adamcstephens

My 2018 Q5 is extremely quiet. When I drove an etron loaner, I noticed the artificial sound it makes, but it was otherwise quiet as well.

To be clear, I hope Tesla fails in everything they do. That wasn’t really the point I was making though.

Obviously 7 million people didn’t move there over the course of this year. If that’s what you thought I was getting at, I’m not surprised you were confused. Conditions have changed, but are people reconsidering their own decisions?

And where does your water come from?

Given the size of Phoenix, people don’t give a fuck about their resource use.

Just because lots of people made the same decision doesn’t make it smart or reasonable.

I feel like this being in the open is par for course nowadays. Sponsors, and indirectly through the broadcasters, hold enormous power over modern sports. Coca-Cola is spending some millions of dollars on this campaign, and it’s a bad look when the players actively diminish their product. Ronaldo is one of the most popular players in the world, if not the most, and kids look up to him. They can’t have this, and I’m sure execs were immediately calling their buddies at UEFA.

I side with Ronaldo, drink more water and not the sugary stuff.

One of the huge advantages to the US/Saudi collaboration is the pricing of oil in dollars. The supply helped for a time, and we've weaned off it a bit through fracking, but that's a game of diminishing returns.

The worry for the US is if oil becomes priced in yuan and sold in yuan. It undermines the purchasing power of the US dollar while at the same time diminishing the effectiveness of US sanctions.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3128103/c...

The people who can fix things are the same people who benefit from the existing system. Why would we expect them to act against their interests?

Unless the incentives for Amazon are changed, I don’t see AI making a difference.

Republicans are a problem, but so are Democrats. We need more than two parties.

Corporatism in practice is an oligarchy. The people at the top decide the fate of everyone lower than them. In some companies it is effectively a monarchy, as a sole person is driving the decisions.

I have a good number of years in my career, and even still think remote work is an uphill battle. It’s not so bad if you started in an office, or visit frequently, but starting remote is challenging.

I think there are a percentage of people who love remote, but only because they’ve built the network and relationships prior to being full time remote. When they switch jobs they may find this to be challenging.

Except the quote isn’t about legal ownership it all. It’s about who has skin in the game, and who actually makes the company function.

The vast majority of shareholders have very little skin in the game, while the employees of the company absolutely have a lot of skin in the game. The employees depend on the company for their livelihood, whereas a shareholder is generally just trying to make money on their money.

How does what you describe not apply to non-college towns as well? There are slumlords in large cities too, that corrupt the local politicians too.

Much of the economic wealth of the last 40 years has gone to the coastal states, while draining from the middle of the country. The loss of manufacturing in the path towards financialization of the economy really hollowed out opportunities in states like Indiana and West Virginia. (Though West Virginia has always kinda been on the shitlist)

Here, I’ll help in case you don’t want to click on one of the two links in this post that bypass the paywall.

> At least two colleges — Purdue University and West Virginia University — are supporting programs for these remote workers

I suspect remote education is only enticing to a small percentage of students.

I’d even say go one step better and join a credit union. Less to worry about when you’re a member-owner of an organization that is focused on its members and community over corporate shareholders.

Both these groups have “facts” that they can point to support their claims. Facts aren’t some divine truth. They can and are used to support the narratives people tell in their stories. Sometimes the same facts are used to support different sides.

And yes, we tell stories because that’s a very basic way we communicate with each other. Just spouting facts at people in a narrative (how is this different than a story?) isn’t really received by most people.

edit: I see you’re saying that facts should just tromp “narratives”, but I stand by the rest of what I said.

Win10 Enterprise updates just fine for me against the public update servers.

Warehouses have a solution for that, which doesn’t require drug testing everyone. If you get injured, you’re required to immediately get a drug test. If you fail, you’re fired and they don’t have to cover anything.

Sure, AWD is great for some conditions. It’s not necessary for most, and with good tires a FWD can be just as safe. The problem is that full time AWD is less fuel efficient.

I drove one of the e-tron’s as a loaner while my car was being serviced. It felt heavy, and slow, but didn’t offer anything like the amount of space I’d expect from a wagon. More like a hatchback.

Until Subaru offers 2WD cars, they will be inefficient options. Why can’t we also have station wagons that are designed solely for the road?

Given the time it takes to build a nuclear reactor, this is a path we should have started 15 years ago.

Part of the beauty of the states having power is to be innovators. Federal laws will be the lowest bar possible, since it has to pass Congress and apply to all of the states.

Cars are loud even if the owner hasn’t made the exhaust louder. Just the sound of tires on pavement, when multiplied across a dozen or more cars, can be quite loud.

Uber and Lyft tackled local monopolies, sure, but not national or international ones. They also took a strategy of actively flaunting and breaking of laws in their growth. Not sure that’s a good form of disruption.

What monopoly did AirBnB tackle?

I’m guessing you’re suggesting PayPal went after Western Union? There are plenty of ways to exchange money though.

Would my point be better if I clarified the monopolies? Perhaps if we focus on national monopolies?

What VC money is going to challenge Facebook, Amazon or Google, or any area close to them?

https://financialpost.com/technology/inside-the-kill-zone-bi...

Regulations are the only reason Windows even exists. If had not been for government antitrust laws and their enforcement, IBM would have stifled the PC market before it even began.[1] The thing about these cases is that they don’t even have to fully succeed to open the space for competition. The case against Microsoft continued this trend, providing space for Google and the monopolies of today. So regulation isn’t just good for society, it’s necessary to ensure a competitive market.

Taxation ensures that all of society benefits as the collective wealth increases. It pays for shared resources, and provides for a shared safety net. Taxation isn’t confiscation, it’s the cost of doing business and thriving in a complex society. Trickle down and deregulation are awful policies that only destabilize.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/15/business/us-vsibm.html