For a lot of people, Just having A PRICE is a feature. Haggling sucks. It just does. It adds anxiety and awfulness to a process that does not need it. And it justifies the need for car salesmen. Which are 100% unnecessary. Because we have the internet, we’ve already done the research.

Honestly, most of the dumbest stuff I’ve ever heard about cars comes from enthusiasts and is best summed up as “there’s only one way to enjoy cars, and that’s my way.”

I’m not sure I’m following the “dumbest thing that you heard someone say” about Saturn.

And a lot of people and press said the same back in the day when they were racing. I think you have to have more than a bit of a “me first at all costs” attitude and be supremely talented to win at the highest level of most anything, but the three mentioned all had their moments where many thought they crossed a line.

All of the best drivers were also the recipients of dominant cars. We’ve all see how much Verstappen’s driving abilities are worth when his car is no longer head and shoulders above the rest- suddenly, he’s a good driver but quite beatable and mostly a raging asshole.

Technically, you’re correct because there was no threat issued beforehand, but the 1990 title-deciding race at Suzuka was more blatant than any Max move. And...no penalty. It was no-holds-barred in those days.

You aren’t going to believe this, but Senna and Schumacher were also insufferable assholes. 

I was a child when Senna was racing, that is true, but I have seen his racecraft and studied his legacy.

Senna was the first to really take F1 to a new level of win-at-all-costs and Schumacher proliferated that. Following in their footsteps is one of the reasons I didn’t like Vettel and I don’t like Verstappen.…

Indeed, the petroleum industry is renowned for otherwise being awesome companies run by awesome people. Why pay those cretins at Buc-ee’s if you can further enrich ExxonMobil?

True. Transistors are now approaching atomic scales, making further miniaturization challenging due to quantum effects and heat dissipation.

Imagine you have $120k to blow on a car. And instead of buying a Range Rover, X7, Escalade, GLS or QX80 you say “yep, I’ll buy a tuna can on wheels”.

Russians performing some routine sabo-I mean....maintenance

You know what CEO’s and by proxy, stockbrokers enjoy? Stability. Having laws, mandates, and policies stay consistent allows you to more accurately predict cash layouts for large projects. Doing a complete 180 every 4 years makes it really hard to figure out where to spend money on long term investments.  You don’t…

Part of the reason that wealth tends to decline over generations is simply the mathematics of reproduction and inheritance. If the rich guy has two kids and each of them has two kids, and the estate is split equally after each dies, after 6 generations (roughly 200 years) the estate has been split 64 ways.

Petabyte per second absolutely does mean the duration of the trip per packet has to be short - it also means you have to be able to send a massive amount of data in the stream. Latency would be atrocious as well, at any speed at or slower than light. You’re talking a ping of 22m22s. That’s 1342000ms - roughly…

Musk has enough common knowledge of a subject to be able to wow most crowds. I’ll give him his ability to recall data points that have been presented to him, but this belief he “understands” it all is misplaced.

Elon is reminding me of Henry Ford. When I first learned about Henry, he was an amazing innovator who created the assembly line and paid his working a high wage. Way to go Henry! Then I found out he thought the Nazis were on the right track with fascism. And that he published and distributed worldwide an astonishingly…

Just to add, he didn’t found Tesla, either despite Tesla’s About page.

petabyte(bit)/second hasn’t anything to do with the transmission propagation rate, it has to do with the transmission bandwidth. Transmission delay has to do with the transmission propagation rate; as you noted, latency.

For both PayPal and SpaceX, his $$$ buyin agreements specified that he was to be referred to as a “founder”, even though he came along after both were operating. So, his narcissism fits right in with the incoming administration.