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by jungturk 8y ago
Not sure about Elon, but I suspect (hope?) most of us Tesla drivers have familiarized themselves with the limitations of the system. Its got a couple scenarios in my experience where it shines - chiefly long drives on clean clear interstat
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by jungturk 8y ago
> Development time estimation, and every methodology that attempts it (I'm looking at you, Scrum), are little more than desperate attempts by managers to feel in control and relevant. More charitably, they're an opportunity to
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by jungturk 8y ago
An interest in a competing financial system.
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by jungturk 9y ago
But you are done - with the goals of that sprint. You complete the work, reflect, and reset for the next sprint's goals. Think Pomodoro technique rather than belaboring the marathon/sprint metaphor. https://en.wikipedi
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by jungturk 9y ago
Early reservation holders will see "Late 2018".
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by jungturk 9y ago
Model X deposits ranged from $5k for the base model to $40k for the Signature model. Those deposits sat for up to 3 years for early reservations. The upcoming Roadster requires $50k and $250k deposits. The upcoming Semi requires a $20k dep
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by jungturk 9y ago
I suppose it hinges on how we define vaporware, but it’s consistently been the case that the lower priced options arrive later. Source: sub-$70k model S buyer who had to wait longer than preferred for that to be available.
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by jungturk 9y ago
I'm not convinced that folks would defer to new religions to address those questions. I don't have data to support it, but I think the modern mind is better equipped to accept uncertainty and ignorance these days so some might jus
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by jungturk 9y ago
I think your points highlights the contrast between how the US thinks of corporate stewardship (shareholders get complete discretion) with how many German companies do (stakeholders all contribute to board-level decision-making). In the US
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by jungturk 9y ago
It's expensive, and perhaps less enjoyable that other aspects of engineering, but it certainly pays dividends in many environments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analy...
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by jungturk 9y ago
Mining at a loss might make sense for a while if you've made hosting/power commitments.
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by jungturk 9y ago
Votes for Trump in 2016 (62,984,825) divided by the US Population (323,000,000)
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by jungturk 9y ago
With a declared mission to "accelerate the advent of sustainable transport", I'm not sure a bankruptcy would constitute failure at this point. The momentum Tesla's created toward electric cars may be sufficient that mass
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by jungturk 9y ago
AA's PE is what took the fear out of international long-haul for me. Being of similar stature, the notion of sitting in a 17.2" seat across the Atlantic was a non-starter, but with business class tickets being potentially an orde
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by jungturk 9y ago
This (polyglot persistence in Fowler-speak) is typical in situations when you have access patterns that aren't well-solved by a single data store. It will likely introduce some serious consistency issues that need to be attended to, bu
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by jungturk 10y ago
The charter granted to the business can contain clauses requiring the business to attend to more than just its own returns. The state or the people grant that charter to the business, with the benefits its confers regarding liability and ta
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by jungturk 10y ago
(reaching now) - i wonder that fb mightn't be a phenomenon that transforms the "we" that we're so used to into the "us" that forms the basis of super-human organizations. that this ain't a similar transiti
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by jungturk 10y ago
Something akin to the Jefferson bible? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
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by jungturk 10y ago
I do this, though only on the clocks we use in the morning while getting ready with the kids - not the phones, not on other clocks. I'm about a decade into it, and like to think I'm otherwise reasonable. I hypothesize that it&#x2
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by jungturk 10y ago
Were you proposing an alternative to using governance to solve problems or just lamenting that poor governance can have poor outcomes? How are you proposing that we encourage powerful concerns to not externalize their costs to others in the
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by jungturk 10y ago
Being able to practice what one preaches is a useful heuristic on how authentically one holds that position.
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by jungturk 10y ago
There's one in Texas attempting to do so: http://www.texascentral.com/project/ Serious hyperloop contenders may well emerge soon, too.
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by jungturk 10y ago
I'm confused why the presence of Xcode would prevent one from using a Mac with whatever IDE they preferred. Atom, IntelliJ, VSCode, Sublime, VIM, etc... all work just fine on Macs.
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by jungturk 10y ago
https://safari-extensions.apple.com
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by jungturk 10y ago
I didn't read it as a moral judgement. The important characteristics of the companies he's talking about is that they're in an unstable equilibrium dependent on wage ignorance. Meaning that wage info itself would destabilize
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by jungturk 10y ago
The Supercharger network isn't the only recharging option for EV users. Plugshare.com exposes just how many access points are available for recharging on trip - public/govt options, for-pay high-power stations, etc... Using the tr
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by jungturk 10y ago
This is a component of Pivotal's CloudFoundry stack, no? Good to see more of those components being open sourced. Unclear until further review how much of the secret sauce has been retained from the project.
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by jungturk 11y ago
This would all be fine and good (just, even?) if nobody was ever coerced into agreement or agreed under duress. You seem to neglect the role of power in extracting preferable terms (and thus wealth). There often isn't anything "f
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by jungturk 11y ago
Well that's the downside of variable rate, yes, but that's more of a feature than a bug. Locking in the interest rate costs a little bit more (in the form of a higher fixed rate), so perhaps the folks taking the variable rate were
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by jungturk 11y ago
Despite the difficulty in norming on fairness, the arguments I've seen put forward are: 1) The progressive taxation stance suggests that since you're taxing the rich higher rates for money with less utility, that tax is less burde

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