stupidhn

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by stupidhn 9y ago
So who pays for any medical costs? Not sure I'd base my livelihood on fraud.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
"my driver " What a world we live in. Most of the country (and planet) is so broke they are just scraping by, while programmers have "drivers" and personal shoppers. Wouldn't want to distract those people who hav
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by stupidhn 9y ago
Your standard auto insurance is not going to cover using your car as a taxi. It will have to be disclosed, and you will pay for it. The calculus is simple: liabltiy has increased and you have responsibility due to the commercial transaction
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> What's so special about this, honestly? Most people's experience with Mr. Fresco likely came from the Zeitgeist films, which were sort of a phenomenon and many people's first experience with the "vast, global consp
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> In the end, it was like having an atheist trying to convince the pope about his convictions. I think a better analogy might be "reading a single article on the internet, then projecting yourself as an expert". I fully expect
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by stupidhn 9y ago
Option 1: Autopilot isn't where Tesla wants it, and they are trying hard to get it up to snuff, since so much has been made about how far ahead of everyone else Tesla is. Option 2: In the opinion of a Tesla analyst who works for a ba
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> If given the choice I prefer a non-powered trunk opening Being able to pop your trunk (and have it open) on your approach to the car is actually quite convenient. I didn't think much of it until I had the option. I wouldn'
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> It's a design choice toward a self-driving world, where instantaneous road notifications are less important to a person in a car than they are today. People sure are willing to reach with their rationalizations. You might be righ
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> at other auto companies, they are and the result is literally loss of limb and life. Comparing the safety history of a company that has produced fewer than 200,000 vehicles ever to companies that produce many multiples of that, annu
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Who cares? The very definition of "industry average" means that someone in the industry will be above or below the average. People seem to think it matters when they claim Tesla is "above average" in autonomous dri
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> I'd bet that there is some PR firm trying to drum up anti Tesla sentiments. Anything anti-Tesla is part of some PR conspiracy. Meanwhile, 10 vapid, fluff-pieces from Electrek or random Musk tweets show up on the front page every
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> It's incredibly dangerous advice to tell someone "take drugs, despite your psychological problems" It's far more dangerous to tell people with psychological issues to avoid "drugs".
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> This is a brand that would benefit from stealing the popup idea The brand is already hyper-exclusive and doing extremely well, and I didn't get the impression from the article that there is any concern about the bots. Perhaps the
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> So now we can't castigate lawbreakers until we can prove someone actually adheres to the law? No, but we could at least hold out on castigation until it's proven they've broken the law. A class action lawsuit isn'
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> He's gone on record that there's going to be an explicit or implicit write down, and China's average GDP growth is going to be well below 5% (averaging more like 2-3%) by 2020. But I'd hardly describe that as a &qu
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> but most people haven't even progressed past a folk understanding of economics There are a few subjects where the average HN denizen thinks they know more than the professionals by having read a mainstream book or two. Economics
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Does Mankiw mention this in his "requirement for informed criticism"? Are you honestly asking whether Mankiw discusses supply/demand price effects in his textbook?
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> if I could I'd take a giant antitrust bat to about half the technology sector (which would hurt profits). That'd be nice on an island. Otherwise, have fun competing against technology behemoths from other nations, some rece
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by stupidhn 9y ago
I'm on HackerNews multiple times every day. Imzy is a company that came, raised over $10MM in funding, and went out of business in 7 months. This is the first I've heard of them. How on earth does that happen? It's inexplic
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> I think the problem is not that Ford can't make electric cars, but that Ford struggles to make good or competitive electric cars. And you base that on what exactly? Their EVs are in the pipeline. > that also plays it safe wit
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Holy Crap! It'll happen to all these dual-class shares when the tide turns and the tech sector falls from favour.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> I use my tablet quite a lot to browse the web. It's an old iPad 2. Is there anything new in this tablet that would benefit me? If you're fine with an iPad 2, the new Surface is probably overkill. As someone who just retired
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by stupidhn 9y ago
"These people".
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by stupidhn 9y ago
Great phtograph of a beautiful kitchen, complete with a chef providing catered lunches, captioned with a description of how the company had to lay off staff because the company executives can't figure out how to make money. Perhaps th
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by stupidhn 9y ago
I love how you believe that the government is standing in the way of you making a fortune investing. That's precisely why the laws exist. How quickly we forget average peoples buying million dollar homes without understanding the bas
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by stupidhn 9y ago
Macchio was 23 in the first film, and 28 in Karate Kid 3. This information is at your fingertips.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> The price difference has nothing to do with that. Price has nothing to do with performance? 0-60 time is 0-60 time, regardless of how it feels. "Performance" can be measured. Maybe I'm still missing your point.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> It is much more fun driving a lower powered car at the limit than an overpowered on at 25%. Motorcycle enthusiasts understand this concept. Driving an overpowered (for your experience) bike isn't fun compared to throwing a small
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Why'd you get a BRZ? Good looking (subjective), reliable, quick, fun to drive? Why did you buy your car?
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> I own a Tesla S85 and recently had a Cadillac ATS rental for a few days. The MSRP on the Tesla is twice as much as the ATS, so I would expect performance differences. > and we rarely do 0-60 in actual real-life driving. Many peopl

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