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CEO of a (different) Canadian crypto company here. Two things are simultaneously true in Canada right now: 1) the government has become unwilling/unable to actually keep repeat vio…

True. I think Sam might get a "bonkers" pass because of his track record that the rest of us might not.

It's kind of admirable, though. If you start asking for $7T, only asking for $1T becomes quite reasonable ;-)

Could you drive at all in a Waymo outside of a strictly geofenced area in a handful of US cities? How about in a Tesla? They are approaching this from two fundamentally different d…

It drives itself with zero control input from me, hands literally off the wheel and feet off the pedals. That's the definition of "full self driving". It's bizarre how people are s…

Robotaxi will use the same stack as other Tesla vehicles, which is deployed on millions of vehicles. The <$30k price point and lack of controls/supervision are the only things that…

Yup, this. I use FSD almost every day now that it's available for Cybertruck, and it's already quite excellent. It pulls off human-like maneuvers that are kind of gobsmacking.

> In reality Tesla FSD is still in very primitive shape. From the article. Have the people saying this actually tried the most recent FSD build? I used it yesterday, and it reacted…

Sure - if you want zero innovation. If you're a large enough entity operating in multiple jurisdictions around the world, you're exposed to such a byzantine labyrinth of laws and r…

Vitalik didn't mention them by name, but given the timing it seems likely he was referring to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sNclEgQZQ

> Another important conclusion of this is that if a politician is pro-crypto today, but they are the type of person that is either very power-seeking themselves, or willing to suck…

The key to keeping debit card fees down isn't to legislate a fee cap, it's to make payment rails more open and competitive. Why are regulators still attacking stablecoins, for exam…

A "parchment guarantee", as Scalia would say.

> Insights about the egregious behavior of Elon Musk, & about the chaotic craziness at Tesla, Inc., all with a legal slant informed by my career as a commercial trial lawyer. This …

You forgot to mention that we can now effectively "cure" obesity with GLP-1 receptor agonists. Oh, and as a nice little bonus they also curb substance use disorder!

The supreme court has been very clear that congress can't delegate lawmaking to executive agencies. So no, I haven't forgotten that at all. As for it being a feature, you're right …

> knowledgable, focused people do the work instead of just randomly passing laws based on their twitter feed. That's not what happens, though. Agency heads are political appointees…

I'm confused by your questions. Are you suggesting that ignoring the structure of government carefully laid out in the constitution and agreed upon by every state in the union is m…

> Is it more democratic because the reps who voted on it were elected rather than appointed by people who were elected like over at those agencies? The presidency is not an elected…

All of the new "rules" being proposed by executive agencies will be subject to court challenge, and some of them (like the FTC's non-compete "rule") will likely be subject to a pre…

> The primary hurdles are legal, capacity, and financing. Incredibly hand-wavy. Finance is a way to allocate scarce resources - you can't claim the "technology" is solved if you ha…