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But yeah, it's going to get a lot worse.

A better measure is the number of incidents of weather extremes: heat, cold, rain, drought, storms.

I'm not going to look those up right now, but there's a ton of evidence that those incidents are going up dramatically.

The Sylacauga meteorite fell on November 30, 1954, at 12:46 local time (18:46 UT) in Oak Grove, Alabama, near Sylacauga. It is commonly called the Hodges meteorite because a fragment of it struck Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges (1920–1972).

I think, as you noted, that 'autopilot' is probably fine, but 'full self driving' is actively misleading.

Note that I use FSD for 90+% of all of my driving, and I think I'm safer because of it, but it has to be used with understanding and care. The very name 'full self driving' is something it might be some day, but it's nowhere close to that now.

One of the best, among many, of the series.

When I worked there, I wasn't aware of any 'test once per year' concept or directive.

Of course, FB is a really big place, so things are different in different areas.

Taking a BEV on a road trip vacation is more tricky and requires more planning, but it's very doable. We've taken our 2017 340 mile (when new, current max range is about 327 miles) Tesla on a number of moderately long road trips. It's a bit slower and there are some places we could not have gone, but it definitely works.

Keep in mind that you can charge 3-5 miles per hour on nearly any standard 120 VAC outlet. With one of our trips to the mountains, we ran a 100 foot extension cord from our cabin and had little trouble keeping up with mileage demands.

More concretely, last year we moved from California to Washington state, a little more than 800 miles. Since it was in the middle of C19, we didn't want to stop over anywhere, so we had to do the drive in one day.

It took us about 16 hours to drive about 820 miles, an average of more than 50 miles per hour, including charge stops. 15-20 years ago we'd do 800 mile days in about 13 hours, or an average of 61 miles per hour.

The Tesla supercharger network is pretty extensive, extremely reliable and constantly growing. I don't have a sense of how widespread/reliable the other fast charging networks are, beyond various problematic stories I've come across.

PS: I've seen youtube videos of people doing 12-15 amp 120 VAC charging (gaining 3-5 mile per hour) in Teslas using portable solar panels too.

It's all quite silly.

After various legal proceedings, that patent was invalidated.

"Kuiper Systems LLC is a subsidiary of Amazon that was set up in 2019 to deploy a large broadband satellite internet constellation to provide broadband internet connectivity."

Are you aware of any relevant precedent for this?

I've had a lot of luck putting Ubuntu on older Macbooks for quite a few years now. Works quite well.

Elon Musk speaks quite aspirationally and optimistically from time to time, for both Tesla and SpaceX.

> SpaceX has delivered

They sure have! Tesla has also delivered over 1.7 million cars. They're on track to deliver about 750k cars in 2021 alone.

Can you expand on that if you have a moment? Thanks.

It's pretty neat and kind of surprising at first. Of the hundreds of birds we've received via USPS, none of them were DOA.

This is a valid point.

To clarify, though, I don't think climate change is likely to make humans extinct, but I believe it has a non-trivial chance of destroying our civilization.

If/when the climate gets really bad, human irrationality will go into overdrive, and we'll be a massive danger to ourselves.

It's most correct to plan around every location getting more wet, more dry, more hot, more cold, more storms and more droughts.

This is a defensible opinion, as are the others saying that the most important job of humanity is to fix our current basket.

While neither agreeing or disagreeing, I will note another very important thing SpaceX is doing:

"The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."

A lot of what SpaceX is doing is extremely inspirational, and I think the world could use more things to look forward to in the future.

Current spot price of gold is $1800/oz. Merlin dry weight is 1380 pounds. 1380 pounds of gold is right at 40 million dollars.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25#Space_Shuttle_program :

"A total of 46 reusable RS-25 engines, each costing around US$40 million, were flown during the Space Shuttle program"

Beautiful.

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