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This $1,500 Toaster Oven Is Everything That's Wrong with Silicon Valley Design(fastcodesign.com)
72 points by ceterum_censeo 10y ago|12 comments
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Apple Considers Expanding into Wearables with Digital Glasses(bloomberg.com)
14 points by ceterum_censeo 10y ago|15 comments
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
A valid concern. The very first line: This post is about the movie Arrival; there are no movie spoilers here.
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
We're talking a difference of $10k/year, that's a lot of money. And you're speaking of miners at the lowest rungs of the ladder: what of those more experienced, or the geologists and mining engineers who are paid 2--3 t
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Average coal miner's salary is a lot more than $32k/year. e: the salary info wasn't in the comment when I replied.
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Is it really a mistake? I'm under the impression that automakers pursue FCVs because of the government incentives. I would think that a portion of the R&D could support other alternative fuel vehicle systems, so even if FCVs aren
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
In E&M class, seeing Maxwell's equations be manipulated into the wave equations that predict a propagating EM wave.
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
That sales comparison you're using is based on the assumption that the Model S competes with large luxury cars, and it ignores the overlap between similar models (e.g., S-class and CLS). On features and price however, the Model S mo
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
> Not only has Tesla created the greatest external challenge to the German auto industry that I can think of. The greatest challenge they faced is one they still face: the Japanese auto manufacturers. Toyota remains unbeatable on qualit
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Is the current free Supercharger access tied to the owner or the car, i.e., if I bought a pre-2017 Model S where the previous owner had free Supercharger access, would I also have access?
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Ask HN: Tips for reading HN on mobile for older eyes?
9 points by ceterum_censeo 10y ago|3 comments
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
To what degree will the recent NHTSA self-driving guidelines be covered in your program?
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Ditto. It also seems strange to be able to retask their radar from secondary to primary control.
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
It was a secondary discriminating sensor, but the latest Autopilot 8 upgrade retasks radar to be "a primary control sensor without requiring the camera to confirm visual image recognition": https://www.tesla.com/bl
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Sorry, I thought I was in and out before anyone had seen my comment. I added a clear edit mark to fess up. I originally wrote "kill" to mirror your original comment, but I changed it because it (as I perceive the word) presumes a
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
The documentation that the NHTSA is requesting are things that would already exist for a properly designed product. They are not asking for it to be generated de novo (and in fact, it cannot be done in that manner if they are operating u
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
And he would have needed to have performed the development under an appropriately rigorous development process.
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
For me, an omelette roulée. Quick, fun to make, doesn't need much cleanup, and infinite versatility.
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New technique may prevent the gruesome deaths of billions of male chicks(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ceterum_censeo 10y ago|0 comments
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Thanks for your patience :) I learned some new stuff too!
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Nice find, that helps. My reading is that it's slightly more than an artifact: Tesla is guaranteeing a residual, so the sale to the bank is conditional and so cannot be recorded as a simple sale. GAAP strikes me as a set of things that
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Ok, got it now, thanks. Any idea why they have to list automotive leasing as a separate line item on their report? If they are selling it to a bank who is then responsible for the lease, why list it separately?
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Sorry, not trying to be difficult, but this doesn't clear things up for me. Are you saying that Tesla does not lease directly to the consumer?
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
I guess that is my confusion, I thought Tesla was originating the lease.
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Doesn't the credit go to Tesla when it is leased?
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Is the federal EV tax credit a component of the margin calculations?
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Both haptic feedback and pressure sensitivity are within Apple's capabilities. This could actually be an improvement (imagine feeling a virtual volume slider scroll with dampened resistance).
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
http://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability/car-brands-re... is a better link, since it has the actual table referenced by the article.
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by ceterum_censeo 10y ago
Even for expensive APIs, the cost of the compound is a small portion of the overall cost. Directly comparing the advertised price between the US market and the formulary price for the UK isn't informative. It would be more informative

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