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Corporate Welfare: Give Tesla 3B in Subsidies(mikethompson.house.gov)
2 points by gbronner 6y ago|1 comments
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by gbronner 6y ago
It is useful to have a hereditary figurehead to open flower shows and the like. It keeps the elected politicians from forming a personality cult, and gives them more time to govern. Pardoning turkeys probably isn't the highest and best
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by gbronner 6y ago
My pet theory is that he hedged it either in another account or partially through the retail etf
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by gbronner 6y ago
This should feature prominently in the next remake of 'Escape From New York'. Apocalyptic imagery: everyone is starving, broken windows everywhere, but there's a parabolic chart of a meme stock illuminating the scene. Or, pe
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by gbronner 6y ago
I wrote something similar many years ago. Strtod has to check for null on every byte, and doesn't get inlined
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by gbronner 6y ago
Very few people in SF have children, so the school board members get elected by a group of people who have no particular vested interest in the schools. These kinds of things are the result.
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by gbronner 6y ago
Would love a 4wd version tough enough to plow
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by gbronner 6y ago
Last three f250s were 86,79,99. All were used as plow trucks. Last one is still going Never seen an electric plow truck
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by gbronner 6y ago
It takes a while to shop at Costco, load everything carefully into your car, drive it to you, and deliver it, not to mention provision for breakage, overhead for the car, etc.
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by gbronner 6y ago
It seems to affect different people differently. I grew up in a house where coffee consumption was measured in pots, not cups, and consequently, I like to drink 5+ cups / day. I usually give up caffeine completely for a month each yea
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by gbronner 6y ago
Perfect price discrimination. Colleges at the top are a near monopoly - Harvard is a good substitute for Yale, but very few people can be in position to buy either. One level down, the colleges price it using yield management strategies th
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by gbronner 6y ago
This can and will be fixed by hiring the compliance department from another broker. Etrade just merged with MS, and a lot of the etrade people are in in the SF Bay Area....
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by gbronner 6y ago
Living in cold home isn't particularly hard. Doing precision work with your hands (such as writing or typing) is decidedly harder in colder homes. You can wear certain kinds of gloves, but it just isn't as pleasant.
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by gbronner 6y ago
Massively complicates cmos and the financing engine behind mortgages
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by gbronner 6y ago
He doesn't define high speed or better. If you turn off gc and use pool based allocators, you can build a reasonably fast general purpose trading engine that can connect to lots of exchanges, use lots of apis etc. It will be fast en
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by gbronner 6y ago
It works until it doesn't and you lose a ton of money
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by gbronner 6y ago
In brooklyn in the 80s, we'd often remove distributor cables, steering wheels, have random engine kill switches in hidden spots, and use metal gadgets that connected the brake pedal to the steering wheel. Can't do most of those wi
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by gbronner 6y ago
Allocating the h1bs by how much the receiving companies are willing to pay is solid. The real issue is decent the number of h1bs, and thus the cutoff
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by gbronner 6y ago
They aren't employees yet. Apart from that, threatening to exit a business in a region isn't the same as threatening individual employees. I'm sure Uber will be happy to have them in Nevada
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by gbronner 6y ago
It is only good for the economy if the reinvested money is more productive than what the the owner of the company would have done with it. This encourages vanity projects.
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by gbronner 6y ago
Some problems like rattles can't be found until you drive the car. Which requires accepting delivery.
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by gbronner 6y ago
They used to have a 24 hour rental program. Unfortunately, 4 got totalled in Manhattan (mostly because they are fragile) so they killed it
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by gbronner 6y ago
That's common. Often the individual items don't have the correct labeling to be legal for sale.
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by gbronner 6y ago
You can use both if you want to. Tesla went with cameras only because they thought Lidar was too expensive. Not having lidar has directly caused a bunch of autopilot crashes, so I expect they'll add it.
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by gbronner 6y ago
Current setup seems to work on existing cars. They can just sell conversion kits for a few years -- it will be like an aftermarket stereo. They don't need to own all the cars.
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by gbronner 6y ago
Hardware costs will go way down. Lidar @ 100$, cheaper chips, cheaper sensors, etc. They are still in a learning phase -- they charge enough so as not to distort rider behavior, but they expect to lose money on each ride. Apart from that,
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by gbronner 6y ago
I regularly haul pipes, skis, boards, furniture, or other long and awkward objects that would destroy a touchscreen, or at least render it unusable for the journey. Physical buttons are so much more durable.
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by gbronner 6y ago
My observation is that you lose the ability to sound like a native speaker if you start learning the language sometime around puberty. Haven't seen any studies on this, but it holds up well when you talk to people who came to the US at
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by gbronner 6y ago
Gavin better let up soon
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by gbronner 6y ago
US rail network doesn't need 4-track mains. We run gigantic freights (3+km) on huge loading gauges, so we have many fewer trains. There's also nearly no passenger traffic because it takes 2 full days to go from Chicago to Seattle

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