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You can live in a similar house with great schools in the east bay for 800k so that's about $4000 payment, very doable to live comfortably and even save up a bit making $160k/year.

Really easy to just click away and before you know it an hour has passed. If you're into this type of thing check out Game Dev Story from Kairosoft (same but you're building a game company).

Yes! My previous (A6) and current (S6) Audi's can basically do the same (and could for years!) without all the hype. Whenever I show it to friends they seem to be amazed it's possible and, until then, thought only Tesla was capable of such a feat.

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But isn't he part of the problem then? He has a big mouth but just as entitled and 'elite' as everyone else, except he lacks all the good traits of a leader. Whenever something doesn't go his way he resorts to acting like a 5 yr old. He is a joker of a businessman let alone let him run a country?!

Regardless of political affiliation, it baffles me a person like Trump can get even close to being president. Disclosure: I'm European and not allowed to vote in the US (yet)

I'm not in sales, however in my current role I get to talk to a lot of sales people and it seems that most of them don't (and don't have time to) use any fancy tools at all, especially the successful ones.

Also the last two companies I worked with were in the process of switching from SF to MS Dynamics. Not exactly sure to why, but seemed like one of those cases where the people at the top made the 'deal' and later people who actually had to use realized it didn't work for them.

Most of Trumps demographic doesn't read outlets like HBR unfortunately (or won't read at all).

Every enterprise I have worked at/with had Salesforce, but I've never seen or heard about anyone use it. (What do they even do?) I feel like it's one of those companies that's good at selling but not really building product(s) people actually use. Not sure same can be said about Oracle, I worked at many corporations where the tech teams were using Oracle DBs for simple 1-page microsites.

Doesn't surprise me at all. I have stopped using Yelp for recommendations and went back to asking locals whenever I'm traveling. Not only is their search algorithm terrible (seems completely arbitrary to how or why places do/don't show up), the reviews and ratings seem to be a completely random and often times unreliable.

Part of the issue is that it's an oversimplified rating that doesn't allow for refinement. I can't recall how many times I see a place that has really good food only getting 3 stars because people don't like "the ambience" or the "service is slow" - two things that I, for example, don't care about as much.

I know that place! It's been the same restaurant but with different names for, what feels like, every few months from 2011 until about 2013 when I moved out of the city.

I first thought it was a front for something shady, but now it makes sense to why they kept changing their name so often!

Is it? Tesla has been mass producing cars with that range since 2012 now.

GM being able to put the same range on a $30k car is just batteries getting cheaper.

I give credit to GM for being able to scrape its parts bin for the last 4 years to come out with a car that's slightly better than the 5 year old Leaf. However it still shows a company that is clueless about the future and has no real plan or vision other than producing a "me too" product made out of bits and pieces of other, subpar, disposable Chevys.

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I'm genuinely amazed every time there's an Apple keynote and people act this surprised. With every major new release Apple has been taking away legacy and pushing forward, often compromising compatibility.

Why is this being removed? If anything, it's a great satirical rant about aspects of our industry that I found refreshing to read and break up my day.

"First of all, I negotiated an opportunity to work from home at my full-time job so I wouldn't have to be in the office all day long."

I feel like this is key. I've been an entrepreneur for the first 10 or so years of my professional career and have had multiple businesses that I started out of the first one because I had so much flexibility managing my own time. Due to a number of circumstances I've been working away at a corp office for the last 3 years and only now I realized how hard it is to do anything "on the side" after spending most of the productive hours of the day in your boss' office.

I know, I know, I could bring my personal laptop and take long breaks throughout the day to work on side projects but aside from any moral considerations it's practically really hard to schedule calls, trying to not get noticed, being kicked out of meeting rooms, etc. In my mind, being able to work from home and set your own schedule is such a huge plus to kickstart a side business/project.

"Of course, having a live, networked, corporate-controlled mic in your bedroom, living room and toilet is an idea that is so unbelievably terrible on its face that you could use it as the introduction to a term paper in 2040 explaining how human civilization nearly collapsed in the early 21st century."

This was the highlight of the article for me.

I think it stems from this 2005 conference that basically concluded that at below 400ppm, it would be unlikely that temperatures would rise by more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and most serious consequences of global warming may be avoided.

"Among the conclusions reached, the most significant was a new assessment of the link between the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the increase in global temperature levels. Some researchers have argued that the most serious consequences of global warming might be avoided if global average temperatures rose by no more than 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial levels (1.4 °C above present levels)"

"The conference concluded that, at the level of 550 ppm, it was likely that 2 °C would be exceeded, according to the projections of more recent climate models. Stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations at 450 ppm would only result in a 50% likelihood of limiting global warming to 2 °C, and that it would be necessary to achieve stabilisation below 400 ppm to give a relatively high certainty of not exceeding 2 °C."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoiding_Dangerous_Climate_Cha...

