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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, I don't want to worry about motivation; the proposal itself is prima facie unserious. Perhaps Musk was just tired of being asked about it all the time. Perhaps he has a nefarious motive. Ultimately, I don't know or care.
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by jfb 13y ago
And written in Go? HN catnip.
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by jfb 13y ago
You don't have to get into thermal expansion and FEA to know that the Hyperloop proposal is back-of-the-napkin quality. As to why Musk did this -- dropped this hand-wavy shell of a proposal -- I don't know.
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by jfb 13y ago
Same here. Also, cheers for "nerdsniped." I'd never heard that before.
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by jfb 13y ago
I GOT THE LOOT, STEVE!
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by jfb 13y ago
Cars don't have bathrooms -- that is correct. However, cars can take unscheduled stops without triggering an emergency response. And pitching this fluff as SF -> LA without tackling the last mile -- perhaps the hardest part -- is
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by jfb 13y ago
"Still, it would be wrong to accuse of sexism the "hundreds" of the investors who declined her project. She's an astrobiologist who wants to run a mass-manufacturing business. I'm not a venture capitalist, but I can
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by jfb 13y ago
I know it's sometimes easy to forget, but technology is not now and has not ever been destiny. Certainly a better people mover will get built, because it's a problem that isn't anywhere near a local maximum. Maybe something l
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by jfb 13y ago
There's a fairly sizable difference in agility between a small web startup and a massive, political infrastructure projects. Approaching the latter as if the lessons learned from the former can be naïvely applied is, well, naïve. Move
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by jfb 13y ago
Whether you consume or create with a computer is only passingly related to the runtime the applications run in; the real differentiating factor is how you use it. It's immaterial that Javascript is well supported or not on Android or i
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by jfb 13y ago
What I don't fully understand is how this is any better than conventional HSR. What are the advantages? Cost, but that remains to be seen. Absolute speed, which yes, but where are the time estimates from Hayward to the Transbay Termina
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by jfb 13y ago
Of course it's not delivering anybody from SF to LA as proposed; as proposed, with the putative cost of 6B, it will take you from Hayward to Sylmar in 35 minutes. Great, but the cost of getting from SF to Hayward or Sylmar to anyplace
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by jfb 13y ago
The thing that's stalled me out from using fish before is that it's different enough from the Bourne shell that it seriously interrupts my day to day usage; but it's TOO similar, with the horrible shell semantics. So it'
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by jfb 13y ago
It's hard to envision a conflict where the A-10's advantages over the F-35 are dispositive, given that there aren't divisions of Warsaw Pact T80s massed on the German border any more.
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by jfb 13y ago
"True. When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb." [1] [1] http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Quotations_-_Random/3041_quote...
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by jfb 13y ago
All this article does is make me wish there were an alternative to typical Borne shell garbage. No sane person would ask for a wretched pile of hacks like this.
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by jfb 13y ago
I don't like Google, and don't use their services, but it's in no way that straightforward. Pretty much the entirety of the marginal utility of Google's technology relies on the data their users share with them. It'
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by jfb 13y ago
"CIA wishes he'd just stick to math."
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by jfb 13y ago
Sulfa drugs.
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by jfb 13y ago
Inasmuch as it's optimized at all.
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by jfb 13y ago
True. And it's not like Amazon doesn't have the money to splash around.
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by jfb 13y ago
You have to get the thing built before you can start charging a premium for it. Without a strong constituency, you can't get a giant infrastructure project off the ground. If your constituency is people like me, who can afford to fly
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by jfb 13y ago
Rail in California is sadly a total joke.
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by jfb 13y ago
It seems to me that to really force the issue, you'd need to be talking an order of magnitude difference in cost. For $20 r/t, ears would perk up -- even people who aren't making a $1/yr salary could conceivably afford t
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by jfb 13y ago
Well, fast trains or no new trains. It is still technically possible to get on BART in San Francisco and get off from a train in Los Angeles. You wouldn't choose to do this -- nobody would choose to do this [1] -- but it is possibl
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by jfb 13y ago
I don't see Hyperloop's constituency; there really aren't that many people who want to commute to work in SF from LA and can pay the roundtrip Hyperloop cost who can't pay the $80 on Southwest from Burbank to SJC. The pr
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by jfb 13y ago
Right, but the Hyperloop journey as proposed is 35 minutes long. It seems a reasonable trade-off to me.
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by jfb 13y ago
"I don't know, you asked me to divide that integer by this string. What am I supposed to do?"
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by jfb 13y ago
Well, right, which to me points out that we have to learn to cope with the difference between "private" and "public" being fuzzy.
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by jfb 13y ago
The hardware business is dead and dusted. Amazon needs a platform to sell you things, not a difficult hardware business. Blackberry's only useful assets are their enterprise software and sales teams; everything else is noise.

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