grecy

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by grecy 3y ago
> it suggests that either subsidies don't work, or the do work with none value making it's way to the upstream industry the government explicitly set out to support with subsidies. Did the government set out to subsidise an u
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by grecy 3y ago
Good thing they built another 2,900km in 2023, and have no intention of letting up! https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/china-buil...
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by grecy 3y ago
> which is a threat to his business of selling cars With 40,000kms of high speed rail [1] (by far the most in the world), China must then have very few electric vehicles. In reality they are the world leader. [2] [1] https:/&#x2F
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by grecy 3y ago
Tesla are getting exactly $0 of this money (it goes to the customer). Also, every other automaker can make cars that qualify. In fact, many already do! Also note Tesla do not make a single PEHV, so in fact plenty of automakers make vehicles
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by grecy 3y ago
Housing can not simultaneously be affordable and a good investment.
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by grecy 3y ago
Please link to an article that documents a single subsidy that Tesla got from the government.
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by grecy 3y ago
Indeed. https://www.topspeed.com/tesla-model-y-second-best-selling-v... https://www.greencars.com/news/the-tesla-model-y-is-the-best...
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by grecy 3y ago
> Yeah, infinite demand for sure ! That's certainly why they were cutting prices aggressively. The Model Y is now the second best selling vehicle in the US, and the number one in the world. They're selling every single vehic
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by grecy 3y ago
Sure, that's supercharging Tesla vehicles. They are of course going to charge more for non-Teslas.
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by grecy 3y ago
> by 2030 > a company projecting to sell 10 million cars by that time At their latest investment day they very clearly said their goal is 20 million cars a year by 2030.
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The United States is producing more oil than any country in history(cnn.com)
8 points by grecy 3y ago|2 comments
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by grecy 3y ago
> even more cars on the streets, .. , and traffic will get a lot worse I strongly believe it will go the other way, i.e. the 'robo-taxi' vision. Once cars can pick us up, take us where we want and then disappear, very few peo
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by grecy 3y ago
Stellantis are the only remaining holdout. It seems inevitable they'll jump on board too.
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by grecy 3y ago
> I always felt that the States was "tatty", more "run down" than old Driving in and around the freeways in New York a foreign friend exclaimed "It's like everything is half finished". I've never
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by grecy 3y ago
I was once told "Australian's don't know how to live, they just die slowly". I've spent a lot of time thinking about that. (For context, I was born there, but left almost 20 years ago. I recently spent 18 months exp
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by grecy 3y ago
Given YouTubers that have access to a few million eyeballs are paid 6 and 7 figures a year by brands, I would be shocked if a few of the reddit mods that mod almost all the biggest subreddits are not taking cash on the side. They literally
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by grecy 3y ago
I would argue that anecdotally it's been well over 15% at various times. Nearly every second post on /r/movies for a few years was "Checkout this amazing old classic that's way better than I remembered, it's st
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by grecy 3y ago
"Company plans to beat competitors next year" News at 6
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by grecy 3y ago
> the price will shoot up drastically as soon as the market is aware of someone Will that still happen if you put in a single order to buy 51% of all the shares at a price a little above the current market value ? That trade will be co
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by grecy 3y ago
You are correct because the patent system was not invented to help or hinder innovation. It was invented to help people get richer. It is working exactly as designed.
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by grecy 3y ago
Sure are. SpaceX valuation just went up from $150B to $180B, now likely the world's most valuable private company. Musk owns 42% of it, so just in the last few months his slice went up $12.8B. https://www.cnbc.com/2023&
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by grecy 3y ago
That is not correct. EVs are so much more efficient than ICE vehicles they are still a net win even when powered with "dirty" electricity. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2020/03/30/
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by grecy 3y ago
> Musk is really under a lot of financial pressure I find it amusing this has become common "knowledge" now, and everyone thinks it will shape his actions. With Tesla and SpaceX printing money, why does everyone assume he car
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by grecy 3y ago
> “One person is dying at the hands of the pedestrian butcher Elon Musk every single day!” You're absolutely right, but it won't make any difference if the laws are passed.
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by grecy 3y ago
> Additionally they most likely already knew English and were able to decipher "French broken by an English speaker". No, they did not speak English. If they had, I wouldn't have subjected them to my French.
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by grecy 3y ago
> People weren't correcting you to mock you. They wanted to understand and probably help you No. In France they openly showed their disgust at my French and refused even to speak to me.
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by grecy 3y ago
Learning French while exploring West Africa was enormously good fun. For most people it's their 3rd or 4th or 5th language, and they were always so full of joy and happiness than I was trying my best. Nobody ever corrected my pronuncia
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by grecy 3y ago
> I think one order of magnitude is the least we should demand. I would consider it a rather low bar. I suspect that it'd need to be more like two orders of magnitude in order to retain sufficient community consent. So right now w
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by grecy 3y ago
> I think it's clear that if we were talking about saving 125 people 90 years old or older or 100 children, the clear choice is to save the children, from almost any rational point of view. Even just from a societal health or utili
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Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies(kut.org)
60 points by grecy 3y ago|127 comments

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