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by tokipin 8y ago
> With Ultimate, Nintendo seems to have finally started thinking of Smash as primarily a competitive game. I don't think Nintendo was ever against its competitiveness. They probably understand that if they focus on keeping the game
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by tokipin 8y ago
The cells and the packs are different things. The packs aren't just a bunch of cells glued together. See this[1] fun teardown discussion. Another company building battery packs would have different costs even if they were buying the sa
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by tokipin 8y ago
Tesla isn't trying to become like GM, any more than Apple was trying to become like Nokia. There's so many factors in play with the stock. Personally though, I think a lot the short sentiment is conservative ideological blindness
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by tokipin 8y ago
The key is that this system can operate in 3D. You can have bundles of tunnels where you need higher throughput, and greater demand can just be met with more tunnels. The focus on small tunnels/cars as the core technology is part of
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by tokipin 8y ago
Journal reviewing is oversold in my opinion. Just like Wikipedia became a better encyclopedia than traditional encyclopedias, I don't see why open-access approaches can't be at least as efficient at truth-seeking and consesus-buil
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by tokipin 8y ago
I think what you'll see with a lot of competing EVs is the same thing that happened with GM's Bolt. Decent enough car. But that's about it. The problem is that it's not enough to just make an EV. Wait until lower-priced
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by tokipin 8y ago
Aside from making it easier to get clicks, I think that's just the enthusiasm and the fact that Tesla is the only game in town right now. From what I've seen, when Electrek criticizes other automakers it's because they'r
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by tokipin 8y ago
This is a common misunderstanding in my opinion. People don't really care about the environment/climate change that much. People may think they do, but in practice the amount of people that would convert that sentiment to a purcha
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by tokipin 9y ago
The point is that that skilled engineer can manage and maintain robots across many factories. That's an aspect of Musk's "the machine that builds the machine" goal. It does have a high up front cost, but the long term ad
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by tokipin 9y ago
It uses 3 motors (2 in the back) and has a 200 kWh battery pack. The reason for such a large battery is so that they can draw more total current without overheating, theoretically twice as much as the Model S P100DL which only has two motor
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by tokipin 9y ago
Well I don't know what consciousness is, so I couldn't answer that. But I think the opposite stance of consciousness being some kind of majestic oracle is silly. There is a reason why we perceive consciousness, even if it is just
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by tokipin 9y ago
> Artificial general intelligence won't be invented, it will emerge, just general intelligence did in the wild. I think so as well, but for a specific reason: That people are not as "AGI" as we think, and that our general
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by tokipin 9y ago
Because Tesla is good at design, and Chevrolet is not.
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by tokipin 9y ago
> I think there's a huge risk for Tesla that most people don't factor in- that it's very possible that most car buyers simply don't want one. This is a legit worry, but well-designed electric cars are better than gas
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by tokipin 9y ago
Exactly. If you can throw 2 battery packs into the semi, it can be charged twice as fast as a Tesla car without doing anything else. The actual equation (miles/minute) has a few variables (mileage of semi, weight, charge curves), but t
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by tokipin 9y ago
Charging I think is generally misunderstood. More room to work with (like in a truck) means you can either add more cells or have more space between cells, meaning you can pump more energy in (and out) within the thermal constraints. I susp
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by tokipin 10y ago
The assumption is that Tesla is going to knock the market out of its steady state. You aren't going to predict any of those numbers because the space of possibilities is wildly broad for a roiling market. You may as well try to predict
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by tokipin 10y ago
In my opinion that's like saying the "DVD buzz is wearing off" in comparison to VHS. :D But yes, if you don't believe electric cars are going to take over everything, the Gigafactory looks super risky, and regardless it&
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by tokipin 10y ago
Packaging the cells is the hard/expensive part. Nevermind the battery management software. And the point of the Gigafactory is to compress the supply chains between raw materials and finished product. It's an all-in investment who
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by tokipin 10y ago
The stock is fascinating to watch because of how binary the perception of the company is. After doing some sophisticated psychoanalysis™, the sharpest distinction I've found between the two opposing viewpoints is design. People who don
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by tokipin 10y ago
Its politicization during Obama's first term (Solyndra et al) threw it into the conservative news grinder, and for many people it's still spinning in that context. This is probably where the whole "Tesla is only alive because
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by tokipin 10y ago
exactly, people are reversing cause and effect here. first Tesla made desirable cars, then people started fanboying Musk. See this Google trends for Elon Musk searches: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=
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by tokipin 10y ago
I'd be surprised if there isn't other microbe-like life in our own solar system. And the path from microbial to "complex" life is just a matter of whether the environment provides enough energy to support it (nearby sun
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by tokipin 10y ago
obligatory Elon Musk SpaceX tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xahiWQQKw7Y
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by tokipin 10y ago
You're right quantity-wise, but then you have https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/812708946225963008 . I'd be surprised if Tesla EV's don't soon charge faster than it takes to fill up gas, with
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by tokipin 10y ago
I'd argue Vim is actually the intuitive choice because its commands allow motion/editing across boundaries that make sense, without (in my opinion) awkward mouse/cursor motions. For example % at a function call will edit&#x2F
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by tokipin 10y ago
For what it's worth, when I switched from Windows I was looking for a 17" macbook because I have a vision issue. I ended up buying a used 15" retina MBP and it's actually easier on my eyes than my 17" Windows laptop
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by tokipin 10y ago
I think a lot of this depends on the individual. My natural preference is to use the touch screen. It's not about what's "better" in absolute terms, but what requires the least amount of thought/brain power for the
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by tokipin 10y ago
Broadly maybe yes, but much of that infrastructure pays for itself because of the volume that goes through it. That includes processing plants as well as gas stations. To take gas stations as an example, if 25% die off, that increases the e
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by tokipin 10y ago
I think 150 million is a crazy underestimate. Since electric vehicles will be categorically better than gas vehicles, companies will be forced to produce them just from competition.

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