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I’m not sure what biases the guardian has, but I find it difficult to get past the opening 2 sentence’s casting of 50+ million people as simply delusional. Assessments like this completely miss the mark by disregarding the often reasonable arguments and facts that guide beliefs.

Is the consensus that this was purely greed-driven? In a number of recent stories and quotes from politicians it’s been kind of hard to square up their proclamations of greed and yet no mentions of mandated minimum wage increases or inarguably higher wholesale meat, produce, and transport costs, for example. Perhaps C:all of the above?

“SpaceX is possibly withholding broadband internet services in and around Taiwan—possibly in breach of SpaceX’s contractual obligations..”

What is the purpose of an article with such compounded uncertainty?

I’ve yet to find it again, but I read an interesting commentary recently noting that the bulk of enthusiasm in press coverage, and for spending money, is on the long term prevention side (“decarbonization” etc), while no real press or spending is directed at the survival/relocation side, and this is an interesting data point to some.

UCSD has an amazing labyrinth of tunnels, some easily accessible, some locked away and purposefully obscured, but discoverable.

Are these claims actually quantified by any of the companies mentioned in the article?

While there’s no disagreement that “piracy” occurs, I’d love to see refreshed numbers around “potential paying customers” vs “because it’s there but wouldn’t otherwise buy” metrics.

Also, that c&p is lazy and raises an eyebrow.

That’s false. PG&E is the largest provider in the state and their outages are caused by poor quality controls, lack of line and pole maintenance, vegetation overgrowth, poor resilience to weather conditions, and carelessness, primarily. This -results- in fires at times, and they are in constant litigation. They have a dysfunctional-by-design relation with the cpuc.

Has there been any real balanced reporting on this? Obviously this statement is biased to Universal’s profit motives, and that crafty 1% number.. they should share the same data for their other platform partnerships. Chatter amongst acquaintances who work for various social media companies is that Universal has been attempting to play companies against each other, and their bluff was called by TikTok. I can’t confirm that as I wasn’t in the room, but it wouldn’t surprise me. I do think this will end up having been a misstep for Universal - TikTok, Meta, Snap, and others have no shortage of catalogs and partnerships to promote music.

There was an interesting thread on a legal blog (which I can’t find at the moment), but essentially the thread related to US and state regulations over the years creating complicity in any “wrongdoing”. For example in California the CARB was/is setting standards and regulations based on their own analysis and science, and for the state to then turn around and proclaim the oil industry as evil seemed to be political posturing more than anything.

Agreed. I really wish Tesla would re-embrace ultrasonics or radar for the things it’s really good at.

I think eventually vision-based sensing will get there, but it is surprising to me that it’s not much much better now, given the millions of training miles and vision improvements.

I actually had trouble with the entirety of the article as soon as the nag was described as firing when glancing at mirrors or the radio. Having HW3 and a HW4 cars that were on the December upgrade train as well as now being on the latest the latest, our experience is that it requires more discipline, but it is most definitely not firing for glances at mirrors or even looking at the info screen for 2-4 second durations.

So, I’m a bit sus.

US funding was halted during the prior administration for what was termed corruption and misalignment with the goals and ideals of the US. Funding was restarted by the current US president. I’ve not been able to find details on what new revelations prompted the resumption - has there been anything published?

As someone who works for one of the large “social media” platforms, I see a tremendous amount of the content, both positive and enjoyable and informative, and the negative and sometimes dangerous. It’s difficult to find productive forums on this topic, but I’m definitely interested in hearing what others think beyond the emotionally-charged “BAN TIKTOK” or “YouTube is full of misinformation and must be censored” dialogue, that is, in many cases, politically motivated. Personally I think any form of broadcast and amplification requires guardrails, balanced to be protective of people as well as rights, yet many of the debates seem to land at extremes.

What is your suggestion as an alternative program?

Musk’s statement was that FSD will exit being a beta program in the v12 major version chain, not that that v12.n is not beta.

Interested in more of your perspective on this. Please expand on your opinion around all conservatives “creating a hellish world for everyone”.

Indeed. Although Texas is not a primary launch site long term. It’s a development site. The Cape is going to be a primary, with multiple Starship-capable pads.