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The government needs regulation to allow access without granting consent in certain cases. Not quite as far as declaring something a utility, but better than almost completely unre…

Yup, but then you have other limitations, like significantly worse high speed range and correspondingly less useful soar charging. Someone already did it with a Model Y, so it's do…

It's got it's place. I'm guessing the downsides are the extra range only applies to low speed operation (it's a brick), low cost may be a function of low cost labor, which can hurt…

I can see that. The founders shouldn't have gone to VCs then. Start low/limited runs and get cars on the road. If those work out, then try to get funding from sources that aren't g…

It kinda has been to some degree. The first corporation went bankrupt in 2011. Hopefully they'll build/deliver some consumer vehicles this time. There's also been plenty of vaporwa…

Good for them. I loved the concept since I first saw it in the 2000s. They still have a niche for some, like people without easy access to charging, people who want the absolute lo…

The US is centrally planned to some degree, just in different ways and by different interests. I suspect the interests/actions of lobbyists for certain companies/sectors had signif…

CA can and did recently, but that's money that will need to come from and/or could have gone to other programs/etc. I think the most recent cut was $4+ billion in federal funds for…

We can in part. Like you said, it took a ton of time because of environmental review, and that's on the state. With that said, construction didn't begin until 2015, and Trump pulle…

To be fair, part of the inordinate expense is just because it takes longer for the environmental reviews (costs are in expected year of construction, so pushing a project a decade …

Does conscious parallelism require signaling? But yeah, if there's demand a limited supply, price increases from that are legit.

And at the data center level too (AI). Not that we don't need some, but I don't see how this won't be another boom bust cycle eventually.

We're paying more now than we paid in the late 2010s, but less than we paid in the early 2010s.

Dennys can benefit from higher egg prices if they can lock in long term contracts with suppliers for lower egg prices when smaller companies selling directly to consumers can't. I …

The refurb M3 Ultra with 512gb of ram went from $8k+ to $14k+.

That's a great price for either, especially for DDR4. Only one stick though, right?

Do you have any links? I remember DDR3 sodimms being maybe $.25-$.50/gb for low capacity (4gb), but 8gb+ sticks were always $.80-1+/gb.

This, like the fluctuations in ram prices, feels familiar. I wouldn't be surprised if lower hardware prices and weaker demand for everything are more likely to lead to more feature…

So... Rampant point of care ultrasound? Sounds good to me.

Oh yeah, I doubt anyone who makes a large order this year will get their entire order filled given that Tesla is ramping production. Drone footage shows new builds, but they obviou…

One company ordered 370 trucks last month. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-massive-order-semi-370-units... 2026 production is estimated to be 5k-15k. https://sherwood.news/tech/wha…

It's likely not true. We're certainly not as far along with the electrification of heavy duty trucks as we are with light duty cars, but the Semi seems fairly popular where it's su…

Most/all of them. Even cybertruck sold more in 2025 (20k) versus S+X (30k combined), and that's after cybertruck sales were more or less cut in half.

What you're saying about Semi and cybercab is what everyone said about S/X and 3/Y. https://www.wired.com/2009/10/audi-etron/ They might might fail, but I wouldn't bet on it. Also …