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Software engineer, based in Brussels, Belgium.

I'm building http://shoptimate.com, http://exactsameroom.com and http://datafeedapi.com

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www.tesla.com 5y ago

Tesla launches $199/mo FSD subscription

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nymag.com 5y ago

We had the vaccine the whole time

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edition.cnn.com 6y ago

Cirque du Soleil files for bankruptcy and cuts 3,500 jobs

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techcrunch.com 6y ago

Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

DJI Won the Drone Wars, and Now It’s Paying the Price

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finance.yahoo.com 6y ago

We should celebrate the end of the unicorn

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

Tesla’s Model 3 Tops Dutch Demand to Become Best-Selling Car

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www.ft.com 6y ago

Apple to Launch Cut-Price iPhone

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www.marketwatch.com 7y ago

There’s one major U.S. city where making $100k may not even cover basic bills

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uk.businessinsider.com 9y ago

Uber 2016 financial numbers

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www.forbes.com 9y ago

Here Is Marissa Mayer's Final Letter to Yahoo Employees

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recode.net 10y ago

Jet.com Overhauls Business Model, Kills $50 Membership Fee to Broaden Appeal

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www.lyricfind.com 13y ago

Gracenote merges their lyrics business with LyricFind

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money.cnn.com 13y ago

Ancestry.com to be sold for $1.6 billion

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translate.google.com 13y ago

Sparrow acquired by Google to avoid acqhire by Facebook

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www.engadget.com 13y ago

Acer phone to use OS made by Alibaba

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www.businessweek.com 13y ago

California Says Tax Revenue ‘at Risk’ From Facebook Drop

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www.businessweek.com 14y ago

Target will stop selling Kindle. Keeps selling iPad and Nook

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www.bloomberg.com 14y ago

Apple Dividend May Return Part of $98B Cash

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www.engadget.com 14y ago

Apple can't use the name iPad in China

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www.engadget.com 14y ago

Rakuten buys Kobo

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chrome.google.com 15y ago

Show HN: Chrome extension to compare prices in France

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fr.techcrunch.com 15y ago

Crowd funding music label Spidart.com post-mortem [in French]

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blogs.hbr.org 15y ago

The guys who predicted the rise of e-commerce in 1967

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www.computerworld.com 15y ago

Did Google push Schmidt aside over Facebook challenge?

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blog.sourcefully.com 15y ago

Market research for startups with limited resources

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www.appsumo.com 15y ago

AppSumo: Optimizely (YC W10) Lifetime Bronze for $17

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com 15y ago

Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

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techland.com 15y ago

Why Facebook Deals is bad for Foursquare

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There is no state intervention. Depending on market conditions, a 30 years fixed can have a higher rate than 25 years.

It’s basically hedged with long term bonds (Belgian or European) + a profit margin for the bank + risk based on your profile (age, health, employment history, …)

I guess UK banks are just hedging with shorter term bonds compared to Belgian ones.

With your system, if I live somewhere flat and I go to the mountains, I will be out of juice during the climb. Tesla has a battery indicator in percentage and the navigation which is pretty accurate. Your ICE car has a gauge for the tank and an estimation of range.

Tesla should probably not allow you to show the battery as range as it will always be inaccurate and people will complain. But if they only show percentages, people complain as well.

The team behind Cowboy also has a history of going bankrupt and not doing the right thing. Their previous venture was a Uber Eats competitor and they took the end user’s money until the end but never paid the restaurants nor the deliverers. That’s the main reason why I can’t get myself to buy one their bike. But it seems Van Moof wasn’t any better.

Not exactly what you need but I think it may be close.

I’m running a SaaS turning affiliate platform content into an API which can be looked up by EAN13 : https://datafeedapi.com

Current users are publishers wanting to display affiliate links on their website but I could probably repurpose it for a more generic product search API without the affiliate links and different pricing. If anyone is interested, you can reach me at patrick_[at]_datafeedapi.com

Doc is here : https://datafeedapi.com/api/v1/redoc/

There are multiple tiers to Starlink (residential, RV, boat, plane, …). I don’t think Ukraine gets the most basic plan with limited bandwidth and meant for stationary dishes.

If I understood correctly some are used as a backbone for their internet infrastructure and some on the field on moving vehicles. The $110 plan wouldn’t cover those use cases.

or have a Funded Account to be included in MAU

If you have a balance of $1, wouldn’t you be counted as an active user ?

It sounds to me that an active user is someone with funds or that interacted with the app/website while logged in. I’m not sure the second category made much sense to begin with (unless you wanted to inflate the numbers during a bull run)

The ground heat pumps are not used in the opposite direction, it doesn't cool down water to the floor but it flows water at 10-15C into your floor. According to the installers I've talked to here in Belgium, all the ground heat pumps devices are capable of doing that.

While this might not be needed in Sweden, it's more interesting further south. I live in Belgium and we had a long heatwave this summer and they predict more of those in the coming years. So cheap efficient cooling might turn out useful here (even if nobody had AC systems 20 years ago)

Ground heat pumps provide free cooling in the summer for a very limited amount of electricity as the ground will be at 10-15C (depending on where you live) so you don't need to use the compressor and just make the liquid flow to cool down your house.

It also has the extra benefit of heating up your ground for the winter period.

That car is probably very inefficient as it's not very aerodynamic. If you need that van, you probably need the 75kWh version.

If you don't have many kids, you should probably look at cars that are only electric and designed for it: Tesla, Polestar, VW ID.3/4, Skoda Enyaq, Volva XC40 Recharge, ... You'll get better regenerative break which means that you'll recharge your battery when going downhill and better efficiency.

Without any changes to your home, you can charge your car at 3.6kW and there might be public chargers at 11kW around where you live and shop. I've spent a few weeks with a Tesla Model 3 SR+ (50kW battery) in the mountains of the Val d'Anniviers (Valais) where I couldn't charge at the chalet and I didn't have any issue to drive around and find chargers.

I honestly fail to see the issue. Running diesel generators to handle peak demand may not be the greenest move but it was likely the best move before they could come up with a better solution. Should they have left users stranded because they couldn't charge ?

What did you expect from Tesla powerwall ? It's another use of the same battery tech they had in their cars allowing them to use the same supply to build two products. Most of the added value of the powerwall is in the software and the battery management, not in the form-factor of the batteries. I suppose most home batteries are just repackaging batteries used in other industries.

Oh, 2022 5 years ago

Some cities in Europe are already banning old petrol and diesel cars from driving through them. With plans to ban more over time.

are cars really going from one customer to another after an hour or so ?

Otherwise you don’t need to have superchargers, you can just use a normal charger which is a few hundreds dollars, probably less at the scale of Hertz.

Reports are saying Hertz paid close to MSRP so they probably have around 20% margin (as Q3 margin overall was 28%)

Makes little sense for Tesla to sell at low margin when they are supply constrained.

As far as I know, Keepa is not an Amazon affiliate. They used to be and got kicked out like many similar tools around 5 years ago.

They moved to the current model of providing an API for Amazon data (which seems to use the extensions users to scrape data).