Also, while someone getting a subsidized discount on a luxury item (e.g. a Tesla Model S P100DLudo) doesn’t necessarily feel good, I posit that cleaner vehicles and homes benefits everyone who breathes air and drinks water.

Heh, do you think it will be?

The roads are heavily subsidized by the taxpayer. People who drive gas/diesel cars are getting just a slightly less free ride compared to EV’s on the back of non-drivers, but you don’t seem particularly upset about that.

The average american drives well under the range of basically every EV each day. The bolt for example has about 6 times the range of an average day.

I’m not saying they’re the same thing, but I am saying that your logic of using it helps criminals applies equally well to the USD. $10 to $30 billion is transported to south of the border every year as a part of drug trafficking (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/math.html). If we weren’t…

By extension does paying with cash for something make you complicit with tax evasion, money laundering, and other crime?

Fortunately the market doesn’t care about what you believe. And, if every investment is a risk, so is holding cash or any other commodity. Your purchasing power could be eroded away due to inflation.

They’re not remotely comparable, the lottery is much more risky. Maybe a better analogy would be “investing in a company with a very uncertain future.”

Ah. That is not how I understood it, but I oppose OP’s pro-corporation anti-people bent either way. :-p

150% through a holiday doesn’t strike me as through the nose, it strikes me as a standard rate for working on a holiday.

The current daily trading volume is like 150k BTC, so your 40k BTC would be a very very large percentage of that. I suspect you could not liquidate that very quickly without becoming a market force.

Sure, and everyone with auto insurance is paying that cost right now, as is. I bet that a company can get a better rate on their tested product than you or I can get to insure our own problems or human bugs! The manufacturer can then pass that cost onto the customer with the sell price of their autonomous car.

Sure, but I don’t think we’re “waiting for autonomy” instead of improving safety now. In actuality, we’re just continuing to not do the difficult things in the same way we always have with respect to training and infrastructure. I don’t attribute this apathy to the advent of autonomous cars, it’s just always been…

One of the safest countries for driving in the world, Sweden, has a per mile fatality rate that is about half of that of the US. If the US met that, that’d be great, but would that be the definition of success, vehicular fatality problem solved? And do you truly think that autonomous cars won’t ever be able to improve…

As this is an adjacent field, I’m interested in your opinion.

And fiat currency only has value as long as people are willing to accept them in exchange for goods. And any given fiat currency is only valuable so long as people accept it in exchange for some other fiat currency or goods.

In my opinion though the long part about configuring automations is figuring out exactly what you want (e.g.) turn on the lights at this time, but then you realize sometimes you want them to not turn on if this is so, etc.). If you had a list of your automations in pseudocode or plain English descriptions, it wouldn’t…

The only exception to this I use is if I see a stopped emergency vehicle or accident. In that case I’ll get over as soon as I can.

It was also very easy to detect, requiring no expertise on the part of the user, so I am very inclined to believe their reason.

So right now you need to drive 60 miles to a gas station, but now you’ll be able to fill up right at home!