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by kjksf 6y ago
US sales of Nissan Leaf in 2016 was 14k. In 2019 it was 12k. If Nissan Leaf was sold out in U.S. it's only because Nissan decided not to make enough of them. Or they made exactly the very small amount that people were willing to buy. B
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by kjksf 6y ago
Non competes are a different thing than IP assignment. Non competes prevent an employer to forbid you to work for competitor after you leave (or they fire you). Non competes are non enforceable in CA. IP assignments (i.e. "what you do
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by kjksf 6y ago
It's a nice rant but you clearly don't care about most of the things you complain about. You're moving to SF. Everything you complain about is worse in SF and there are even more problems like (still) insane real estate price
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by kjksf 6y ago
Because engineering is about trade offs. Why isn't every car body made from carbon fiber? It's lighter and sturdier that alternatives. It's also more expensive so you can put it in $60k car but not in $25k car. Radar and ultr
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by kjksf 6y ago
Here's a Tesla 2020 Q3 investor update https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/4E7BR9_TSLA_Q3_2020_Updat... The numbers: - increased service locations 12% YoY - increased mobile service fleet 8% YoY - increased superch
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by kjksf 6y ago
You can watch videos on YouTube of FSD beta doing very complex things. It's clearly order of magnitude more advanced and capable than pre-FSD AutoPilot. Calling anyone who disagrees with you a "fanboy/apologist" does the
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by kjksf 6y ago
The guy you're quoting gets his information from spelunking in Tesla firmware. He's not a dev on AutoPilot team. It's well documented that FSD is a architectural rewrite of the code. Pre-FSD the input to NN were individual st
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by kjksf 6y ago
It's the same people but FSD was a rewrite of the system. The rewrite was to do image recognition and inference not from individual still images (pre-FSD) but from video feed from all cameras. This was enabled by the FSD chip Tesla sta
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by kjksf 6y ago
The argument would be: the car saw something you didn't. I'm not saying that's what happened, just that it could have happened and therefore would be an explanation.
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by kjksf 6y ago
For situations like this add "for $10k you get a commercial license". (Pick whatever price you think is right). Put that in your readme for visibility. If they are paying lawyers $500/hr to review licenses for peace of mind,
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by kjksf 6y ago
"frothy fed money" doesn't explain anything because it doesn't seem to flow to companies that are other than Tesla. And you're mis-representing what Musk says or thinks. He tweeted, once, "the stock price is to
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by kjksf 6y ago
What you failed to mention is that in the preceding 4 years the stock price was flat despite Tesla growing revenues 50% a year and improving every other business metric. What really happen was: for several years Tesla was executing very wel
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by kjksf 6y ago
It's not a story. Tesla has been growing revenues 50% on average for the past 10 years. Most other car makers are roughly flat. This year ICE cars, globally, are in decline. Tesla will grow 50% on average for at least next 5 years. Als
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by kjksf 6y ago
EV cars will be 95% of all cars sold within 20 years. Most likely much faster. Lack of early, large and decisive investment in EV shows a stunning lack of foresight from all ICE car CEOs. Suicide by inaction. 18% is more market share than t
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by kjksf 6y ago
Toyota shipped "ICE engine powered cars, supplemented by a tiny electric battery". When they did fully electric RAV4 EV, they got the batteries from, wait for it, Tesla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RA
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by kjksf 6y ago
At this point you might not be able to short profitably but there was plenty of opportunity even with relatively high borrow costs (~8% currently). You just need to do it at the right time, before the market prices in the obvious fraud. I n
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by kjksf 6y ago
Wow. You make a lot of generalization about a large number of people. I don't know how much luck plays role in success. I do know that people who see other's people success as luck tend to be not lucky. "Opportunity is missed
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by kjksf 6y ago
He wasn't given anything. Winchell was (and is) a business, not a charity. The article lacks details but Ockham's Razor dictates that the most plausible was that Winchell and he entered into a business arrangement where he was run
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by kjksf 6y ago
He wasn't gifted anything. The article is loosely worded but what happened was that first he invested 3 months of his time (while holding other jobs to support himself) into Winchell's training program. Winchell is a franchise of
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by kjksf 6y ago
The article we're discussing is about a non-white Asian immigrant becoming a millionaire in U.S. by opening donut shops. He also helped a hundred+ other non-white, Asian immigrants to become small business owners. And if you ever worke
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by kjksf 6y ago
The guy who wrote it is not an American and it's a fact that e.g. opening a business in U.S. is easier and cheaper than in most other countries.
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by kjksf 6y ago
Step 3: LambdaSchool stops working with your company.
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by kjksf 6y ago
Q: What kind of reasonable person would spend 4 YEARS doing work and PAYING between $10k - $35k a year (on average) for the privilege of doing so? And get 0 support for finding a job afterwards? A: US college student. Keep that in mind when
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by kjksf 6y ago
A few counterpoints. You don't need 350 miles of range, especially in England, which is 200 miles coast-to-coast. Average yearly mileage in UK is 9.2 k miles, which is 766 miles per month which is 2.1 full charges at 350 miles. Current
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by kjksf 6y ago
And yet we manage to build skyscrapers. Almost as if in the last 100 years we mastered the art of generating more electricity, laying out high voltage cables and constructing enough electrical substations to meet the demand, whatever that d
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by kjksf 6y ago
If charging is as much of a hassle as you claim then hybrids would be the worst of both worlds: you would get under-powered ICE car with a small and yet unnecessary batter that would never be charged because, as you just described, charging
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by kjksf 6y ago
The claims are plenty substantiated. I wrote a lot of C# and a lot of Go. C# has so much more ceremony that it is more verbose and it shows even in the code we're discussing. You just have to be willing to look. Fair comparison between
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by kjksf 6y ago
We went form "Go is 50x more lines of code than C#" to "C# code is not that bigger than Go". The OP was dramatically wrong about Go being more verbose than C# when the exact opposite is true. Go has support for assembly
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by kjksf 6y ago
Alternatively, we could do apples-to-apples comparison of the benchmarks. Go and C# are so similar that for benchmarks you can transliterate one into the other. We should be comparing programs that are comparable. My point is that Benchmark
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by kjksf 6y ago
Go is faster than .NET and the code is shorter. On average, results may vary. I looked at the benchmarks. In cases where .NET is faster it's because the C# version is optimized using unsafe code and x86-specific (i.e. non-portable) AVX

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