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by powerbroker 4y ago
If you haven't made five mistakes before noon, you aren't really trying (or learning). I'm 57 and you just have to do stuff, at great speed, and err too. OK, so I'm also gone through about 4 career changes... and been a
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Salt or manure. Each requires very little processing and packaging, and are close to their natural form when you buy them. Its possible that each have been in use for over a millennia.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Back in my hang-gliding days, the first to jump off the mountain were called 'wind dummies'. Those newer to the sport, didn't know when the winds were 'ideal' to catch ridge lift. The more experienced hang-glider p
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by powerbroker 4y ago
I'm coining a new term: "gas-ware" New technology appearing in advanced electric vehicles. Much like 'gaslighting', a clever huckster keeps saying, its 'coming soon', and 'its has ___-capacity'.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Its time the EV people made a friend with the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) people. Go on joint shopping trips, and carpool to work. I'm sure that if there was a strict oil embargo, the favor would be returned.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Interesting vernacular in this piece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_mace
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by powerbroker 4y ago
1 tribe is on a coast facing the Pacific. Two of the three tribes are located on rivers. Yet the headline lays the blame at the feet of 'climate change': ...have been severely impacted by the effects of climate change... ...
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by powerbroker 4y ago
This Sparks Nevada presentation suggested that the Tesla mega-packs would play a role in delivering 1 MW in charging capacity (4X the rates of the newest Tesla cars). The older (Austin?) introductory presentation (2017-2018) of the semi spo
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Probably a good read for Elon Musk right now. https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life/
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by powerbroker 4y ago
A study of nearly 500 global hydropower reservoirs using the G-res Tool published in Water Security and Climate Change: Hydropower Reservoir Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2021) found the median value for hydropower to be 23 gCO2-eq/kWh, wh
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by powerbroker 4y ago
The 'peso guy' is just one of a long line of completely avoidable lawsuits. Deliberately offending to the point of drawing legal fire, attacking the weak or vulnerable, is not a good look.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
The good news: the more dumb decisions he makes for Twitter, the fewer dumb decisions he makes for Tesla (assuming that he has cut his decision-rate at Tesla in half).
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Twitter has to survive. It is one of the few places that I can complain about Tesla code, documentation, user interface and poor service... well aside from YC news.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Is it just me, or doesn't this violate conflict of interest rules concerning loyalty owed to the company that a CEO (or Technoking) works for? Is TSLA at risk for a rogue CEO in the same way that META is?
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by powerbroker 4y ago
If Tesla could make their service centers as robust as their superchargers, I might buy another Tesla from them. Until then, I'm shopping elsewhere.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Sex at noon taxes.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
14 MPG @ 80 MPH 24 MPG @ 50 MPH Last minute of the video
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by powerbroker 4y ago
For the last 30 years, 90% has been paper, and 10% has been via online notes or whiteboards. I've also led brainstorming sessions among engineering groups.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
I jumped off a mountain with a hang-glider -- and cleared a electrical transmission line by less than my wing-span.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
For an average 45 mile day, only about 10-15 kWh of charging is required. The rate of growth of EVs in a grid is so small, that even if it were to increase 10-fold, most grids would accommodate them with currently planned expansions.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Seems on-brand for the CEO that believes he can complete Full Self Driving for 5 years running. Wait 'til next year, screams the fans. It will be great then.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Having lived in Saudi Arabia and Finland, I'll take Saudi Arabia (for weather purposes) any day of the week. You would be surprised at how many ways cold, snows, and very diminished sunlight have to kill you.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
I talk to my Dad every day.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
FSD is named as a contributor to a few accidents in some NHTSA reports: https://api.nhtsa.gov/complaints/odinumber?odinumber=1144450... https://api.nhtsa.gov/complaints/odinumber?odinumber=1145671.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
You should at least register a trademark for the name of the app, using an 'intent to use' federal trademark registration. Depending on how innovative the tech is, it wouldn't hurt talking to a patent attorney, so you have at
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by powerbroker 4y ago
I don't know why anyone would pay 1/10th the price. Tesla has never converted any software feature from beta to non-beta.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
In 3 Tesla's I've owned, voice commands are only 80% accurate. This is with a male midwestern accented (U.S.) English. I can talk with a Texas drawl... if that is necessary, to see if the car gets my speech better. My wife, on the
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by powerbroker 4y ago
My neighborhood in Houston would be perfect for this.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
I recall Krugman, in the last week, saying, that, no, there is no recession, because jobs.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Normally comments like this would unleash a joke from me. I'm happy to keep HN on a serious note. I think maybe the austere interface has something to do with the solemnity.

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