Space flights are tightly regulated. Commercial Space Transportation | Federal Aviation Administration (faa.gov) .

Space launches are extremely tightly regulated. Commercial Space Transportation | Federal Aviation Administration (faa.gov) explains it pretty well. Commercial space launch vehicles have to go through extensive permit application and approval processes, design reviews, testing, etc., before they’re allowed to carry…

That’s rather obviously not true. Most countries have strategic industrial policies, and many are doing extremely well, such as Germany and Japan. Unless you’re going to argue that absolutely maximizing corporate profits are the only thing of value, it’s pretty hard to argue that shipping all jobs to the lowest wage…

‘better’ depends on customers’ needs. Based on sales, Teslas appear to be ‘better’ for most EV buyers, at least within the constraint of what actual cars are manufactured and available for sale in various markets.

Gas cars are 40x more likely to burn than EVs, according to insurance companies - that means EVs are a lot safer. Are you arguing that gas car companies need to make their products less likely to burn?

Tesla can pull data from the car and learn a lot. Of course, there’s more they can learn from inspecting the physical car. Given that the car caught fire without an obvious cause, no collision, etc., wanting to see the car makes sense. But transporting a car that caught fire is tricky - most junkyards put cars that…

The US having the ability to produce EVs and EV chargers, and not being 100% dependent on external suppliers. And there are several companies making EVs and EV chargers in the US, so giving them a bit more incentive than the ones made outside the US isn’t going to destroy either EVs or EV chargers, it’ll just reward…

Sure, different analysts come up with slightly different numbers. The point is that $15/hour is a decent wage for relatively unskilled labor in a low cost of living city. Living Wage | KCMO.gov - City of Kansas City, MO for example. It’s not going to make you rich, certainly...

That’s the last paragraph in the article. The issue is that it takes time (usually years) to get a new factory location, build the factory, and ramp up production, so they’ll be missing out on the sales tax break, so people will keep using the leasing route for the interim. Leases are still new car sales, just to…

EV’s market share of automotive is expanding dramatically, and Tesla’s share of automotive is expanding dramatically. It’s true that as many more legacy car companies start making EVs that are competitive that Tesla will get less of a percentage of the EV market, but what matters is their share of the total automotive…

True - I’ve been involved in a lot of AI automation projects, and they can usually automate 60-80% of the work, and require people to review the output of the AI and to handle all the cases the AI can’t do or does wrong. That’s still worth doing, as it allows a team to process more than 2x as much data and have better…

In Kansas City they say that $14/hour is a living wage. Here’s how much it costs to live in Kansas City, Missouri | The Kansas City Star .

And what’s disgraceful about paying people a living wage?

$15/hour is a decent wage for general labor that doesn’t require expertise - it is twice the minimum wage (which is far too low in most states), and is more than the $14.20 that’s estimated to be a living wage in Kansas City. Here’s how much it costs to live in Kansas City, Missouri | The Kansas City Star . I don’t…

SpaceX isn’t government sponsored, they’re a for-profit business that provides space launch services to many customers, corporate and governments. They bid on and win and deliver on contracts, that’s not a “subsidy”, that’s doing work and getting paid for it.

I wouldn’t assume that Apple Music users aren’t classical music listeners, there’s classical music there and has been since the beginning, but it’s been an awkward fit, since Apple Music is really designed for non-classical music, with a bunch of tracks on an album by an artist, and the piece lengths, the metadata and…

The goal of the law is to incentivize US companies to invest in going electric, and to reduce US dependency on foreign sources for strategic goods. That’s why the law directs more money to cars made in america, and to cars with a supply chain in the US - the funding should offset the US production costs, and make the…

Tesla is sticking with their connector (NACS) in the US. The superchargers will have both CCS1 and NACS connectors on the chargers, so they can charge both Tesla and CCS1 vehicles. NACS is a lot smaller, ligher and more durable, so that is better for drivers, but since CCS1 is required by the terms of the grants,…

And Tesla’s superchargers cost a _lot_ less than the competition’s, $70k vs $200k. Tesla’s a lot better at manufacturing than the other co’s in their space.

Most legacy manufacturers don’t do any OTA updates, and even the ones that have started to do OTA updates only do so for specific models in specific regions. And their cars are much less software-controlled, so even if they could do OTA updates, they can’t fix the problems that Tesla can via software.

Yes, NHTSA insists on calling all software updates that have anything to do with safety “recalls”, but that just causes confusion because for decades recalls have meant that a vehicle was called in to the manufacturer’s service center for something to be fixed. The result of NHTSA’s odd definition is that Tesla owners…