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by djao 3y ago
A Tesla costs less than an average new car in America. If Teslas are unaffordable, then so are other new cars. I also mentioned buying used cars. My approach in no way limits the range of cars available for me to purchase. If you don't
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by djao 3y ago
I much, much prefer simply to take my business elsewhere. It makes me happier, and it serves them right.
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by djao 3y ago
I agree I am not under any obligation to be honest. I have been very clear that this is a personal preference.
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by djao 3y ago
They were, at one point, overpriced, but in fairness at that point in time all other new cars were also overpriced. The current price is very, very attractive for what you get. The car lies on range only in one particular indicator, the &qu
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by djao 3y ago
> or a manufacturer that sells direct Which manufacturers are these, exactly?
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by djao 3y ago
Try to look up online what amount these fees should be for your particular state. Some dealers will just inflate one of these fees arbitrarily by $500 if they feel that you aren't paying them enough, and try to get away with it.
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by djao 3y ago
See my other comment above. If they sell you a car based on the assumption of financing profits, and you don't produce those financing profits for them, then yes, in my view, that is deceptive. Ten years ago, there was no real alternat
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by djao 3y ago
Eh, look, I think there are times when you should withhold information and can do so ethically. If you really want something desperately in a negotiation, best not to let them know how desperate you are. But I don't feel that financing
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by djao 3y ago
That's called stooping to their level. Yes, you can profit that way. But there are other ways to recoup that same profit, for example by being a better negotiator, or choosing a car that isn't sold through dealers and therefore is
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by djao 3y ago
These are stupid games. Yes, if you have the cash to buy the car, you might consider playing stupid games. (But watch out for income taxes on that "5.0% yield". You might be playing for nothing.) If you don't have the cash, w
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by djao 3y ago
Buy a Tesla. Tesla does not use dealers. Yes, they still make a profit off of you, but at least there are no misaligned incentives as with dealers.
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by djao 3y ago
1. Cross out the upper left corner, the one that says "trade in". You're not trading in your old car. You're selling it private party for more money. 2. Cross out the lower right corner, the one that says "monthly p
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by djao 3y ago
From the article: > The federal probation department separately recommended a 100-year sentence for Mr. Bankman-Fried, 32, effectively a life sentence. But prosecutors said in the filing that sending him to prison for the rest of his lif
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by djao 3y ago
Simply put, the assumption is not factually true, based on actual owner surveys, for example https://theicct.org/publication/real-world-phev-us-dec22/ "Real-world electric drive share may be 26%-56% lower tha
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by djao 3y ago
Wow, so I went and downloaded their "methodology" document. Some highlights: In prior years, they made an attempt to estimate the true fuel consumption and emissions rate of gasoline cars (which is invariably higher than the EPA f
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by djao 3y ago
Google says "There are between 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the observable universe." Even the lower number is (just slightly) greater than 2^256. (Imagine installing 2^256 sound cards in a system ...)
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by djao 3y ago
What exactly about Thunderbird 115 ruined it? I run 115 and it looks mostly the same as before. I avoid the "cards" view because it has numerous problems, but the "classic" view works fine for me.
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by djao 3y ago
For me, Pidgin with the MS Teams plugin solves this problem. Now I can chat with others on Teams, using a program designed for chat.
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by djao 3y ago
I myself rarely use the term "open source" but this does not stop others from (mis)using it. The mere fact that a term is generic does not mean that it is meaningless. If someone is genuinely unaware or confused about what the res
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by djao 3y ago
It's perfectly acceptable to use whatever license you want, but then don't call it "open source."
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by djao 3y ago
There was also that time Jon Postel asked all the DNS root server operators to make his server the root, and they did. https://www.wired.com/2012/10/joe-postel/
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by djao 3y ago
Before a few days ago, I had never used Wayland. As you said, it causes problems and has many limitations. The solution that works is infinitely preferable to the one that doesn't. But, a few days ago, I finally switched over, on a mod
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by djao 4y ago
58% of Americans live in a household with a garage or carport. So already "most" Americans can install easy access to overnight charging.
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by djao 4y ago
Maybe in California, but here on the east coast I've never seen anyone but me use them. You absolutely can plug in overnight.
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by djao 4y ago
We use the Tesla Model 3 and only the Tesla Model 3 for family road trips. The biggest problem is actually that the car is a little bit small for a whole family. While the car does have a lot of trunk space for its size, it's still a s
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by djao 4y ago
I think car manufacturers are reluctantly coming around to EVs because as you said staying with gas cars is unsustainable (how many hundreds of billions of dollars of government subsidies and bailouts has GM consumed just to stay afloat to
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by djao 4y ago
Yes, the rent-a-car scenario is very different from the home ownership scenario. If you're renting a Tesla, the easiest way to make it work is to make sure that your hotel has on-site EV charging. If you can charge at the hotel then it
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by djao 4y ago
> YouTube personality Steve Hammes leased a Hyundai Kona Electric sport utility vehicle for his 17-year-old daughter Maddie ... Now, the upstate New York resident has a dilemma many EV owners can relate to: finding available charging sta
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by djao 4y ago
Yes, this is where the article is wrong. Race is not one monolithic bloc. If admissions were purely meritocratic, then the incoming class would be approximately 70% asian, 20% white, and 10% other. Clearly, some minority demographics don&#x
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by djao 4y ago
It's very disappointing to see The Atlantic succumb to the same profit motive that drives all media outlets. Immediately upon opening the article, what do I see? A Mazda ad. Therein lies the rub. Tesla doesn't do paid advertising,

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