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It’s not as dire in NYC unless you’re exclusively considering Manhattan. And even in Manhattan it’s relatively “affordable” if you’re willing to live in the 160s+. Significantly less than people think, at least.

The number of people chiming in on this article proclaiming food preferences as "wrong" or "correct" is truly astounding. No, my preferences aren't wrong. No, yours aren't wrong either. Food preferences are personal.

The only thing "wrong" here is all the people chiming in to tell others that their differing preferences are incorrect.

> Vegetarian here, you're wrong.

Legitimately laughing out loud at this response. You're sitting there at your keyboard telling other people that their food preferences are wrong? Seriously? No one is going to take you seriously if you can't acknowledge the basic premise that food preferences are personal opinions.

"Food is all about personal preference"

>why would anyone go through the motions to have fake chicken when you have multitudes of vegetarian options

Because meat tastes better, and I want it. If I can have that taste without an animal involved then it’s all the better. If not then I’ll continue eating meat.

Vegetarians and vegans just don’t seem to understand this. Food is all about personal preference but the extreme majority of people eat and enjoy meat. They enjoy it because they find it delicious. If people felt vegetarian options were as delicious as meat we wouldn’t be having these discussions.

People who don’t have a taste preference for meat are obviously not the target for plant based meat.

>If the West European allies are not that important then the US should plow ahead, but the consequence will be those countries will look elsewhere for partners.

This comment brought to you by the year 2008. Europe did look elsewhere for partners, and cozied up with Russia.

I can’t wait to see how Europeans shoot themselves in the foot this time.

Let’s see one for wind power, then. OP implies wind is an order of magnitude cheaper.

It crops up because people give these absurdly misleading cost estimates for adding incremental wind power to the grid. You can’t have wind power without spending money on an equivalent amount of reliable power, and no one wants to include those required costs in their estimates. This tends to dramatically understate the actual economics of wind.

There will always be firearms. You can make them illegal but you can't make them stop existing. This is the fundamental problem with these types of suggestions. Switch to bow, it's safer! ...but the criminals (and anyone else) will keep using firearms. Comically absurd idealism about society and the world.

> What needs to be done is not to eliminate those actors, but rather to make our bodies resilient to potentiel pathogens.

If we expose ourselves to these pathogens and wait a few thousand years we might naturally evolve to be resilient.

…otherwise I have no idea what you’re proposing here. You can’t just decide to be resilient. Pathogens kill people. They don’t die because they lacked willpower.

This seemed so absurdly impossible that I had to look it up. I went to Edmunds and sure enough the 5-year TCO for a 2022 LR Model 3 is $115k. The 5-year TCO for a 2022 LE AWD Prius is $69k.

The Model 3 is ridiculously expensive. Base price RWD $47k. You can get into a Prius for $25k. At 58mpg there will never be a breakeven for the Model 3. Economics will be different with this upcoming $7,500 tax credit, but that obviously doesn't apply to any current owners.

There are better competitors entering the market, but none can really compare to a Model S. The upcoming Hyundia Ionic 6 will likely be the industry leader, but it hasn't released in the US and last I checked didn't have US pricing, either.

What a hilarious and asinine way to torpedo your own brand. It seems that Mercedes and BMW want to be known as the "Spirit Airlines of electric cars."

...except at least Spirit Airlines is cheap. The Mercedes EQS sedan starts at $102k for relatively middling performance of 5.9s 0-60 and range of 350 milse. I have no doubt that the EQS is a more luxurious car, but the Tesla Model S is $105k for significantly better performance of 3.1s 0-60 and better range at 405 miles.

I doubt anyone is cross-shopping a Model 3 against a Mercedes, but the economics are almost comical in favor of the 3. Model 3 $63k for 3.1s 0-60 and 315 miles of range.

I can only wonder who would buy this. Pay a significant premium for a Mercedes and then stuck with a $100/month subscription? I'd love to hear from someone who is into this, and why.

He did. He directly said it was a hack in an interview with Vox.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...

Sure, but that’s just handwaving away the question. He made an effort to reach out to a journalist and reinforced the hack narrative.

SBF publicly lied about this and called it a hack. If it was all aboveboard why would he have done that?

Pardon my ignorance, but why would used car prices necessarily impact a used car dealer? Surely these dealers have to pay more to buy these cars and so their margins should be unchanged? Or is the issue that they are buying used cars and prices are falling so fast that their margins are shrinking?

