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by Fins 7y ago
I believe you could just as well conclude that these people are not conservatives by any reasonable stretch of the word, too. But then, "liberal" doesn't quite mean what it used to as well. People at The American Conservative
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by Fins 7y ago
> and because there's no modern conservative that isn't altright This is a rather amazing claim, I would be very interested in seeing some supporting evidence, since alt-right has far more in common with the left than with any
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by Fins 7y ago
If we look at all the college administrations that quickly crumble after students protest that they might have to pass past a building in which, had they gone inside, they could have heard something they would not like, this dismissal rings
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by Fins 7y ago
I don't think people who consider Harry Potter to be a pinnacle of fine writing should be in the business of telling Juniors from Seniors. Also, for marketing spam, which this is, it isn't written even to Rowling's standards.
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by Fins 7y ago
It's quite unlikely many other countries are going to go quite as far disrupting natural pricing to make Tesla look almost affordable as Norway did.
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by Fins 7y ago
There's also that story about oil companies sitting on the secret of perpetual motion... Also, those companies happen to build products that are needed and can actually be afforded by people who need them to, you know, make a living, u
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by Fins 7y ago
They could perfectly well do it themselves.
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by Fins 7y ago
In CIS states they prefer the term thermo-rectal cryptanalysis. A soldering iron in one's nether regions does wonders for extracting secrets.
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by Fins 7y ago
Yeah, and trhey also run child prostitution rings out of their evil hotel pizza parlors. Lengths to which the SV crowd would go to pretend that it is not absolutely, thoroughly, and irredeemably morally bankrupt are truly scary...
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by Fins 7y ago
Oh, of course there is demand, that's quite obvious. (Well, there was demand for Juicero, too, for a while) Not too many people might use the car exactly like that, and I do it only when I actually need to get the car there. Otherwise
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by Fins 7y ago
Yeah, I absolutely can see how someone who pays (sometimes living) wage to lots of people, pays taxes, obeys the law, and generally does not push costs on bystanders would be an evil cabal in the VC-fueled SV bubble!
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by Fins 7y ago
That's not really the only compromise Tesla has. It got terrible ergonomics, lack of what is now isn't considered particularly luxury features, mediocre build quality, repairs that can take months etc. But it got fart jokes! So it
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by Fins 7y ago
Saying that Tesla has "no compromises" is very much definition of selling snake oil.
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by Fins 7y ago
Except that "dorks and hippies" drove it very much because it was the eco-friendliest thing out there.
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by Fins 7y ago
So, self-driving is safer for those specific circumstances where self-driving is safer? Well, sure. Not much surprise there. That's not very persuasive about self-driving being (or ever being) safer than humans at real world driving in
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by Fins 7y ago
My first WinMo device (and still the most convenient smartphone I've ever had, the SCH-i760) was perfectly well operable 95% of the time even without the stylus -- there was a joystick (and a dialpad) on the front. I rarely had to actu
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by Fins 7y ago
What is your definition of functional then? Obviously, Apple did something (likely marketing, imho, and of course extreme ease of use) right to make the iPhone as popular as it is, but I would need to be convinced that it had something to
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by Fins 7y ago
And therein lies the problem -- Google has been extremely successful at persuading itself and others that "can invert a binary tree on a whiteboard" is in any way synonymous with being "smarter". That's how we end u
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by Fins 7y ago
Ohh, the audacity! I've cancelled Amazon altogether couple years ago (which is an even more ridiculous process than cancelling Prime) and can't say I even noticed it. Apart from not getting any fakes in those two years.
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by Fins 7y ago
Didn't some "anti-fascist" try to attack a detention center recently? It did not end well.
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by Fins 7y ago
There certainly where high quality applications for WinMo, and discovery was as simple as reading a forum or two. Sure, maybe not quite as easy as going to the app store and downloading some fake app that does absolutely nothing and steals
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by Fins 7y ago
Umm, no, it was not. Even Windows Mobile was far more functional than iPhone. But iPhone looked cute, and had some ease of use affordances for people who could not be bothered actually learning anything (but then this had always been Apple&
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by Fins 7y ago
I am pretty sure that despite TFA's claims, stolen cars were being taken to the West Side (of Chicago), not to West Chicago, which is a suburb about 30-40 miles away.
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by Fins 7y ago
Didn't work with me, and I like shiny new things as much as anyone. But being old and cynical I want that shiny to be actually useful for something. I've never heard anyone say that you can't drive long distance in an elect
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by Fins 7y ago
If somebody is paid extremely good money to work on doing FSD using ML snake oil, and is completely insulated from any failures of the system, what else would you expect them to say? Same thing when you have G/FB/T people believin
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by Fins 7y ago
LOL. Seriously. Can we please stop with this asinine assumption that only people who did not try a Tesla can possibly dislike them? It got old 5 years ago. Sure, Tesla has pretty good acceleration (other than the roadster, nothing you could
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by Fins 7y ago
SO basically, if you adjust your behavior to match the car, it will, eventually, get you where you're going. And if you really want to enjoy lunch and sightseeing at such beautiful places as the Supercharger station in Kettleman City.
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by Fins 7y ago
Somehow I doubt that where you live, those "two ton death boxes" are often driven on a sidewalk. If scooters keep to the road, they are perfectly fine. When they drive on sidewalks, eventually one of them will be biting my elbow.
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by Fins 7y ago
Do cars in that city often drive on a sidewalk, like scooters?
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by Fins 7y ago
It's actually quite useful for "hey, did you see my dog?" or "do you know what happened at ... last night?" things. But being a social network (so basically, evil by definition) you do get a worrying amount of &quot

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