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by kemiller 8y ago
They were addicted to fat film profits and couldn’t read an exponential curve.
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Speaking as someone who had a second-row seat to Kodak's failure to meet the future, it was absolutely a case of stuck-in-the-past. The brass in Rochester just couldn't, wouldn't believe that the light at the end of the tunne
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by kemiller 8y ago
The battery is not an afterthought. The big players do not have an answer to the gigafactory at this point. They can build all the cars they want but without batteries they won’t be electric.
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The reason is that it was much easier to terminate the transcontinental railroad on the eastern shore of the bay. Not unrelated to your point.
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by kemiller 8y ago
They should tap HBO's expertise and connections to build a Netflix competitor while keeping the HBO brand premium. Flogging a racehorse to make it pull a wagon train will just end in tears for everyone. I bet the champagne came out i
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There are chargers here and there but the fastest of them are half the speed of the superchargers and that makes a big difference. And the superchargers are methodically placed to enable long trips. It’s not about the free energy — Which
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by kemiller 8y ago
They are not for routine use, they enable long distance travel, which is pretty impractical without them.
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by kemiller 8y ago
Tesla has one durable advantage: supercharger network. There is nothing remotely comparable and it limits the utility of their competitors. Until that changes they have a pretty good moat.
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by kemiller 8y ago
Legal or not, 85 is the natural flow of traffic on Silicon Valley freeways when they're not congested.
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by kemiller 8y ago
Well that’s what I’m saying. I don’t mean there is no place for a grumpy but talented employee, just that it raises the bar. And having some merely-good but socially smart people in the mix is also very helpful.
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by kemiller 8y ago
There are other potential ways to extract electricity from a plasma. Since plasma is high-energy charged particles, you can extract voltage directly from their kinetic energy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_en
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by kemiller 8y ago
It’s loading emotional work onto the people around you. A well-functioning team takes work to maintain and the grumps not only don’t do their share but are often a burden besides.
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by kemiller 8y ago
Disagreeability is itself a form of taking. You had better be amazing at what you do if you want to be grumpy.
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by kemiller 8y ago
The charismatic ones direct more attention to the overall problem than we'd get otherwise. For better or worse.
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Blue blood is moderately common among large invertebrates. It’s due to copper being the oxygen binding element.
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What deeper consequences are those?
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by kemiller 8y ago
You are not alone in this attitude, so don't take this personally, but I'm going to reply to you because you're the top comment. This is an incredibly destructive point of view. Promotion is essential to any software project,
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by kemiller 9y ago
I'm not sure how that would work. I completely agree that layoffs suck, but when a company is at that point, it's usually because other options have been exhausted. But turning a bunch of people out who have never run a company
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by kemiller 9y ago
God damn you. I’ve been winning for years and now not even HN is safe.
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by kemiller 9y ago
One angle missing is accounting. Percentage makes it really easy — Tell me revenue earned on licensed devices in aggregate, without even revealing breakdown, and we know the royalty.
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by kemiller 9y ago
First they came for the prostitutes, and I said nothing, because I was not a prostitute.
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by kemiller 9y ago
As is usual for Stephen Wolfram, he has a point, and then blunts it by trying to own the whole thing. Edit: to expand, part of the answer to his question, why don't more people do this, is that it requires his expensive proprietary so
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It’s 0.35 GBP.
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I read it in the same sense as reproduce a bug.
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It's passive-aggressive. A bit like deleting one's facebook profile I guess.
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That rule is all but forgotten in American English, sadly.
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I'd imagine the constraints are not peak processing power but energy consumption and to some extent UI.
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by kemiller 9y ago
Lithium in batteries is highly recyclable, which helps quite a lot. It’s not a pure consumable like oil. And none of this takes into account the possibility of novel chemistry taking over at some point.
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by kemiller 9y ago
Complaining about Soylent per se doesn’t make you anti-food tech generally. Soylent has legitimate serious issues. But I agree with you that we need to approach it sensibly.
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Working 14-hour Days is not efficient. It is performative and counterproductive. Especially for 15 years. I doubt the entire narrative. And Chinese labor has certainly hollowed out the rust belt but that’s more about arbitrage than work

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