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by mcot2 6y ago
The only parallel is how a Mob boss speaks.
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by mcot2 6y ago
It clearly states in the article they are not looking for better pay for fulltime staff. The things mentioned are the contractors/vendors, huge severence payments for sexual harrasement and unethical government contracts.
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by mcot2 6y ago
There are a lot of amazing concepts that Toyota developed. It requires a lot of discipline, focus and commitment to implement properly. One thing I didn’t see mentioned that Tesla is currently doing is a very strong relationship between des
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by mcot2 6y ago
And IMHO we are extremely close. There is lots of evidence that AI can be much _better_ than a human driver, although currently on things like well mapped highway driving with clear conditions. Whats going on now is just making that general
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by mcot2 6y ago
We can eventually make AI do any of that better than a human by a long shot. We tend to overestimate the power of the human brain. There is a lot we don’t know yet, but we shouldn’t treat it as magic and unsolvable by AI.
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by mcot2 6y ago
BMW is on their way out. They have really lost their way. This is what happens when you move away from focusing on the product/craftsmanship and let bean counters in control.
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by mcot2 6y ago
Different take here. I think they should stick to the computer/operating system of a car and either take a large stake in an existing automaker or license the technology to several of them. Actually _making_ cars is doomed to be a fail
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by mcot2 6y ago
Had to laugh at your comment about Scotland because people in Maine do the same thing. Heat is either blasting or turned off. Very poor insulation.
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by mcot2 6y ago
One of the slides mentioned that the air is limited to 10watts though. I wonder if it does have the same soc but its nerfed beyond 10watts.
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by mcot2 6y ago
I agree with everyone here. Get a brother laser printer. I have bought 3 of them between myself and my family and have never looked back.
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by mcot2 6y ago
Thank you for this comment. It matches quite closely with my thinking on the issue. A generic term like “tech debt” is lazy and does not capture anything about the business value or decision making process that led to the code or would lead
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by mcot2 6y ago
I’m happy to report that this may be fixed going forward. Tesla and I think most EV’s will not let you in drive while plugged in.
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by mcot2 6y ago
Yes, EV’s have fewer parts so the actual building of an EV should be easier than ICE in a general sense. That doesn’t automatically mean that legacy auto can build EVs better and more profitable than Tesla can. In fact the switching costs
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by mcot2 6y ago
Except for T-Mobile which is using both 600MHz and 2.5GHz spectrum for 5G. The 2.5 spectrum aquired when they bought Sprint has just the right balance of bandwidth (300Mbps avg) and ability to penetrate walls and travel large distances. The
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by mcot2 6y ago
The answer is so obvious it doesn’t require this pedantic exercise.
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by mcot2 6y ago
Multiple tabs/browser windows is similar and generally not an issue.
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by mcot2 6y ago
Lead Acid is pretty old tech. My car (Tesla Model 3) has a roughly 75kWh lithium-ion battery. Even with AC and/or a heat pump, that battery could run a rather large home for more than a day on it’s own. Their powerwall home battery is
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by mcot2 6y ago
It works extremely well in some areas but it’s not widely available in all areas. One possible solution to that is ultra high voltage dc transmission lines. Hydro Quebec is currently in the process of building one to connect Canada to the N
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by mcot2 6y ago
Debatable if Nuclear is even required. Nuclear is fantastic for baseload but the economics are currently terrible mostly due to uncertainty in regulation and spiraling decommissioning and cleanup costs. We need much more investment in reac
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by mcot2 6y ago
Yes exactly. Going further than that they may even choose a lower density for cost reasons. Elon responded to me about this when I tweeted him about LFP which have worse density but a lower cost, better thermals and safety. In China they a
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by mcot2 6y ago
Well I am also a retail investor that just made 10x my money with Tesla by understanding the numbers and using the product.
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by mcot2 6y ago
To go even further I think you want to have tests or simulations with specific air resistance as the drag is actually what causes range loss at higher speeds more than anything else. As an example driving 45mph into a strong headwind is als
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by mcot2 6y ago
This is the best interview I have seen with Peter Rawlinson which will address most of your questions. He was a chief engineer at Lotus and also at Tesla for the Model S and he is now CEO of Lucid. He is the real deal. https://y
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by mcot2 6y ago
The number of kWh of a pack is kind of a meaningless number for comparisons. A larger pack may actually be worse as it adds weight. They key numbers I want to see are volumetric density (wh/l), gravimetric density (wh/kg), and cos
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by mcot2 6y ago
SpaceX has a tremendous first mover advantage and a ton more experience in Space. Networking talent and building things on earth is not hard to buy. Starlink is ready to go now and already is in Beta. They have more customers signing up fo
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by mcot2 6y ago
https://electrek.co/2020/02/07/tesla-aluminum-alloys-die-cas... Tesla and SpaceX share a few employees in this space actually.
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by mcot2 6y ago
They are now in the insurance business and Musk has already stated this will drive them to produce cars that can be repaired more cheaply. I cited his statement on the earnings call elsewhere in this thread.
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by mcot2 6y ago
They will bring this manufacturing process and new rear body structure to the 3 for sure but it won’t be until they seriously ramp up Y and can afford to shut down the 3 lines for retooling. My best estimate would be no earlier than Q1 2021
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by mcot2 6y ago
Estimated at around 500,000 units/yr per machine based on their production capacity and the number of machines on order.
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by mcot2 6y ago
Since they are now in the insurance business as well they will soon figure this out. Even was mentioned at the last conference call, they’ve admitted to making a lot of mistakes in the past about manufacturing for repairability. The transcr

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