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by kjksf 5y ago
People are using Bitcoin as currency, today, at scale in El Salvador. https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/14658601494704496... You can pay for a Starbucks coffee by waving your phone next to a terminal beca
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by kjksf 5y ago
Exactly. Governments will successfully ban Bitcoin, just like they successfully banned piracy. Things like https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=category:401 are long gone now, successfully banned.
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by kjksf 5y ago
It took me 5 days to go from San Diego to Miami. Could have done in 4 but first 2 days I stopped driving early (6 pm instead of 8-9 pm). Maybe even 3 if really pushed it. I did it in Model 3 LR which is rated ~335 miles but I was driving fa
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by kjksf 5y ago
When the city and the state stops taking 50%+ of my money, I'll start cleaning the streets (or, more likely, will pay for someone to clean them). San Francisco 2020 budget is ~$13 billion ( https://londonbreed.medium.com&#x2F
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by kjksf 5y ago
I just finished 2k+ california => florida road trip in an electric car and can say with confidence that this comparison is total and utter garbage. Here are the factors that influence your total charge time. 1. Charger speeds vary from 5
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by kjksf 5y ago
The pricing is actually $0.15/million requests per month. $5 is minimum monthly payment. They also have a free plan with 100,000 requests per day.
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by kjksf 5y ago
It's funny because Casey made this video partly to push back on people like you who come up with limitless excuses for why slow code is "actually the right way to do it". I guess it didn't work. Are you really arguing th
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by kjksf 5y ago
In this case: nothing. The fast renderer was written by one person in a few days. It's clearly a "few thousand loc" codebase, not "millions loc". The 100x slower renderer was also written by one person (or at most f
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by kjksf 5y ago
That weird thing is called supply & demand. Econ 101 Traditionally car makers offer volume discounts because they have excess capacity i.e. they can make more cars that they can sell. Currently Tesla is sold out 6 months in advance on M
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by kjksf 5y ago
All those companies currently make less than 100k EVs per year. GM barely makes (made) 20k of Bolt per year. You might argue about what number constitutes scale or philosophically argue that "can" means some future, not current, a
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by kjksf 5y ago
He was talking about Tesla having lowest probability of injury in a crash, as measured by NHTSA (and every other agency that does crash testing).
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by kjksf 5y ago
People tend to not rent cars at night. So the time spent by a Hertz employee is 1 minute to plug and then unplug the car. And if the car isn't fully charged and someone wants to rent it, they can either wait additional 30 minutes for f
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by kjksf 5y ago
The obvious future is that robotaxi network will be operated by the company that makes the software, not individuals. Be it Tesla or Waymo or GM. So unless you can develop your own FSD software and build millions of cars cheaply, you won&#x
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by kjksf 5y ago
Actually, it's the opposite. Autopilot comes for free with Tesla. I don't know of any car that gives Autopilot-like functionality for free. I'm certain BMW doesn't, I'm certain GM's Blue Cruise and Ford's
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by kjksf 5y ago
This is a per-car math. It doesn't have to be a Tesla car. The math works just as well for Ford robotaxi or Waymo robotaxi.
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by kjksf 5y ago
There are multiple ways to arrive at that. Here's one version of the napkin math. According to AAA average cost of owning a car in US is $8k per year. Average driving in US is 12k miles per year. A $25k robotaxi with 1 million mile bat
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by kjksf 5y ago
There's a big disconnect between people who do not own FSD and those who do. Those that complain are 100% in the "don't own FSD" bucket. Prove me wrong. Find me one owner of FSD that is so dis-satisfied that he demanded
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by kjksf 5y ago
I very much agree that ideas are cheap. I don't agree that "good ideas are expensive". The issue is: we don't know which ideas are good or bad. The stats from Venture Capital markets are showing that clearly. Before some
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by kjksf 5y ago
I doubt that's true. I have literally hundreds of ideas. As an experiment I put them on a website for anyone to see and "steal": https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/e4132d5a44014b2aad81d815... I'm n
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by kjksf 5y ago
I don't think "just stick with it" is a good advice in general and especially not for his projects. He was smart to abandon his minimal time tracker, minimal metronome and jobs website. BTW: he didn't get 5 users for min
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by kjksf 5y ago
There's a difference between a mentor and a coach: coach gets paid. Thanks to magic of internet, you can find programming coaches for relatively cheap: https://codingcoach.io/ https://www.codementor.io/
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by kjksf 5y ago
> if it did we wouldn't need to subsidize renewables According to IMF report, in 2020 fossil fuel industries received $5.9 trillion in direct and indirect subsidies. Not a typo. $5.9 TRILLION You're partially right: we wouldn&#
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by kjksf 5y ago
Constructive criticism: change the name before it's too late. The immovable rule for good names is: they should be easy to pronounce and easy to type if you hear it from someone else. Obsidian is a good name. Workflowy is a good name.
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by kjksf 5y ago
Can you quantify the improvements for us? As far as I know the specs for Waymo's 5th generation lidar are not publicly available. Can you link to them? How much work did you do with Waymo's 5th generation lidar? Or any lidar for t
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by kjksf 5y ago
So you know that you don't have equivalent data for Tesla but that doesn't stop you from claiming that Waymo is better than Tesla? Based on data that neither you nor anyone else have?
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by kjksf 5y ago
https://30x500.com/academy/ It's online course that teaches (or at least tries to teach) how to come up with ideas for products by getting better at spotting problems.
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by kjksf 5y ago
This is not what it is. It's a regular insurance. Tesla isn't taking liability any more than Geico does. When robotaxis happen, regardless of who makes them, the maker and/or operator will be liable for accidents. There will
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by kjksf 5y ago
I'm a solo dev. I write all my backend code in Go (used Python before Go existed) because I can deploy Go executable on the cheapest render.com server and it runs using fraction of the available resources (~50 MB out of 512 MB availabl
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by kjksf 5y ago
Just to start, as of today Tesla is Panasonic's only automotive client. Panasonic talked recently about the need to get more auto clients for their cells but so far it's been just talk. As to your dismissive "galaxy brains at
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by kjksf 5y ago
Alternatively, maybe just like SpaceX has faster development cycle AND greater safety and reliability of rockets, Tesla has faster development cycle AND greater safety and reliability of cars? Judging by the number of recalls, Tesla doesn&#

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