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by kjksf 4y ago
That doesn't mean that JVM or .NET JIT is faster than Go compiled code. They will almost always be slower because they have 3 structural disadvantages. 1. Compilation bytecode => machine code happens at runtime so it's a consta
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Starlink?
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Kerosene? Maybe. A net-zero kerosene? No, because it's a made up stuff, like Toyota's self-charging ICE cars or "clean" coal, gas or whatever. BTW: Tesla just released a semi truck that does 500 miles fully loaded and it
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by kjksf 4y ago
Combustion and hybrids will be banned in most markets by 2035-40. Until then, it'll market of declining sales year after year. Investing in anything in them is a huge mistake. It's like investing in improving black and white tv at
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by kjksf 4y ago
A better comparison is something like Hetzner dedicated server. Here's what you can get for $89+: https://www.hetzner.com/sb?price_from=89 For 92 euro: 128 GB RAM, 3 TB SSD, 8 core i9-9900K, unlimited bandwidth. You ge
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by kjksf 4y ago
More accurately: your government takes your money and then, maybe, gives it back to you in the form of unemployment benefits and the like, minus significant processing fees. The alternative is to use the money the government doesn't ta
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by kjksf 4y ago
That's the theory. Here's the sad, sad, extremely sad reality: bZ4X sales in US in 2022: 05: 199 06: 33 07, 08, 09: zero (they recalled every car and stopped production and sales) 10: 351 (resumed production) Those nu
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by kjksf 4y ago
To put this in context: this is not the first time Toyota advocates anti-EV point of view. In the beginning of this year the same guy (Akio Toyoda) was spreading all the EV FUD there is: electrification will tank the (Japanese) economy, the
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No one wanted to work at SpaceX initially. It took Musk's persistence and ability to sell a vision to hire first employees. And yes, also money. But just money gives you Blue Origin, not SpaceX. It took SpaceX many years and a few rock
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That blog post doesn't show that retail thefts were not a reason to close SF Walmart. The guy found out that in 2017 Walmart decided to close some stores and concluded "aha! closing SF store has nothing to do with rampant and obvi
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San Francisco budget is $14 billion. Of which $672 million is for "solving" homelessness. Austin City budget is $1.3 billion. Yes, half of Austin budget is spent by SF on homelessness alone. Money is not the problem. SF is already
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What if a thief resists your citizen arrest and pulls out a knife or a gun? When the fight instinct kicks in you get a very dangerous situation for both. You don't want the security get hurt but you also don't want the security to
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Having Walmart hire private security is bad for both Walmart, the people they would hire and the society. For Walmart it's obviously a cost, probably higher that the cost of goods stolen. For the private security: they are literally ri
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Being killed by a falling brick is a very clear cost. How would you characterize the costs associated with wearing a hard hat most of the time when in public? Talking about cost without normalizing for probability of prevention is meaningle
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And how exactly do you know how much time Musk spends with his family? This torrent of baseless confabulations about him is truly disgusting.
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What happened was: Musk was unhappy with progress so he fired bunch of executives and promoted others to take their job. And voila: the new team successfully launched Starlink. Remind me, what was the other company where Musk fired a bunch
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by kjksf 4y ago
Latest rumor is that they pushed it from 2025 to 2026. By 2026 it'll be next to impossible to make any serious impact in EV market, certainly not serious enough to affect Tesla. In 2026 Tesla will be at run rate of 5+ millions cars. Th
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Quite a tale, if entirely fictional. > Capital that is going going to be harder to raise Tesla has over $10 billions in cash and adding few billions every quarter. They don't need to raise ever again. > They had early-adopter suc
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https://twitter.com/scottwww/status/1490553502640140288 > Elon uses the FAA PIA privacy program for a private plane ID. When using a PIA address, the owner is anon and private, not public. Sweeney’s workaround
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Plot twist: Elon applied for and obtained privacy protection from FAA so it was no longer public information. The owner of @ElonJet account de-anonymized the info and bragged about it on Twitter. Now Elon is suing him and people who helped
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by kjksf 4y ago
Tesla EPS growth: 94.96%, 660.27% Toyota EPS growth: 15.49%, 6.95% The market looks to the future. A company with 95% earnings growth deserves much higher P/E than a company with 16% earnings growth. Tesla and BYD are clearly dominant
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> in case of Tesla a lot of this expectation of future profits and growth was based on charisma of its owner Not even a little bit. Musk has a charisma of a bag of potatoes. What matters is that Tesla had 10 years of 50%+ revenue and uni
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Where do you get Toyota's $40 B in profit? Last fiscal year Toyota made $17 billion profit, which was less than $19 billion profit 6 years ago. Profit growth rate is the crucial part of the info you skipped. To simplify: market cap is
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by kjksf 4y ago
Those rumors are not really providing new information. The EU law has passed. It's pretty clear that it requires Apple to do the things those reports say Apple is "considering" (allow truly alternative browsers, allow other a
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No, I'm arguing that Waymo, Cruise and others following similar strategy will go bankrupt before delivering a working product and Tesla / Comma.ai won't. As to crashes: the disengages part of your rebuttal is implied claim th
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Jules Verne predicted space flight decades before technology made it possible. In 1903, New York Times predicted that airplanes would take 10 million years to develop ( https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-f
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The person who was downvoted didn't say that negative experiences are from Musk haters. He correctly predicted that his positive experience will be downvoted by Musk haters even though it's as valid as negative experiences shared
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Those other companies are rapidly going bankrupt because the economics of doing it the non-Tesla way seem impossible. zoox was bought by Amazon for $1 billion, which seems a lot but it was the amount of money invested into company, so it wa
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Can I attach a GPS tracker to your car and publish the coordinates in real time to the internet? Of course I can't. It would be illegal. Not because of disingenuous "car has a right to privacy" logic but because any judge wou

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