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wow i didn't know that tesla only existed in 2023, and all past and future years dont exist

Yep, maybe 10-15 will need to be rehired at double salary. It should be an incredibly formalized process in terms of building new superchargers. Maintaining old superchargers likely requires only 4-5 managers and 40-50 technicians globally, although they might be contractors. Building out a new supercharger is likely incredibly formalized, with permiting, design, architecture, and electrical work all done via thrid parties. No need to have 500 people around.

a lot of terminally online people have a lot of money invested in tesla

and the prevalence of gambling. i visited the dominican republic in 2014 and was apalled to see gambling stations in every rural town. now i see fanduel on every billboard in america

nuke it

NOBODY CARES ABOUT MERCED TO BAKERSFIELD. that's 100k people connected to 400k people. who cares. and it will not be ready by 2030, it'll be 2033. and that means SF to LA will be at least 2040. its absolutely insane and everyone managing that project should be fired and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor.

When you're a monopoly, you don't need top performers, you need infantry that can say "yes sir"

I am announcing today that I am spending $32 billion on 7 EV Factories.

it's very obviously "creative" accounting. Facebook is throwing lots of other expenses into the VR bucket to make other departments look better.

A Fentanyl Ban Would Deal a Blow to Consumers, Businesses, Non-Profits and the American Economy

look into the concept of "monopolism"

Tears of the Kingdom's biggest problem was the lack of a good story or dungeons, which was never solved

could be an excellent complementary tech to supply energy when solar panels and wind turbines dip in production.

we've lost the ability to build things quickly in western society. if you want to build nuclear in under 20 years, you'll need to either hire a chinese company to do everything, or turn it into a military-driven Manhattan project.

the bugs in the web version are intentional to get you to download the app. you should be smart enough to figure this out by now

it's the opposite, a long time ago eclipses were "bigger" and happened more often, as the moon drifts farther away, it seems smaller to us and will no longer be big enough in our sky to block the sun one day.

only 5000 or so trials, easy

The permitting fees and time to open a restaurant in SF are astronomical. There is also a finite amount of space in SF, so the owner can collude or otherwise engage in price fixing using his existing market position. also, the owner can drop prices and sell at a loss or near loss and force you out of the market if you somehow manage to get the permits.

This is purely to minimize monopoly accusations. Unless the product is making google billions in profit, it's not worth the risk to google. Podcasts is maybe hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but if regulators found evidence of google using Search or Android to give Podcasts an unfair advantage, it could give them the ammo to split Google up. Microsoft was almost sliced up due to Internet Explorer, not very different.

60 years ago plastic was a rarity, now micropastics are embedded in every piece of clothing, food, and drink you consume

If Firefighter gear is covered in PFAS, and highly carcinogenic, and you don't want them bringing it on the subway, why would you want them to bring it to their homes? The easy, obvious solution is to install safe storage at the fire departments so that the children of firefighters don't have to inhale carcinogens.

The main purpose of imprisoning white-collar crime is to act as a deterrent. If the upside for a financial crime is billions of dollars, and the potential risk is 25 years in prison, lots of people will be willing to take that risk, especially if 25 years actually means 17ish with good behavior.

If the punishment is life in prison with no chance of parole, it'll act as more of a deterrent.

Punishment lengths don't act as a deterrent to petty and violent crime, because the people commiting those crimes are not intelligent or are crimes of passion. Systematic fraud like this is slow, calculated and methodical.

My response to anything graphene related is to ignore it as there is 100% chance it's hype or non-scalable.

You never design things to be indestructible. You design for a 100 year storm or something like that, or a 500 year earthquake when designing buildings. Eventually, something will happen that destroys it, but that's an acceptable risk to take. Cars aren't designed to withstand all crashes, just a certain fraction.

Largely a non-story, and anti-solar propaganda. It is a consideration when designing solar panels and fields, but a minor one. Simply an insurance question: insure all the panels, if a storm happens, replace the destroyed panels. With the massively falling cost of solar panels, the cost to replace will soon be trivial, making this even less of a concern.

The answer is that A/B testing found that reloading the website/app drove more user engagement.

Not an expert, but I've seen the following commented on other test flight videos: on initial test flights, landing gear is always kept down to minimize risk. If a sudden landing is needed, gear is already down, no risk of equipment getting stuck, less mental load for the pilot to perform emergency landing, etc. Basically, when testing, you want to minimize the variables being tested. When airworthyness is validated, then you can test landing gear systems.

This will never make it past prototype stages, unfortunately. Realistically, you need federal involvement to make something like this happen, a la concorde. I could see the US government getting involved for nationalism purposes if China starts actually building jets in large numbers to reassert US manufacturing supremacy.

It was sexy marketing for the Concorde to travel between NYC and Paris/London back in the 70s-90s. Today however, with the emergence of the middle east as a major travel hub, would supersonic travel be viable there? Dubai-Singapore? Dubai-Doha? Dubai-Moscow? Europe to Middle east wouldn't work due to having to fly over europe, right?

Also, is there enough luxury/high speed travel demand between asia and the north american west coast for something like this? It's nice to leave north america in the evening, sleep 8 hours, and arrive as the plane is landing in tokyo. Is there any demand to be get to Tokyo in 6-7ish hours?

It seems like the people that can afford 20-30k tickets can also afford to fly private, and with the internet there's much less need to be in person for making deals. Sadly, until fuel costs become negligible and they can make supersonic airplanes hold 200+ people, i think most people would rather fly private or fly first class on an A380 than on a cramped Overture.

You would think that after apple did the same thing a couple of years ago on iphones, people on tech websites wouldn't be asking questions like "is this even physically possible?"

Because Microsoft is the East India Company of the 21st century. It is the modern tool of american corporate imperialism.