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by marvin 6y ago
Everyone assumes that cheap and reliable electric drivetrains and battery packs will shortly be a commodity, available to anyone in the 100 TWh/year volumes that are required to cover the world's road transportation needs. I'
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by marvin 6y ago
Oh, you can do it privately instead. Costs $500 or so, but there's as much choice as the market allows for. My description was how it's normally done in the public system.
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by marvin 6y ago
I've done the nose variety. Triggered my gag reflex like there was no tomorrow. Sounds like you are different, thankfully :)
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by marvin 6y ago
You don't want to string together a homemade pack of 18650 cells and put them in the wing of an aircraft, or anywhere else a fire will be particularly dangerous. My point is, I'm sure there's a market for modular battery pack
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by marvin 6y ago
Slightly off topic, but I wish some company with capability in volume production of battery packs would develop a modular system of safe, reliable, light and economical battery packs. There's so much potential for various products that
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by marvin 6y ago
Meanwhile, up here in Norway you have to beg and grovel and almost pretend to have a panic attack in order to get a one-off benzodiazepine-based IV sedative while taking a gastroscope down your throat. An acquaintance of mine with Down&#x27
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by marvin 6y ago
The irony is that some of them will go bankrupt because they're unable to compete once electric vehicles become the obviously best option. So no more credits maybe, but also less competition.
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by marvin 6y ago
Well, even accepting that premise, there's the small matter of the ~$500 million share issue constituting Musk's milestone payment. This drags the profit down a bit. Surely they won't repeat a payment like that every quarte
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by marvin 6y ago
For comparison, the highest marginal income tax bracket in Norway is 46.4%, which applies from $100,000 per year. On top of this is 25% VAT on all purchases, 32% capital gains tax and 0.85% of net worth (with conplex deductions; 75% for pri
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by marvin 6y ago
Covid-19 is perfectly evolutionarily adapted to fit into this gap. Its divisive ability has practically been evolutionarily selected for.
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by marvin 6y ago
Your points on nuclear brinkmanship are good. It's an absolutely horrible prospect. But what do you suggest as an alternative? Standing by and doing nothing is certainly not my preferred option. If the premise is that the export of tyr
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by marvin 6y ago
>And yet the VW ID.3 is set to overtake the Model 3 in models sold in Norway You're linking to a graph that shows 2020 deliveries, not cumulative deliveries. Also, this is comparing a car that's been on the market for a year an
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by marvin 6y ago
A follow-up, which was less obvious to me than it should have been: Are we sure that central bankers really want CPI inflation, when they choose not to use such an obvious path to it?
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by marvin 6y ago
To get CPI up, why don't they just deposit money straight into ordinary people's bank accounts? I think that would do the trick.
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by marvin 6y ago
There is zero evidence for that, in spite of the US government putting a large team of investigators to work trying to find an example of just this.
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by marvin 6y ago
They should care about the precedent. This is really about freedom of the press. A guy that’s universally disliked is the perfect subject for sliding the authoritarian ratchet.
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by marvin 6y ago
Maybe Apple pays for showing good guys with iphones, but not bad guys.
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by marvin 6y ago
Can you expand on this?
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by marvin 6y ago
Someone else can probably answer if Robinhood allows you to sell options short, but if you do, you can lose more than your initial purchase/deposit if the price moves faster than Robinhood can forcibly liquidate your position. You wou
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by marvin 6y ago
So sorry to hear that.
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by marvin 6y ago
They don't compare to the 3 and Y in price, though. Or even in range, the most basic technical specification. While at the same time being much closer in other performance measures than the price difference should imply. So I'd sa
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by marvin 6y ago
As of yet, though, mainstream brands are nowhere close to Tesla when it comes to performance. And the UX of their cars is so different from mainstream brands that it feels like a unique experience you could easily define as luxury. This m
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by marvin 6y ago
Well, someone will during the next decade have to make an absolutely ridiculous amount of batteries. Imagine what kind of profit margin those folks would get on free electricity!
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by marvin 6y ago
I could be mistaken and/or have an incomplete picture based on my relatives' experiences of running a small business in France. My impression was that an amount corresponding to the total salary of their employees was required in
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by marvin 6y ago
The reason EU companies don't pay US tech salaries is that there aren't enough super profitable companies, and also, related, that the most profitable companies don't properly have to compete for the best engineers. I think w
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by marvin 6y ago
That statement is a textbook example of a domination strategy, and nothing else. People will lie through their teeth over money.
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by marvin 6y ago
OpenAI's board of directors, I'd say. Becoming a subsidiary to Microsoft compromises their mission.
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by marvin 6y ago
Huh. I wasn't aware of the conspiracy theory association around the idea of intelligence interference in media. I was just mentioning what appears to be the simplest explanation, in the light of Snowden's intelligence revelations.
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by marvin 6y ago
Of course it isn't innocent. That doesn't even measure up to Occam's Razor, let alone some critical thought. There's political and intelligence participation clearly visible just beneath the surface every step of the way
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by marvin 6y ago
Soaring birds get most of their energy from currents of rising air, not flapping their wings. So it’s plausible it did a lot of soaring over land, assuming it could get in the air under its own power. Human-built gliders can fly thousands o

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