You are right. That’s why making it HARDER for people to create new data that hasn’t already been sold is an interesting choice.

No, it isn’t an invasion. Google bought and owned this land, then started construction before getting the permits to do so.

This is like you buying a small vacation land by a lake in another country, then starting to build a cabin on it before getting permits to build. You aren’t invading that country.

Funny, my only reason to go to Reddit anymore is to lurk on my local soccer team’s threads.

Step 1: Sell Google access to all of your data, which is the only thing of value your company has.

Step 2: Google uses your data to bypass traffic away from you.

Step 3: Be confused why nobody is going to your site anymore.

I mean, it says the thieves are sending the hardware to China. That can mean anything from gaming black market to state-sponsored funneling of hardware to Chinese AI companies. It might be less Robin Hood and more… I don’t know, some Jackie Chan movie where Triads are operating in the US and working with a Chinese diplomat to help some mega-corp.

What about past comments on a server that was public before this change came into place? I have no idea if any of the servers I commented on roughly 6 years ago were public. They were free servers for people playing WoW, and some had passwords and some didn’t. I didn’t make any controversial comments, but I also didn’t (knowingly) consent to anything I typed being publicly searchable.

Used to work IT at a university during the transition time from Win 3.11 to Win95. The amount of emotional hand-holding (not even so much technical support) involved in getting the admin staff through the process was unbelievable to me at my young age. Now I understand, but back then I was expecting way more “this doesn’t work” or “I can’t find this program” and way less “I don’t know how I’m going to do my job.”

Two takeaways here:

1. I thought billionaires would leave the state if we taxed them?? Are you telling me there is a compelling reason that either they or their companies might want to stay located in CA? Who would have guessed?

2. I’m OK with this. It is basically a corporate tax now instead of a personal tax. As long as CA gets the billions of dollars it needs from someone, I don’t care where it comes from. We should be taxing corporations more and should be taxing billionaires more, but it is a start. Also, this fucks the shareholders who might maybe possibly think of restricting pay packages for him.

What’s better than taking millions of dollars in deposits to build a crappy car? Taking millions of dollars in deposits to build nothing and have a no-interest loan with no maturation date.

I’m not drinking anything. Like I said, I hate Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX more than nearly anyone, since I have been personally involved with them as part of my job. I’m upset because all of you are acting just like the far right when they don’t like about something. Yes, you have a valid reason to hate Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter. Yes, you don’t have to care about this and can think it is unnecessary and stupid and dangerous. But saying “turned it to 11” is not some praise of something. It is just a fact. Like saying “adding a specialized housing to turn a 10 megaton nuke into a 100 megaton nuke is turning it to 11” is not praising the people creating a nuke. It is a statement of fact.

This isn’t new tech. F1 cars have been doing stuff like this to keep their cars on the track. This is just taking it to an extreme and demonstrating what they knew was possible but didn’t have any reason to do so.

How many cars have you seen driving upside down? I would venture to say it has been zero. It’s not new from a technology or scientific view, just the first time someone has taken an existing tech, turned it to 11, then put it in a real demonstration. Ignore who made this or what the car looks like. This is something we have seen in unrealistic and silly racing games since the 90s, but now it’s a real thing.

Oh get over yourself. If this were any other company in the world, you would think it is mildly interesting at least. Unnecessary and weird, but it’s still funny. I’m the biggest Musk hater out there, but this is still interesting. Ignoring who did it, someone made a car do silly video game stuff.

Translation: Luxembourg workers, who are some of the highest paid people in the entire world, would have to pay 171 euros per year to build out a European tech force that would benefit themselves.

That sounds… awesome?

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. You are just moving the goal posts with every post, thinking you have a valid point each time.

You: EVs have bad power to weight ratios.

Reply: EVs have a better power to weight ratio than ICE.

You: Oh, I meant weight only. They can only do drag racing and can’t do turns.

Reply: EVs perform better than ICE at similar price points on road tracks with turns.

You: Oh, I meant only the high end EVs. They aren’t any better than the cheaper EVs.

Reply: High end Porsche EV is faster than most ICE super cars and much faster than cheaper EVs.

You: Oh, but Porsche EVs have bad resale value.

Just accept that you are wrong.

Physical things, including buttons and knobs, have to deal with moving parts breaking. Moving parts break in different ways from digital screens, and testing those parts for MTBF is more expensive than for digital screens. Individual buttons and knobs also have to be wired separately instead of a single wiring input to a CPU.

It all comes down to cost.

It absolutely is, and it works against anyone not in the club. I was once told by a GM in my company whom I knew outside of work, “you will apply for this job and get it. Then you will apply for that job’s manager’s job and get it. After that I won’t be able to help you.” Once I got outside his sphere of influence, I no longer had anyone advocating for me and haven’t been able to get any new jobs, lateral or promotion, since. To be fair, I’m not a great employee and have risen to the level of my incompetence; but I’ve seen other people get promotions who were not as good at the job as me because they do more of the company social stuff.

And I know that those networks definitely favor men in my industry. So you’re right, even if there isn’t outright, noticeable discrimination against women; strong bias exists.

I wonder how tightly focused the term “gender discrimination” is. Not every woman I know in my company has been discriminated against for job opportunities, and not every woman I know in my company has experienced sexual harassment, but if “discrimination” includes harassment then I would guess it is above 50%.

I also read some people putting some kind of blocking device on the cell antenna or something instead of pulling a fuse.

I 100% agree about the door handles, but not all EVs have non-physical door releases. There are at least 6 from various manufacturers that are fully physical.

The internet connected car is every single car made today, unless you pull out a fuse, regardless of EV or ICE.

The depreciation of a car is less than the fuel costs. If a car depreciates by $20,000 over 10 years, that is less than $38/week in fuel. If it depreciates by $30,000, that is still only $58/week.