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by terravion 10y ago
That's because there are no proven systemic benefits to organic. It is sometimes a signal for higher quality growers, but almost every organic cropping system could have higher safety and sustainability by adding some conventional inp
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by terravion 10y ago
You can find organic pesticides on label look-up services. Personally, the general toxicity, great frequency of application, marginally lower safety, and greater environmental impacts of organic lead me to choose conventional whenever I hav
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by terravion 10y ago
I assume they're reading this thread.
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by terravion 10y ago
I think he's arguing for virtual rather than real world testing to verify extremely low probability behavior. At $0.55 a mile, it can be hard to test out to five standard deviations, but if the question is, does the software correctly
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by terravion 10y ago
There is at least one start-up I know working on this very problem using simulation to prove that automotive software can handle these extremely rare events without having to do trillions of miles of real world testing.
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by terravion 10y ago
Also, what about more balanced and critical coverage of Mobile Eye and their previously fawning statements of how they loved working with such an aggressive customer like Tesla ...it somewhat undermines their position.
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by terravion 10y ago
As a bicycle commuter, I would love to see more people doing anything that isn't cars and would glad share bicycle infrastructure with these guys. The more drivers see us, the more they look. Their speed differential is no more than
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by terravion 10y ago
What is all this Musk vitriol about? This seems like complaining from public market investors that Tesla is still acting like a start-up--which it is and has always presented itself as such in its filings. If you want to invest in mature c
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by terravion 10y ago
It is incredible how much we know about objects mind bogglingly far away and also how much we don't know and have yet to discover.
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by terravion 10y ago
And don't forget, we now have a top 2 primary, so just because the central valley gets to pick between two R's and the coasts get to pick between two D's there may be miles and miles of practical difference between the two ev
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by terravion 10y ago
Then maybe the people that come on at that point aren't actually founders, they're highly equity compensated employees and YC has a whole different set of advice. It is okay to be solo founder, you just need to know that you need
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by terravion 10y ago
Why do you think that being the boat for the length of time to create the value is insane? As the continuing founder in a start-up, I'm pretty sensitive to the idea that the reward is at the end of the marathon. Why would splitting b
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by terravion 10y ago
Equal splits make a lot of sense. If I had it to do over though, I think I would make vesting more reflective of the 7-10 horizon than the standard. Only problem with that is that it can create weird incentives to people who come later in
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by terravion 10y ago
So nobody here is advocating for taking away anything granted by contract. What you're asking for though, is the ability to sit on an option to see if it keeps going up in value, while not taking any risk or adding any value. The poi
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by terravion 10y ago
And there really isn't any free lunch. Extended exercise periods have a real cost to everyone that stays (the people who are increasing the value of the option) at no cost to the departed person.
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by terravion 10y ago
This is a really tough policy to get right because there is a continuum of cases. At one end, someone has vested shares and is pushed out for being harmful to the company. At the other you have a valued loyal employee that is going to busi
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by terravion 10y ago
It would be great if there was a major telco that was excited about being dumb pipe and just crushing the others. That seems to be what Google Fiber is an attempt at creating but the capital required is so great that only a hundred year ol
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by terravion 10y ago
To amplify your point, excepting water, the San Joaquin Valley in particular has the best climate and input factors in the possibly the world for producing high value crops at low cost and low environmental impact. If we could supply anoth
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by terravion 10y ago
Weird that there is no competitive analysis or discussion of how the cost curve changes. This is, after all, pretty much an industrial administration play.
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by terravion 10y ago
Oakland resident here. Oakland's IRV is terrible because we have no idea who will win the election and even as a relatively informed voter I have no idea who most of the 30-ish mayoral candidates are or what they stand for. I think Oa
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by terravion 10y ago
Does anyone know where we can find out more about what the AWS roadmap in this space is? Based on https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/ It seems like some of the competing cloud offerings might be slightly ahead in
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by terravion 10y ago
I can think of a ton more people who want to go from SF to NY (LA to DC, etc) or vice versa for the day than I can people who want to go to London for the day. Flying supersonic, you could actually get some work done on the other end. My
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by terravion 10y ago
But bear in mind this just brings California in line with a bunch of places that managed to build their way out of a housing crisis. $1T in war spending dumped on DC in the last decade, led to cranes everywhere, not massive rent increase.
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by terravion 11y ago
It seems like this observation of Wright's Law in action should lead to more politically palatable policy prescriptions. If cap and trade is out, just shifting some energy incentives to favor renewable or large orders to grow the mark
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by terravion 11y ago
Amazing! Forensics after a century.
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by terravion 11y ago
Yes, someday TerrAvion might go unmanned, but as a former military drone unit commander, I both look forward to the day and think it is further off than people in the Valley think. We've had the technology for unmanned trains for 60 y
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by terravion 11y ago
http://www.terravion.com/blog/the-market-is-speaking-terravi...
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by terravion 11y ago
I have to point out that this article is not factually accurate. TerrAvion (YC W14), is actually crushing the whole electric drone market and switching people who hold 333 exemptions and own drones to using manned planes for collection ten
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by terravion 11y ago
3001!

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