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Well, I'd say it depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

If you don't agree with his political stance and and want to loosen his outsized influence on US democracy (e.g. by pouring hundreds of millions in political campaigns, silencing intra-GOP opposition by threatening to primary them with his money, using Twitter to push the fringe talking points of the day), then I would argue your goal should be reducing his net worth by refusing to buy from companies he's invested in.

If on the other hand, you're mostly criticizing that the quality of Tesla's cars suffers because the company doesn't get his full attention, it's a different story and your stance makes sense.

They can probably sell them to Russia or China a few years down the road at the current trajectory.

In fact, TSMC itself (never mind the Arizona plant) is the result of Taiwan's smart Industrial policy (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC#History).

The main need for this comes from the rise of China. Specifically, its rise in economic power and military capabilities make is so that 1) the US is no longer able to deter both Russia and China combined, but needs to prioritize China (its main geopolitical rival) and 2) Russia can openly engage in armed conflict without the fear of Western sanctions, as China will keep Russia's economy afloat (mainly via purchase of energy).

With Trump back in the White House there is an additional motivation for EU countries to up their military spending; at best the US is now viewed as a less reliable ally (that may or may not help in the face of conflict), at worst the US will align itself with autocratic regimes to divide up the world in their respective spheres of influence and actively undermine the EU.

So if you accept the premise that democracy (and the liberal, rule-based world order) is worthwhile defending, increased military spending of EU countries is in fact a "good thing" (as in, better than the alternative of submitting to imperialistic authoritarian neighbors).

It worked for the TSMC plant.

Part of it is likely backward compatibility.

I had pre-ordered a Model 3 way back (ended up not buying it since they didn't come out with the "cheap version" until years later) and was planning to eventually get a Tesla after my ICE car taps out.

Then it first slowly (never criticizing China or Russia), then quickly (making fun of Ukraine, going full MAGA) and eventually full steam (promoting Germany's anti-democratic far right AfD, the salute) it dawned on me that Elon doesn't give a damn about democracy (he is in fact throwing all his weight behind undermining it across the West).

I care a lot about it, even if it may mean slower progress in some aspects (say compared to China); a system for non-violent regime change is a precious, happy accident of history that's worthwhile defending.

Not buying a Tesla is the least I can do.

I upgraded all of my breakers to AFCI+GFCI. Worked flawlessly so far (about 6 months in).

The only two times where my AFCI tripped were 1) my blow-dryer shorted out due to a worn out cable (WAI) and 2) the PSU on my PC started tripping the AFCI (sent back to the manufacturer and got a replacement). So in both cases, at least for me, the AFCIs caught real problems.

Not a single trip of the GFCI function so far including vacuum, fride, and various power tools (and it's great peace of mind to have this with kids in the house).

Bravo, perfect summary of the issue at hand.

It'll be revealing to see which political actors come out in favor of keeping tiktok around.

And unfortunately for the West, manufacturing capacity translates to military capability in any prolonged conflict (which is why industrial policy and tariffs in dual use / strategic industries seem like the way to go)

Counter point, how is letting the primary adversarial power (which happens to be an authoritarian regime) massively influence the political views of the future generation a good idea? It sounds to me like the federal government is doing its job here.

My kid goes to school in LA. While in theory it's great that they get free food (breakfast, lunches etc), however, I'm absolutely shocked by how much sugar is in everything they offer to kids, in particular for breakfast.

Don't forget the funding of North Korea and organized crime.

I think a better indicator is market cap. Here AMD is about 2x that of Intel.

Fwiw, I had always been an AMD fan boy over the past 20 years as it felt right to support the underdog. I just bought an Intel last year for that very reason (and also to support Chip manufacturing in the US to maintain capacity in case of conflict in Taiwan).

I still have over one these and can confirm the doors open with the battery disconnected.

> Wouldn't it make more sense to try to develop your own production instead of trying to prevent import of someone else?

In a nutshell, what's happening here is that China is employing industrial policy strategically [1]. Drones are one example, but there are plenty of others like ship building, EVs, batteries, rare earths and many others [2].

The way this works is that industries are subsidized directly or indirectly to drive competition of the market and get to economies of scale. One sufficient scale is reached, it's very hard to for new companies to out-innovate incumbents (at least in capital intensive industries like manufacturing).

Now, to answer your question, protecting your domestic industry against unfair competition is giving local companies chance to innovate and establish domestic production - which in case of military conflict will play a decisive role [3] (noting that it doesn't have to be "domestic", but can be "friendshored" to allied countries, e.g. ship building in Korea and Japan).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_policy

[2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/11/america-industrialpolic...

[3] https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/were-not-ready-for-the-big-one

I bike to work every day (40 min one way) and drop off my kid at school on the way to work. Ironically my commute is about the best part of my day (and I learned during the pandemic that it's hard for me to establish that kind of habit without a forcing function).

I totally get that folks don't want to back to the office, but my advice is that, if you have to, try to turn it into something enjoyable (noting that I specifically moved to an area that's bike friendly).

Drones will dominate warfare going forward (see Ukraine). Having production capacity for drones concentrated in your primary geopolitical competitor country is a bad idea. Hence these policies (which make a lot of sense to me and equally apply to other fields like semiconductors).

Same here - I'm biking to work every day (in LA) and am feeling much more at ease when passing by a Waymo vs. average human driver.

IMHO we should start enforcing speed limits.

They're spending a lot on the sensors anyway, so they might as well invest in a super nice experience all around to make it worthwhile.

My mental model of rent control is that it's a policy of that favors those "that are already there" at the expense of "newcomers". A special case of this is favoring older generations vs. younger generations.

For instance, in Berlin I know people that have locked in a low rent on an old contract who chose to say in their rental despite owning real estate close by. So for them - who have been there for decades - rent is very affordable.

On the flipside, it's very common for dozens or close to a hundred people showing up for open houses when a new rental comes onto the market (still at the prescribed low rates!). Since landlords can freely choose between so many potential tenants they will pick high income, high stability tenants, making it very hard for younger or lower income folks to get into the rental market.

For me the trick is to fold exercise into my daily routine.

In particular, I bike to work (and drop off my son at preschool) everyday using an ebike. I live in Los Angeles and the route to work is 10 mi one way.

The one thing I would recommend is to actually live close to decent biking infrastructure, otherwise biking in traffic can be stressful. For me, there's a great bike trail along a water stream away from traffic which is great peace of mind.

I was responding the the parent's suspicion that Tesla is being targeted because they aren't a German company ("It looks like Tesla is facing the brunt because it's not a German company"). I don't think that's the case since these far left groups likely don't care too much about that, but rather the fact that the company is owned by the (now controversial) Musk.

German here. My interpretation of the situation is that Berlin tends to be pretty far left (compared with other parts of the country) and has an sizeable community of activists for various causes. Now, ever since Musk started his journey to the far right fringe, Tesla has increasingly lost sympathy / become a target of these left wing groups.

Chinese government censorship ;)

Maybe that's a good thing? I've been enjoying my "done" KDE Linux desktop for many years and actually don't want people to "move around my furniture" all the time.

+1, I recall reading a thread on this not too long ago. For me, the main, quite unfortunate, take-away was that a lot of the microplastics could actually stem from the filters of reverse osmosis systems.

See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38942293

Taleb's heuristic is to only consume foods that have a Latin name.