As someone who uses Linux in a desktop capacity daily, as well as on a lot of single-board computers, I wholeheartedly disagree with your statements.

Speedtail LaLongtail.

You know, I hear this sort of complaint a lot, but I just don’t know that I buy it. Sure, pretty much every game or piece of software you buy has patches to install immediately. But I think software on the whole is much more reliable than it used to be. My computer is much more reliable than when I ran Windows 3.1 or…

Government spending is our income. Do you understand that mechanism? Any govt debt is money going into someone elses pocket. As a sovereign issuer of fiat money the govt is uniquely positioned to subsidize things that benefit wider society - like everything Bell Labs did 50-60 years ago. Like the internet, like…

We do have a universal EV charging standard. J1772/CCS is the standard US and European OEMs decided on ~10 years ago.

Do it. We got one - unless you need two independent vehicles that go 60+ miles on short notice (which is fine, this is a perfectly normal requirement for some people).

I’m curious about what caused your falling out with Tesla.

Marshknuclehead...

Tesla is made in America. Battery plant is in Nevada. That is about as good as it gets. Your typical car has components made all over the world, so I don’t know why electric cars would be any dirtier in manufacturing than any other car on the road.

The EPA settled with U.S. manufacturers of heavy-duty diesel truck engines in 1998, with a then record $1 billion dollar fine, for violating clean air standards.

The point is that the theif did not need the Rolex and had the option of not having a Rolex rather than stealing.

No.

No. This is such a stretch, its ridiculous.

No, because they had a choice to not use diesel engines; and when they did so, they also had a choice to spend an extra $300/car for urea injection. I mean, during the study that outed VW’s cheats, they were compared to a MUCH LARGER BMW X5 diesel which had very well controlled emissions. VW just straight up cheated…

I can drive about 400 miles with one ~45 minute stop in my i3.

Maybe because we’ve seen about 247 different iterations, we just can’t believe it might be real this time.... also, LED’s are still kind of a weird light for us humans.

IBM has a number of problems with Watson but it isn’t the technology. Watson is capable of some pretty amazing things including reading articles that are published in scientific journals and using them to find connections that scientists and doctors are not making. It has the capability to become an extremely valuable…

So what? The government has decided to subsidize certain kinds of industry to incentivize its growth, accelerate technological development, establish market leadership, and create jobs. Lots of other businesses get the same kind of help for things that are a lot less radical in their effect. And yes, the government…

For someone who gives out so many of his patents and spends so much of his own money to build his ideas, and sell them for a realistic price, I struggle to see how he’s a dickbag. He’d be no where without the aggression he has; some can see this as a scumbag move that screws over the companies tugging at his shirt,…

Why? Because he wants to bring an ide he suggested to life? You realize this “dickbag” is allowing other companies to use the trademarked Hyperloop name with no intention of stopping them. This dickbag opened up Tesla’s patents to other companies to further the advent of electric cars. There are so many unconventional…