Granny Smith is a trash tier Apple. The skin is inedible and it is absurdly sour. It's only edible if you peel the skin, cut it up, ...and bake it in something else. Alternatively peel the skin, and dip it into something such as peanut butter. By itself, it's trash tier.

I don't know why the CPSC has singled out Onewheel. If they're going to try and regulate this new class of mobility they need to do better than phoning it in. This feels just as random and absurd as the clampdowns on Juul. Don't buy Juul, but do feel free to buy flavored nicotine from these thousands of other less scrupulous vendors.

There are absurdly under braked e-bikes with 30+ mph motors, electric scooters with 40+ mph motors, "unicycles" with 40+ mph motors, and even competing "onewheel" type products. Based on the arguments provided in the linked article these are all worthy of regulation. I disagree with the premise, but if they're going to regulate one they should regulate all.

House price to media income ratio has breached 7x twice in the last 70 years in the US. The first was the 2008 housing bubble. The second is the time period we’re in right now.

Make of that what you will.

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

We will need many scientific breakthroughs for battery to be viable for non-personal transportation. Then there’s industry, construction, agriculture, etc. These areas of the economy are responsible for about 50% of emissions. We need hydrogen. Not for cars, but for everything else.

Passenger vehicles account for about 16% of greenhouse gas emissions. Electric power is another 25%. The rest is industry, commercial & residential, agriculture, and other forms of transportation. It is these areas of the economy which will need hydrogen.

You'll probably die of old age before there is even a whisper of a battery powered passenger plane the scale of a 787. But you may live to see a hydrogen powered passenger plane.

NYC spent $2.4 billion to extend one subway line 1.5 miles. I’m only jokingly suggesting this, but that’s enough to buy about 5 million electric scooters in a city of 8.5 million people.

The stock has recovered 60% of the maybe-Twitter-related losses. The stock lost 5% of its value on November 11th, and recovered 60% of that to date which means the maybe-Twitter-related drop in value is 40% of 5%, or 2%.

However, Friday also saw a broad drop in pharma stocks. If I'm quite generous I'd say 50% of that 2% can be attributed to the Twitter tomfoolery.

Rivian has produced about 14,000 cards YTD and they seem to be on-pace for annualized production of 25,000 cars. That's not an overall impressive number, but getting a car company off the ground seems quite difficult and capital intensive. Rivian seems likely to survive. Some of the others... not so much.

>But it is difficult to "print" more cryptocurrency.

Except it's not. It's trivially easy. Any exchange (or person/entity) can mint a coin, and FTX collapsed in-part because they were backed by their own coin.

Ah the “No True Scotsman” fallacy.

No true crypto enthusiasts would use a centralized exchange. If they’re using an exchange, they must not be a true crypto enthusiast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

> Improve. Your. Algorithm.

These established sites are now designed to show you content most profitable to them, not the content you’re most likely to like.

This is why YouTube will endlessly recommend news videos to me. I’ve never watched a news video on YouTube, and any time I see it on my “Home Screen” I flag it as “Don’t show me this.” Is the algorithm comically idiotic? No, it’s trying to shove profitable (for them) content down my throat.

These platforms are fundamentally broken and we’re just waiting around for the actual implosion.

8% YoY would indeed be a comical amount of inflation. I don't believe shadowstats is implying such an increase.

The reason people don't believe the official CPI numbers is because the CPI numbers are not properly weighted for life or dollar impact. If we look from 1970 the price of health care has increased 54x, a new house has increased 19x, and annual tuition has increased 25x. If the price of milk increases 19x what do I care? I'll just stop buying milk. I don't want to stop being alive, I need a place to live, and I want and need an education.

Even the numbers they do include seem gamed or fake. Shelter shows a 6.9% increase year over year, but the price of houses is up 17% over that same period and the price of rent is up 12-30%. I'm sure there is some ling winded explanation for how shelter excludes such and such thing, but it just loudly screams bullshit for many (most?) Americans.

>And see that consumer goods/services can't have increased by that much or otherwise everyone would be destitute...

I think people are pretty destitute to be honest.

Startup? There are dozens of public companies on the list. You cease to be a startup when you IPO, direct list, or SPAC. At a glance I saw Twitter, Lyft, Affirm, OpenDoor, and Zillow. Probably numerous others.

This site really loses its value by including public company layoffs alongside actual tech startups.

>But it seems strange to argue that Germany just should have bought gas from Qatar or the US for double the price from the start.

That was never on the table. The US doesn’t even have the export capacity to manage it.

Germany should have pursued energy independence for the the European Union. It’s as simple as that.