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by mlindner 4y ago
They don't want an ostensibly civilian system being reclassified as a military system and thus be subject to export restriction under things like ITAR which restricts export of any military hardware. That would prevent them from say se
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by mlindner 4y ago
There's photos of Starlink receivers on drones. Recent incarnations of Starlink software work just fine while moving. It's a software problem not a hardware one.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Yes there's any number of sources one can dig up to support either argument that come from well trusted sources. Russia's known to want to disrupt elections anywhere they can however. They'll even spread in the media the _app
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by mlindner 4y ago
> - Refusing to admit when they've misled people in the past, disinterest in publishing post mortems of their failures. Example: the lack of contrition over the Russiagate conspiracy theory. On this point the media on both sides has
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by mlindner 4y ago
Tesla prices are usually cheaper than any other EV charging station (or free). From my understanding they charge a little bit above local electricity rates enough to cover maintenance costs. Are you making the argument that non-Teslas shoul
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by mlindner 4y ago
Warrants that mandate a monitor of a specific email address are not "mass surveillance".
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by mlindner 4y ago
Tesla submitted their charging standard as the standard for CCS. It was refused.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Why do we need to save other automakers from their own destruction who refuse to adapt? > Praising Tesla wouldn’t increase electrification, so doesn’t seem worth doing unless it would stoke sufficient envy to encourage other automakers.
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by mlindner 4y ago
South pole. I'm not talking about Antarctica as a whole. There's plenty of areas on Antarctica's coast where small plants/lichen grow.
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by mlindner 4y ago
In this case it's the government mandating the weaker one, through the lobbying of competitors trying to wreck the market leader. It's the _way_ that this happened that puts such a sour taste in my mouth personally.
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by mlindner 4y ago
On Mars you have soil you can process into something plants can use (note: needs to be washed free of its perchlorate contamination first) whereas at the South Pole there is no soil that is not buried under hundreds of meters of ice. You ca
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by mlindner 4y ago
Tesla vehicle production continues to grow at a very high rate however. Being over 75% of a market is ridiculous. That's kind of expected. Tesla has said many times they're not competing with EV companies, they're competing w
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not following. Who is moving to such a model? Yes Tesla should be paid if they're being forced to subsidize their competitors. The entire point of Tesla's charging system is that it's non-profit making. It's bas
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by mlindner 4y ago
Blue Origin, for now, is limited to a passion project of Jeff Bezos. He's welcome to spend his money how he sees fit, but I'd love to see Blue Origin, or any other company for that matter, compete with SpaceX. Once there's a
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by mlindner 4y ago
Praising competitors, refusing to invite Tesla to EV events, working with lobbyists from competitors in this recent law, actively lying to the media about which company caused the EV number explosion that we've seen, and generally tryi
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by mlindner 4y ago
There's nothing that says you won't also need a phone app just that you can't mandate payment through the phone app. It just says that there's no membership requirement and downloading an app is not a membership. BTW, Te
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by mlindner 4y ago
Just because you're compiling with something doesn't mean you like to comply with it... I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make. The alternative is competitors being subsidized.
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by mlindner 4y ago
The CCS standard didn't exist when Tesla created their own charging connector, and there were many other connectors at the time. CCS is objectively worse than Tesla's standard in both form factor and ease of use. What the governme
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by mlindner 4y ago
I believe the CCS connector rule will eventually be changed. The momentum Tesla has with their own connector is simply too great. Keep in mind for European posters: this is not the European CCS. It's CCS type 1, which is quite a lot wo
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by mlindner 4y ago
Between Apple's "monetize the developers" versus Google's "monetize the users" I think I prefer the monetization of the developers. I hope a successful alternative to either method comes along however.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Tesla doesn't have this problem though so how are they the villain? Tesla created the first global charger network that now other companies are pleading for government help to compete with.
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by mlindner 4y ago
The current White House has been anti-Tesla since the beginning so I've got no clue what you're talking about.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Well yes it makes sense to criticize the government effectively subsidizing your competitors when they failed to innovate. This reduces the willingness of companies to innovate like Tesla did because they know they can sit on the haunches a
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by mlindner 4y ago
The only Starlink satellites that can hope to reach the north pole are the satellites that reach 82.4 degrees north/south (orbits at inclination of 97.6 degrees) and there's currently only 187 of those operating so very few will b
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by mlindner 4y ago
> Elon Musk didn't found Tesla, In any other company, Elon would have had "founder status" as part of the negotiations when he bankrolled the company basically from day 1. The company wouldn't have existed at all with
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not a "BO" hater. I want to see them make some real hardware besides buildings. They're very good at building buildings. Fly something already, into orbit. More so, at least get cash flow positive.
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by mlindner 4y ago
> And many, many of Tesla's predictions aren't predictions. In 2014, Tesla promised full self driving on cars and took money for it. Those cars today will never have it (despite paying for it), and it's been nearly a decad
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by mlindner 4y ago
Earnings calls are forward looking statements and often turn out to be incorrect predictions, and no, most of these were not in earnings calls because only Tesla has earnings calls. They're also written in bad context, for example the
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by mlindner 4y ago
Every headline here is missing the nuance and misdescribing the comments out of context. Or removing the caveats that he himself put on the comment. When people preface things with "I think", or "probably" or "possi
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by mlindner 4y ago
You should check out her own words on this from 2021. https://archive.ph/p4Nkz > Shotwell: The way Elon and I share the load, he focuses on development. He's still very highly engaged in the day-to-day operations, b

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