You are right, in that if we lived in a world where Twitter went out of business it would mean that most of the people in that world didn’t give a shit about Twitter and that’s a world I want to live in.

I disagree. Fiction can be a venue to air real world grievances and has the potential of opening consumers’ minds up to different viewpoints where they otherwise may not be willing.

Goddamn weather. You’d think we’d be able to hunker down and enjoy some comfort food in front of the fire in mid-December but nooo, instead I’m out here throwing the damn frisbee for my dog again.

Airport stuff:

How does range correlate to the size of the motor? Would you say the same about a Focus RS, with a barely 250 mile tank range?

And for anyone who’s driven a golf cart, one-pedal driving is going to be completely intuitive and I would guess quite useful in a city.

Could be the electric motor’s rated speed with the gearing provided. Doesn’t say anything about the acceleration profile, honestly.

So, in order to avoid jeopardizing their contract, they knowingly falsify data in a way that Amazon, a technology company, can easily and obviously detect.

Yup - There’s really a lot of energy in the battery cells as it approaches full charge. It’s definitely good from a chemistry (and not setting things on fire) standpoint that the phone does not allow the fast charger to dump lots of current into it at that point.

PCalc for the win.

iPhone batteries are non-replaceable?

If we make the assumption that planned obsolescence through software engineering is something Apple does, then why does my 10-year old MacBook Pro run just as well with OSX 10.11 as it did with OSX 10.5?

For a microgrid installation, most of the time it is grid-tied and they are using the PV to shave demand. Sure, the PV system might not be net zero and in a true disaster scenario when the hospital is islanded it’ll be burning diesel as well. It doesn’t mean you can’t make the numbers work.

I’m no software engineer, but I could build a set of intermittent wipers out of an arduino and a 12V relay for like $12 and an hour of my time.

Another day, another common practice you should feel bad for supporting.

On the flip side, structuring ratings so that it is implied that 10/10 or 5 stars = average tells me that the company doesn’t give a shit about people who do go above average.

There’s always the M550d, which is also not available in the US.

Probably used their buyout cash on BMWs.

No such thing as a free lunch and all that, so it’s probably not wise to exclude those energy costs from the TCO of the Model S. There have been articles on here and elsewhere about crackdowns by Tesla of Supercharger abuse. Taxi services using it to subsidize their energy costs might be a viable option right now,…

Absolutely true, but they are still using that energy and someone is still paying to generate is all I’m saying.