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693471··on Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?
Only takes 15 minutes to go from 0-40% in a Tesla Model 3 Long Range (310 miles max) at a superCharger, and full is only about an hour because the last 20% is slow.

You can hit another charger 2 hours down the road after that 15 minute charge and plug in for 5-10 minutes to get to the next charger if needed. It will be ready after you're done taking a bathroom break and you bought a snack.

Few people need to charge to 100% on a road trip if they have a good EV. Tesla did the right thing with their design. Everyone else should catch up.

Imagine if GM cars only came with 5 gallon gas tanks but the Audi came with a 15 gallon tank. That's basically what we're talking about. Don't shit on EVs because only one company is doing it correctly.

693471··on 2019 Hyundai Kona EV Explodes When Parked
You're wrong. Consider the literally billions of batteries out there every day not catching fire.

EV fires will be fewer.

693471··on I used “deep fakes” to fix the Lion King
Right side with more color and cartoon eyes
693471··on Porsche Taycan [video]
Do you intentionally drive with less fuel to save weight?
693471··on Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group
WhatsApp desktop proxies through your phone over HTTPS. The Desktop to phone session is TLS, but not E2E.
693471··on How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003
The only thing worse than no data is bad data. I wouldn't trust these cheap sensors people keep hawking.
693471··on No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health
> Given that fracking usually happens 10,000 feet underground, and far below any water table

Ok so why are the fracking chemicals being found in groundwater and giving people cancer?

693471··on Lawsuit: Autopilot didn't prevent Model 3 from driving under semi at 68 MPH
Cruise control has been called AutoPilot in the past, and this is closer to Autopilot on planes anyway.
693471··on Espresso Machine Powered by Tcl/Tk
How does this design compare to a Synesso?
693471··on Humans Will Never Colonize Mars
Poor understanding of physics are exemplified everywhere these days. It's tiring seeing so many armchair experts trying to take over the discourse with their incessant posturing.
693471··on You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS
Spotify can write their own OS and build their own hardware if they don't want to be second class.
693471··on You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS
When Apple is alerted to the problem they remove the app from all devices so I don't have the visit my parents and audit their devices or clean it up for them.
693471··on You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS
Why would anyone trust PayPal? They still owe me $900 from 2005 when I was the victim of a reverse scam. (Buyer claimed i scammed and never sent it; they refused to investigate or accept my tracking info as proof)
693471··on The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom
Are you a Tesla owner or a troll? Because I'm an owner and can tell you this is an exaggeration.

And the S and X door handles can be repaired for much less than people are buying the replacements. The rebuild kit uses stainless parts instead of cast.

https://evtuning.com/products/model-s-door-handle-rebuild-ki...

I think you've forgotten of the days when you could literally snap door handles off of Audis by pulling too hard.

693471··on Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival
I think "gun deaths at their highest rate in 40 years" qualifies

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/chart-of-the-day-us-g...

693471··on Show HN: Memorize Terminal Commands
Tab completion isn't default in every shell
693471··on A Wisconsin lawmaker who's paralyzed isn't allowed to participate in meetings
Vos is scum and has a history of behavior to back it up
693471··on Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail
I suspect to kill all children and not rely on the parent you're supervising to clean up.
693471··on America’s Farmers, Reeling from Floods, Face a New Problem: No Water
https://archive.fo/bB9N9
693471··on Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage
How do you think the grid currently works? This is nothing new, really.
693471··on Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage
There are tiny amounts of lithium in the batteries and we have tons of lithium on the planet. The real environmental / human rights issue is around cobalt and they're allegedly close to completely removing cobalt from their battery chemistry.
693471··on Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival
There isn't an electrocution epidemic
693471··on The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom
You people are so obsessed over door handles. It's a hysteria.

They're fine.

693471··on Tesla Q2 2019 Letter
I agree they should change their laws. This is where Tesla has an advantage. People are importing the cars in states that don't allow it.
693471··on Memory Unsafety in Apple's Operating Systems
> Yes, of course migration is difficult! Any company doing it will need to retrain people, make toolchain changes, and undoubtedly invest in improving both the compiler and language itself. If only there was some enormous company with vast resources and a commitment to privacy and security who could embark on a journey like this…

You mean Swift?

693471··on Tesla Q2 2019 Letter
Have you considered that OTA updates undercut the dealership network and could be seen as servicing vehicles which in many states is illegal for the manufacturer to do so they could suffer consequences, maybe getting banned from selling in that state?
693471··on Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from major tech companies
The industry has moved from pay sites and piracy where you wouldn't track people to free porn sites that are ad supported. Obviously it's easier to use the free sites so the data tracking is not surprising.

If you don't want to be tracked, pay for your porn. Or pirate it.

693471··on Tesla drops cheapest Model X, S variants, cuts prices to simplify lineup
What marketing materials? Tesla doesn't buy ads
693471··on Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature
IRC is forever tainted by graybeards that won't give up their terminal clients. People who want to get work done have moved on. The next generation of developers have no interest in IRC. It's a dead end.
693471··on Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl
I don't think you understand the relationship between FreeBSD and MacOS
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