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So who pays for any medical costs? Not sure I'd base my livelihood on fraud.

"my driver " What a world we live in. Most of the country (and planet) is so broke they are just scraping by, while programmers have "drivers" and personal shoppers. Wouldn't want …

Your standard auto insurance is not going to cover using your car as a taxi. It will have to be disclosed, and you will pay for it. The calculus is simple: liabltiy has increased a…

> What's so special about this, honestly? Most people's experience with Mr. Fresco likely came from the Zeitgeist films, which were sort of a phenomenon and many people's first exp…

> In the end, it was like having an atheist trying to convince the pope about his convictions. I think a better analogy might be "reading a single article on the internet, then pro…

Option 1: Autopilot isn't where Tesla wants it, and they are trying hard to get it up to snuff, since so much has been made about how far ahead of everyone else Tesla is. Option 2:…

> If given the choice I prefer a non-powered trunk opening Being able to pop your trunk (and have it open) on your approach to the car is actually quite convenient. I didn't think …

> It's a design choice toward a self-driving world, where instantaneous road notifications are less important to a person in a car than they are today. People sure are willing to r…

> at other auto companies, they are and the result is literally loss of limb and life. Comparing the safety history of a company that has produced fewer than 200,000 vehicles ever …

> Who cares? The very definition of "industry average" means that someone in the industry will be above or below the average. People seem to think it matters when they claim Tesla …

> I'd bet that there is some PR firm trying to drum up anti Tesla sentiments. Anything anti-Tesla is part of some PR conspiracy. Meanwhile, 10 vapid, fluff-pieces from Electrek or …

> It's incredibly dangerous advice to tell someone "take drugs, despite your psychological problems" It's far more dangerous to tell people with psychological issues to avoid "drug…

> This is a brand that would benefit from stealing the popup idea The brand is already hyper-exclusive and doing extremely well, and I didn't get the impression from the article th…

> So now we can't castigate lawbreakers until we can prove someone actually adheres to the law? No, but we could at least hold out on castigation until it's proven they've broken t…

> He's gone on record that there's going to be an explicit or implicit write down, and China's average GDP growth is going to be well below 5% (averaging more like 2-3%) by 2020. B…

> but most people haven't even progressed past a folk understanding of economics There are a few subjects where the average HN denizen thinks they know more than the professionals …

> Does Mankiw mention this in his "requirement for informed criticism"? Are you honestly asking whether Mankiw discusses supply/demand price effects in his textbook?

> if I could I'd take a giant antitrust bat to about half the technology sector (which would hurt profits). That'd be nice on an island. Otherwise, have fun competing against techn…

I'm on HackerNews multiple times every day. Imzy is a company that came, raised over $10MM in funding, and went out of business in 7 months. This is the first I've heard of them. H…

> I think the problem is not that Ford can't make electric cars, but that Ford struggles to make good or competitive electric cars. And you base that on what exactly? Their EVs are…

> Holy Crap! It'll happen to all these dual-class shares when the tide turns and the tech sector falls from favour.

> I use my tablet quite a lot to browse the web. It's an old iPad 2. Is there anything new in this tablet that would benefit me? If you're fine with an iPad 2, the new Surface is p…

"These people".

Great phtograph of a beautiful kitchen, complete with a chef providing catered lunches, captioned with a description of how the company had to lay off staff because the company exe…

I love how you believe that the government is standing in the way of you making a fortune investing. That's precisely why the laws exist. How quickly we forget average peoples buyi…