Even Nate Silver says Trump has about a 10% chance of winning. This could be as simple as Thiel expecting to get more than $12.5M worth of value out of the investment if that happens.
Well, really, who cares how quick it is? For the average Tesla buyer the speed upgrade is mostly a novelty. Just because it can accelerate doesn't make it a hypercar, sportscar, or even sports sedan alternative. What really makes this option is the range, which is really outstanding.
Elon wants to make electric cars not just practical, but compelling. It can't just be the best electric car, it has to be the best electric car, period. He wants to tick all the boxes:
[x] Safest
[x] Fastest
[x] Longest range for a BEV
[x] Fastest charging time, and a large network
[x] Bet looking BEV
[x] Most advanced commercial autonomy
[x] "hell bent on being the best manufacturer in the world"
NYC broker fee problem will really take a generation until the existing stakeholders literally die out. The deeply entrenched real estate industry here has no incentive to change. Not all, but many (most?) no-fee apartments are new construction "luxury" buildings (luxury == not 30+ years old) that handle leasings themselves, and always have very high rents.
Edit: You _can_ find other no-fee aparments but it will in general severely restrict your choices; the odds of looking for an apartment by normal criteria (location, size, condition, amenities, price, etc) and stumbling on a no-fee listing are low.
Many no-fee listings aren't really no-fee. It's just that the fee is baked into the rent. I found this out when scoping out places with Nooklyn, a Brooklyn-based broker. The landlord in one instance revealed a rent that was a good deal lower than the one quoted by Nooklyn. Of course, you're rarely able to bypass the broker in this manner.
I can confirm, though I managed to snag a no-fee apartment for a good price. That said, I'm all the way in Sunset Park, Brooklyn (which I really like, but doesn't seem to be popular yet).
What makes you choose Go over Python for simple services and utility scripts? (I'm just learning Go but would heavily lean towards Python for those things)
> Twitter ... 82 percent of MAUs are mobile. Weibo ... 89 percent of MAUs on mobile.
7 percent. Stop the presses.
Article then compares Weibo's growth with Twitters. More or less, Weibo is Twitter, X years behind. And then there's the kicker, which solidifies the click-baity-ness of the article:
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I like to be nice enough to the Help so that I can pat myself on the back. But let's not get ahead of ourselves and let these people fight for higher wages, which might impact my costs!"
Agreed, particularly in an urban setting. In NYC the streets are quite literally with small to medium trucks, which are all almost certainly in violation of noise and pollution requirements. A fleet-type electric medium duty truck with swappable batteries would be awesome and I think governments should be bending over backwards to incentivize them.
You reminded me that electric home grocery deliveries have a longer history in the UK than people might think - growing up in the 1980s in the UK daily milk deliveries via an electric milkfloat were absolutely ubiquitous, and had been since the 1940s. The distinctive whining sound of a milk float pulling away, milk bottles chinking, was the definitive sound of a town waking up in the morning - diesel-motored vans chugging around first thing would have been incredibly annoying.
They are still used in the utility fleet space. However, they did not perform that well (range, reliability, high cost etc). It really was a natural fit for a Utility industry because of their access to the cheap electric power.
Oh that's cool, I'd never heard of it. I'm surprised there doesn't see much momentum in the area, although maybe there is a good practical reason for it.
