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> Ford doesn't have any good ideas for the future, they are too busy with the here and now

according to who? your average HN reader who basically hates cars? yeah, sure. the guy who hates cars is bearish on ford, shocking.

what about all the people buying raptors and gt350s and fgts and fists and fosts, hand over fist?

do you even know what i'm talking about? do these insanely popular cars even register on your radar?

it sounds like you're not-a-car-guy-but-a-tech-guy which makes up for a huge portion of tesla fans. and you're exposed when you make shit up like "ford doesn't innovate" or whatever your thesis is.

signed,

-not even a ford guy. porsche, there is no substitute.
So 115 requests/second?

Seems like super expensive infrastructure to handle a very small load.
Why not?

#sudo python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:25

Works pretty well for me.
The answer is CRISPR.

What is the question?
So does my 9 year old HP Elitebook running Win10 now. The problem is that vendors are allowed a say in the matter. If MS used the Android model I'm sure PCs wouldn't be update either.
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> Ford: "We have no idea how to invest this money. I guess let's just put it in the bank."

> Tesla: "We have so many idea for investments, we're only constrained by cash. Let's go back to the capital markets!"

I think becoming as big as Ford already is, is one of Tesla's most positive possible futures if all of their many ideas play out. But they are already valued higher than that. How can this possibly work? There are so many car makers, there is no monopole they could get. Same for solar and batteries.
The stronger a country's political institutions the easier it then becomes to gain power by those means rather than through violent means. Violence works best in countries that have very little structure.
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I recently wanted to buy a pair of headphones from amazon but found the comments and QA section quite limiting. So I had this idea of building a platform where people can try out any product from it's user if present nearby for a tiny fee. Does it sound plausible or is outright bad?
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> but will they rise to the current SF levels?

Once you include salaries in the inclusion, it could be worse than SF. For example, Michigan's urban apartments are already often more expensive than Seattle (when measured as percent of median income needed to cover average urban rents).

The sticker prices are vastly misleading because many folks get SF-level triple-figure salaries, and can pull those anywhere in the world. They can shop across entire housing markets. They see a $600k condo in say, Milwaukee, and think "wow, that would be so cheap (on my San Francisco salary)".

But 99% of regular people can't do any of that, they have to afford local housing using local wages. And regular people still need housing just as much as developers do. A $600k house might as well cost 6-million dollars, because they are both equally impossible to ever afford for a regular person.

> If they don't, assuming that the pay also doesn't drop too much, then it might be worth it for some individuals, no?

For a few individuals, yes absolutely. When we promote this idea of "fix housing affordability by spreading the problem everywhere", we do alleviate a little bit of pain for technology workers and give them a shot of home ownership (which is great).

But we do this at the expense of permanently hurting housing availability for a huge swath of other people -- something vitally important, but often gets overlooked when people talk about housing by hyper-focusing on just San Francisco's problem, and ignoring the crisis happening in all of the other cities nationwide.
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Back in the day we used to call this "web 2.0"
You sound like someone that either works at Microsoft or has a large financial interest in them.
This is exciting, but Ford continues to be a major player. They just invested $1 billion in R&D in Ontario, Canada. Seems like they are on the right path, but perhaps don't have the flexibility and velocity of a (relatively) smaller company like Tesla.
I'm going to guess, as I hold a similar opinion, that one (little "a") doesn't buy into a god individual and the other one (big "A") turns not believing in a god into a religion. Put another way, an atheist just doesn't believe in a god of any sort. An Atheist makes it a major part of their identity.
Absolutely, but in the end it all depends what problem you are trying to solve, and which stage you are on.

If you are starting a new startup, with Python or Ruby or PHP you may be able to try 2-3x ideas in the same time. Which means 2-3x more chances of succeeding.

If you are adding a new service to an existing businesses, it may worth the time investing in some middle-ground.

If you are google or facebook, I guess rewriting everything makes sense from financial point of view.
Legend has it that Erik the Red basically named Greenland deceptively to attract people to go there. Why the Vikings might have vanished from there could be traced back to this bait and switch naming: expecting something green, and finding most of it rather white most of the time.
No, market cap is not everything. Specifically it is not enterprise value, which is the correct measure of the value of a business.

