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simonebrunozzi
34,864karma·9,959submissions·May 24, 2008
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Current: VC in Europe at Rialto.VC
Previously: Operating partner at Cota Capital; co-founder of Fabrica.land, co-founder of Cloud Academy; CTO at VMware; Tech Evangelist at AWS. @simon on Twitter (yep, early user).
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Water is a green house gas? Totally disagree.
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Even too much. Taxis at Sydney airport sometimes charge you 10% more for using a credit card. That's legalized theft, in my view.
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Ouch. "Resource Limit Is Reached. The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later." I guess the Hacker News effect. I used to …
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The single thing that prevents me from switching from a Macbook to a Dell XPS is the Apple trackpad. Think about it.
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I visited Arcosanti in February 2014. I have been a big fan of Paolo Soleri and his creation. However, when I was there for just half a day, my impression is that his original goal (5,000 people livin…
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Can we still safely use TC 7.1a?
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But you get the snow! (I'm visiting Boston at the moment. Crazy).
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Author here. The problem is that Jason's argument was very weak to start with. If you really want to install batteries in houses, that's going to be very expensive, AND you are not going to …
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You are comparing apples to oranges. Power sockets? Of course, there are billions. Electric charging stations that can charge your car in a time comparable to fueling a gasoline car? Only experiments …
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Author here; I don't think it's misleading. There are factories in Japan which already produce several times Gigafactory's projected output.
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Gigafactory's output will be 500,000 batteries per year, and it will be optimized for a specific cell which will be put into Tesla's car. Apple sells hundreds of millions of devices. I don&#…
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I didn't know that TSLA is "one of the most short sold stock in the world."
What tool do you use to get this data point?
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Hi Chuck, that's a good point - but I guess we're still a few years away from cheap enough batteries. :)
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Apple will NOT buy Tesla for $75B in 18 months - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9055177
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That was Jason's assumption, not mine. :)
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Author here: to run a house for a week, one of Tesla's battery would not be enough; you would need a few. I guess I wasn't much clear on the post.
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I agree. However, there's a HUGE need for a hub of some kind. Possibly, open for anybody to develop on top of it.
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Make sure your severance is fair. If not, consult a lawyer ASAP.
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Me too.
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And dealing with young kids, which sometimes is the same as dealing with some founders :)