Putting my LG G Flex which had a boot loop problem due to a soldering issue on the battery solved the problem temporarily!

Edit: oh also that was the freezer

Their insurance is (was?) kind of like that as well if you get the saftey score one. While some things are more general and concrete like following distance, time of day driving, 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 a city street with cars parked on the side 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

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.

Anthropic is building some tools to better understand how the LLMs actually work internally, and when they asked it to write a rhyme or something like that, they actually found that the LLM picked the rhyming words at the end first, and then wrote the rest using them at the end. So it might not be as straight forward as we originally thought.

Just think of all the fat bonuses he can get though once this craziness is done if he still has the job. The backlog will be huuuuuge.

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.

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 as you have less pricing room. 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.

Edit: E.g the Bolt everyone loves from GM never made GM money. That’s why they didn’t sell more. They did learn from it though so it wasn’t a total loss for them.

Samsung: god damnit, now we have to use the $0.30 washer instead of the $0.29 washer and itll last at least 10 years longer!

That’s 10s of millions in extra sales lost!

You don’t think they’d hang you with your own rope?

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, it wasn’t a thing when the original promise was made.

Also, they only need to upgrade cars when it’d actually be 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.

Edit: also worth mentioning, he’s been pretty clear over the years that FSD is going to cost a lot more money once it’s available for real. So if he does have to upgrade everyone who pays for it (lets assume they stop subscriptions to avoid that issue), even if that means upgrading all HW4 cars as well because it needs HW5, he can jack the price up more to help cover the upgrade cost. No one should be under the illusion that purchasing FSD will be cheaper than it is today if they succeed.

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.

I’m thinking of a system as well where you can do mid air handoffs to someone closer. So you fly it 150km, then someone 150km away takes over, and keep getting it further that way.

What was the not coal powered one supposed to be?

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.

I think the ruling could deem it not an official act if the intent was to insider trade as facilitating inside trading isn’t an official duty. But you’d need proof that was the intention.

The Cybertruck doesn’t violate any US laws, there’s nothing to disallow it, and independent testing gave it 5 star saftey rating.

And while OEMs do self certify, they get spot checked to ensure compliance. There’s too many new vehicles and variants for the NHSTA/EPA etc. to ever check every single one in detail.

Edit: and if you really wanna get into it, most of the other OEMs everyone wants to love actually put defeat devices for said spot checking to lie and kill us sooner with bad air for $$$

These swings are good opportunities to harvest losses if they cause any and you can move into something else that’s similar.

Like from a Blackrock 80/20 fund to a fidelity 80/20 fund or whatever it would be.

Minimal risk but you can still realize a loss.

I was going to do that until he of course undid it today. My timing was off unfortunately.

Trump should just create a tarrif that doubles whatever increase the target nation does.

So tarrifs China 50%. China hits back 50% so now China is 150%

Then China should do the same and raise tarrifs.

Then we’ll have infinity tarrifs!

At this point the only way it’d be possible is if one party controlled both chambers of congress. The current MAGA bunch would impeach and convict the next dem president for putting ketchup on their hotdog before mustard.

Also Fox News was a direct response to Nixon so it would never happen again to a GOP president. They won.