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by joshe 8y ago
More housing would also massively improve the cost of living in California. Estimates put housing expanse at nearly 50% of monthly income in San Francisco. The usual is 30%. High housing cost is also the cause of all the other high costs. I
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by joshe 8y ago
TLDR; Faster chargers are useful now and more of them would be great! The cells charge in parallel (there are on the order of 15,000 cells in car batteries), so at least right now the charger power is the constraint and not the battery chem
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by joshe 8y ago
The article isn't very clear. The car still has a battery, this goes in the stationary charging system. It's used to increase the current when charging electric batteries. Most electric batteries can accept much more current than
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by joshe 9y ago
SF is doing a reasonable job, they should be commended for not coming down hard on the scooters. The "tech companies are privatizing the streets" meme doesn't make sense. Any scooters are less objectionable than the private c
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by joshe 9y ago
In addition to morning light (works great!) eliminating evening blue light has hugely improved my sleep. I use these orange glasses https://www.amazon.com/Uvex-Blocking-Computer-SCT-Orange-S19... I don't wear them ever
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by joshe 9y ago
It's a shame, Uber won't work on this nearly as hard as the founders did. Like you said founders delude themselves that buyers will help make their vision a reality. Even Facebook, seemingly the best, most hands off startup buyer,
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by joshe 9y ago
A 2017 Tesla battery has 4.8 kilograms of cobalt [1]. At $100/kg the Tesla uses $480 worth of cobalt. Two years ago at $25/kg it used $120 worth of cobalt. So $360 or 1.2% more for a $30,000 car. This is important to a some people
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by joshe 9y ago
Love that they stripped all the controls out. Part the nice aesthetics from the old Broncos is the really clean interior. It's so much less junky than numerous obscure controls on most modern cars. Tesla solves the same problem, in a c
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by joshe 9y ago
It is not a conspiracy or an inevitable consequence of growth. It is not because of the concentration of wealth (also a problem!). It is because there is not enough housing. There are many kinds of restrictions, some you probably agree with
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by joshe 9y ago
I buried the lede, the point is that it didn't work in Austria June 11, and it did on June 17th. June 15th is when the rule went into effect. Slovenia and Czech Republic working are speculation. (But I've heard so many complaints
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by joshe 9y ago
This is awesome. Traveling in Europe right now (from USA) and bought a 5GB data only Ortel card in Italy on June 5 for 20 euro. June 11th I'm in Salzburg and it doesn't work, which is my previous experience. I go to Slovenia for a
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by joshe 10y ago
Scoot Networks | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | Full-time I'm a software engineer at Scoot, we've got a great team and have some exciting React (and probably React Native) projects coming up and we'd l
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by joshe 13y ago
Apple was pretty late (Oct 2012) and I wonder if Jobs was a hold up, it's a full year after his death (Oct 2011). Google, sadly, came on board very early (2009).
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by joshe 13y ago
Actually, we are pretty close to having flying cars: http://www.terrafugia.com/
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by joshe 14y ago
Sonic.net is trying to build fiber in SF. Only held up by permitting issues. Latest update from the CEO is on the forums here: https://forums.sonic.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1085&s...
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by joshe 14y ago
Had an account with them back around then because their site made them seem technically proficient, but dealing with their customer service was like dealing with bad sys admins - grudging help and lazy. There were also a lot of unfinished
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by joshe 14y ago
Fun eclipse fact, the dappled light under trees will show the eclipse. Many of the light spots are actually pinhole views of the sun. Normally they are perfectly round, in an eclipse they look like little moons going through their phases
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by joshe 14y ago
Evernote already does a great job with ocr for searching images (along with your notes).
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by joshe 16y ago
Great that it's listed in his official list of papers. From http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/ "Submitted to the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 2005... Note: We never rec