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by marvin 6y ago
I greatly enjoyed this article, not necessarily for what it says, but for what it doesn't. It has an ideological undercurrent that probably doesn't represent either the views of Banks, Musk or Bezos; rather, the author attempts
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Blindsight and Echopraxia are absolutely brilliant accounts of "what happens when you meet someone who is dramatically smarter than yourself". I'm glad someone on HN recommended them to me.
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You must have a special relationship with pain if you'd actually have gone through hitting yourself with a hammer before reading Use of Weapons in its entirety, and finding the former more pleasant. I'd just have stopped reading
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I've treated Facebook like that for years now, reinforced by the occasional observation that it's a bad idea not to. Even discussing the academic evidence for face mask efficacy was a bit of a minefield back in March of last year.
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Well, my point was that public charging demand per EV will be much lower than fuelling demand per fossil car, which obviously affects the number of minutes per week each vehicle has to spend at the gas station/recharging station, and h
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I’m pretty confident that this will work itself out, but you see the problem very clearly in Norway already. Non-Tesla charging stations are much more expensive per kWh due to this, reducing the cost-of-ownership advantage of EVs vs. fossil
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Forgetting to plug in is like forgetting to bring your keys. It becomes second nature pretty fast. You always do it after you park, unless you do 20 errands a day or something. It takes five seconds.
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The biggest problem is peak power. The naïve approach is to try to pull 500kW from the grid during the 20 minutes that you have five cars charging, then zero once they leave. This will at best be very expensive, but most likely impossible a
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This line of reasoning is incorrect. Unlike fossil refuelling, the vast majority of EV charging happens at home. This charging does not load public charging stations at all. Unless your needs are esoteric, you might only charge at a public
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It’s not just that. The distribution models also discriminates against small bands. If the four bands I’ve listened to in December received 70% of my Spotify subscription payment, this would be much less of a problem.
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This is a comforting and sensible stance, which is useful for most people and most situations. But you can't rule out the possibility that a few people, who happen to be positioned exactly right at a particular point in time, correctly
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Or maybe a middle that's not dominated by dogma or ideologies. There's many pieces of truth located pretty far from the center of various political ideologies, but the ideologies taken as a whole also contain a stunning amount of
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2014 version here. It looks like someone ran over it with a forklift after I sent it as checked luggage once (they probably did just that), but I won't upgrade to a Mac unless they're able to make them compelling again.
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Thank heavens there's at least one other person in here who gets the principle of the discussion :)
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You can activate the wipers for one-time spraying and wiping from the stalk, and you can select wiper speed by voice command. If none of those options are suitable, it's the touchscreen.
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Maybe it's too obvious to point out, but Apple, in which Jobs pioneered the Reality Distortion Field, is now among the very most profitable companies in the world. The term was originally used in either awe or derision depending on the
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I'm almost certain that a sufficient requirement for making it stick would be the existence of in-demand, legal/gray area (and objectionable) web content that is excluded from "legacy DNS", as the article's author p
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We're inching closer to realizing the "reductio ad absurdum" of censorship. Someone actually got censored, and took "well, if you don't like how the DNS does things, you can just make your own!" as a literal ch
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Of course, all of these cars are chock full of computers, speakers and monitors, but none of them ever tell you what's wrong in a more intelligible way than wild screeching. I spent half an hour outside in the cold at 2am with a borrow
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You'd expect to see at least a billion dollar exit once in a while. But this is very rare. Kahoot is the only one I'm aware of. Most startups in Norway are sold off before they cross the $20 million mark.
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Part of the story is that the 3% annual income from the Pension Fund (oil fund) covers approximately 17% of the national budget. These numbers couldn't work otherwise. This is, of course, thanks to the incredible lucky foresight that l
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by marvin 6y ago
For reference, in case someone is curious: If you look at the working-age population of Norway, approximately 1/3 are on welfare benefits, 1/3 work in the public sector and 1/3 work in the private sector. It stands to reason
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Just a side note, both fish and oil are relatively high-tech sectors in Norway. Oil due to harsh weather and rough offshore geography, and fish through factory ships and clever farming. But they’re both closer to pure resource exports than
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The Nordics have taken a special role in the global economic system: Almost all of the large companies are in some sense high tech. The economies are also quite heterogenous. Norway is probably the least good example example, due to the rel
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The Internet is like we've suddenly invented sugar, alcohol or firearms, without any of the societal tools to limit its damage. Laws, norms, defense forces, taboos. It's really something straight out of singularity-related philoso
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True, unlimited freedom in this sense inevitably means the ethically very worst use cases, because this is the limit of freedom in any society: Material that is illegal and will have the authorities use all reasonable efforts to stop its sp
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I had to move four pages into the comment thread to find this salient point. Once obvious infrastructure providers talk of getting involved in censorship, things get scary.
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You can get an arbitrarily high P/E ratio if you're running a growth company that aggressively reinvests. It's a meaningless metric in this context. Look at gross margin and price to revenue instead. Tesla is still richly p
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Such an advantage could be well-integrated self-driving capability, assuming they can make it work. Everyone seems to be assuming that this will be a commodity, but it might be very hard to achieve. If e.g. only two companies in the world a
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Oh, it wasn't meant to be confrontational towards you. Sorry that that's how it came across. If it ended up sounding a bit harsh, my annoyance was directed towards the legal system. It's just - I do have a bit of a problem

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