverage legislation to kill competition. Cable telecoms, car dealerships, turbo tax, etc.
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by fossuser 5y ago
AR is the obvious next platform and UX leap if the hardware is workable. Zuck and Apple both recognize this and are both working on it. The winner will be similar to an iPhone level win in terms of shift, it’s hard to know how close viable
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by fossuser 5y ago
You're not always back to normal the next day with the more intense hallucinogens. I think bad experiences (or good, but intense experiences) and the longer term psychological recovery from them is often underrepresented online, but it
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by fossuser 5y ago
It works with video calls, I’ve done it often. Occasional blips occur, but the call isn’t dropped (and this is with some tree obstruction). So it’s worth just getting it if that’s what you want it for. It’s probably 10x better than your exi
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by fossuser 5y ago
IIRC estate tax doesn't kick in until after ~$20M? I don't really know much about this particular area of tax law though so I wouldn't rely on my comments.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah you're probably right - my tax knowledge of this area is not great since I haven't had to care about it. I think that kicks in after $20M?
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by fossuser 5y ago
Part of me wonders if the same group of people trying to take away the wealth created by others have both not created much of their own and stand to inherit a lot from their parents. I don't know - but I have a hunch that a lot of th
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by fossuser 5y ago
Person dies, wealth gets inherited at new cost basis, heirs pay off loans with new (higher) cost basis, tax revenue isn’t collected. At least that’s the model as I understand it.

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