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by ericd 2y ago
Do you have an exact read on where the wheels on the other side of the car are relative to a curb when you're turning? I don't, so I give it a healthy error margin, where I'm certain it won't. I'm reasonably confide
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by ericd 2y ago
A lot of my interventions when trying it out were things like it going too close to curbs for my comfort, so more violations of my own defensive driving standards rather than potential accidents. But! It did have some near traffic violation
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by ericd 2y ago
Ah I wasn’t aware that any US Teslas were coming from China, I thought those all went to Europe/Asia, while we mostly got Fremont/Austin. I was referring to the period when there was a piecemeal credit amount based on a few factor
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by ericd 2y ago
Who said anything about morality? Do you usually favor people who are habitually unfair to you? He has a few companies that he needs to lead, and being cut out of portions of federal rebates because they want to curry favor with unions dire
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by ericd 2y ago
Maybe he just got tired of dems doing stuff like saying that GM had been leading the way on EVs, and not mentioning Tesla at all, because it wasn’t politically expedient? Or trying to structure the rebates to benefit the big 3 more than Tes
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by ericd 2y ago
I guess we’ll see if that’s representative, there’s a clear backlash, so at least a significant proportion don’t agree, and don’t appreciate the disruption and peer pressure dynamics this creates. I’m certainly in the camp of personal devic
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by ericd 2y ago
Now that it's open and standardized, you'll probably see tons of third party charging stations with the NACS plug. Tesla's part in bootstrapping charging infra to make EVs viable seems to be mostly done.
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by ericd 2y ago
Sure, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, buying something with a bit of spandex or whatever for stretch/durability is vastly better than buying something that's pure polyester fleece. Just go for as high a pe
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by ericd 2y ago
Don't know where you got that, until seeing this, I didn't know or care about Cobb, I'm certainly not jealous of them. I was just saying that the EPA is not trying to optimize the amount of money they get, they're just t
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by ericd 2y ago
Wiping out all the equityholders and wiping out everything they've worked to build is a much harsher penalty than some money. The point isn't to actually get money from them.
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by ericd 2y ago
My impression is that transmission capacity is often the limiting factor, so you can’t really think of eg solar energy as being fully fungible. At least in the US, there are frequently multi-year delays on solar deployments because the tran
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by ericd 2y ago
If you reread what I was replying to, I was saying they might want to demand changes to management because it’s in their best interest to demand those changes, focusing only on short term benefit to themselves is harmful to their long term
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by ericd 2y ago
My reply to this is that the potentially outsized rewards gives Carmack de facto leadership of his next project, because he’s the one paying the bills, and it lets him work on whatever he wants, in perpetuity, without ever having to conside
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by ericd 2y ago
Because they have a set of specialized skills with only a few potential buyers, and if they kill this one, they’ll have very limited options that use their skills without massively uprooting their lives.
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by ericd 2y ago
On the last bit, it seems like more parents are coming around to your way of thinking, and our public school system just sent out a survey about how hard they should ban personal electronics from our public schools.
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by ericd 2y ago
Do you think we might see the same sort of bifurcation in the car market that we’ve seen in many other markets, as peoples’ wealth has gone more bimodal? Really cheaply made/total junk with relatively little variation, and premium pric
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by ericd 2y ago
Ah, good point, thanks!
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, a fixed tax, but based on weight, which is sort of a low-resolution usage tax. 300 pounds is more, but not very significantly more, than car registration in many US states.
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, it should be, but it seems they're taxing more axles more for the same weight, so it seems like something else is going on there.
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, weather/time do a lot, it's definitely not all trucks. And a lot of them are maintained just so they're available for everyone, whether they're being heavily used or not. So I don't actually think that trucks
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by ericd 2y ago
Nice. Those amounts seem kind of low, though? Not sure if I'm reading it correctly. A truck that weighs 20x the amount of a passenger car, with 2 axles, appears to pay 300 pounds per year? Also, weirdly, a 40,000 kg truck with 2 axles
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by ericd 2y ago
If you're doing this to offset damage done to the roads, something to keep in mind is that passenger cars are totally irrelevant in terms of road damage compared to large trucks, because road damage is a function of the fourth power
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by ericd 2y ago
> The sole reason that the USD has value is because people in the US must pay taxes in USD. Ehh what about the petrodollar?
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by ericd 2y ago
I’m not saying it as a marketing tactic, because I don’t work for them. I really enjoy the absence of distraction, in the same way that I enjoy it when I go to a place like a cabin in the woods with no connectivity, because the possibility
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by ericd 2y ago
It’s for taking notes, and you can put other formats of ebooks on it (and pdfs). It’s much better than a kindle for reading technical papers and textbooks. And I find that it’s really good for not getting distracted, and getting into deep w
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by ericd 2y ago
It’s amazing for reading technical papers, and I can store reams of them on there. Useful to be able to mark them up as I go. Also textbooks. So for me, it ends up being much lighter than what it replaces.
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by ericd 2y ago
Well I said that because being an exec tends to be much more stressful, and I saw the discussion about the difficulty in hiring engineers abroad, but not about the execs. But maybe it’s less stressful in a democratically run company where e
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by ericd 2y ago
So the president makes less than a middle manager in a Fortune 500 company. I hope there are some other benefits…
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by ericd 2y ago
A 500 hp semi truck engine running at peak power is like 350 kw, so 84 megawatts (84,000 kw) is more than 200 of those engines at full throttle at all times.
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by ericd 2y ago
Ah I see, you meant that the other governments weren't being considerate of the consequences of selfish demands and it ended badly.

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