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by llsf 7y ago
Does anyone know if European SEPA actually overlap with Plaid here ? Was SEPA supposed to "commoditize" the whole "grant access to my bank account to 3rdparty" ?
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by llsf 7y ago
Or like my parents, use a well's water (not potable) for their toilets. That required a small dedicated tank, a small pump to a well, and dedicated pipes for the toilets. Potable water is for all other needs (sink, shower, etc).
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by llsf 7y ago
There are still some black sand and naturally formed asphalt crust, in Brittany's beaches in France... 40 years after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco_Cadiz_oil_spill . It is virtually impossible to clean oil sp
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by llsf 7y ago
My husband is an Optometrist, and it did not do LASIK for his own eyes. Actually, I do not think I know one Optometrist in our circle of friends who did LASIK. They pretty much all wear either contact or glasses. It does not seem like we
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by llsf 7y ago
France produces much of its electricity from nuclear. It used to be 75%, but it is less now with renewable coming online. I guess France did a good job at educating/brainwashing its citizen because they do not worry much about their n
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by llsf 7y ago
This is awful. Privacy should be a fundamental right. But I cannot help thinking of my younger self, toying with that Gaggle AI :) I mean as a teenager (old enough here to have been through the "no-future" 80's) me and my f
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by llsf 7y ago
Anecdote: My grandma retired in her 60's, she is now 102. She used to own a bar, in France (you can imagine the secondhand smoke, back in the 60-70's). She is mentally sharp, although the last couple of years, she is napping mo
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by llsf 7y ago
Yes, I agree Tesla might have spent money on non essential (more video games), or at least non-trivial return (self driving custom designed chip). But Tesla did acquire Grohmann (automation), which is kind of boring stuff like better facto
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by llsf 7y ago
The Chinese Gigafactory cost $5B and should eventually produce 500,000 cars (less than 10,000 a week like its counterpart in US). If it takes 5 years to wear out, then Tesla would have to make ~$2k per car produced to pay the factory. I am
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by llsf 7y ago
Looking at it, it is revenue, gross profit and net income are all increasing by double digit percentage, every year. Still Tesla is spending a lot more, but less every year compare to the revenue. They are expanding quite quickly (new fact
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by llsf 7y ago
But is the size of the market growing even faster ? Tesla is making money on each car sold. But you are right, they do invest a lot in R&D and factory expansion (e.g. new factory in China starting this month to produce model 3 cars). I
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by llsf 7y ago
I did drilling :) worked fine if I recall correctly. You had to spin fast, so it does not crack open the case. Memories indeed...
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by llsf 7y ago
But would just the 3 US credit report companies would go bankrupt if the judicial system was doing its job ? I agree that the government should not rate credit worthiness. But we need a trusted third party that tracks your credit history (j
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by llsf 7y ago
To be fair, the old guard probably did the same before (post 2nd world war). Lucent (US), Nortel (Canada), Siemens (Germany), Alcatel (France) were all too happy to put their equipments in South America, Asia and Africa. It is a fair game
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by llsf 7y ago
I guess we agree that electric car is not the problem, education is. So, let's the 0.2% of them buy electric cars. And let's find a way to get rid of all large (fossil fuel powered) ships/planes and coal/gas power plants
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by llsf 7y ago
So the problem is the "hype" around electric cars, not the electric car itself. Nobody said "buy an electric car, and you are done, the planet would be saved". And if some people do believe that, then it is an education
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by llsf 7y ago
I am wondering what resolution they work with. Because earth crust is moving continuously, and sometimes suddenly like 6 feet at once: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-22/ridgecre... I like
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by llsf 7y ago
Because who makes the telcos equipments (MSC, HLR, BSC, etc.) can spy a lot and at large scale. There is a concern of allowing Huawei equipments in telco operator networks.
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by llsf 7y ago
I am not sure if the self-driving software weights scenarios based on casualties. It should just follow what it has been trained for... mimicking human driving that have been labelled as correct. To go back to your 1st scenario, as a human
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by llsf 7y ago
Should each vehicle be autonomous and make its own decision based on the data that it can capture around (light/sound i.e. radio waves) and possibly open trusted data (maps, traffic, weather, etc.) rather than being dumb and follow a c
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by llsf 7y ago
This would have been great when I arrived in US with zero credit history. While I did get secured card from the bank, it took for ever to get a line of credit of more than $500/month. The "monitor/improve your credit score&q
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by llsf 7y ago
If you bought a house for $150,000 at 15% in early 80's, you likely refinanced as the interest rate continuously dropped from there. In 90's interest rate was below 10%, and around 7% in early 00's. Nobody would keep the 15
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by llsf 8y ago
One could argue that the invention of the wheel is actually automation. Instead of carrying goods on your back down to the river, now put it in a cart, and kick it to roll downhill... It is possibly the most basic automation, it does free
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by llsf 8y ago
My understanding is that Tesla short sellers are more visible because of the amount of money betting against Tesla. With an estimated ~$11B of short position ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/04&#
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by llsf 8y ago
The share price is below some highs, but still... talking about memory, the stock was ~$35 5 years ago, and now trading at ~$300. Yes, some stocks did better during that time, but it is not that bad.
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by llsf 8y ago
Does anybody know if there are long term studies about the effect on health, of drinking milk? I have been drinking a gallon of full fat milk every five days, for 40 years (yes, that is about 3,000 gallons of milk). I am kinda wondering if
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by llsf 8y ago
SF needs more multifamily homes (apartment buildings). Now, I can see how SB827 could have scared lots of people, like in SF. If SB827 had passed, I am sure some SF neighborhoods and cities in the Bay, would have either defund existing or
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by llsf 8y ago
That is not true. The very first Tesla had little that Tesla bothered to repair, and so for any major repair, Tesla would tell the insurance that the car was totaled. Which was a boon for people who salvage them. A friend salvaged a 85 th
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by llsf 9y ago
Not sure why you mentioned Platinum Jet Services lying to NTSB. Tesla did not lye. Tesla just want to communicate publicly regardless of the NTSB schedule. Tesla should not be bound by the NTSB agreement, it is a good thing that they got
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by llsf 9y ago
That is why I run my "vintage" MacBook pro without a battery (first unibody, with swappable battery), always plugged in. It works for me as it stays stationary at home. If I need to unplug for any reason, I close the lid and mac

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