You know, despite all the mockery of the design of the Tesla Cybertruck, I think the design might have been very intentional. Musk claims that the angular design was necessary because "you can’t stamp ultra-hard 30X steel, because it breaks the stamping press" but people have been making monocoque designs for about a hundred years, and most of them have not looked like that. And it occurred to me, what if Tesla had announced the Cybertruck, but instead it had looked virtually identical to, say, a Dodge Ram? I don't think it would have gotten nearly as much press. (I doubt the window-breaking thing was intentional, though...)
Elon Musk drove the Cybertruck to dinner at Nobu. And managed to knock over a sign and make an illegal left turn on his way out of the parking lot. Also, there is some question of whether this was a legitimate use of the Cybertruck - manufacturers are apparently allowed to use not-yet-approved vehicles on the roads for testing purposes, but the CEO going to dinner does not seem like a legitimate testing purpose, especially as the vehicle does not yet have things like rear-view mirrors or windshield wipers.
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
I was reading a bit about Starlink (SpaceX's satellite internet service) and ran across this:
... internal documents leaked in February 2017 indicated that SpaceX expected more than US$30 billion in revenue by 2025 from its satellite constellation...
$30 billion in revenue per year in only 7 years? That's not huge by international corporation standards, but it's still up there with a Coca-Cola or a Phillip Morris, and it seems really ambitious for something that wasn't/isn't even scheduled to be operational until 2020. The Wikipedia entry also says
In August 2019, SpaceX expected four more launches in 2019...
They actually achieved only one more in 2019. It's stuff like this that makes me think that the Muskosphere has a cultural issue that leads them to only believe the most wildly optimistic of estimates.
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
He just seems like he runs things like there's no step between back of napkin and spend millions. Like if someone found out that the $30 billion was $30,000 but there was a ketchup smudge, would that surprise anyone?
For comparison, Comcast made $15B in revenue for residential broadband in 2018. And they’re selling high speed broadband to 25% of the US market. That means the total revenue potential for broadband in the wealthiest large country in the world is only double Musk’s company would get in bottom of the pyramid access? GTFO.
his voice is so soothing, but why do conspiracy nuts always sound like Batman and Robin solving one of Riddler's puzzles out loud? - fod
no one ever yells worldstar when a pet gets fucked up - dhex
" Columbus wasn’t a profile in courage or brilliance despite the odds, he was a dumb motherfucker that got lucky. Oddly, that makes him the perfect talisman for the Trump era."
--Mo
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
Another Tesla Autopilot-related death. Yet again, the driver put his car on "Autopilot", then didn't pay attention. Yet again, Autopilot failed to notice a solid object in front of the car and drove straight into it. Pretty much everybody seems to be at fault here:
- Tesla sells an overmarketed "Autopilot" which doesn't actually prevent the car from driving straight into a solid object
- Driver pays zero attention to the road and doesn't notice when the car has left a lane and headed toward a barrier
- Crash barrier was in a "damaged and non-operational condition at the time of the collision"
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
Another Tesla Autopilot-related death. Yet again, the driver put his car on "Autopilot", then didn't pay attention. Yet again, Autopilot failed to notice a solid object in front of the car and drove straight into it. Pretty much everybody seems to be at fault here:
- Tesla sells an overmarketed "Autopilot" which doesn't actually prevent the car from driving straight into a solid object
- Driver pays zero attention to the road and doesn't notice when the car has left a lane and headed toward a barrier
- Crash barrier was in a "damaged and non-operational condition at the time of the collision"
An Apple employee who died after his Tesla car hit a concrete barrier was playing a video game at the time of the crash, investigators believe.
That's a sure thing for a Darwin Award nomination at least.
...and seeee
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
Yeah, that's completely bullshit. Notice he says "We'll have the basic functionality of level 5" or "essentially complete autonomy" (which is Level 4, btw, since level 5 is COMPLETE autonomy). There is no "basic functionality" for level 5. It's the whole enchilada. Basic functionality is what they've already got.
Tesla must be hurting for cash, and he thinks they need a boost to stock price.
"Sharks do not go around challenging people to games of chance like dojo breakers."
Yeah, that's completely bullshit. Notice he says "We'll have the basic functionality of level 5" or "essentially complete autonomy" (which is Level 4, btw, since level 5 is COMPLETE autonomy). There is no "basic functionality" for level 5. It's the whole enchilada. Basic functionality is what they've already got.
Tesla must be hurting for cash, and he thinks they need a boost to stock price.
Or he's having another manic episode.
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