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by kylecordes 4y ago
I don’t think that’s necessarily the driver here though, from reading the linked article and others. Rather the dynamic is that these railroads have incredibly dispersed ownership, almost entirely by purely financial owners. Management has
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by kylecordes 4y ago
As I understand, the problem here is that any railroad that behaves reasonably here, will be punished by the markets, and the management that made the decision will likely be replaced. The solution, as others have pointed out, is that this
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by kylecordes 4y ago
On anything vaguely Elon related I've learned to ignore high-frequency reporting. It's all about creating instant disgust. Who knows what we we'll eventually find out; my guess is that it's more likely everyone gets simi
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I wonder if this is reported by Twitter (officially or "leaked"), vs yet another estimate that could be wildly off.
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Apparently Model 3 has a low total cost of ownership/operation per mile - i.e., popular for Uber for the same reason a Prius is popular for Uber.
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Probably Musk’s way of running Twitter will need to stabilize to a reasonably predictable long-term state, before it is feasible to spin up the council idea - if he even still wants to do the council idea.
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Hyundai/Kia seems to be doing a great job with their electric cars, in terms of design, fast charging, etc. But it appears they are only selling them in a few states, and in pretty small quantities. With dealer markup problems in some
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I think this was more common many years ago, when it was difficult to make a reasonably reliable and efficient heating/cooling system, particularly the small scale. Modern HVAC systems can be very efficient, use minimal materials, and
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by kylecordes 4y ago
As a casual observer, it appears that he moves very, very quickly. An insider might have read his mind yesterday but not be familiar with his current plan being executed today. Of course this can lead to big results in some cases and errati
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I really wanted to like the Remarkable. I saw people using them at a couple of conferences the idea seems so great. So I tried it. Twice, for a couple weeks each. Had a couple of other people borrow in between and try it. We all reached the
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by kylecordes 4y ago
The usual FSD complaint is that Tesla has been offering it for years, at ascending prices, without any date-certain of delivering it (just tweets predicting it), without refunding it when not delivered after X years. I can easily imagine an
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I wonder if providers like this could offer an option to pay some chunk of money that would cover the cost of a thorough background check and human review of all aspects of your business. They would then be able to trust you enough to not f
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by kylecordes 4y ago
240 at 20A is sufficient for an overnight charge for nearly all uses of EV cars and SUVs. So even less impact. Also a device is available that shares the EV circuit with a dryer circuit; set your car to start charging very late at night whe
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by kylecordes 4y ago
The migration to electric vehicles will happen, and must happen, over a couple of decades - and likely more time after that for heavy-duty use cases. And that assumes a lot of infrastructure investment along the way. Trying to go faster wil
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by kylecordes 4y ago
The connection between the concepts is: if your multi-tenant strategy is to deploy (hopefully only while in active use) an instance per customer, then the additional effort to provide on-site installations is relatively low, compared to oth
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Yes certainly, this approach to multi-tenancy is not well-suited for apps that will support a large number of active free users. The idea is to only allocate a running instance while there is at least one active user of that instance. So fo
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by kylecordes 4y ago
The sync pricing is frustrating. You can choose between free (single device only), and surprisingly expensive for a low-volume file sync mechanism. Of course I understand there are good reasons for it. It is so difficult to find a paying cu
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by kylecordes 4y ago
A related and also very useful usage pattern: "backend instance per customer". Because… There are many ways to implement multi-tenant SaaS; but a highly underrated approach is to write a single tenant app, then use infrastructure
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I would be concerned to pay Google in this way. There are a lot of discussions including on this site about how Google's AI bot is prone to banning accounts, and then it is difficult or impossible to reach a knowledgeable and empowered
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by kylecordes 4y ago
This is a good explanation of the difference between two things, and how one can try to communicate intention between them. I've noticed though, that some percentage of people disagree that there is a difference; and don't have a
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Anecdotally, the sites I go back to frequently are those that have new stuff on them frequently. Examples include… Hacker News. News sites. Twitter. Of course, having a lot of new relevant stuff every day requires either social use at scale
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I also use Enterprise, though they are not wholly without errors of course. A few years ago I had an Enterprise rental car in Hawaii. Mid-rental, I got a phone call from a concerned Enterprise manager in Pennsylvania. Trying to figure out t
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Even when I suspect it will be more expensive, I take it because I know it won't turn out that the credit card machine is inexplicably "broken" again. Want to really hurt Uber? Tighten taxi regulations so that a taxi may not
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I am not a pilot, not even a little bit; But I was under the impression that pilot training has a lot of attention on recovery from a stall or spin, and unless at low altitude, those are generally recoverable (in a small aircraft). Would lo
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by kylecordes 4y ago
Looking at our industry as a whole, it appears that making yet another of some proven good, profitable, popular category is a pretty decent strategy. (I too am inclined, when someone is making a new thing, to wonder… But a quick search find
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by kylecordes 4y ago
It was probably the first TLD they found where their company name was available.
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by kylecordes 4y ago
= Actually making engines?
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by kylecordes 4y ago
https://savvycal.com/ has this feature.
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by kylecordes 4y ago
I agree with you, but Google also faces a perhaps impossible problem of how to detect good content on YouTube. They can look at how long people watch; but that ends up rewarding rambling pointless blather when a concise two minute video wou
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by kylecordes 4y ago
AI content writing tools are now staggeringly good at producing a huge volume of pointless text, for incrementally $0.00 per word - previously the nonzero cost per word of hiring the lowest-cost writer available, was at least a little bit o

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