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As a consumer, the new T-mobile has been great. I was finally able to switch away from Verizon, as their prices are cheaper, and the 5G network equally good.

It just means that it is good enough to replace a professional camera. Did people think that it'll be just random dude taking some shaky videos?

Basically a golf cart that with a max speed of 28 mph. Perfect for golf club retirees, but not the 99% of US consumers.

They are using ground based telescope observatories. "...To receive the downlinked high-rate data sent from the probe, NASA is relying on the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, which sits atop a mountain south of JPL."

It is simple: the original ingredient pseudoephedrine was put behind counter as it can be used for meth production. The replacement phenylephedrine is just not effective, something I've known for years (so I always go behind the counter).

I'm curious how much harder it would be on these planets to launch 1) Sputnik like satellite 2) Hubble Space telescope

In addition to being used in microwaves, magnetrons are also used in radiation therapy for cancer, to power the linacs.

The Tesla mission statement is “to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy.” Opening up Superchargers is in alignment with it.

Highly rated Wall St analysts were saying the same thing in 2009 comparing about Apple with Nokia.

Coffee is a known carcinogen (due to formation of acrylamides in roasting). Ripe fruits emit small amounts ethylene that is carcinogenic.

So what's next: a horse drawn Ford :-)

This was an old 2014 model which had old HW1 Mobileye based package. It cannot have FSD.

This was an old 2014 model with basically advanced traffic aware cruise control. I wonder how many Toyotas get into accidents with regular cruise control. The figure of merit is number of accidents per mile...

Yup let's take the capital away from efficient resource allocators like Bezos and Musk and let the inefficient government waste it away... Bernie doesn't understand that this money is tied up in capital investments, which create jobs.

Tesla does a great job. The touchscreen has low latency and the layout is intuitive. But best of all, most things can be done by voice including seat heating (say "my butt is cold").

But then again, Chat GPT just passed law school exams, albeit at C+ in blind testing.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/tech/chatgpt-passes-exams/ind...

From Wikipedia: Vaccine misinformation In May 2021, Kirsch posted an article online claiming that COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility, while also underplaying the vaccines' ability to prevent illness and death, both statements criticized by fact checkers as being inaccurate and misleading.[14] In September 2021, speaking at an FDA meeting and identifying himself as CETF's executive director, Kirsch claimed that the vaccines "kill twice as many as they save"; the FDA responded that Kirsch had misinterpreted data and that there was no evidence his statement was true.[11][15] Reuters assessed the claim as false.[15]

In October 2021, Kirsch founded the anti-vaccine group Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF),[16] which created ads depicting deaths the group attributed to vaccines.[17][18] Foundation advisors include Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, and Stephanie Seneff. Soon after, Kirsch appeared with Malone on the Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying podcast, which according to MIT Technical Review "introduced Kirsch to followers of the 'intellectual dark web'" and allowed him to access a "large and receptive audience to his claims about a fluvoxamine conspiracy".[11]

Can't AI channels get good enough to get loved and have people genuinely excited about seeing the next video? At first there will be some human curation, eventually the AI will get good enough.

It is almost as though many folks want Twitter to fail, instead of having a better social media to compete with Meta/TikTok. People forget that Elon was one of the original dot com millionaires with his success in PayPal. Back then they said that he can't land/reuse rockets or make electric cars.

If the goal was $300B in consumer spending, then they should've just given a tax rebate to everybody below a certain income. Instead, this penalizes students who paid off their loans and non-college graduates who might've taken out loans to setup a service business like electrician or car mechanic.

It was also a lot more expensive back then. Today you can pay first class and get better service. Ultimately this is what happens when air travel gets democratized: people focus on low costs.

Fun to see how it went from: Musk can't/shouldn't buy Twitter and we shall implement a poison pill to prevent him -- to you must buy us out at a hefty premium to the market.

Tesla FSD Beta has a body with sensors (cameras) and actuators (engine/wheels/steering). Does that count as embodiment?

The same way people buy a phone without trying it. Electric cars will be appliances. Some will pay premium for Tesla like for Apple, and others will find that Hyundai's are a good bang for buck too.

I have FSD Beta and I can tell you I have never seen FSD do a rolling stop.

This is a case of bias against anything that smells of AI. Media blew this one: any Tesla owner could've told you that AutoPilot cannot be switched on in roads with no lane markings. The peak hysteria was when Consumer Reports showed users how to fool AutoPilot by a set of complex pre-planned steps, which would be considered sabotage in any industrial setting.

You would've made the same comparison between Apple and Nokia back in 2008. If you've ever driven a Tesla, you'll realize that it is a paradigm shift just like the iPhone was back in 2008 relative to Nokia.

Here's the link to Economist article from 2005, which explains how IKEA uses non-profit status. I frequently buy from IKEA but used to think of it a well oiled corporation, and didn't know that it was "non-profit".

https://www.economist.com/business/2006/05/11/flat-pack-acco...

I think that solar/wind + battery (e.g. Tesla Megapack) will make fusion irrelevant.

I just got an email from AirBnB outlining their plan to offer shares to hosts as a part of the IPO with first dibs to hosts that first came on the platform.