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- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 4 days ago:
Wow, well TIL!
Thanks for taking the time to explain that.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 4 days ago:
Ya, I’m not opposed to the taxes, we gotta pay for the services somehow.
How do you actually do the taxes though? Is it completely separate from your federal/state that get filed each year? Or is it somehow combined with those into 1 filing and the city gets paid yearly from that? It seems like it would be a huge burden to be a separate thing, and it would be easier if it was somehow incorporated into a federal/state tax system where if your municipality has taxes you fill out a few spots and they money gets sent to them?
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 4 days ago:
Interesting, I’ve never personally seen that.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 4 days ago:
The thing about yearly property taxes is they often go to the city/municipality and that’s how they pay for things.
The city doesn’t charge income tax, that’s a state/province/fed level type thing.
We’d need a new way for cities to collect taxes themselves, or a new system to properly and fairly distribute taxes from the incomes to where they live based.
Definitely doable, but it’s a bit different than just raising taxes.
- Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 6 days ago:
At first I thought, this isn’t toooooo terrible as making batteries to store any excess would actually be great, although there could be situations where you don’t need excess due to excess baseload already…
This is just bonkers though. Wow.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 1 week ago:
There are some autonomous cars with lidar out there where the lidar is so powerful it can wreck a camera close up, but is still safe for eyes.
Switch up FaceID to use a more powerful laser which will wreck the phones camera.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 1 week ago:
A thing would need to officially be a flop to be considered squandered like the Cybertruck is looking like.
They might have a few failures ahead of them yet though.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 1 week ago:
The article doesn’t say they’ve never made a profit on any of their cars. If that’s what you got from that, you should try reading it again.
Also, if you make 1 billion in profit on something, and then spend 2 billion researching and developing and setting up a factory to build a new product you end up with a loss of 1 billion. That does not mean your first thing is unprofitable. This is pretty basic stuff.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 1 week ago:
Not a single tesla vehicle has ever been profitable as an actual vehicle.
This honestly couldn’t be further from the truth.
Tesla’s vehicles once ramped have always been extremely profitable (except probably the CyberTruck)
Any losses you see are due to their aggressive growth involving capital expenditures and research and development. It’s not that the vehicle isn’t profitable.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 1 week ago:
There are other electric trucks out there, but none (at least as of last year) compare in specs and capabilities. The big issue is their power consumption is much higher than the Tesla Semi which has been repeatedly validated as even better than what Tesla advertises.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 week ago:
He also said Canada is ‘not a real country’ so…
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 1 week ago:
The dual motor was originally announced at 50k
There are three versions of the truck available:
Single motor rear-wheel drive with 250 miles of range, 7,500-pound towing capacity, and 0–60 mph capabilities in under 6.5 seconds, for $39,900 Dual motor all-wheel drive with 300 miles of range, 10,000-pound towing capacity, and 0–60 mph in under 4.5 seconds for $49,900
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 3 weeks ago:
Ah, back to the good ol this medication might be more harmful to women and we don’t know because we only use middle aged white men for the tests!
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 3 weeks ago:
I hope the authors skin is white
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably going to happen in June like they said, it’s just a matter of how long before something really bad happens and they have to stop, because something bad is probably going to happen. But it probably is imminent, temporarily.
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 3 weeks ago:
Slay the spire is really fun and different than what you’ve listed.
It was the first rogue like deck building game. Fantastically done.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 3 weeks ago:
Putting my LG Flex which had a boot loop problem due to a soldering issue on the battery solved the problem temporarily!
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 3 weeks ago:
Their insurance is (was?) kind of like that as well if you get the saftey score one. While some things are more general like following distance, they have one for forward collision warnings.
I’m not sure how much time you’ve spent in a Tesla, but that system is notorious for going off incorrectly. It’s specifically really bad with parked cars on the side of the road on turns. So you’re driving along, and it goes off and now your insurance premiums are more expensive.
I don’t think you could find a single Tesla owner who hasn’t had multiple false warnings, and consistently in certain circumstances.
So someone of course starts a lawsuit and Tesla initially defends itself, but just last week or something like that, it’s no longer part of the safety score
- Comment on Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years 3 weeks ago:
It goes further than that. They can track how people interact with the page, order of buttons pressed, if or when they abort a workflow etc. You can go as deep down the rabbit hole of analytics and optimizations as you want.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 4 weeks ago:
I’d want whatever the warranty was to be the same plus the miles.
So if it’s 5 year 50k miles and I get it at 1k, I 'd want 5 year 51k miles.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 4 weeks ago:
Even at these lower prices, Tesla makes more money on their EVs than their competitors. That’s part of why the others haven’t been able to expand and compete as quickly. Expanding an expensive vehicle becomes a bigger liability. GM is only planning to have their first EV profitable year this year, and I’ll believe it when I see it.
The Cybertruck is probably another story though, I don’t know if that’s profitable at the lower than expected sales rate.
- Comment on Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners 4 weeks ago:
The only people he’s going to have to upgrade are those who purchased it. In the past there’s been some small claims court cases where someone won about being upgraded for a subscription, but if that is truly a concern, Tesla could stop the subscriptions for a few years and let the cars age out. They have no obligations to offer a subscription.
Also, they only need to upgrade cars when it’d actually capable. The promise is to upgrade cars to capable hardware, not upgrade cars with every hardware iteration, so as long as hw4 can’t actually do it, they’re likely in the clear as well.
Given most people don’t think they can actually make fsd work, then they’re in the clear.
If they somehow make it work, the upgrade cost is going to be peanuts compared to the insane amount of money they’d start printing.
So it’s not much if a story.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 5 weeks ago:
ChatGPT refused to put the pin on the hat with some bones on it for me.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 5 weeks ago:
Not gonna lie, as much as I hate this, that pin is a pretty good representation.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 5 weeks ago:
Then it’ll be on thy army helmets, and maybe we could but some bones across it to show how they’re baddies… err uh sorry i meant bad ass.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty much on board with getting rid of software patents as they are absolutely ridiculous, but I don’t think we should necessarily get rid of the rest, but they do require reform.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 5 weeks ago:
Yikes that’s a bad rate.
It would be nice to get rid of it, but it will cost a lot more money that no one wants to pay even if it’s actually a good use of it.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 5 weeks ago:
The Cybertruck doesn’t violate any US laws, there’s nothing to disallow it.
And while OEMs do self certify, they get spot checked to ensure compliance. There’s too many new vehicles and variants for the NHSTA to ever check every single one in detail.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 1 month ago:
Next thing you know he’s going to say WordPress isn’t used by anyone.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 1 month ago:
Hey Tobi, why do need to pay you any bonus moving forward?