Market cap is the value of the equity. Enterprise value is the value of the business (ie including debt). Tesla's EV is $52bn. Ford's EV is $150bn.
> Apple-like religious fervor/hype machine

But Apple won people over with the actual product, not with a great product promise that has been implemented haphazardly.
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Do you actually think other rocket companies won't be able to do that? Tesla doesn't have a monopoly on the future. Also SpaceX isn't Tesla.
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The shame in all this is that nobody with influence has been able to stop scaremongering long enough to make this case: "correct, consumers shouldn't have to think about which companies can do what with their data - we need to put privacy controls in place for everybody."

But that wouldn't be a very popular message with most Silicon Valley lobbyists.
@dang, @mods: I don't care about this one comment, and obviously HN is your forum and you can score things however you want. However, please let us know your policies so that commenters can willingly follow them and so that they don't waste their valuable time contributing things that are unwanted and will be underutilized (and in fairness those contributions are most of HN's value). Please be open about it (whatever 'it' is); we shouldn't have to guess.

When the above comment was posted, it immediately was below 7 other threads and hundreds of comments, and it dropped quickly since then, despite no downvotes. That is odd behavior; usually new comments start at the top, or near it, unless the user is brand new or has some other problem (I'm in neither category AFAIK; most of my other comments seem to behave within the range of normality). I've seen other recent comments exhibit this different behavior. I see nothing that would algorithmically trigger anything; it's not short, it contains no inflammatory words, no all caps, etc.

My guess, based on eyeballing the anecdotal evidence is that mentioning "Trump" is the problem. If you object to it, please just say so. I think it's a bad idea to single him out - his presidency will have a very serious impact on the IT industry, startups, and many broader things that HN readers hold dear. But that's a different issue. Please give us the courtesy of letting us know, whatever it is, Trump or not.

EDIT: You objected previously to something I wrote that mentioned Trump, but I wasn't clear what the objection was - mentioning Trump? something else? I responded and asked, but I think too late to be noticed, so I still don't know. I really have no idea what's going on. The thread with my question is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13880838
Fair enough. I think without coding interviews networking would become even more important than it is now, and it is already very important now. Moving more towards a "networking" world would mean things are less a meritocracy. It would not be about what you know, but who you know. Personally I find that unappealing because it doesn't seem fair, but I know some people aren't interested in "fair" anyways.

Instead of people complaining about coding interviews on HN, you would have a lot of programmers complaining that they are introverts who are just good at their job, and don't think that they should be punished for not being a people person.
Obviously you choose your strategy according to what the other side is up to. No negotiation strategy fits all cases.
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> The response latency of the real world is zero

No, it's actually the speed of light.
Worse treatment doesn't really mean much unless the hotel is close to 100% capacity. I may have phrased that part badly - what I meant is that 3rd party customers are lower priority than 1st party, so if it comes down to a question of who gets the nicer room, 3rd party will lose.

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Yes–tragically, the poor never even get their SkyMiles.
You can conceivably move up to management, never have to deal with algorithm hazing again, and make more than the guy that has to refresh every few years.

The rewards just do not add up for this to remain an industry practice.
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Not just business-critical, apparently it's a competitive advantage, such that he wants others to not be able to take advantage of it.
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Even better would be a tool to generate the text to post on HN, while letting the user post it - low effort, and standardizes things
I'll put the math behind the numbers aside just for a moment to consider this is still a pretty impressive feat. I wouldn't have believed it 24 months ago. Also wouldn't have predicted for Ford and other nameplates to remain so static in this category. A high performance luxury EV just seems a great asset for any brand at the moment, even selling in lower numbers. We're at one of those shifts in technology where the cards get shuffled. I think Porsche gets it. Jaguar. Maybe Chevy.

Tesla is reminding me a lot of early Apple—equally rapid supporters and detractors. If anything, that means people find your work interesting. (Wonder if Elon will send out a staff note mirroring the note Jobs sent when Apple first passed Dell in market cap.)
Using the Driver's License ID for renewing one's Driver's License seems like one of the uses that would be approved, however. I mean, what else could they be using it for if not that?
Are there any Android smartphones with 240Hz cams?
Ford has much more private interests (the Ford family) than other car companies so tends to think more long-term. Remember they weathered 2008 without needing a bailout.

They've also ditched the high-end SUV market right as that market exploded all over the world, thus missed out on massive profits because they no longer sold an Expedition. They openly admit to ceding the market to GM in their annual letters to shareholders specifically because they don't see gas-guzzling SUVs as long-term investments.

They also lead the market in fleet and industry-oriented products. They offer both technology and core-products designed to keep the incredibly lucrative fleet buyers happy.

