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Sorry, I meant the tailgate.

What happens is, you lift the tailgate a little bit and then the car takes over and opens the tailgate the rest of the way -- far higher than a person would do in a room with low ceilings. I let go of the tailgate and had no real way to stop it from opening itself the rest of the way into the ceiling.

CptJamesCookon Tesla to raise $1B

I just picked up my Model X after a week in the shop. They weren't able to finish all of the work, because "we are busy this time of year." They told me to bring it back in April.

In about a year of ownership, this is the 3rd time I've lost the car for about a week. I probably should have brought it to the shop 3-4 other times, but I let the issues build up.

They've had to replace all sorts of parts on my car, including the entire driver's seat. Even basic stuff like my phone playing audio doesn't work half the time. The driver's side wing mirror quit opening. I've had to reboot the car 10+ times in order for the dashboard display to work. The gull wing door opened into a ceiling and left a scratch. The hood opened into a ceiling and left a scratch. My windows have quit going up three times. Most of the trim / sealing / etc is coming off, misaligned, etc. I probably sit here and think of 10 more problems.

Anyway, I knew I was buying a v 0.1 car and I’m generally happy with it, despite the problems. Their service has actually been amazing, but that's kind of the point of my post:

If the Model 3 has anywhere near the same level of problems as my X, at 10x the scale, Tesla is doomed. How could this possibly be even remotely cost effective on a lower-margin Model 3?

CptJamesCookon Instacart Closes Latest Funding Round at $3.4B Valuation

You can set it so that they automatically replace the item with another option w/o communicating with you about it.

CptJamesCookon Instacart Closes Latest Funding Round at $3.4B Valuation

I have no comment on the valuation, but the service has made my life better.

I no longer fight with my significant other about grocery store trips, and the house is always stocked with healthy, delicious food from Whole Foods.

In 3 years, I'm not sure I've ever had a problem with an Instacart delivery, other than them occasionally forgetting items.

edit: I should have mentioned that I'm not very picky about what is actually delivered, I'm just happy to have a bunch of fresh vegetables, fruit, and sparkling water stocked in my house at all times.

CptJamesCookon Greg

Greg Brockman:

Went to MIT

Went to Harvard

Was CTO of a 10 billion dollar company for 5 years, starting the year it was founded

Yeah, I'd take a cofounder like that.

CptJamesCookon How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules

The idea that the gender pay gap could be caused by different incentive structures motivating men and women seems rather new, which is the rule for discussing flame-war causing topics.

Nevertheless, I will try to be more thoughtful with my comments.

CptJamesCookon How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules

Have you seen any homeless men or janitors with high value women lately?

Did you know that women find 80% of men to be unattractive?

https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...

From the article: "As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh."

CptJamesCookon How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules

I think it's important to improve oneself in every way, including fitness, demonstrable skills like guitar, and interpersonal skills (charisma).

I wasn't stating that only success matters, just that it is an additional factor and this is motivational.

CptJamesCookon How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules

I've spent much of my life examining this, and I happen to believe this is the world we live in. Are you suggesting that women are not in any way attracted to success?

CptJamesCookon How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules

As an average-looking man from an average family, if I want to attract a woman I need to be successful. The more successful I become, the higher quality of woman I can get.

For a woman, extra career success will not boost her attractiveness in the same way it will for me.

This is a huge incentive. If women don't have the same incentives to work hard as men, how can they achieve the same level of success?

CptJamesCookon How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules

Don't forget about sanitation work.

CptJamesCookon London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup

The true alt-right is tiny. Well, since alt-right has been defined to include white supremacy, anyway.

The left is huge.

CptJamesCookon London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup

The left has been teaching people to believe they are victims for more than a decade now. That's why they search for injustice.

CptJamesCookon London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup

There have been dozens of articles written about rich "immigrant founders" the past few weeks.

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/02/01/study-immigrant-st...

http://fortune.com/2017/01/30/tech-immigrant-founders/

https://hardavenue.com/immigrant-founders-trump-muslim-ban/

etc

CptJamesCookon Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field?

Interesting though.

If a women isn't a CEO or engineer, we assume women are unfairly being discriminated against. If a women isn't a low value job, we assume they aren't biologically ideal for it.

CptJamesCookon Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field?

Good point. I got the data from here: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf

CptJamesCookon Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field?

Women also make up a low percentage of janitors, coal minors, construction workers, and landscapers.

CptJamesCookon 1 Funded Immigrant Founder = 159 U.S. Jobs

Yes, but for every job created in SV, 5 are probably wiped out in middle america lol

CptJamesCookon First they came for the Iranians

I agree. But I am far more outraged at our government getting involved in foreign wars and dropping bombs all over the world than I am in them not letting people into the country from countries we are bombing. I think most people would have the same feeling if they thought about it carefully.

CptJamesCookon First they came for the Iranians

People seem more upset that Trump is not letting people into the country than that Obama has been dropping bombs on 6 of these countries.

I'm not wild about the Trump immigration ban on these countries, but I really, really hope he ends these wars.

CptJamesCookon Contact Ben Horowitz for $20

I will pay $25 if someone can get me unbanned from Paypal. My mom and I were banned back in 2003.

CptJamesCookon Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and childless (1981)

Scottsdale is wonderful.

CptJamesCookon Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook [pdf]

The engineer who built this, Lior Abraham, went on to start data analytics startup Interana (YC W13).

CptJamesCookon You Will Soon Be Able to Buy a Car at Walmart

Give it a year. He was implying that he would never buy a car again for the rest of his life!

CptJamesCookon Track Trump: The First 100 Days

I think it's a truly great plan. This list of policies is the the main reason I supported Trump despite his... unusual... behavior.

CptJamesCookon You Will Soon Be Able to Buy a Car at Walmart

Tesla sells cars with a flat, non-negotiable price. And you can buy it online. The model 3 is somewhat affordable.

CptJamesCookon Ask HN: What inspires you to persevere through adversity?

If you are a man, you don't have a choice but to persevere. Society doesn't care about you if you are a poor, unsuccessful man.

CptJamesCookon About 700 Microsoft employees will be laid off next week, sources say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...

Leaving off energy companies, 9 out of the top 16 companies are American.

4.5% of the world's population, ~55% of the world's great companies.

I'm sure at will employment alone wouldn't crush the American economy. But it'd be a hit to it.

CptJamesCookon About 700 Microsoft employees will be laid off next week, sources say

I think it's because of our capitalist economy, a significant portion of which is the ability to hire and fire employees based on performance.