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by jewayne 3y ago
Somebody check my facts here, but isn't the NACS/Tesla charging standard just CCS with a different plug? Shouldn't the CCS-to-NACS adapters available today work seamlessly both now and in the future? Am I missing something he
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by jewayne 3y ago
I have personally found Supercharging to be too fast at times. Multiple times I've had to unplug and move the car because it finished charging before I was ready to leave the restaurant/store. I think people underestimate how long
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by jewayne 3y ago
> When they want to travel between cities they'll get on a plane. You've only solved one leg of the journey. Even airports are going to be more accessible with good bus options.
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by jewayne 3y ago
How comfortable is your 94 year-old relative on a busy interstate, or worse, a 6 lane stroad? Just because somebody still has a driver's license doesn't mean they haven't lost mobility. Now, others have pointed out that if th
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by jewayne 3y ago
Well, we know how that will turn out, unfortunately. We will end that experiment when the body count gets too high.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Meh. I think those with means quietly vote with their feet, not quite aware of what they are doing. Have you ever been to / seen video of The Villages? Golf carts and pedestrians owning the street, with cars as guests. And this might b
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by jewayne 3y ago
Next year, the youngest Boomer will turn 60 years old. As the Boomers age out of driving, the lack of other options is going to become a major political issue. The post-war babies still have enormous clout, and I highly doubt they will acce
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by jewayne 3y ago
I'm pretty sure "deflationary environment" is synonymous with "depression". It's a wonderful situation for people who have jobs. It's just that in a deflationary trap, the number of people who have jobs te
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by jewayne 3y ago
Right. I think almost everybody wants some version of "fairness", but for many fairness is actually defined by a remarkably strict hierarchy. It's not that they want McDonald's workers to suffer, exactly, but they want t
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by jewayne 3y ago
Hmm. Did Donald Trump have a father growing up?
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by jewayne 3y ago
That's an excellent point. There's a survivorship bias here. Perhaps fatherlessness doesn't cause crime so much as it makes you more vulnerable to the criminal justice system.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Lesson: Landlords look down on their tenants.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Will this prevent 14-year-olds from stealing their cars with nothing but a USB cable, and then killing innocent bystanders? No? Then when is that coming? (And yes, I know it's only their old cars, but those cars are still on the road,
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by jewayne 3y ago
Would it make you happy to know that our life expectancy has been going DOWN since before the pandemic?
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by jewayne 3y ago
Oh, I clicked the link about the government official from India. It does a great job of illustrating my point. A wealthy cash buyer of specific health services is going to get world class treatment at Mayo or Hopkins. How many Americans doe
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by jewayne 3y ago
It's not, even if you have good insurance -- and almost nobody does these days, EXCEPT the elderly. Sure, we're world-class at a few high-profile things, but you'll note that things we are good at are immensely profitable. Be
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by jewayne 3y ago
If Gen Z never sees a penny from Social Security, it will be because of the loss of political will to protect Social Security as we know it. Which would only happen if this continuing misinformation campaign convinces the younger generation
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by jewayne 3y ago
There's nothing inherently unsustainable about social security. If FICA tax revenues don't keep up with benefits, benefits can be cut to make up for the shortfall. If you haven't noticed, due to our still-falling life expecta
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by jewayne 3y ago
It's definitely a win for the financial industry. They make way more in fees than they ever did from the pension funds. I would love to see the evidence for the statements "(non-financial) companies make more money", "pe
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by jewayne 3y ago
At some point I came to realize that a large chunk of the population in my country (USA) live their entire lives paycheck-to-paycheck, never getting ahead. I think even in the very best of times, this number never gets below 20% or so. And
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by jewayne 3y ago
Hydrogen never took off for good reason. Actually, multiple reasons. Having to build yet another ecosystem for delivery might be the biggest one, though. Whereas we already have a vast network for the delivery of electric power . In fact,
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by jewayne 3y ago
A super-minor pain point, to be sure. But one that's just gone for me. That's pretty sweet, imho.
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by jewayne 3y ago
> Most of the time, the car is done charging enough faster than we could stop for coffee, and I have to extend the charge using my app. This. The haters think that Level 3 charging takes 60+ minutes. There are times I wish it did. Inst
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by jewayne 3y ago
It's funny, in another thread I pointed out the convenience stores, arguing that it will incentivize shutting the pumps down sooner rather than later. At a certain point pumps need replaced, and won't do it if they're not goi
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by jewayne 3y ago
I think you will be shocked at how low the threshold will be in terms of EV adoption before gas stations start to close.
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by jewayne 3y ago
> There will assuredly still be plenty of open gas stations in 2035. I am not sure of this at all . At the very least, we can bet by that timeframe the number of gas stations will be going down. Why? For the same reason I don't ha
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by jewayne 3y ago
> people realize most EVs are vastly, vastly inferior to what they were supposed to replace I don't know how anyone with any knowledge of EVs whatsoever can make this argument in 2023. Maybe this was forgivable 10 years ago, but no
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by jewayne 3y ago
Whether you outlive employment depends very much on what kind of employment you have. People with very physical jobs often have their bodies give out well before official "retirement" age. I have a theory that one of the reason in
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by jewayne 3y ago
I mean, haven't deaths of despair been growing for around 20 years now?
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by jewayne 3y ago
Yeah, it really just reflects how much the public been sold on Social Security catastrophism.

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