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New comment by spectrum1234 in "Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest"

spectrum1234 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:10:03 +0000

Economics was optional in high school. It was also extremely basic. It was quite basic in college and also never covered this.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Why diets backfire: A year after weight loss, the desire to eat grows (2018)"

spectrum1234 — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 02:16:49 +0000

Fasting should help keep the weight down. It takes your liver 2 weeks to adjust. This has helped me to stay less hungry.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Ask HN: Are the 2020s the decade of peak homogenisation?"

spectrum1234 — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 02:22:47 +0000

It's both actually.

To clarify, while there is more "good" TV now, through a mainstream view of any platform it really does all look like the same damn crap all over the place.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Ask HN: What talent do you wish you had?"

spectrum1234 — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:34:46 +0000

Being good at golf.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard"

spectrum1234 — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 21:24:15 +0000

Sure, but they are probably raising prices because their wholesale costs have increased. The didn't just get the idea to raise prices for no reason.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Used car market gets even more bizarre"

spectrum1234 — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 04:57:14 +0000

Hertz

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Slow Teslas everywhere: 24 hours into ‘the FSD button’"

spectrum1234 — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:51:48 +0000

This must be what they will be doing once they are farther along with the Dojo supercomputer. 100%

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Elon Musk admits Tesla car quality flaws, says mass production is “hell”"

spectrum1234 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 20:20:32 +0000

Except that there most commonly sold car is half that, plus maybe $500. Then if you factor in cost of ownership, which its crazy not too, subtract another $5000 or so.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap"

spectrum1234 — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:50:50 +0000

This is an extremely difficult prediction to make.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world"

spectrum1234 — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:14:30 +0000

"I sure wish a tech billionaire would do something about this. Their inaction on countless fronts, in fact their complacency in undermining progress on environmental causes in global politics, is one of the thousand reasons I got out of tech."

- Which industries (and organizations) are you still in at this point?

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Q2 2020 Update"

spectrum1234 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:54:57 +0000

No, their edge is their factories (manufacturing innovation). This is the real product. The cars don't really matter. Seriously.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Q2 2020 Update"

spectrum1234 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:51:59 +0000

To get their market cap you need to factor in solar, batteries, and self driving cars. Just FYI I think you are missing these.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Why companies struggle with recalcitrant IT"

spectrum1234 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 02:27:47 +0000

Yes paywall but please support The Economist. They are one of the few great news sources left.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging"

spectrum1234 — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 01:49:31 +0000

As an American with an EV this seems out of touch. I've lived downtown and in suburbs and gas stations have never been nearby.

Street parking needs EV charging and gas stations maybe need fast charging but not normal level 2 charging.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability"

spectrum1234 — Sat, 23 May 2020 07:35:39 +0000

This is going to make electric cars extremely cheap once the million mile battery is out. Probably at least 50% cheaper given the money you can make selling off peak electricity at peak prices.

Electricity costs by me since I switched to time of use are 4x as much on peak vs off. My Tesla costs about $6 for a full charge off peak. It seems like its easy to make (4-1)* 6 = $18 a day off of this the car as it home. Let's say $10 after conversion loss and battery wear, etc.

Once you buy any other hardware needed (I think they are $2k-4k now), this seems like free money. Worst case, car is home during peak 2 days a week and $10/day gain, $4k system: 2.5 year payback period and then $223/month income Best case, car is home during peak 5 days a week and $15/day gain $2k system: 26 week payback period and then $322/month income.

The best case over 10 years is worth $38,700.

However the biggest opportunity here is probably for Tesla to lease the battery to consumers. The car will be discounted significantly if you can plug in 3 days a week near peak usage.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets"

spectrum1234 — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:42:41 +0000

Why don't companies with lots of assets like airlines sell them? Companies without assets need some help, not airlines.

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW"

spectrum1234 — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 03:12:03 +0000

I just checked my garage. It looks fine. Which one of us is lying?

New comment by spectrum1234 in "James Lovelock: 'I Would Not Waste My Fortune on Colonizing Mars'"

spectrum1234 — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 03:04:10 +0000

You are exactly right

New comment by spectrum1234 in "Palindrome Day 20200202"

spectrum1234 — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 14:39:20 +0000

Today was my wife's due date. The baby came 10 days early though. It's been a great experience!

New comment by spectrum1234 in "The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done"

spectrum1234 — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 04:21:13 +0000

This is completely wrong. The biggest costs to tunnels is bureaucracy.

Simply using private funds without numerous contractors can decreases costs by an order of magnitude with no technological improvements.