Yeah while I do think they waited longer than needed, I thought it was probably because the off-line braking zones were still quite wet, and particularly with the design of the corner immediately after the DRS zone, they were probably really worried about the passer just hurtling straight through that corner on full…

That’s a good point. They’re in the UK so it was the correct way for that side of the road, but that’s clearly a two lane road on a divide highway, so yeah, totally the wrong way around.

Nah, look at the scratches on the hood and bumper, they’re all lateral, not longitudinal, implying there was sideways motion during the crash. If you look closely you can also see the guard rail next to the car is scarred, as is the curb. My money is on giving it the beans with traction control off, and a resulting…

You’re correct. The car will actively stall itself if you attempt to give it throttle with the clutch disengaged from a stop, in order to prevent the clutch from getting toasted. You are supposed to let the clutch out first, then gas, always, even on hills.

Same. I’ve yet to encounter a clutch operated vehicle that can’t start (on flat ground) from idle with zero gas applied if you have enough clutch control.

Even some cars with a carb can do it. My Dad’s old 66 Corvette could do it just fine. Hell, it could do it in 2nd or 3rd gear (out of 4) if you were really gentle.

I think that would defeat the point, based on his statement though. I think the point is to keep the cars rare. If you inflate payouts at the same rate you’ve inflated prices, then you’ve just caused inflation, you haven’t actually increased scarcity. I think the actual intent is to make it so most people don’t get…

For me the problem with this season isn’t that it’s reality TV. DTS has been reality TV since the first season. My problem is that for whatever reason, this season they just can’t quite tell a coherent story in an episode. Plot threads are opened up and then dropped without conclusion. Things are built up to be a big…

Yeah the renders really don’t do the scale of the thing justice. 475ft is _enormous_. It’s over a football field. It makes normal super yachts seem tiny by comparison.

It’s not really that they care about the dealer selling, it’s that they care very much about who is buying.

Er, what? Your personal auto insurance most definitely doesn’t cover your driving of a friend’s car. Your friend’s insurance covers you driving their car.

I agree, I didn’t find the performance terribly jarring, it seemed fitting for a relatively new master (the first time teaching someone) working with a learner who is relatively child like. But I do think it was flatter than a genuine Hamil performance, as he’s quite gifted in his ability to put subtle intonation and…

And like the whole point of Jedi is that this time he doesn’t do that. He trusts his friends to do their jobs, and focuses on doing his, and things work out much better.

Ask anyone that has worked as a vehicle operator for any of the SDV companies. It absolutely is significantly more tiring than actually driving the car, if you’re doing it correctly.

I mean, that has been the plan for every other media property he has owned, so yes, I imagine that’s the plan here.

Beyond just cost considerations, the actual technical knowhow to do certain kinds of manufacturing no longer exists in the US at any kind of scale because there was no market for it. Even if the labor used in a manufacturing process isn’t skilled, the labor used to design and optimize both the part and process for manu…

Er... Amazon hasn’t done a share buyback since 2012, and hadn’t done terribly many before that. The sum total spent of all share buybacks they’ve done in their history is about $2bil, which compared to their run rate and market cap is extremely little.

Apple, by comparison, has spent $100bil on share buybacks in 2021…

Bezos (and anyone that has Bezos money) doesn’t pay themselves out of the company’s profits. Their wealth is in owning equity in the company. When Bezos liquidates his stock, he is taking money from someone on the public market that buys the stock he sells, believing it to be worth that amount. He’s not taking money…

At the scale Amazon operates at, they can already do that even with tight delivery times. It’s how Prime as a concept works at all, logistically. In the early days Amazon was paying for inefficiencies as they bootstrapped demand, but at this point so many people order so much stuff from Amazon that you basically have…

Historically speaking, tenders weren’t all that uncommon. Often times you want a smaller vessel in order to get into places that would be impractical for the larger vessel, or because the larger vessel was too slow and you wanted something that could sail ahead if you needed to get (or get information) some place…