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by jcfrei 8y ago
The reason incumbent car manufacturers seem lightyears behind is probably because they run a sustainable business model. While the Tesla experience seems superior it doesn't yet appear capable of turning a profit. I really doubt that l
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by jcfrei 8y ago
I don't buy into that anti capitalism argument. It suggests that people aren't aware of the value they receive through newspapers and a consumption based model is therefore not working. I do see a danger in monopolies (or even oli
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by jcfrei 8y ago
How is saltiness trained? Are there readily available sentiment analysis tools or did the author train it himself? Anyway, cool and entertaining idea :) PS: not just seeing the saltiest but also the sweetest comments of a person would be ni
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Footage from a fuel tank camera probably?
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SpaceX Arabsat-6A Mission Livestream(youtube.com)
9 points by jcfrei 8y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 8y ago
This is clearly the main motivation. If the CPC was so serious about curbing emissions they would put a high environmental tax on coal power plants and the bitcoin mining would quickly wind down as a result of higher electricity prices. The
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Modern Monetary Theory Finds an Embrace in an Unexpected Place: Wall Street(nytimes.com)
7 points by jcfrei 8y ago|2 comments
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Multiple Boeing 787s in China experienced GPS 20 years rollover issue(twitter.com)
126 points by jcfrei 8y ago|59 comments
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by jcfrei 8y ago
> Destabilizing the base of some critical food chain to get 10% better crop yields seems like a bad idea for us to do. Easy to say when you only spend 10% of your income on food. Try to convince the people who have to spend between 30% a
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Lyft Crashes Below IPO Price(koyfin.com)
60 points by jcfrei 8y ago|76 comments
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Are file managers still going to work in Android Q? If not, this is a huge step back in functionality.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
>[...] but it's interesting how we value the capital that those companies put in far more than we value the years of work those two put in. "We" value taking risks more than working. An investor in Lyft carries much more r
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by jcfrei 8y ago
> Their business intent with Fuchsia is definitely not clear so it's a honey pot for speculation. From what I've heard Fuchsia will feature a deeper integration of Google services than Android. Demo: https://www.yout
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by jcfrei 8y ago
> Shareholders in Careem, whose backers include Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s investment firm and Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten Inc., [...] Isn't a public Saudi Arabian fund already heavily invested in the Softbank Vision
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Seems to me like institutional investors have increased prices for startups beyond what most angel investors could reasonably compete with. And I would argue this is due to the ongoing low interest rate environment where investors are despe
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by jcfrei 8y ago
While I have only anecdotal evidence that this is indeed happening, it shouldn't be a surprise. It's an example of a class divide that has been discussed and outlined in many dystopian science fiction novels. I think once virtual
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by jcfrei 8y ago
It's simply too early. The product cycle is probably going to be very similar to smartphones. Two decades with lots of prototypes but negligible market impact (Apple Newton, PalmPilot, HTC P Series). Followed by a decade of rapid expan
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by jcfrei 8y ago
The goal of such a foundation wouldn't be to remove these issues - which are inherent to any type of organization - it would be to stop the ongoing erosion of privacy.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
I think I understand the mission: A federated alternative to instagram where anybody can create a server which is accessible to other users on the fediverse network (doesn't have to be pixelfed). But I don't think this is the righ
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by jcfrei 8y ago
"Production is expected to begin early 2021". So first major deliveries in 2022, I wonder how much excitment will be left at that point.
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From Russia, with Thrusters(nytimes.com)
3 points by jcfrei 8y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Yep, in Europe ionity is building a 350kW charging network. The new Porsche Taycan will supposedly support this. So it makes sense Tesla is stepping up their game.
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by jcfrei 8y ago
> send large amounts of money around the world without snaking through the nightmare that is international banking This has little to do with technology but with regulation. If you think bitcoin can solve this then you either envision a
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Polestar unveils its all-electric response to the Tesla Model 3(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jcfrei 8y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 8y ago
> But you’re not contributing in anything for the world. The role of capital markets is (among others) to integrate all available information from the real world into a price. A trader does this (for example) by studying company financia
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by jcfrei 8y ago
One possible use case: A notary for digital goods. Crypto currencies have a built-in incentive mechanism that keeps a ledger running and verifiable. This allows for a decentralized way to verify ownership of digital goods. More concrete, yo
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by jcfrei 8y ago
Exactly, this was a huge communication error on Amazons and the politicians' side. Offering such huge subsidies to a single company will never go down well in the current political landscape - especially not in a city with a resurgent
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by jcfrei 8y ago
The business and revenue models are just changing, similar to the music industry: The main source of income is no longer the one-time sale of a game. Just like most big artists don't earn much money with album sales. Instead big game f
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by jcfrei 8y ago
In the long term capitalism and free markets should weed out any jobs which don't create shareholder value. At least that's the promise of the system and there's plenty of evidence which shows that this is what's happeni
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Why Cops Are Raiding Arcades Over a Fishing Game(waypoint.vice.com)
2 points by jcfrei 8y ago|0 comments

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