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Comment · 4 months ago
High load in the day during sunlight is mostly true for summer heat, but in the winter you have cold evenings which requires base load or storage, combined with solar angle/efficiency being worse in the winter.
Comment · 5 months ago
Why is this comment upvoted?

It is most likely AI generated with a nice "Raised $50B" hallucination and filled with cliches ("thrown down the gauntlet", "mountain you don’t climb just once", "not for the faint of heart").

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
You can just make an IsAdmin() public function to expose it.
Comment · 1 year ago
A16Z had an article on the lack of IPOs:

https://a16z.com/where-have-all-the-ipos-gone/

Regulatory compliance like Sarbanes Oxley is another huge factor. And VC's having large capital pools make it easy for companies to stay private vastly longer without needing to raise funding from the public.

It's very unfortunate for the public markets, as basic only VC's and PE get access to high growth young companies. Now most of the growth is squeezed out by the VC's and the public gets just the tail end of mature companies.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I investigated both and implemented OIDC. It was difficult, but compared to the SAML and XML complexity, I'd say it was much easier.
Comment · 2 years ago
June 4th. Not recent news.

Although this is a clear case of self-dealing by Musk.

Comment · 2 years ago
General question when running a single member LLC: how do you determine how much to take as salary versus business profit, and how does that affect your taxes?

I'm guessing tax liability is mostly a wash, as if you are taxed as an S-Corp, you pass through the profit into personal income and pay income tax on that.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
"Loser pays" is a better and simpler legal system.
Comment · 3 years ago
1 MW charger per truck, if you need to super charge. Equivalent to approximately 1000 homes.

This is a huge burden on the electrical grids, and Tesla or EV's get to hand that problem to someone else.

The only way this makes sense at scale is if we had nuclear power, and charging was done at night.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's the new HaaS business model: Hardware as a Service.

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