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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo arson in San Francisco sparks new debate on self-driving cars⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The solution is to eliminate self-driving cars and instead invest more in mass transit and walkable neighborhoods.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude, where’s my self-driving car? The many, many missed deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicular future.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Congrats, you’ve basically invented the train.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You’re better off spending it on stuff like mass transit and the like. It won’t just all disappear at some point in the future.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You won't be saying that once the market crashes. You'll realize that there are much better ways of spending that money. Like far more practical emissions reducing solutions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not really. It's mainly about gaining market dominance on a technology they think is the future. They'll build them right next to the massive coal plant alongside a million other things they're subsidizing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It's the result of massive subsidies. When they stop, this market will crash like a house of cards.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Then believe what you want. I find your trust in the system hilarious as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There's no reason for them to conduct audits honestly. Again, if you are totally convinced that what I described is impossible, just let me know. We can end this conversation now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Regulatory capture is anytime that special interests has overridden the enforcement agencies design to protect the public. That can also apply to accounting firms. So yes, it is correct.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Your understanding of the term is incorrect. I am definitely using it correctly. And you are definitely wrong about PWC, plus any other accounting firm on Earth.

But I think it is clear that your mind is made up. If you won't believe me, then I won't press any further.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Then you live in on another planet. Or at least another decade. Regulatory capture is everywhere these days, and PWC is 100% motivated to hide any fraud. In fact, pretty much all accounting firms are motivated to do so. I'd rather believe every accounting firm is guilty of aiding in some kind of accounting fraud than the reverse.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Then what, Tesla owns their own repair and maintenance service? That also costs money.

Ultimately, you’re going to accept that there’s no way around some of the cost of running a car company. If you won’t accept it, then there’s nothing I can say to change your mind.

Also, most of the numbers can’t be trusted. It’s known as “regulatory capture.” And they’re probably not the only one. Likely many companies have doctored accounting numbers these days. If anything, this is a huge problem in business today.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You still have to pay out warranty work either way. Someone has to fix it after all.

There are many people who have made the claim that Tesla doesn’t really make money. You can google it up. Just look for stuff like “tesla profits” or “tesla not profitable” and you see it. Also, the only people who do vigorously insistent that Tesla is profitable are the fanboy investors and some of the least credible analysts out there. It screams gaslighting no matter how you look at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You have to build the entire system out yourself. That costs a lot of money. The dealership model also costs the manufacturer basically zero dollars, because it really profits on used car sales and maintenance works. You don't make anymore money by having your own dealerships. The whole argument that there's some secret behind Tesla's business smacks of gaslighting, not something that actually holds up to reason.

It's been a long standing issue with Tesla's accounting. No one can really explain how profits are actually being generated, especially considering everyone in the West is losing money on EVs. It's also being ran entirely by sycophants and people with minimal qualifications, with zero accountability anywhere. So it just seems, via Occam's razor, that they're cooking the books.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That depends on how bullshit the numbers really are. If it is just Jack Welch level of financial shenanigans, you can see a stump version of the company eventually surviving. If it is worse than that, then probably not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They have a direct sales model which is more expensive to operate and exaggerates profit margin. There’s also reason to believe they are wildly understating warranty costs plus ignoring R&D costs. People who look closely have consistently concluded that Tesla cannot really be making money, or have very narrow profit margins at best.

Huge price cuts will compound these problems dramatically.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Enron was a huge business that had millions of customers. It just happened to lose money while doing so. The crime was that they hid that last part.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There's good reason to believe that Tesla is an Enron-esque style fraud. No one in charge has shown any business acumen, and no one can explain how it is actually profitable. But that requires only stooges and yes-men on the board. There cannot be any accountability.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are flying cars finally here?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
"Flying cars" are pretty much always shitty helicopters.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda and Mitsubishi will test a fuel cell-powered data center in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is basically how all green energy ideas start. Wind and solar power went through the same thing. What we're seeing are people who dismiss new ideas, either because they're climate change deniers or because they're outdated and don't want to see change they don't understand.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is just a repeat of the same old pro-RISC myths from decades ago. There is very little performance difference between x86 and any RISC based CPU, at least when pertaining to the ISA itself. Apple merely has the advantage of having far more resources available for CPU development than their competitors.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It's the same story as with diesel or ethanol cars. There are always some short-term "easy" solutions that don't scale or aren't really that green. BEVs is just the next stage of that. You can obsess all you want with a transitional technology, but that doesn't stop the march of progress.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We have had hydrogen pipelines for decades, and large scale storage in the form of underground salt caverns. These things basically work the same as what do for natural gas. The only real challenge was local storage, which pretty has ceased to be a problem with the rise of carbon fiber tanks. There are tens of thousands of FCEVs around the world, and rarely any issues with dealing with hydrogen storage.

The main limiting factor is infrastructure, or lack thereof. But the difference here is that you think it is technically impossible or at very least difficult. I believe it is simply a matter of building it, which is pretty straightforward.

BEVs also were impossible to buy for most people until around the mid-2010s. They went a century of near non-existence before then. FCEVs are simply going through a similar process. Sooner or later, they will be everywhere and BEVs will be abandoned afterwards.

You can buy whatever you want right now. It's not like anyone's stopping you. The point is that BEVs are not the answer. They are just a transitional idea and won't last.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No, there are not. A lot of these concerns are from people stuck in the past, or have an agenda.

You can generate your own hydrogen, and there are a few companies building products for that. Though realistically there will be some degree of centralization. Most people will buy hydrogen and not bother with home production.

BEVs are really the result of subsidies and virtue signaling. It is a mandate driven by delusional pseudo-environmentalists. The same people that got nuclear banned in much of the world. It is not a serious attempt at green transportation. And it will likely die-off in favor of FCEVs or other ideas once the time comes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Bethesda Responding to Starfield's Steam Reviews Is Part of a Rising Games Industry Trend⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Developer feedback is usually about answering questions that the players have, or finding bugs that were missed in QA. What Bethesda is doing is quite a bit more ridiculous.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The advantages of a chemical fuel is that you make them when costs are very low and save them for when you need them. Even months later if need be. Not doable with batteries. Even the ICCT is admitting that electricity used to make hydrogen is going to much cheaper than electricity used to charge BEVs. It will likely be cheaper to operate a hydrogen car due to that fact.

At least with e-fuels, there's an argument to be made that there are too many unnecessary steps and that costs will be high. But with hydrogen, that argument doesn't really hold water. Fuel cell cars are also EVs. The gap between BEVs FCEVs on efficiency is small and shrinking. When the full lifecycle factors are included, it is likely the FCEV is the more efficient idea even now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Which is where fuel cell cars come in. They are also EVs. It pretty much renders the BEV obsolete. A lot of BEV advocacy are from people stuck in the early 2000s, totally unaware that technology has past them by. It is similar to the obsession with diesel cars.