DennisP

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901.
by DennisP 3y ago
To me it doesn't seem any more complicated than a pair of CV joints. Benefits according to the article: "reduced packaging size, improved ride quality, greater durability and, importantly, increased efficiency."
902.
by DennisP 3y ago
The wheel can move up and down relative to the motor, so you can still attach a shock absorber to the wheel, without the motor being involved. The video shows this at 2:36.
903.
by DennisP 3y ago
The original plan was to put the first production line in Mexico. Then Musk realized his engineers wouldn't be commuting or moving to Mexico, and he wanted them to spend time on the factory floor so they could see what was hard to make
904.
by DennisP 3y ago
Yes but the new method transfers the tax credit to the dealer, who then gives you a discount off the purchase price. Seems possible that the purchaser income limit wouldn't apply when it's the dealer taking the credit. All the art
905.
by DennisP 3y ago
In high school I thought "structured programming" would cramp my style. I'd spend hours with BASICA printouts spread out over the floor, tracing through chains of GOTOs to find my bugs. One day my dad brought home Turbo Pasca
906.
by DennisP 3y ago
The $7,500 at least is pretty legit, since in 2024 the IRS will let you get the discount at point of sale. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/ev-tax-credit-elect...
907.
by DennisP 3y ago
Well I'm not going to dig into all that data to see if it verifies your claims, so I guess I'll leave it there. But the first link I posted came from the insurance industry, not from Tesla.
908.
by DennisP 3y ago
> Tesla's Model Y has been recognized as one of the safest cars of 2023 by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), receiving the agency's Top Safety Pick+ rating for the third year. https://www.notateslaap
909.
by DennisP 3y ago
Or it was just hard. Plus it depended on 4680 improving and scaling and that was definitely hard. But look at all the models in production. They don't have discrete model years, they're pushing out new updates all the time, even f
910.
by DennisP 3y ago
According to this sculptor/mechanical engineer who saw one recently, the Cybertruck actually has subtle curves. He posted photos. https://twitter.com/DavidKasmanArt/status/172922332301007291...
911.
by DennisP 3y ago
Value stocks have always had periods during which they underperformed, and the time since 2009 has definitely been one of them.
912.
by DennisP 3y ago
Tesla has its own principles, and collaboration is a big part of them. One reason so many engineers apply to work at Tesla is that they get to see their ideas implemented quickly and without excessive bureaucracy.
913.
by DennisP 3y ago
Separate divisions barely collaborating is not the case at Tesla either (or SpaceX). One of their mantras is "everybody is a chief engineer." They're all supposed to know enough about everything so they don't design part
914.
by DennisP 3y ago
I live in a mixed suburban/rural area in the Southeast and I see very few pickups with full-size beds. I know somebody who was in the market for one and had a hard time finding it. Big cabs and small beds are what's popular, and i
915.
by DennisP 3y ago
There's no reliable evidence that it doesn't, either. Value has never been something that works all the time. You have to put up with lagging performance when growth stocks are ascendent, which could be a reason that value keeps w
916.
by DennisP 3y ago
I didn't claim they are correlated. I said some funds select based on value, and others based on size. Some do both.
917.
by DennisP 3y ago
There are plenty of value ETFs. They even have indexes.
918.
by DennisP 3y ago
The efficient market hypothesis has been dogma for about half a century, but there's a lot of academic research showing that value and various other factors outperform anyway. There are all sorts of structural and psychological reasons
919.
by DennisP 3y ago
Exactly. What makes it index investing is low fees and simple, objective stock selection without human judgement. There are various well-studied criteria for value stocks. An S&P500 index does stock selection too, it's just picking
920.
by DennisP 3y ago
If the AIs fight each other, that could be even worse for us. The AIs that grab what resources they can without regard for humans would have an evolutionary advantage.
921.
by DennisP 3y ago
According to reviews, the refreshed Model 3 is a lot closer.
922.
by DennisP 3y ago
Adding agency to LLMs is not that hard and people are already doing it. https://promptengineering.org/what-are-large-language-model-...
923.
by DennisP 3y ago
How hard would it be to revive Eurisko, to the point of understanding how it worked and being able to implement it in modern systems? I've always been fascinated by what it could accomplish on such limited resources. It seems possible
924.
by DennisP 3y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean you have to hold your money at the off-ramp. Just pass through briefly and you minimize your exposure to centralized actors.
925.
by DennisP 3y ago
PressReader is interesting but doesn't fix my problem: following links from aggregators. Single sign-on to the publication sites would work better.
926.
by DennisP 3y ago
If you're downloading from libgen anyway, you might as well buy the kindle version to support the author, instead of the dead trees. Or any other ebook, or the audible.
927.
by DennisP 3y ago
Micropayments would improve the incentives. Click a button, pay a penny, see the article. You'd only be willing to do that if you trust the publication to provide quality articles.
928.
by DennisP 3y ago
The reason I mostly don't subscribe is I follow lots of aggregator links to lots of different publications, and I don't read enough at any one publication to subscribe. Micropayments would solve that for me, if they were reasonabl
929.
by DennisP 3y ago
Bitcoin still rolls out upgrades occasionally. At this point Ethereum doesn't really have "a dev team." There are about ten independent client teams, who have public meetings to come to agreement on upgrades, plus an open res
930.
by DennisP 3y ago
The SEC may think that but so far they haven't done well proving it in court.

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