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I know they won't kill the tire/wind sounds, but if they break the mental association of loud == fast == cool for men, it could be a game changer.
No more ridiculously loud acceleration from 'modded' cars and bikes...
Also heavy trucks / buses under acceleration can be loud too, hopefully those'll go away as well.
Public speaking well is hard. Most are not good at it, myself included.
That said, I'll take a poor speaker (Musk, older Carmack) over a PR drone any day.
How things have changed! Major kudos to Geoffrey Booth and all involved. Coffee's beautiful syntax combined with async/await has taken a lot of the 'ick' away from coding in JS, at least for me.
Tesla is planning 150GWh eventually, but starting at least in the 10's of GWh's to start. Lets say 30. At 30 GWh that is potentially 500,000 Model 3s.
Obviously, this is all speculative on both sides. Let me know if my calculations are off or I missed something.
[1] http://www.autonews.com/article/20151214/OEM06/312149992/lg-...
This is why Tesla longs are so bullish on the stock... even if the other car companies instantly switched all their models to electric, there wouldn't be enough battery supply to meet that demand for years. Tesla, on the other hand, should be sitting pretty with their Gigafactory 1.
I wouldn't want this to be every episode, but a themed episode on a specific 'hot' industry could be neat, i.e. interviewing founders of three companies in related fields. e.g. drones, crypto-currencies, bio, etc...
Often there's so many promising directions in a new industry that existing founders don't have time to explore all the opportunities.
YC should encourage them to share these avenues of potential in a discussion format... because who knows, maybe someone listening could grab an idea and run with it (and be in the next batch.)
I've been saved by the on-site service a couple of times, it's really good (just wish 3 years of it was still included by default - those were the days!)
I've never had such a flawless Linux desktop experience. Almost everything just worked out of the box, it's super-zippy, and the laptop is so light and portable. Never heard the fan yet.
But if you want to an external GPU, this is not the system for you. Also, if you get the hi-res screen, you're forced to play the LCD lottery (LG vs. Panasonic, one has PWM, and you don't get to pick.)
Desktop Linux has really come a long way. Just in time too, now that MS is probably gonna force us to 'subscribe' to Windows, send us ads, etc...
Cringe. Hard to take the writer seriously after this statement. The rest of the article seemed fine so I googled around to see if there was some stunning new research showing the plank (or any specific movement) spot-reducing fat. Nope.
Musk has said several times that if he wasn't working on space and EVs, he'd be working on hyperloop or electric planes. Wonder what potential he sees in the latter.
But Musk's assertion has made me reconsider. Has anyone here done the math? What I think he's talking about is NOT a conventional plane with a battery simply replacing the gas tank, but instead essentially a flying battery, where 90% of the plane's mass is battery.
This sounds ridiculous at first, but when you consider how cheap electricity is compared to jet fuel, as well as the other benefits the OP mentioned, there might be something to it (for short-haul flights.)
So when Tesla's $35k car becomes a mainstream hit in 2018, I have no doubt big auto will react with compelling competitive vehicles. The problem is they won't have the battery infrastructure in place to sell more than 50,000 units, and it'll take them several years to catch up to Tesla's production volumes!
That or purchase their packs from Tesla.
the lithium, although lithium is sometimes thought of as a bigger thing than it really is for lithium ion cell.
It’s like using maybe a couple percent of the cell mass, but the biggest cost constituent is nickel
There's a great analysis of material constraints here [1].
1. http://seekingalpha.com/article/654441-ev-myths-and-realitie...
Honestly, if you're a heavy programmer/writer, the TrackPoint is such a superior choice ... having to move your hand off the keyboard all the time is inefficient and kills flow!
Also, TrackPoints are fantastic for reading web pages. Scrolling is very intuitive and almost motionless - just hold the middle button with your thumb while applying a bit of down pressure on the stick.
n.b. Not all pointing stick are created equally! I've used HPs and Dells - both are inferior to TrackPoints, and I wouldn't recommend them. (kinda like how Apple trackpads are superior to the competition.)