In this regard, Ford is akin to Microsoft: their consumer products aren't mind blowing, but their corporate products are so well entrenched that they will be a practical ATM for the next decades. Ford sells six times as many F150s as Toyota sells Tundras and they own the entire small cargo van market.
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I will come out of the woodwork to oppose it :-)

It is not really an innovation. This is basically private money that can only be used at a particular store.

At the dawn of industrial revolution large mills used to pay their workers with "scrip" -- a private type of cash that could only be used in company-owned stores. The company basically double-dipped: first profiting from the labor of the workers, then profiting from the mark-up on the goods and services "sold" to the workers.

Once you put money in Amazon cash, it goes to Amazon and nobody else. It is no longer "cash" or legal tender if you can't use it wherever you want.
Yes, I'm certain as are the expert economists as is the evidence presented in these articles.

Tokyo's Affordable Housing Strategy: Build, Build, Build
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/08/12/tokyos-af...

What Liberals Don't Get About Affordable Housing: Filtering
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As a Canadian, your last sentence is comical. I know the US media pushes the Trump = Hitler meme, I really don't buy it though. Worst case, he might just be another GWB.
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The thing is, Wall St. already factored all that stuff into their valuation and determined that the 'fair price' is $290/share (as of today).

Tesla's car business is quite profitable and has huge growth...that's what matters http://greyenlightenment.com/another-correct-prediction-tesl...

In the late 90' during the tech bubble, companies that had negative cash flow operation were bid to the stratosphere. Tesla and Amazon however have positive cashflow for operations and huge growth.

People said the same thing about Facebook in 2012-2013 and Google in 2004-2005: how will they (Google and Facebook) justify their valuations? Well, they did. Wall St. sometimes get it terribly wrong (Infospace in 2000) and other time very right.

Sometimes it doesn't make sense...but there is a method to the market's madness.
Why not just encourage Facebook, Google et al. to move some divisions a little bit east to the San Joaquine Valley? I'm guessing the city governments of Stockton, Tracy, Fresno, Visalia would be amiable.
In terms of cash flow, the California tech industry is a means of moving money from venture capitalists to San Francisco landlords.

That's right, for all the talk of disruption, innovation, and progressive thinking, the broad outlines of the economic structure of California IT is something that Hillaire Belloc or G.K. Chesterton would've recognized a hundred years ago.

The posted article and the comments in this thread make allusions to President Trump, so allow me to further scare you with this scenario.

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by ~2.7 million votes in the previous national election, but she won the state of California by 4 million votes. So the entirety of Clinton's lead came from California. Imagine how the Trump administration must think of "the Left Coast." Do you doubt that men like Bannon, Pence, and Sessions have plans for California? Or are trying to get ideas for plans?

Put yourself in their shoes. "How can we divide and conquer California's most important power centers? Hmmm. The H-1B thing got us some votes. Yeah. What else can we do to set those nerds against each other? Hey, there's the fact that tech workers can barely afford rent even when they earn six figures. Let's see…"

Don't forget. Donald Trump is/was a real estate developer. His grasp of issues such as affordable housing must be non-trivial. It's his bread & butter, after all. He made his pile in New York City real estate; not an easy venue. Think of what he could do to the Bay Area with the talent and knowledge earned from that front (plus the incidental help of a few executive orders).

The housing situation in tech centers must be dealt with. If we nerds don't do it, then President Trump will do it for us.

EDIT: Upon re-reading, I see that my tone may seem a little snarky. I apologize. I've given this problem a little thought and I needed to vent.
You don't need to be able to build a capacitor from scratch in order to understand how they work. Furthermore, electrical engineers don't have to build capacitors from scratch during job interviews to prove their competence.
>In conversation would you say "I'll be going home on April fourth" or "I'll be going home on the fourth of April"?

The latter. "April fourth" would sound very odd in a British accent.
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Admittedly I have not done much work with Angular, but this seems to be more of, "Is Your Home-Grown Per-Entity Data-Fetching Solution a House of Cards?".

The relay idea is nice but it makes a little more sense in a GraphQL-based world, where multiple entities can be fetched in a single call. And I believe the Apollo client does have batching options that will re-compose your queries to limit API calls.
Does anyone pre-order a F150?
My post wasn't defensive, it was pointing out that treating things like "magic boxes" is a purely rational decision, not an inherent character flaw in people.

But then you find a way to try and turn even that into a flaw of some sort, and continue with your narrative that it's somehow a problem that people don't take the time to fully understand everything they use.
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