Exactly, what I mean by doesn't add up is not sustainable long term. I really wonder in 1-2 years from now when all these EVs flood the market. 3 year old Leafs already sell for 6-7k, crazy!

Yes scrapping is a bit extreme and I'm sure someone will buy them for way below the residual value but I just used it to get the point across of the economics of these cheap leases. It just doesn't add up.

In the case of these ultra cheap EVs the bank is the financing arm of the manufacturer. Of course no normal financial institution will take such a loss but because of CAFE regulations the only way they can kee selling high profit margin, gas guzzling SUVs is by offering these 'highly sponsored' EVs.

You're comparing a 100k luxury Tesla with a $80/month lease. Yes I understand the EV market is maturing and will find more niches while it develops but least not ignore the reality of the $49/month EV (yes you can lease a Golf EV at my local VW dealer for that little). See my other comment on how these leases work and why they're not economically sustainable. There's also the issue of California's EV credits that force every manufacturer to have an EV. Why do you think Fiat sells the 500 EV? Not because the couple thousand they sell a year are worth it economically, I can say that much.

Let me explain how these leases work, MSRP for OPs Chevy Spark EV is in the 25k ball park, lessen the 7k government incentives is 18k. If OP is paying 80/mo (we don't know if that payment includes sales tax but let's say even if it doesn't) that's 2880 paid over a typical 3 year/10k mile a year lease. So now the balance on the car is 15k. Looking at cars.com a comparable EV Nissan Leaf (Spark EVs haven't been around for that long) 3 years old with 30k miles are going for 7-10k range. Now who do you think pays for that difference? And that's even assuming these cars all can be sold. Scraping is a bit extreme but is definitely not unheard of. The issue with EVs is that where most ICE cars can be sold at auction and exported to other countries, EVs aren't desirable to that market since there's a lack of infrastructure for them to be usable in, let's say, Latin America or Africa.

Hate to say it but this is part of the problem. There's nothing sustainable about these manufacturer/government sponsored lease deals. California is the biggest offender with the largest incentives and unreal regulations. A car is a long term consumer good, the energy that goes into building one outweighs the 2-3 year leases these cars are offered at loss prices. What happens when these leases are up? Most owners will walk, because why pay big bucks to buy out the car if you can get into another one for $50/month. These cars will end up being bought back en masse by the manufacturers and it's a big question what will happen then. Very likely to be scraped and, again, lots of energy wasted. All thanks to Californias EV credit system.

Edit: lol downvote all you want, the reality won't change. If you understand the economics of these leases (see my other comment) you'll see it too...

What companies have you seen/interacted with lately that have a good chance of taking IoT to mass adoption that are worth watching for?

Working remotely to me is not as much as work in office vs. work at home but being more accountable for you work and, as a result, being more productive.

The notion of working remotely forces us to rethink how we measure productivity and I feel the most push back comes from people who just realized they have little or nothing to contribute in this new environment and become fearful for their position.

To me, it's completely in line with the new economy where just having one skill is not enough anymore. If you want to be good at something, you need to constantly be entering new areas in order to bring enough value for companies to provide you a paycheck. For a very long time, just showing up to your job was good enough and I think it's a great thing this mentality has started to shift.

Welcome to todays walled entertainment gardens. Amazon thinks their Fire TV or Stick is superior to Apple TV (or any other product) and why would you want an Apple TV anyway? (sarcasm)

Nope, up until earlier this year I worked in the 'innovation lab' of a top 3 US bank, that was supposedly leading in the banking API space (one of current hottest payment companies uses our backend/wholesale services) and we only offer APIs to big customers and not public, let alone a sandbox environment. My impression with all the regulatory and compliance issues it will take a long time (if ever) that banks will release such tools publicly. By that time hopefully someone will figure out a better system to bypass altogether...

EDIT: Yes, there are aggregators who have agreements with banks, but I believe the OP asked for directly accessing a bank's API, which I believe is not possible with the exception of some beta programs here and there that gives access to some non trivial bank data.

Not sure where you got that from but 'sustainable energy' production (includes more than just wind, but safe to say that in our country is mostly wind) was only 3.9% in 2009. The government set a goal of 20% by 2020. So no, we are still mostly reliant on other forms of electricity.

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windenergie

We looked at financing through some of those new 'hip' lenders. My wife works for Google and SoFi had some of the highest rates (even with 'Google discount' and 10/20% down). They may get your pre-approval within a day, but in reality most lenders get that done quickly. In the end, they have to play the game everyone else is playing and it means long turnaround times to actually close. This is the part that is fundamentally broken and really in need of 'disruption'.