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Gary Tan is a right wing tool, so this makes perfect sense.

Evangelicals have expectations of very strict gender roles in the traditional family. The “collapse” of the traditional family is why we have social and economic problems in the United States. Trans-women are the biggest threat to their ideas gender roles, so an important part of the right absolutely blames trans people for their misfortune.

I absolutely was referencing the court’s ruling on Friday. The court has explicitly stated that injunctive relief is no longer available. The president can now strip away the rights of any citizen, and only those with the ability to fight in courts can challenge this action.

And yet here we are. This court has decided that Trump is a king and that’s pretty much it.

My response to your assertion that Tesla is the best EV on the market is “so what”. The other brands may not be ”the best”, but buyers have decided they are good enough for their specific needs and that is all that matters.

Another huge risk: anything you say can be used in future legal action. Assume you leave, and tell them everything was great. Six months later, you decide that you have cause to sue. Now, the company can provide documentation in court that you said things were great.

There is zero value in participating in an exit interview. Just don’t do it.

You are missing a key factor: Waymo. Tesla has to deliver a product that is at least as good as Waymo. If they can’t do that, why would a person switch to Tesla?

Waymo has a multi-year head start; that’s going to be hard to overcome without a superior experience from Tesla.

The main reason it was canceled is because Donald Trump is a petulant child and he wanted to erase all of Obama’s accomplishments.

I can understand the Iranian reluctance to negotiate with the US. Trump has demonstrated that he is particularly honorable.

What makes you think that capitalists will stop with software developers? If AI can truly eliminate software jobs, then most knowledge based jobs will be at risk of elimination.

Let’s be honest; capital wants to eliminate all labor, and damn the consequences. People are not going to willingly give up lives of comfort for abject squalor. This will not go well.

If we don’t figure out a way to keep people alive and relatively happy, the metric may become pitchforks per angry mob.

I used to wonder if a Butlerian Jihad was plausible or just an interesting plot device. Now, it seems more plausible every day.

Yes. I wouldn’t be happy they hold those views, but I don’t support basing a person’s entry into the US on how the feel about Donald Trump.

Of course, your scenario is a big ol’ straw person, as those beliefs are not what they are screening for.

There is no driver in a robotaxi. If it kills a pedestrian, you can be sure that person’s family will say Tesla is liable.

It’s not the people in Robotaxis that are the issue; it’s everyone around the damn things that are the big liability.

Regulatory protection will not help Tesla the first time it runs over a random pedestrian. It will be a PR nightmare.

Very safe. They obey most traffic rules and don’t do stupid things. I have friends who commute in bike and say they feel safer with Waymo’s on the street. As a pedestrian, I appreciate them since I don’t worry it might run me over when I’m crossing the street.

Maybe lie is too strong a term. Having said that, the article suggests that US cars don’t sell in Europe due to tariffs, ignoring the fact that vehicles like the Ford F-150 just don’t work in the small streets of most European cities.

OpenAI lost $5 Billion in 2024. They have talked about their programming agent running $20k/month. There will be a price point where AI coding assistant makes zero sense for many companies.

Hmmm… I have not seen that. Everything I’ve read is the boycotts have really hit Target’s foot traffic.

Because LLMs are not deeply embedded in all aspects of our society. It is very difficult to reduce existing usages of carbon (eg cars) in society, as opposed to stopping the widespread use of LLMs.

The primary value of a bus is that it significantly reduces congestion. For example, an articulated bus can carry 50 - 120 passengers. That’s 120 private vehicles from the road.

Removing the driver does not change the efficiency of mass transit. In fact, I’d think you could run even more buses on the same route by removing the driver.

What does that mean? What would a city look like that was “naturally built”? How are roads laid out? What about sewage and water? How do police, fire, schools, and hospitals get located and built? Can a person build a slaughter house in the middle of a residential neighborhood?

Which city is more natural — New York or Houston — and why?

I rely on mass transit or walking for most of my transportation, so it is very rare for me to be driven in a car. Maybe 2 - 4 trips/month in a Waymo, and a monthly trip to Costco. Everything else is done on foot or transit, including thrice weekly commute and weekly grocery shopping.

I have no problem with roads in the abstract for public services, including for fire protection and buses. I do have a problem with using my taxes to subsidize private car ownership. Again, why should I help pay for someone to store their private vehicle on city streets? I also have a problem with all the externalities of private car ownership that make me less safe.

Yes, transit is subsidized in the US. However, I won’t ignore the fact that private car-ownership is just as heavily subsidized - if not more so — as mass transit. If we are having a conversation about the efficiency of one form of transportation over another, we need to look at them both through the same lens.

> Most US public transit systems are funded by taxes in addition to fares. The true cost of a bus ride can be many times the ticket price. If the services doesn't provide enough value for the service, let the customer decide.

What about the true cost of cars? I don’t drive, yet my taxes are used to subsidize car ownership, including the storage of vehicles in public spaces. The various externalities — pollution, congestion, deaths, excess asphalt — are not included in the true cost of private car ownership.

Incandescent bulbs have a color temp of about 2700K and you can currently purchase LEDs at that same temp.

Why would a developer lower their prices? Most people are not aware that Apple takes a cut of all sales. Further, the app developers have already set their prices to maximize revenue. Also, in instances like Amazon, they have already set a cross-platform price that I suspect they won’t want to touch.

Bottom line: I wouldn’t expect many discounts here.

The Trump Administration is destroying HHS and destroying pretty much all medical research. There will be millions who will needlessly die. Research on ailments such as cancer and Alzheimer’s will be set back decades. It will take generations to recover from this wanton destruction.

Honestly, RFK and Trump are perpetrators of one of the most evil acts ever by a US administration.

Speaking as a former wait person…

It is more efficient this way. Often times the wait person may have multiple tables sat at the same time. This way they can greet each table shortly after sitting (you don’t want to know how people react if they wait “too long” for that first greeting). Then take drink orders for all tables, get those delivered, take apps, get those fired. While those are cooking, get the mains ordered, and so on.

Yes, some people want to order all at once. However, that’s not most guests. Most folks want to sit at the table and relax for 1.5 - 2 hours and hate feeling rushed.

I don’t think most people realize how hard a job it is to wait tables. I think everyone would be well served by working as a wait person in their early work years.

I’m 58 and use my Apple Watch for pretty much everything. I only carry a single card for those rare times where I enter an establishment that does not have a chip reader.

I love it not only for convenience, but for the security as well. I don’t have to worry about a potential pickpocket seeing where I keep my wallet or how much cash is on me. I keep my transit pass on my watch for the same reason.

Another theory: people stopped leaving things in their cars, so this form of crime became less lucrative.

I think it’s time that we had full transparency here. I want to see who upvoted or flags submissions.