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by wumpus 4y ago
How can you tell why people downvote?
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> If the Philistines had Greek cultural origins it explains why the David story involved one on one combat Don't many other unrelated cultures have one on one combat?
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Don't rural dwellers use more energy, per capita?
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It took bing years to get the porn out of its image search.
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Grubhub made a fake website for every restaurant in the US...
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First the SEO industry owned google for these question searches, and then Google realized that just making them work was easier than trying to change human behavior.
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Those email chains compress really well.
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> if you think caste matters I think it matters if it's causing discrimination at my workplace.
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On reddit, it seems the most persistent repeaters of negative Tesla stories work in the car industry, and have never owned a Tesla. There are definitely some disgruntled customers, too.
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> but it can make financial sense depending on the cost of electricity. Don't forget to price in carbon emissions and the cost of pollution.
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Sounds dire! But there are multiple solutions, and you can find a lot on the Internets about them.
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It's kind of fun (yet horrifying) to watch how well 0% financing works with consumers, even when it's clear that you'll get a lower price without it.
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Kinda fun when I get mildly downvoted for mentioning a relevant historical fact.
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Yes.
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Ah. I had no idea that's what you meant. I don't know about you, but my companies have never had a quota, and have never been sued, and, had more diverse employees than our peer companies. Maybe you can explain how we did that? It
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by wumpus 4y ago
There are a couple of EV models with a particular battery manufacturer (LG) that were recalled for a fire problem. 72,000 cars for GM Bolt, the most popular one. Tesla shipped that many cars in 2016, and is growing 50%/year.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Paint flecks on the mirror? I'm dying.
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> educate the consumers, financing, DMV paperwork and most importantly service your vehicles. I bought a new car direct and I was educated, my credit union was better than the manufacturer's financing offer, the manufacturer did DMV
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> Ford reorganized back in March so that their EV business (Model e) is separate from the legacy ICE business (Ford Blue). State legislatures and courts have been smacking down this kind of shenanigan for nearly a century now.
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It's right there at the start of that section: > The term "affirmative action" was first used in the United States in "Executive Order No. 10925",[17] signed by President John F. Kennedy on 6 March 1961, which in
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All car companies have "service memos". It has nothing to do with dealers.
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Did you leave off the sarcasm marker?
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I'm glad you think you are so smart.
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These major storage vendors only make the software; the hardware is commodity. The customers figured out the prices of the hardware: disks or flash, a way to connect them to a "server", the "server", the network that the
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I don't give a crap about class, so I'm probably not the person to ask. I do have family members who care about it.
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I have no idea what you mean with that Ford comment. My best guess is that you think consumers are too stupid to consider anything but a Ford? I did negotiate server/colo/cloud prices, but I spent person-months of effort deconstru
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Wait what? If there are no negotiations, and Ford's price is too high compared to the market, Ford is going to lose sales. That's micro-economics. > besides your house, it's likely the most expensive thing you'll ever
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by wumpus 4y ago
More demand now leads to more confident investment which leads to more actual growth in the end. Brand awareness advertising isn't only about orders today. It's about implanting the idea "Maybe I'll buy in EV in a couple
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Tesla's roadmap is that they're growing > 50%/year as long as their current product line remains hot.
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You don't even need showrooms to give test drives -- there are companies out there which will drop off a car to your house to do a test drive. Tesla mostly does test drives out of showrooms, but there is this: > Tesla occasionally h

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