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by grecy 3y ago
I don't think you need a huge conspiracy theory when one of the richest people in the world has a billion dollar short position on an EV company.
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by grecy 3y ago
Yes. They did just under 2 million this year, and the goal is 20 million annually by 2030. Even if they don't hit it by 2030, based on everything else they've done to date, I think it's likely they will eventually get there.
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by grecy 3y ago
> Tesla stock is not valued based on its underlying fundamentals I'm no Musk fan with his latest comments, but I disagree with this quite strongly. Have a look at how many vehicles Toyota have produced for the last 10 years, and h
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by grecy 3y ago
> I personally don't understand the people who wouldn't want to take a 30 minute shower. Are you aware that clean water is a finite resource that we're almost certain to run out of? [1] does that not bother you all? Eve
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by grecy 3y ago
> If it was possible to hot patch this crap out of existence I’d be in favor of it. I assume, of course, you feel this way about all drugs, and don't want to keep the ones you like. Goodbye alcohol, cigarettes & coffee. You&
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by grecy 3y ago
I thought it was very well known that higher elevation results in reduced appetite. I certainly have not been interested in eating whenever I've been above 5000m
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by grecy 3y ago
I agree with everything you said, right up until the end. I do believe there are still organizations (or at least teams within) that have not been taken over by the parasites you describe. It takes hard work and a lot of looking, but they c
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by grecy 3y ago
Plenty of locals using it in all those countries.
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by grecy 3y ago
> Why bother going at all? I've been exploring the most remote corners of the planet for over a decade now, and while I understand what you're saying, constant connectivity is not a problem if you don't want it to be. I
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by grecy 3y ago
> This only happens organically in the US and Northern Europe due to double condition of incredibly high GDP and a geographic morphology which is incredibly sparse and/or with lots of mountains and rugged terrain. 2 or 3 countries
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by grecy 3y ago
> It doesn't become any less nonsencial just because some business leaders who are still stuck in 1980s believe in it. Of course it does. Whatever your business leaders believe is reality in that company. It makes no difference
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by grecy 3y ago
So the argument isn't that Norway is rapidly adopting evs because they have large oil reserves, the argument is that Norway is adopting evs because they setup their oil reserves so the profits benefit everyone and not just big corporat
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by grecy 3y ago
FWIW that is complete hyperbole. I drove Alaska to Argentina more than a decade before they did [1]. I tried as hard as I could to get as remote as possible and as far from civilization as possible. Only once did I need to carry a jerry can
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by grecy 3y ago
I read the trick is to charge at the end of a day when the battery is warm rather than first thing in the morning when its cold. Its a mind shift, but totally workable.
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by grecy 3y ago
And the US is producing more than any other country at any other time in history....
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by grecy 3y ago
> Norway, sitting on gigantic oil reserves The US is currently producing more oil than any country at any time in history. [1]. Also the US has much, much larger reserves than Norway [2] Norway has 0.31% of the world's oil, the US
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by grecy 3y ago
Oh for sure, it would be a massive upheaval, and a lot of people can't afford to do it. If they want things to get better, they have to do it anyway.
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by grecy 3y ago
> 8 T$ or $8e12 feel both shorter and less ambiguous. To be honest, I wrote it out longhand because I think it's important not to make it feel shorter or somehow less significant. It is an enormous sum of money that humans are not
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by grecy 3y ago
If literally everyone stopped going to work for even a month things would drastically change. The workers hold a lot more power than they realize, if only they would organize and untie in the common goal.
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by grecy 3y ago
> A typical royalty is 10% of the retail price. For WHO? What publisher is offering 10%?? The best I've ever heard is a fraction of a cent per book, and you don't get a single cent until AFTER all the expenses have been earne
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by grecy 3y ago
Australia has that too. $1500/mo for a single person.
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by grecy 3y ago
A few years ago I had beers with a NYT best selling author using trad publishing. Millions of copies sold on multiple continents, translated into many different languages, etc etc. You've heard of him, or at least his one big hit. He s
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by grecy 3y ago
If you find that interesting, you may want to look into why Switzerland is the 2nd largest exporter of coffee in the world, despite never growing a single bean [1]. The powers that be absolutely will not allow countries like Ethiopia to p
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by grecy 3y ago
The marketing around this is will win the best newspeak of 2024 - the pharmaceutical companies are making it sound like they're selling it at this price out of the kindness of their hearts. No mention of the decades of price gouging
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by grecy 3y ago
* ..her salary had risen to over $3 million 2021, her salary rose again to over $5 million, 2022 her salary rose again to nearly $7 million .. In August of the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to sh
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by grecy 3y ago
I spent a month exploring all over the Ivory Coast, driving my own 4x4 [1]. When I give talks about my 3 years driving right around Africa I use Ivory Coast as the example of road conditions. A road where trucks were stuck for two weeks [2]
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by grecy 3y ago
> the question is at what cost? The world will be a wonderful place when schools have all the funding they need and the Air Force must hold a bake sale to pay for new fighter jets. The US spent $8,000,000,000,000 on the "war on ter
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by grecy 3y ago
> your proposed solution is actually an improvement. Whenever we try to improve anything in this world (software, hardware, humans, society, laws, constitutions), we measure a bunch of things beforehand, then we measure again after i
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by grecy 3y ago
I do make my own bread. Sourdough, it's excellent. Pasta is an exception I allow to my rule, though I eat it probably only once a month now. In general, it's a very good rule to stick to. This way you are in control and what you&#
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by grecy 3y ago
Eating well is really, really simple - Only buy and eat things with one ingredient. Cook your own meals, then you know what is in there. Hint: stay away from the interior of the grocery store where all the shiny bags are. You want the stuff

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