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by kjksf 8y ago
One possibility: because when those projects are awarded in U.S. to the usual suspects, the projects start with exorbitant costs and decade-long timelines and then the price goes up and timeline slips by years. See for example California Hi
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by kjksf 8y ago
GM just had their annual meeting for shareholders. They said they'll increase production of Bolt but refused to say by how much and by when. In contrast, Tesla lays out their future plans months, sometimes years in advance. Tone aside,
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by kjksf 8y ago
How does employer's inability to fire for sub-par performance leads to better work from employees? Who is this magical employer that exhibits those contradictory traits: * super harsh, fires workers for sneezing * doesn't fire wor
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by kjksf 8y ago
Really bad analogy. A lawyer that you hired and pay for represents your interest 100%. A union rep represents union interest first and then your interest. But if union interest is at odd with your interest, you loose 100%. For example when
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by kjksf 8y ago
The success/popularity/profitability of your projects doesn't depend on that. It doesn't matter. What does matter? Find product/market fit. Execute well (build a high quality implementation of your idea). Promote it
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by kjksf 8y ago
His assertion was that it's 100x harder to drive in Detroit during winter than in Phoenix. Is that absolutely correct? I don't dispute that Phoenix is easier to drive than San Francisco or Detroit during winter. It's perfectl
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by kjksf 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona "Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona. With 1,626,078 people (as of 2017), Phoenix is the fifth most populous city nationwide&qu
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by kjksf 8y ago
What is definition of "mass"? Waymo almost certainly will launch this year a fully self driving service, accessible to anyone, "within parts of the Phoenix metropolitan area, including Chandler, Tempe, Mesa and Gilbert"
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by kjksf 8y ago
One possibility: that mindset of mediocrity doesn't produce excellence. Apple, for example, is famous for caring about things that rationally they shouldn't care, like the insides of their computers. And since history is written b
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by kjksf 8y ago
There are some on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVCCroN7vS0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lfxPI5ObM And one with more than just factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA18tu
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by kjksf 8y ago
In May 2018 in US ( https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/ ): Tesla doubled the sales of Model 3 from LAST MONTH, maintaining their position as US best selling fully electric car. Second and third best se
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by kjksf 8y ago
Founders apparently got 50%. GitHub had 2 funding events. https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/github-series-b--49... $250M at pre-money valuation of $1.8B i.e. 13%. https://www.crunchbase.com/fundi
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by kjksf 8y ago
According to Glassdoor, average programmer salary at GitHub is $150k. That's hardly peanuts. Bay Area overflows with job opportunities. If those talented people would rather get a risk-free work at Google/Facebook/Microsoft f
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by kjksf 8y ago
The current CEO doesn't want to be a CEO. GitHub has been looking for a new CEO for the past few months.
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by kjksf 8y ago
That and working 60hr a week for a decade or two.
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by kjksf 8y ago
We need to do both and generation side doesn't need help. Coal plants (the most polluting) are shutting down and being replaced by natural gas, wind and solar simply due to cost of wind and solar dropping rapidly. Those costs will cont
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by kjksf 8y ago
I did similar calculations but using a different methodology. Cheapest ZipCar is $8/hr and has the same cost structure (i.e. ZipCar also pays for car, insurance, gas, maintenance etc.). So let's generously assume it's $10&#x2
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by kjksf 8y ago
vgo is exactly in the spirit of Go: they took a popular mechanism and simplified it. vgo works 90% like other systems with one major simplification: it replaces a complicated system of declaring version dependencies which requires SAT solve
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by kjksf 8y ago
This question has been asked a thousand times. On reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/search?q=how+to+validate+i... On IndieHackers: * go to https://www.indiehackers.com/ * click the search
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by kjksf 8y ago
In this case it's much more likely shoddy journalism than those jobs being dangerous. The author says things that sound factual ("Accidents, injuries and deaths are also commonplace") based on zero evidence ("with union
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by kjksf 9y ago
Negotiations are not about what's fair but about BATNA ( https://simplicable.com/new/batna ) i.e. Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement. Can you get a better offer elsewhere? If yes, then you have no reason to
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by kjksf 9y ago
Obviously not because GM makes overall profit. It's based on media reports like https://electrek.co/2016/11/30/gm-chevy-bolt-ev-loss-before-... and http://gmauthority.com/blog/2017&#
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by kjksf 9y ago
What is not true? The nature of shorting is that you make money only when stock drops significantly in a short period of time. If stock is flat, you loose your money. All of it. If stock drops less than premium you paid for the option, you
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by kjksf 9y ago
If such a site existed, how would you keep improvised tech-savvy teenagers from Bangladesh from joining it? If you manged to keep teenagers from Bangladesh from such a site, why would anyone go there to overpay for fat, lazy, entitled weste
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by kjksf 9y ago
> As a developer or web designer what provides the most value? The question is: who is likely to pay? Individuals really don't like to pay. Companies don't mind paying. Therefore charge per user because multi-user is almost cer
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by kjksf 9y ago
A client that doesn't know what he wants is a bad client. Those kinds of people often have unrealistic expectations like "I want a website like Facebook for $500". Don't work for such people. That leaves people who do kn
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by kjksf 9y ago
> Bolt is reasonably comparable to the Model 3 Not as judged by buyers. According to https://insideevs.com/february-2018-plug-electric-vehicle-sa... Model 3 is already outselling Bolt (in February 2.5k vs. 1.5k) Model 3
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by kjksf 9y ago
I'm not saying there was conspiracy but there was complacency. The reasoning "batteries are expensive" is circular. As Musk said, technology doesn't advance as a function of time but as a function of R&D investment.
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by kjksf 9y ago
If you believed in principles of free market you wouldn't start by explaining how bad it is for person X that their investment dropped in value. They made a bet, they lost it. Someone else made a different bet and won. That's how
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by kjksf 9y ago
Let's also set limits on how much milk farmers can make. Producing enough milk to fully satisfy demand only helps farmers.

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