Using how much coverage there is on something to determine its importance is a terrible metric, and if that’s what you are using to evaluate people’s commentary, I can’t imagine how confused you are at this point.

A lot of F-35 criticism has sounded like someone walking up to the frame of a house under construction and being appalled at how bad a house it is at that very moment. News flash: jet fighters take a while and are expensive.

Why are modern examples needed? Things are easier to organize and design in the 21st century, not harder.

Setting aside that car manufacturers have done this with each other for decades, I’m not sure you have a good understanding of desktop computer manufacturing capacity in the late 70's. The concept had literally just been invented 3 years prior to Apple hitting the scene.

This is a band-aid when you have lymphoma.

What? I watch this show a lot cause my kid does, and I can’t agree with that criticism AT ALL. They all have pretty strong personalities that stay consistent. I’m not going to break each character down, because that would be too much time to spend defending a show I don’t even choose to watch, but I can’t even…

While that is true of the component you are actually working on for BMW, it’s not true of all the delicate shit around it and in the way of it that you need to remove and put back. But you are right I could have picked harder-to-work on brands than BMW, it was an example quickly picked from the air. 

Apple produced greater volumes of more novel, never-before-seen products within the first 15 years of its life with far less drama. Tesla is just making something that has existed for over a century with a different drive train.

I think they very much directly points to the problem. Saying that other companies like Apple for example that were producing something the world had never even seen before because they manufactured it in an efficient way was somehow less than in some way is weird.

Clarifying note: I want Tesla to succeed, I’m not shorting it, and I understand that Tesla’s success is a key to SpaceX’s success. I want them to succeed, I’ve just worked with enough businesses to know where the problem is. And the problem isn’t Elon, he’s essential, as much as he hasn’t delegated enough and trusted…

This excuse of growing pains is wearing pretty thin. Over the past few decades we’ve seen plenty of companies in complex industries spring up and maintain in just a few years. At this point Tesla is 15 years old. At what point do they have to put away the excuses and realize that chaos and inefficiency is inherent in…

As a very tall man I can explain: to start airplane seats have hard metal and plastic all over them where as most cars have very smooth if not also soft backs. When riding in a car, you normally know everyone in it, and they won’t recline full force into your legs and then pretend to not hear you when you explain to…

I had an early-2000's Dodge Dakota in college and it was one of my first non-classic cars. It made me believe that you just couldn’t do your own work on modern cars. Even just changing out something like the headlights meant I’d permanently broke or damaged at least 8 things permanently.

Hey man, I get it, I’m never giving up a steering wheel myself, I don’t care how good the puters get at driving. And I get why it’d bug some drivers. Just like an the incredible Porsche 911 would be annoying to me because I’m 6'7" 350 pounds. Just because it isn’t the car for me, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be built.…

Yeah but only like 2% of drivers even open the hood with any intention or purpose other than to look bewildered or pridefully at it.

I guess I’m the sort of car person that doesn’t get offended by this sort of car making. I like when I work on my Toyota, for example, and everything goes together with children’s toy simplicity. Instead of like a Dodge or BMW where your chances of doing something without having seen an expert do it before with an…

Shoot, I’m such an authority in this topic and slept on this article. As a 6'7" 350 pound man, I’ve done a lot of research on this range. You guys are particularly spot on with this one. It’s true, sedans are generally the best choice for us talls.

That’s a GREAT question.

I mean, I totally see how you could still spend a lot of money on healthcare with a single payer system, but I figured it wouldn’t drive someone to sell their dead son’s car they had intended to give to their grandson. Just sucks to hear healthcare is a crippling cost even in CA.

Also, yeah, cried pretty damn hard. I grew up going to a lot of auctions. Nothing remotely this nice ever happened at one.