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> The dealer works for you, not for manufacturer. Tesla service center has an incentive of trying to cut cost.

How is this so? The dealer works for the dealership and the same incentives to gouge you apply.

It's time to remind everyone that "Have fun staying poor" was one of Do Kwon's favorite putdowns.

Sorry, 4-d chess cannot be understood by 1-d thinkers.

/sarcasm

Something cynical about the BTC bros rooting/willing for a system to collapse that millions of people depend on just so that these guys can get hyper-rich/attain libertarian nirvana. Take a look at his feed and the BTC bros he retweets.

real genius. one would think if he were this confident, he’d buy 1 million dollar worth of BTC now and not get into stupid bets.

But of course he must be playing 4D chess because no one can be this dumb.

Not surprising, isn't it? He did call a Thailand cave rescuer "pedo" because the rescuer had the gall to reject Elon's idea.

Can we at-least have some screenshots. This just goes to the signup page and absolutely no information there other than give us your phone number.

Or maybe.. just maybe.. Elon's deliberate shift to right-wing is to make it look like he's targeted for his politics. (I am a Tesla owner)

The issue is it doesn't work for people who tend to sweat easily.

These guys incessantly whine about cancel culture but the biggest abusers of it.

Doesn't make sense at all. Maybe they identified a larger pool of employees and then applied random selection algorithm to that pool. No way they are laying off superstars.

> have a halfway decent human being as a manager,

doesn't that explain why it's not a good policy? Basically the employee's right has changed to manager's generosity.

100%

oh right.. The guy who famously published this https://theprint.in/opinion/majority-indians-have-natural-im... before Delta variant ripped through India and killed millions.

SARS-Cov-2 is not novel anymore. Most of the population has immunity some form or other. The disease is almost an afterthought. That doesn't mean that this guy was correct all along, especially when the world was rushing to vaccinate.

This is probably the best quote about conservatism: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

See: https://kottke.org/22/12/the-boring-conservatism-of-elon-mus...

Now apply the same logic to libs of tiktok. she set off qanon extremists to threaten Boston Children’s hospital. but Elon encourages re-instated her account and regularly engages with her

Their business model is even more sinister according to Nicholas Weaver.

"New A16Z: Securities Fraud as a Business

• Invest in several "blockchain" startups

• Startups issue new tokens promising something, eventually

• These are unlicensed securities and this is blatantly illegal in the US, just not enforced by the SEC!

• A16Z gets a ton of these tokens, sells to retail suckers

• Ideally gets listed on Coinbase, but sketchier exchanges will do • They did that just now with "APE" token!

• If SEC ever wakes up...

• It is the startups that committed the securities fraud, not A16Z! So they are safe with their money!

"

Link: https://su22.cs161.org/assets/lectures/cryptocurrency.pdf

This is to appease Tim Cook. He just tweeted a video of him in Apple Campus

As long as there are a) scammers and b) people willing to invest in scammy things, these sorta things never die. They'll learn and adapt and come up with newer ways. Still the cynicism towards crypto on a whole is healthy and a much needed thing we need.

ELI5: they call themselves “exchanges”. they are more like banks. liquidity crunch means they don’t have money to pay back all the customers.

real bank - fdic protected for people. maybe fed govt bailout

ftx - bailed out by competitor Binance

Right. It's going to fester with dark elements of the society and he's going to hire back all the content moderators he fired and then pen another open letter to advertisers.

The article nails the inherent contradiction in optimizing for "free speech" and optimizing for advertising. He has burned 44 billion. He will bleed advertisers and legit users if it becomes a 4chan's pol board.

Now that we've come to analogies, think that they are traffic lights.

And getting banned because you repeatedly say that the election is fraud and urge your supporters to storm the capitol (and getting one such person killed) isn't the equivalent of fire in a crowded theater?

Moderation is hard. They get it right 99% of the time.

Midterm elections. If we are in a recession it’s easy for the Republican party to take the house.

Something to drive home how impressive this is - "If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb’s view in this image."

second!

Pray tell why HBOMax and Disney+ are popular then considering there are an equal amount of “woke” shows

Can you folks account for searchability when you name the project?

Bad : Go, Rust

Good : Zig, Javascript