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Totally agree. The response to complaining about bad AI in civ is usually about how players don't really want good AI, but for me as the AI randomly shuffles their units around out…

Tesla has lots of showrooms with cars, test drives, and sales people. If you're there and want to buy a car, they direct you to a computer with an Internet connection.

I agree with and appreciate your comment, but I do think there is some validity in the more broad usage of "socialism" that has come to be. To steel man the other sides argument, i…

When you are new to it, yes. For me it's a better experience because I've been using it so long and have a good idea of what it can and can't handle. I use it extensively on roads …

I use FSD a lot and generally like and feel less stressed and safer. For me, since I dive mostly the same roads a lot, I know which roads and intersections FSD can handle correctly…

I have FSD and totally agree with you. I use it about 90% of the time, feel less stressed and more safe. I feel like I have a good idea and where it might have an issue and am supe…

Insurance for the consumer is lowering your expected value to reduce variance. Gambling for the consumer is lowering your expected value to increase variance. The profit and operat…

Yes, I have it. It's great. I much prefer a quick swipe on the side of the touchscreen to having a giant physical gear selector wasting a ton of space. I honestly love just about e…

The most fun I've had with ChatGPT is having it make up stories for my five year old with her as the main character. She loves it.

The main thing I'd want in a Civ AI is to be barely competant at combat. Right now, if you can get a couple archers up in time, you can beat an AI army that's 2-5x your size depend…

That's what the developers say, but I think it's part true and part a cop out. The AI in Civ 5 & 6 is just so so bad, that it's only challenging when you play on the really hard mo…

To replace like for like, you go to a thrift store and buy a used shirt for $5. Or not. But a used shirt isn't worth the same as a new shirt.

Every version of the software is tested on thousands of situations in simulation before release and has to pass all the regression tests which are constantly being added to. Surely…

When I was looking at preschools for my daughter, there was no tuition info for the Montessori schools available until after the tours.

When companies generate cash flow from profits, three major things they do with that cash are 1) pay dividends, 2) stock buybacks, 3) reinvest in the company. Shareholder's prefer …

I mean, the companies that are talking about increasing user counts... the users generally are the product, or ads for those users are the product.

I think maybe you don't follow the companies closely enough. The poster you are replying to mentioned AMZN and TSLA. Amzn's core businesses are very profitable, but they are consta…

The older Tesla's do lose up to 30% range in the cold, but all the currently sold Teslas have heat pumps which largely fixed that problem. It's true that you won't get your rated r…

These cars are probably going to use the cheaper iron based batteries which are fine to charge to 100%.

Supposedly rental car companies keep their cars an average of 13 months and are constantly turning over their fleet. This order is over at least a year, so I imagined it's just tha…

The "good" Pickleballs, Franklin and Dura, seem to last a few to several days before cracking or warping while the "bad" ones that nobody wants to use because they are softer seem …

Most people do most of their charging at home. Our off peak cost at night is 5 cents per kWh. Much, much cheaper than superchargers.

He said the more cars they sell, the more money they would lose without credits, which is a misconception.