cloudwalking

It's called "Bliss".

Eaze.com takes credit card payment through a processor based in Europe.

They also don't require trusting a single third party processor... which is sort of the whole point. Blockchains are a tool to solve certain classes of problems, not every financial problem, or even most financial problems.

Yes I did as well. One of my requirements in shopping for a house was >50 feet above sea level. It won't matter in the short run but it definitely will matter in the long run. Unfortunately if the sea rises 20 feet, I will still have a house but my whole area will be a lot less lucrative...

Buy land at 50 ft. elevation? I only half kid.

Many of my friends have stopped using Uber in favor of Lyft. Is this a real trend, or just something I see in Silicon Valley tech circles?

A lot cheaper than Instagram.

If, for example, Uber crushes all competition, then they can raise fares and lower partner payments and make a bigger profit.

History has demonstrated again and again that tax breaks are not an effective economic stimulus.

Seems like a bad comparison to a Tesla then, no? Nothing but click bait.

Just visited Tsukiji inner market a few weeks ago. They use a huge amount of ice and styrofoam to keep the fish cold. What really blew my mind is the on-site styrofoam recycling center. Not only are they using high-value land for recycling, but also saving energy and pollution by not transporting material away. Very progressive and forward thinking.

On the other hand, the whale jerky in the outer market just made me sad.

This is not true. Rolling back regulations on green house gas emissions, removing regulations on clean water, denying healthcare to millions of people... Those deaths cannot be undone, the aquifers cannot be cleaned, and the carbon can't be removed from the atmosphere.

From the website:

  On-ramp to Off-ramp
  Once on the freeway, your Tesla will determine which lane you need to be in and when.
  In addition to ensuring you reach your intended exit, Autopilot will watch for opportunities
  to move to a faster lane when you're caught behind slower traffic. When you reach your exit,
  your Tesla will depart the freeway, slow down and transition control back to you.

Citation needed. I can think of quite a few food, consumer, financial, medical, and environmental regulations that directly serve me and my fellow citizens.

AP2 is currently only meant for freeway driving. The sales person was probably right. https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

Bundling is actually win-win in practice. The economics work pretty well, which is why it's so persistent. It's a bit complex, take a look: http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...

How's Shift doing?

employee retention

I bought a new BMW in 2012. I've had a lot of problems with it (including an entire new engine, covered under warranty), and I've always had to wait for BMW to service it. The wait is anywhere from a few days (car towed in and nobody looked for a few days) to two weeks (30k and 60k mile maintenance).

I feel like everybody is being hyper-critical of Tesla because most people dislike the auto industry and see Tesla as a major disruptor of the status quo.

Sounds like a fun competition. From the PDF:

Competition Weekend II will be judged solely on one criteria: maximum speed with successful deceleration (i.e. without crashing). This is different from Competition Weekend I, which featured multiple judging criteria. In addition, unlike first Competition Weekend, there will not be separate Pod classes (e.g. wheeled vehicles, micro-Pods, etc.); all Pods shall be judged in a single class with the single aforementioned maximum speed criterion.

What happened to Palmer Luckey?

At some point you need to trust the government to make the right decisions. Or to at least not lie about these things. If Facebook was hacked and lost data, would we expect Facebook to release a detailed report showing the evidence of hacking? I understand the desire to see evidence, but we have to trust our elected officials to make the right decisions and our intelligence agencies be honest about what they've discovered. If we demand consensus by the American anytime an issue like this comes up, nothing will ever happen.

Isn't that how most foreign policy works? The WoMD fiasco was a problem for sure, but the solution to that is to elect officials we can trust. When the White House says the CIA has come to them with evidence that must be acted on, the White House can't turn to the populous and ask if there is enough evidence to act. They need to have the autonomy to act as they see fit.

In general it seems the voids and buckles problem is only seen at very very low temperatures. The AMOS-6 failure occured because the LOX was loaded too quickly after loading the helium tanks, without allowing the He to come up in temperature.

SpaceX was pushing the loading speed to expand the flight window. The update (and Ms. Shotwell a few months ago) indicate the short term fix for this is to slow down the propellant loading to allow the He to warm up a bit before LOX arrives... Which is a long way to say that it's likely other companies have not pushed the envelope far enough to encounter this voids and buckles problem.

The update also says they will eventually adjust their COPV construction to eliminate this problem and return to rapid propellant loading, but I doubt we'll hear anything about HOW they improve it. A not insignificant amount of SpaceX's "secret sauce" is in their composits manufacturing (case in point the enormous ITS LOX tank recently tested.)

I've had a new Macbook since it came out in April 2015. Still not used to the arrow keys.

It will get cheaper as we get more reusable launch vehicles!

Sorry, I didn't read Bloomberg. I read the Washington Post article which is linked here.

I think it's also worth considering that given both candidates were talking to people in Flint, of course they are thinking before hand about the problems in Flint and how they would address them. What else would they talk about?

The article mentions two instances where Clinton received questions before a public appearance, yet in both appearances those questions weren't asked. I think we need some more evidence before pitchforks come out.

Yeah, with an engine you can conceivably fix parts of it yourself. An electric motor is much simpler, so if something goes wrong, it's more akin to blowing a piston or a rod -- you're likely going to need to replace the whole thing.

You are partially correct. The battery is very difficult to fix at home. But the motor and stator can be replaced in your own garage with just a few hours of work -- again a magnitude less time and effort than replacing an engine.