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by ukulele 9y ago
At $35k+ with 240 miles of range, it's starting to get close but realistically not quite there yet for "mass market" adoption. I hope I'm wrong but this will likely be a minor seller. Also re: the $7500 federal tax rebat
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by ukulele 9y ago
Answer: > From Queensland's Department of Agriculture and Fisheries brochure Can I have a pet rabbit?, > Why are pet rabbits illegal in Queensland? > Rabbits are Australia's most destructive agricultural and environmental
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by ukulele 9y ago
No real danger, just seems like it could be used as a marketing ploy.
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by ukulele 9y ago
The skeptic in me sees this as a way to get a bunch of developers subscribed to a feed / notification. Will be interesting to see if the repo gets misused somehow.
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by ukulele 9y ago
> Weak user experience design makes people hate your product. Big companies can get away with it because their clients often have no other choice, but it’s a crucial point for a new market player. This is not a generally true statement.
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When 500% Faster is Garbage(medium.com)
4 points by ukulele 9y ago|0 comments
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by ukulele 9y ago
The stories are interesting to get a sense of what things were like, but they fall short as evidence of who knew what was going on in the moment. Holding up a stock analyst who "saw it coming" is survivorship bias in the extreme.
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by ukulele 9y ago
I want to be excited about this and plan to look into it... mostly I'm sincerely hoping PayPal hasn't taken their standard pile-of-garbage approach to documentation...
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by ukulele 9y ago
Using this is against federal law in the US, so I suppose buyer beware. Edit: source https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf Edit 2: selling and marketing it is also against federal law, and the
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by ukulele 9y ago
If you're not in the three comma club, what's the point?
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by ukulele 9y ago
This seems unnecessary at first pass. Why not just upload directly to S3 using their REST API and then persist the returned data via GraphQL (if so desired). Am I missing something?
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by ukulele 9y ago
I read through it and I still don't even know what the new logo is, or if there is one, or what has changed. Someone got paid for this?
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by ukulele 9y ago
The people in question all lied so much that you can't even put together a straight narrative... seems to be a moderately effective defense.
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by ukulele 9y ago
> The only major difference is battery type. That's the part to be worried about.
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by ukulele 9y ago
> If you can't build a self-contained system to handle a home-level amount of electricity, you shouldn't be allowed to participate in the market. What if you can do it, but you're not certain of all the possible modes of
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by ukulele 9y ago
This is essentially how it does work, except the maintenance button is pressed automatically for you. You can take a Darwinist approach and say anyone who forgets to press the button deserves to potentially die in a fire, or you can say if
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by ukulele 9y ago
This is a bit unfair -- charging / discharging / safety on that scale in a home should be actively monitored and managed, otherwise you end up with real danger a few years down the road.
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by ukulele 9y ago
Sounds like the issue is stemming from the PowerWall (Tesla) side of things more than the panel (SolarCity) side. Not surprising, since Tesla has been more product & marketing focused and likely has some growing pains for something as