So you admit yourself that “what Apple means by direct contribution is anyone’s guess” yet you still say, as if concrete fact, that they are NOT investing $350bn. The hypocrisy is real with this one.

I don’t think they investigated it enough. They were desperate for YouTube fame/money. No doubt in my mind that something this stupid was on purpose for the money/insurance/fame. Either he was trying to be noble to support his family (with or without her knowledge?) or she convinced him to do it for her, I’m inclined…

I’ve thought since day one when find my iPhone is activated it should shut off the screen and disable the buttons so a thief thinks it’s off/dead meanwhile it’s running/tracking in the background. If they plug it in, it would just stay on the charging screen you see when it’s totally dead before it turns back on.

Hmm. Maybe you can do math fine but then you can’t read your own words you wrote...which is it you lack... math skills or reading skills?

What is wrong with a bribe (or “donation”) in this context? I can see why for, say, government officials but why for someone who owns stock in a company? It’s their stock, they should be able to vote whatever way they want with it shouldn’t they? Why should it matter if they “sell” their vote, they bought the vote…

Caring about the cost of everything is precisely what he does best, actually. That’s why he re-engineers everything from a ‘physics first principles’ perspective with cost being the driving factor.

I think their shallowness, the drawer fronts not being flush with the front (climbable) and how easily they slide out (the slightest forward incline will make them slide out all the way) contributed to them being easier to tip.

Who needs mind connected VR? Just create a “switch” (whether drugs or mechanically) for lucid dreaming and you have a full VR connected to all your senses perfectly.

Seriously? Just because Thiel is in the news your writing about doesn’t mean you have to dedicate a good portion of the article to reminding everyone that you got fucked by him...get over it.

Those are not at all the same. They use a semi-transparent material that doesn’t let nearly as much light in.

A guy at my old job once reply all’d to an email announcing commission cuts sent to the entire company including all management and the owner with one word:

It’s not about the choice to act safely. Humans are bad drivers because they can only pay attention to exactly what they’re looking at and react slowly. There is no solution to those inabilities that still involves a human doing the work. A computer can monitor everything, in all directions, react in milliseconds and…

Why should he be worried that this would leak? You’re ridiculous to think he should be worried - what he said is exactly right and I’m sure he has no reason to worry about it leaking because he’s a competent person who can stand by his beliefs regardless if others have differing ones. People with that line of…

Generally when you’re tied up in a basement you eventually stop screaming 24/7 and only persist when the captor comes back. I don’t know from experience but I would assume one can only scream for so long regardless of the circumstance.

You think smoking should be OK in bars? So you wouldn’t mind me carrying around radioactive waste in bars and rubbing it on everyone near me? It’s the same thing. Second hand smoke also kills why should it be OK in public places?

Two things: very fast fire* and the fruit fly theory would put the fruit fly near the camera, so it only covered a few centimetres not hundreds of meters.

$10 billion is a lot? We spent hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars bailing our car companies. Trillions on wars over oil. $10 billion is literally a drop in the bucket and the technology that will be developed will trickle down into mere Earthly technology. It will also help with the asteroid mining stuff and…

“anyone who scours 4chan for information about why women might be scientifically worse than men is bound to come out an avid men’s rights enthusiast”

Yes, if you want to get decent reporting on Tesla (and even the actual court filing in this case) check a less tabloidy source: https://electrek.co/2016/09/14/tes…

Here is some much better reporting on the matter with a full copy of the filing including listing some of the laws that were broken (though, likely not all of them). https://electrek.co/2016/09/14/tes…