Your statement, while true, probably has little applicability to this situation. The most probable reason they have banned bitcoin is because they see it as a threat to their control. Most precisely, they see it as a pathway for citizens to move liquid capital out of the country and, in the face of an impending real…

If only California would adopt carbon-free nuclear energy to support their water needs.

He might if he wanted to start a foundry business in the U.S. which I think the U.S. govt. might be interested in subsidizing.

“chip fab”. He said, “chip fab” not “chip vat”. You directly quoted an inaccurate speech to text robot without actually listening to the call.

It’s, “final throes”.

I used to install car stereos so I got to see a pretty wide variety of nasty shit in cars brought in. The all-time worst was a back seat full of old gnawed-on chicken bones. The woman who brought the car in would buy her KFC or whatever, eat the chicken and just toss the bones in the back and never clean it out. And…

Is the infotainment system Apple Carplay/Android Auto capable?

Back in the 80's the world crossed a threshold for CO2 concentration that was a tipping point (350PPM). At that point climate science says that catastrophic heating is inevitable and, crucially, conservation (reducing hydrocarbon-sourced energy), even total conservation, is insufficient to change the trajectory of…

The thing I find troubling is that you tend to hype the crash and neglect to acknowledge that Teslas on semi-autonomous mode have accident rates roughly 1/10 of average. AI-based piloting of cars is already vastly safer and this deserves to be the main story.

I’ll suggest the 5.0 Mustang, though the K-Cars as a group are a more damning but probably more representative example.

“...in the summer when people turn on their air conditioners and use more power”

You mean, like, now?

Haggling for a car is a high-stress high-stakes activity which the average person does only every 3-5 years and so gets little opportunity to become comfortable with the process. Most people don’t like haggling. Of those that do, most aren’t good at it. Only those that like it and think they are good at it (of which…

If we actually manage to breed, we probably communicate far more information with our dicks than we do via any other means over the course of our lives. Most often, though, we shout into the void.

When one publishes in a journal like that, one agrees to transfer rights to the IP (copyright) to the publisher so, yes, there is IP theft.

Which, in turn, suggests that whatever practices and education was in place at Tesla actually made employees safer than the general population.

An ‘87 Mustang with a 5.0 can do 140. It shouldn’t, but it can, and it is scary as hell.

It could be both. But the little guys have much less information to know when to act.

Where’s Elon? The same place Bill Gates was when he was called the stingiest billionaire on the planet before becoming one the most significant philanthropists on the planet. Elon is building his fortune doing what he does which, like Gates, does improve the human condition while he is doing it. Philanthropy comes…

Basset.

That’s generally true but less so, specifically, when a service becomes a public utility due to monoply. Then it would become subject to free speech restrictions. If the government moves to declare these large tech companies monopolies, as appears to be happening all over the world, then freedom of speech would likely…