If it is acceptable to sell people “up to 80mbps”, then consumers should be able to pay “up to $100 per month”. Maybe I will throttle my payments.

He is doing the opposite of the conventional, legacy view of courage. Your path dependence on the Ways We Have Traditionally Defined Courage and Consistency makes you blind to the future of courage, which is Anti-Courage. This makes him the disruptyest disruptnator in all of California.

I disagree with your optimism that the GOP will discipline Trump. The same political market bubble that brought about Trump will insulate the GOP from pressures to abandon him and moderate themselves. (This is why the former president and his AG are focusing on district-drawing in his post-presidency.)

Yes, this is just sensible political survival (and needle-moving where possible). To further your point, here are a few other thoughts:

In my view, what was most unfair about the whole interaction was the obvious disparity in expertise. If you are going to raise your hand in a classroom, do not embarrass oneself. If you are wading into climate policy with a leading expert, please know how a carbon tax functions. This is basic stuff and a cringey…

Anyone who says Peyton isn’t interested in politics is a balled face liar.

This is a very good point. I take heart in it.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” - John Kenneth Galbraith

But then Thiel would be living somewhere where it is already tomorrow. If he knows what is going to happen before us, then he will be even more powerful.

As if we couldn’t stand corporate stooges already, these pieces of shit are going to step in and (1) allow fast lanes/slow lanes on the internet, (2) allow absurd consolidation of an already uncompetitive telecom sector (because any more than one company per market is much too many), and (3) allow these telecoms to…

Yeah, I am still not talking about anything being free. Either private industry sells it to you and maintains it for you at a cost, or the government installs/maintains it using your tax dollars. I think large-scale clean energy can be legitimately discussed without getting too far into fantasy, which does the…

I am interested by your idea of lvl 5 self-driving tech becoming mandatory. The cost imposed on the legacy automakers would be massive, but if they did it right, then the benefits to society (and ultimately to their own bottom line) could be equally massive.

Right, but maybe the actual miles driven helps Tesla show the feds and 50 different state governments and governments abroad that they have driven X miles with autonomy features in shadow, Y miles with autonomy features live but not active, and Z miles with autonomy features live and active. Maybe it helps in this…

I absorb their expectations with the knowledge that they have achieved their claims thus far. That’s the nice thing about having established a track record. These claims aren’t coming from your average MBA huckster or steak salesmen either. Fortunately, level 5 autonomy isn’t rocket science, which would make it…

I will go with the NHTSA conclusions and the company’s expectations over your conjecture anyway. The difference between them and you is that they are the engineers and experts.

Your conjecture is neat. Lot of paragraphs written. How about some data-based conclusions instead:

That one was more light-hearted and made me giggle, in contrast to whitehouse.gov/reportaneighbor

Fun game: Find Your Uninhabitable Coastline

All we have to do is build 100 Gigafactories for the storage. Then build solar panels (both utility-scale and distributed residential) and wind turbines everywhere. Lay some transmission lines. And we’re done. My fridge, my ac, my car, my life, my family... fully renewable for the rest of history. For every family…

Where is this “free” energy nonsense coming from?