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I think your wife is right. I have a tesla and I always think about that indicating something. Also Tesla's are so ubiquitous it doesn't matter that much like it used to be, and you can get a used one for pretty cheap. But that rich guy reputation still persists.

And then now that we have Elon Musk following the Howard Hughes self destructive cycle (greatest video game player AND ceo of 5 companies who posts all day on social media), there's a very possible negative takeaway - especially in tech it's hard to know. I live in a ridiculous world, I actually see 'got mine before elon was a doofus' bumper stickers. We should all try to judge each other on actual behavior and choices. I'm an asshole completely separate from buying a tesla a decade ago, people.

And also, the customer has the money and gets to make a choice. Sure, supply and demand is a real thing. But there is also a notion of friction blocking the sale. Everyone absolutely hates considering a new purchase that doesn't give you clarity on details and price.

So that CTO says I'm probably not going to bother with you if you don't have a clear price. I also practice this purchasing way. Everyone should. So sure, someone in sales will fight to the death to justify their strategy of obfuscation and charging what the market will bear, and to try to justify their presence in the sales process with some kind of commission and argument about how they caused pain for the buyers and got more money. Meanwhile, company B sold me a widget for whatever, I already paid them, there was no salesperson wasting time on either side.

It still sounds like they are spouting bullshit. Their credentials lower my respect, they seem like the kind of things that impress an idiot "thought leader in ai".

Where is the place that mid level software engineers think there are not good career prospects and they'd get paid more? I can only guess it's a place where there aren't many dev jobs. My experience is in the Seattle area and we are begging for people to even apply for jobs. There are 10,000 jobs easily in Seattle. My company would love to grow its dev force 50% and we can only get people by hiring them away from another company (perhaps an obvious comment :-)), and by hiring new college grads.

If your job is working you too hard, with not enough pay, then people here get another job. It seems harder to high people with some experience at my company anyway. New college grads make 120k+ at top companies (we are a startup but not a unicorn, we pay a little more than that).

But that's a clearly inaccurate view. The cars work, very well. They have sold mass numbers, in opposition to car dealers, conservative oil and gas industry opposition, the automotive industry. They have little maintenance (far less than regular cars). They seem pretty safe overall. I've owned a number of high quality cars, such as an audi s4, and my tesla since 2012 (7 years ago they had all this stuff!) has worked well. These cars are made and driven by humans, so there will be some mechanical problems, people with crash them occasionally, they are filled with energy and can catch on fire occasionally.

Did they terminate other people's tickets? The interesting article does mention booking the extra seat and not using it.

Your example illustrates to me why moral hazard isn't the best title for this. We should provide free housing to people in need so they don't do things like commit a crime to go to jail.

GMs big ev promise was that it would have real competitors in volt and bolt, that kind of didn't get there.

Gee, sounds like tesla pushing prices up or down all the time.

The US isn't in the same league. We have independent and trustworthy federal police (the fbi). They are under attack by the president but they are more trustworthy than I ever realized in general. I don't see political investigations of opponents of the govt, like happens commonly in China. I don't see endemic corruption.

4 more years till that 2013 plan reaches the 10 year threshold.

Who else came here to hear about Pickle Rick?

There is nonneglible cost in the pack. Tesla's have heating and cooling and individual battery wiring. Not sure of the cost difference, maybe 10%more wag

If you follow the area there are continuing new tech every month that are better than lithium but nothing ever comes to market.

Tesla is already at $100-150/kwh.

It wasn't like foreign autos weren't successful in the us until 5-10 years ago. BMW, Audi, VAG were not just suddenly crushing us companies.

Said another way, she works for an organization that supports extremely dubious scientific anti-global warming 'research'. I won't repost the other postings by people up above that were basically saying transgender people don't exist, or shouldn't exit.

She hated on trans people. And science.

Another potential bribe to get someone into a prestigious school. This one is interesting because the student seems well qualified and had a brother already at Harvard. The father bought his son's potential future fencing coach's house for about $350k over its estimated value, and then sold it a year later for a loss of around that much money.

I didn't go to a prestigious school; indeed they paid me to go there! (because I had a scholarship). This is years later, should these probably innocent kids lose their degree? Your life is ruined if that happens. I didn't get into Harvard but somehow I managed to work at the FANGs, lead teams, get advanced degrees etc.

That may be true, but I missed out on wild sex, drugs, rock and roll. And woodstock. :-)

My whole adult life I wished I was living in a repeat of the 60s. Not because of the war or turmoil, sexism, racism, murder of people like MLK (sounds bad when you put it that way), but because of the freedom, the sense that america was moving forward. We didn't have our best days behind us. I never had that in my adult life.

Yeah, this is better than their initial "what, me worry" response. They should just own up to their screw up. They will owe giant fines and be sued. Their reputation is what is more important long term. Own up to the change.

Rich people shouldn't just push legislation that benefits them. It's clearly a negative to our country. ALEC has already shown they are not helping things. One prominent example is their legislation that makes it illegal for communities to build their own internet access, regardless of how undeserved they are. This does no one any good, except for the comcasts of the world.

ALEC is evil, like the Koch brother's legislative activities, evil in that they only serve the interests of wealthy monied groups, perpetuating their power.

It was the end of the 60s, people! My personal experience of that time was that my dad was in his heyday, he worked at IBM as an engineer. I remember seeing equipment like that in the early 70s when I visited him at work. People dressed in flamboyant clothes, had long hair, a lot more counter-cultural acceptance, in certain circles at least.

You can buy an orca card for $5 and then add money on it at multiple places.

That is so important, you lose they win. I never thought of it this way. So many poor incentives.

I think there's huge potential for patented ui patterns to follow the same problematic sequence as regular patents - patent trolls, and the "it's like xyz, but on a computer". yes, there were brilliant ideas in the original iphone, but there were also repurposed things from other domains.

If I am a super rich person like the founder of intellectual ventures (world's greatest patent trolls), I could just have a team of 100 people iterate through many different design possibilities (there are some things with only so many solutions) and patent them all, and then they could get a tax on the whole industry. Need a file chooser control, we own all potential ones.

Would it also be covered if they didn't fix their infrastructure after they knew it had problems and someone external stole 6500 tax returns? It should.

are there even subsidies left on solar on commercial installations?

This whole scenario just seems to follow the rich businessman influence industry. When people start investigating you too closely, then take over or influence the agencies investigating you. Start by giving tons of money to your party leaders. Then step by step get regulators replaced or co-opted.