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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Honeywell should have completely owned this market. True, with respect to "smart" thermostats. But Honeywell already owns the thermostat market, and it's much larger than the "smart" thermostat market.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
A great example of "The Law of Unintended Consequences"? A law meant to help the people, hinders the people later on. Getting this stuff right isn't easy.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Using this logic Well, that is the logic. And you'll note that, despite that logic, we have the internet, cell phones, and the national postal services are going bankrupt. There's a tenuous balance between maintaining glo
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> The dealers already lost. They lost when buying cars over the internet became a viable option. It will be a long time before people are comfortable buying a car online. I just purchased a new car; the process is unbelievably anachroni
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
I don't get it. He made a marginally sexist joke, people took it too seriously, and he apologized for it. Was he to direct that apology at people who weren't offended?
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> such as releasing some of Tesla's patented technology in order to foster further electric car development. I have to admit, when I read the first few lines of the article, I assumed Elon was going to start patent trolling with Te
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Both Uber and Lyft have $1M liability + casualty insurance while you're transporting passenger Well, I'm not going to claim to be an expert on such matters, but I believe $1MM is the minimum that is offered for liability ins
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> As for insurance, I think $200/mo is probably a conservative guess Conservative? I think you are severely underestimating the cost of obtaining insurance that covers the liability of injuring multiple passengers that you are
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> yet the highest profitability, bodes well given Tesla's high growth rate. Comparing these companies like this is a bit odd. Tesla produced 25,000 cars last year. The others produce millions. Tesla produces a single, "luxu
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Numbers don't lie. You're right, the numbers don't lie. And the "numbers" say that buying and renting homes doesn't provide outsized capital returns in relation to other investments over the long-run.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> I'll buy another home myself and rent it out to someone like you Except I own my home... I love people who have determined that they've found some trick to beat the market. "Oversized asset returns! All you need to do
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> I think their aim is noble That's about as fast and loose a a usage of the word noble as you can get. It's a Q&A site; what is "noble"?
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Someone please explain to me again how this arrangement is evil? Well, if they let you know ahead of time that you needed to sign up to access the content, that'd be no big deal. And, of course, I wouldn't bother to ever vi
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> In the end I'll now own two houses I do whatever I want with and my renter will own nothing. " Uh, you realize that when you buy a house, you end up paying tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest beyond t
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> I can sell my house whenever I want (or leave and rent it out to someone else) Whenever you want, huh? Everyone thought the same thing in 2007. Are people honestly trying to argue that owning a home leaves you more mobile than rent
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> This is a manufactured debate, it's meant to appeal to twentysomethings' bohemian aspirations. The actual "manufactured debate" is the one manufactured by the massive housing complex that tries to tell people that
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> "As I said above, here on HN, mere truth is not enough to make us consider a comment to be a positive contribution." It sounds like you'd like to think your community-of-choice is unique, but get over it. There is no &
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Can you imagine Condolezza Rice or Hillary Clinton You say this like these people are shining examples of people doing good for mankind. They're run-of-the-mill politicians. I couldn't care less about their porn or polit
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
Well, today I learned that those three lines represent a hamburger.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> "almost everything on Wall Street is smoke and mirrors hiding what are incredibly simple ideas" Because Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and Farmville are complex ideas? Nearly every good idea looks "simpl
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> It's hard to trust a study that uses a data like this. If you're only willing to trust data sets that are 100% clean/accurate, then you aren't going to trust many data sets. Is there any reason to believe that Trul
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> "having ads on the page will ruin that. I hate the idea of charging a monthly fee...Find some other source of funding? " Receiving funding or investment isn't a business model. I'm not sure why people are so averse
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> "Musk, 38, is a rocket scientist," writes Favreau. "He designed the Falcon 9...And he designed the Tesla, one of the first electric cars of the modern era." Maybe someone better tuned to this can help: is any of t
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
First we got to hear the ICE proponents spreading FUD about Electric Vehicles, now we'll get to hear Electric Vehicle proponents spreading FUD about fuel cells.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
>No it doesn't. Yes, it does. They got a patent for the process, meaning had they not , someone else might have. Hence them "beating" others to the patent. I'm not arguing about the validity of the patent, or rea
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
The vast majority of people have no problems with the multitude of payment options already available (from cash to credit to debit to Square, etc) and have no use whatsoever for Bitcoin. Sorry.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> In this case there is no "Beat to the patent." The fact that they were issued a patent says otherwise.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Why would they commit to spending anything before they know what kind of revenue & retention your game will have? Why would you sign a publishing deal if you know that your game has awesome retention and big revenues? The idea is
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> public index of assholes like these. It's hard for me to upset with these specific individuals, because I don't know their plans or agenda. In reality, if it wasn't them, at this point, it would be someone else at so
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
Funny thing, I visited Quora today, for the first time in a while. Years, maybe: Googled something, Quora near top results, clicked link, "signup" nag screen, results blurred out, left page. I guess I still don't get it. Cu

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