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by jsight 7y ago
> So I'm genuinly curious: Why do so many people still buy despite an avalanche of complaints? Because, despite their many problems, their customer service is still better than most (maybe all) of their direct competitors.
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by jsight 7y ago
I'd use them in any place that wouldn't feel weird to have a phone call. In practice, this generally doesn't include the middle of a coffee shop due to the noise, or for that matter even a particularly busy sidewalk. But a le
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by jsight 7y ago
I do not think the results for Coumadin/Warfarin are at all clear: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21449627
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by jsight 7y ago
I think that is incredibly optimistic for a production vehicle. I think it is likely that production vehicles with setups like this will have one 350 Watt panel on the roof. A typical house roofmount of the same would produce ~1.5 KWh per d
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by jsight 7y ago
That summary is basically correct. My point is that both sides believe that but seem to deploy that belief at different times.
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by jsight 7y ago
>> An EV with a solar array that generated just ~0.7kwh during 6 hours of daylight, would still be charging itself an extra ~20 miles of range per day while parked. An EV uses ~250wh/mile. This varies a bit for some, but none of
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by jsight 7y ago
In really general terms: An average climate change skeptic is a person who believes that strong hurricanes are just the weather and cold winters are proof that climate change isn't happening. An average climate change believer is a per
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by jsight 7y ago
I think this is a benefit only at higher speeds, tbh. The Tesla single speed setup seems to be really tuned towards low end acceleration, which admittedly is a logical thing to tune for in a premium family sedan. We've already seen som
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by jsight 7y ago
> Surely if the numbers are correct that there's 60-70% accuracy with the cone (on any particular day? or possibly early on) then they could use real data. I've noticed this as well. In reality, outside the cone seems to happen
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by jsight 7y ago
I get your point, but there is another angle here. People have a strong tendency not to trust forecasters, despite relative accuracy. This article implies a lack of accuracy that wasn't actually the case. It would be incredibly easy to
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by jsight 7y ago
It would be great if this also had the cone overlaid on top of it. It is often interesting to read the forecaster's notes along with each of these graphics, as it is fairly common for the "line" to basically just be an averag
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by jsight 7y ago
This article is a little bit misleading, unless I am misinterpreting his pictures. But that would be horrible for an article trying to explain pictures. Here is the graphical archive for all 5 day forecasts of Irma: https://www.n
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by jsight 7y ago
Because part availability isn't 100% just yet, it is "hot garbage"? That seems like a stretch. TBH, this kind of thing happens pretty regularly with various parts. Usually the delay doesn't end up being 6 months, but oft
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by jsight 7y ago
That is actually really sad. I wonder what are the chances of someone reimplementing NDI support as FOSS?
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by jsight 7y ago
Oh, I underestimated total sales. For some reason I thought the US was closer to 15 million sales this year. I do think that estimate may be slightly undercounting Tesla this year, but I could be wrong.
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by jsight 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that Tesla alone is over 1% (maybe 1.5 to 2%?) of the US car market. Worldwide is likely to be even higher for electric cars in general. The thing is that shifts in large markets like this take a long time to really be
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by jsight 7y ago
Or maybe it is a testament to how high our standards are that the expectation is that we should essentially never have to restart things. I can't say that my car has ever gone 149 hours without a "reboot" of some kind or anot
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by jsight 7y ago
Sidenote: I remember when people said the same thing about idrive and avoiding the brand because of it.
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by jsight 7y ago
> That's nice, but the Model 3 was supposed to be $35,000. I'm sorry, this part is really misleading. The entry price for a 220 mile model was supposed to be $35k. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/04&
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by jsight 7y ago
Fair points, but not really relevant to the point that I was making.
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by jsight 7y ago
Oh, I understand now and that is a completely fair point. The safety driver allowed them to shift blame in a way that will be more difficult without them. I still do not think that such an incident would cost decades, but undoubtedly the co
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by jsight 7y ago
Feature complete is a necessary but not sufficient precondition for self-driving. Tesla does not claim to have achieved this precondition.
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by jsight 7y ago
> And if you eliminate Tesla from the category, since they aren't using LIDAR, you can also point out that a self-driving car has never killed a passenger. I think the better reason to eliminate Tesla is that Tesla does not yet clai
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by jsight 7y ago
Amusingly, there appears to be no relationship between the "Rock Pi" and the Rock64/RockPro64 family. These names are really confusing.
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by jsight 7y ago
Free cash flow may be the more important metric for this purpose. I believe it is closer to $1B/year and presumably growing?
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by jsight 7y ago
Instead of throwing away your Pi4, could you please send it to me?
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by jsight 7y ago
Excellent point, and you are right that I did not realize Ford's early growth curve was that steep. Oops. I also did not realize how much Ford dominated the automotive sector in those early years or how widely variable sales were in th
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by jsight 7y ago
Yeah, its a horrible mess, and I think that is a big part of why Tesla's choice was the right one for them, at least at the time. At least Europe has started to standardize on a reasonable variant of CCS (type 2?) and Tesla is starting
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by jsight 7y ago
Others have responded to the trunk thing, but I will comment about the "non-standard" charging connector. There was no standard available at the time that Tesla started deploying thousands of high-KW chargers. It is hard to blame
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by jsight 7y ago
I agree with that. To me, the most worrying thing about Tesla this year has been their overemphasis on full self driving features. They do not appear to be close and I do not like the way they are using puffery around that to sell vehicles.

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