MikeCapone

Apple has been clearly saying that they want as much control as possible over every aspect of their products. Lots of vertical integration.

Unless Intel does something amazing that can't be duplicated by others like they have done in the PC market, I don't see why Apple would give up its chips, which are the best in mobile and very customized for the company's needs.

In mobile, Intel is behind. On the PC side, they were way ahead. Yesterday's winners aren't always today's...

The money belongs to the shareholders. Piling it up and doing nothing with it isn't the best use, so returning some via buybacks and dividends makes perfect sense.

The burden of proof certainly is on Intel right now, not Apple.

But even if Intel was to make great mobile chips, Apple sells because of the whole package, not just the chip. What does Intel have on the mobile side, except the possibility of being one more supplier for semi-anonymous Android and Windows phones?

Nobody watches the watchers. We're supposed to just have blind trust.

If traditional dealers are so great, why do they rank about on par with politicians (maybe even below) in public opinion? What value do they add?

Seems like rent-seeking via political clout to me...

You don't believe that certain individuals can create orders of magnitude more value than others? Or do something for which there is high demand but low supply, hence very high prices? So Steve Jobs and Elon Musk and Larry Page don't deserve their millions?

Let me be the first to link to Paul Graham here:

http://paulgraham.com/gap.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html

It's because they use different criteria than you do to judge the machine, and that's fine.

The market tries to be forward looking. It seems to think the future got brighter (or at least not as dark).

Personally, I think 'reverence' makes interviews worse, not better.

That is what John Malone thinks will happen (de-bundling).

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100637283

> take into account electrification costs (because it does get cloudy)

Did Musk say his Hyperloop wouldn't be tied to the grid?

Not as many vehicles had those when the Prius first came out, and even now few make MPG as front-and-center with graphs and such. Implementation matters.

Exactly. It's like how the LCD with the real-time and historical fuel economy info in the Prius has been teaching people to drive more efficiently via the instant feedback you might not get in most other vehicles.

It's easy to say you could achieve the same thing without it, but facts show most people don't.

That was unreadable, I had to stop after a few paragraphs. Could he sound any more biased and un-objective?

I know an opinion piece doesn't have to be neutral, but that was way shrill.

Invest a couple hours in reading a few chapters of the book and find out for yourself. I can't possibly summarize it all here without skipping important steps.

All your objections are addressed very well in the book. It's not like he hasn't thought about those things and how it sounds at first. He came to his conclusions empirically by treating his patients, not by dreaming up some theory out of the ether.

I'll just re-iterate my recommendation for the book. It doesn't cost much and you can always get it from the library if you really don't want to spend the money.

Have you read Mindbody Prescription by Dr. John E. Sarno?

It's the only thing that could cure my constant RSI/chronic pain after years of trying everything, and in the book he talks about fibromyalgia.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body...

The idea of psychogenic disorders would have normally have sounded like esoteric BS to me, but I ended up picking up the book at the recommendation of an ex-Google coder who went through all the same things that I did. I'm glad I did; for 15$, I completely cured myself after years of trying everything else (physiotherapy, standing desk, stretching exercises, working out, various books on RSI, ergonomic chairs, keyboards, mouses, trackpads, switching hands, etc, etc), and it turns out the book takes a very scientific approach to these conditions, even if it admits that there's a lot we still don't understand about exactly how our minds work and how they can affect our bodies (it's kind of an engineering approach -- we figured out something that works, now we need to figure out why).

Highly recommended to all those of you suffering from constant back pain, neck pain, RSI, etc.

It's one of many possible reasons, but certainly not the only one. And any buying decision is probably made because of a bunch of different factors (the ratios being different for each person).

Tesla's selling all the electric cars they're making, certainly not only because the people who buy them are saving money on gas.

This argument is made constantly with hybrids and electric vehicles. Yet it is not made for any other vehicle that isn't the most economical option, so it sounds like a double standard to me.

I mean, if you look at what's on the road, you'll see a lot of cars that are more expensive than what could do the same job. Some people even pay extra for fancy wheels, sunroofs, bigger engines (which cost more in fuel), cosmetic modifications, etc.

So either we need to judge all vehicles purely on economics, or we should admit that car buyers are looking for other things than purely functional transportation at the lowest cost.

Interesting. What does pressing that button actually do?

I'm not sure it would be more efficient. Starches from corn or potatoes is pretty cheap, and if this synthetic meat can use it more efficiently (I wouldn't be surprised at at least an order of magnitude or two) compared to an animal in the wild, that's relatively little feedstock per pound of meat compared to what we pay now.

And using the same kind of biotech we use to break down cellulose to make cellulosic ethanol, we might be able to create feedstock for this meat from agricultural waste or fast-growing grasses.

What makes you think that petrochemicals would be involved in growing synthetic meat? They could use all kinds of natural feedstocks (starches).

This. From what I know, teaching is broken in the U.S. (and probably in many other places), and the way incentives and the balance of power is set up, what matters for most decisions on how things work is what is best for teachers, not what is best for students (the documentary Waiting for Superman shows a lot of this).

So it's not surprising to see teachers fighting back and trying to discredit KA, because success for them would mean a loss of status quo for teachers. If you get 99 things right and 1 thing wrong, those who feel threatened by you will minimize those 99 things and blow that 1 thing out of proportion.

Is it sexism when stories that are more interesting (titillating?) to heterosexual males get more votes on a site where most users are heterosexual males, or is it just math? All stories that get up-voted enough to be on the frontpage get there because they appeal to a majority of users; is it sexism that stories that appeal more to women don't get as many votes on HN, or just simple math again?

There's a lot of sexism out there, including on HN. But I'm not sure this is a good example of it.

Agreed. There's definitely a very high chance of information asymmetry when you are dealing with GS. All I'm saying is that there's enough reflexivity (Soros' term) and unknowns in the market that even very smart people like them can lose money.

I think we're probably saying the same thing, just coming from different ends of it.

Cheers.

Exactly. Roof overhangs can provide the same kind of benefit if well designed. The sun is "higher" in the sky during summer so the overhangs provide shade for a building's windows, and the sun is "lower" during winter, allowing the sun's rays to hit the windows, providing some heat for the buildings. Gotta love low-tech self-adapting systems like these.

There might be ways to mitigate this if you are in an area that gets very cold for a large portion of the year, such as having the panels flat against the roof so that they conduct heat into the roof.

But in most places that get that cold, roofs are covered with snow, so I'm not sure how that would work since most of the sun's rays would be reflected anyway (though the snow provides extra insulation..). Hmm..

I think it depends where you are, but the extra insulation could help:

> For example, in winter, the panels would keep the sun from heating up the building. But at night, they would also keep in whatever heat accumulated inside. For an area like San Diego, the two effects essentially cancel each other out, Kleissl said.

> In America, Where You're Born Is Correlated With How Far You'll Go In Life

I think you can replace "In America" by "On Earth" and that'll still be accurate. Just being born in America is a pretty big win compared to being born, say, in Rwanda.

No, but it's better than not having it even get to your blood, especially if you test for the bio-available compound in the blood.