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maxericksonon Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts

If athletes didn't face consequences for manipulating betting markets, I think you'd see people become less and less likely to bet on sports outcomes. People naturally don't like a rigged game, you don't have to tell them not to play it.

With these betting markets, do you think it's critical that they exist, but with bans on insider bets? Because I'm not sure anyone you are moralizing at is taking up the argument that it's critical that they exist.

maxericksonon General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1

Was it even a compliance car?

It's eternally fascinating that people can't or won't grasp that the cars cost far more to produce than they could put them to market for, instead deciding that it was a big conspiracy.

It took until ~2015 for batteries to become practical for expensive mass market cars.

maxericksonon A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)

consider the comment as it was intended

What do you think "reading" means?

maxericksonon Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

Well, speaking as someone who is moderately price sensitive, I'm probably going to shop for a used car.

I'm not sure people are reading my comments above as making 2 comparisons. I used "decent hybrids" as a group of cars that are roughly comparable to the Model 3, but more convenient in areas where chargers are sparse (in northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, you pretty much have to plan your route to the available chargers).

And then I noted that there are cars that are available for quite a lot less, so anyone that is price sensitive probably isn't going to be shopping for a new electric vehicle that costs nearly $40k.

maxericksonon Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

But Tesla is priced high for anyone that is even moderately price sensitive. Even the base model of their cheapest car.

maxericksonon A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)

I would say I'm accurately reading "Western culture" as a nonsensical concept.

Add an s and it gets a little better.

maxericksonon Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

It's kind of a yes both. A base Model 3 is in the same price range as decent hybrids that will be more convenient for many owners given current highway adjacent charging infrastructure.

Of course there are also new vehicles that cost quite a bit less than a base Model 3, but they invite a discussion of not being all that comparable.

maxericksonon A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)

I guess I was talking about the people that don't know about the culture you guys say they are part of.

maxericksonon A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)

That's not really a coherent statement.

If people don't even know it, it's not part of the culture.

maxericksonon Afroman found not liable in defamation case

You could probably do a comparison between jurisdictions where police homicides are common and jurisdictions where they aren't common. Assuming that there are cultural factors anyway.

Like sure, areas with higher rates of criminal violence will probably have more police homicides, but it's likely enough that you can pair things up based on rates of criminal violence.

maxericksonon France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

So you task the satellite to where you know the ship is?

maxericksonon Waymo Safety Impact

I suppose owners will be motivated to have the thing do the driving (and so seek defeat devices and such), but at least the software can have "do nothing" as a safety mode if it manages to detect that the vehicle is not configured as expected.

And maybe the software can be designed to be coupled to a vehicle dynamics model that can be updated.

maxericksonon Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]

It's a normative claim.

It might be dishonest (if he doesn't believe it is possible), but I don't think he's saying that the current systems have reached the mark.

maxericksonon Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents

What do you think the big paragraph at the end meant to convey?

maxericksonon Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents

So you are saying you are a reactionary? Did you even try to read my entire comment?

maxericksonon Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents

As a homeowner, I want number to go up.

These things push against that.

Really, I'd prefer not having policies that tend to push up housing prices or discourage people from moving, but here we are, those types of policies are common.

maxericksonon Honda is killing its EVs

How many software recalls did something other than fix a bug or derate something?

maxericksonon Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn

As an example, a forest managed for productivity won't really lose value from a harvest.

You'd have to price the conversion of it to that management strategy.

maxericksonon Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

And the people taking the other side of the bets. You have to kind of be a fool to take an anonymous bet with an outcome that can more or less be chosen.

maxericksonon What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable

There's about 1 billion people in North and South America. If there's some sort of catastrophic collapse, there's not going to be overpopulation or problematic waves of migration anywhere on those continents.

maxericksonon GIMP 3.2 released

You can draw a representation of a circle with extremely primitive tools and it isn't possible to actually draw a circle. Your question as rendered is hard to answer.

maxericksonon Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)

I expect that access to inexpensive energy is more important than the population density, typical ambient or "favorable" state laws (this law doesn't seem to really do all that much).

Like the region I live in is cold and has lots of water, but we import energy, might as well build closer to the regional mega cities (where it is still relatively cold, with relatively abundant water). There is some kerfuffle going on in the county here about preventing data centers, and I can't imagine there is even anyone interested in building one.

maxericksonon How Lego builds a new Lego set (2023)

Wow, your very hip.

maxericksonon How Lego builds a new Lego set

Millennials grew up in the 1980s.

maxericksonon How Lego builds a new Lego set (2023)

It's interesting how strongly Lego has been able to move into selling what I'd call collectable sets. There's little notion that a set like the camera is a children's toy (or even that you'd build something else with it).

maxericksonon Wired headphone sales are exploding. What's with the Bluetooth backlash?

I have some generic Bluetooth dongle and some anker over the ear headphones and can turn the headphones on after initiating a call and not really have problems. Sometimes Windows doesn't find the microphone right away.

maxericksonon How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier

Fake endorsements of a product is not what most people mean by "selling".

Like I get it, you are fine with what you are doing. Whatever. But you are being dishonest with people, maybe in a way that you see as small, and that sucks.

maxericksonon How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier

Well of course the people buying your services approve of your antisocial behavior, they are encouraging it. They also suck.

maxericksonon Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional

Well that's my point. "sent that way" is not entirely fair. Your state is spending California tax dollars, or so, not the other way around.

maxericksonon Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional

I'm furious that 10% of my federal income taxes end up going to California's bullshit, I can't imagine what it would be like having to live there.

Your taxes getting evenly distributed is one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that removing California from the US would either increase your taxes or require reductions in federal spending.