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

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

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.

Being good at golf.

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.

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

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.

This is an extremely difficult prediction to make.

"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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

You are exactly right

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

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.

This guy is such an intelligent speaker. The podcast is excellent.

Yes but have you seen the costs of infrastructure in the US?

Big business is bad but big government is bad too.

Because of competition. Your competitor who lowered prices by 1% would eventually drive you out of business.

There is a lagging effect, but these taxes are just a reduction in cost which eventually get passed to consumers. Assuming the market is competitive of course.

They have to be in park. At least in the US thats how mine is.

There is a Nathan for You episode of this that is quite brilliant.

Its more complicated than this because certainly their gross margin in $ is higher on the tri motor. However this adds complexity.

So, what you say is probably true but it has to be worth it given the extra complexity as well.

I bet 1 year after Tesla has Model Ys coming out of Giga Berlin Tesla's prices will really start to drop for base models. At this point they will finally not be so supply constrained.

Haha. I made an app to track comments to upvote ratio. Its usual a better interesting story indicator than anything else.

This logic is flawed because not all environmental issues are the same priority.

If you believe climate change is the biggest environmental issue, batteries could be significantly "dirtier" overall than alternatives as long as they contribute less to C02.

The deposit used to be $1k because they were short on cash. Now they are not.

What is better than cash if you don't need it? An accurate predictor of demand. This is likely what the small $100 deposit is for.