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IMHO, the value of the protest is to demonstrate a portion of the electorate does not agree with whatever they are protesting. There are a lot of people in a bubble that seem to th…

I don't think so, not like it was once upon a time. I had a manual 6-cylinder I bought in about 2002 for around $14000, no leather, 2wd extended cab. That's like $25k in today's do…

There was a dip on the first chart in the article, it also sbows something like 9% of companies using it. What I wonder is beyond "using" AI, is what value the companies are actual…

Yeah, it's pretty clear Tesla is still the best EV experience. I'm just waiting till the next gen of EVs to have proper connectors before I will consider another one. Our model Y i…

Says they are installing them at their gas stations. Probably a lot of money to be made from getting people to stop to charge and buy sodas etc.

Intel basically hit the clock speed limit and diverged to multiple cores. However, they still make x86 based chips, not ARM. They owned an ARM license for a while and got rid of it…

I've worked with several types of people. For me, the best mentors were the ones who would answer questions I had with the full answer, often with details. Then they got on with wh…

The Mini Electric is down there. Weighs more than gas, and one of the reasons it isn't long range, would push up the weight too much. The current generation of battery tech is just…

The Hummer in any form seems like a ridiculous vehicle. The Rav4 Prime weighs more than the Model Y, so depends on what version. The 4runner, Tacoma, Tundra, Sequoia etc. are all s…

lifepo4 doesn't require any fancy materials but lithium, less energy dense at the moment, but also doesn't degrade as fast. Panasonic is currently producing ~260Wh/kg batteries for…

Not in CA, but where I live there is continuous work on covering canals. A lot of canals were dug a century or more ago and are just ditches, something like 60% of water is lost to…

The places I looked at had some EV dedicated parking spaces and then shared EV charging. Just like gas cars you don't need to charge every day, they will probably add more chargers…

There are a lot of custom EV conversions if you really want to control everything, probably no modern new vehicle is going to meet what you describe. You can already buy lifepo4 ce…

New apartment buildings are adding EV spaces, but on-street parkers either have to find a charger and take time, or regularly park somewhere with a charger (like at work). The city…

New bolt is what, 20k after incentive? I would assume in 5 years those will be cheaper used. No one is selling 11k gas cars worth a damn last I checked, either, there just isn't a …

The split would be zoning and operating a business in a residence. Hotels usually have fire escapes, inspections, etc. Also parking, expected noise, any number of things my house d…

Sorry for the late reply, I was out a while. I literally have heard people say things like "We need less brown people". This may not be your reasoning, and not everyone says someth…

I certainly haven't conducted a scientific study, this isn't my field. I am, however, a white male who checks most of the 'tech dude' boxes, and I don't usually have to guess what …

Yeah, I dunno if these people hung out on the Care Bears irc channel or what, but every 'open' forum and most of the closed ones had tons of racism/sexism/whateverism. Just look at…

I usually point out Paul Walker's gas Porsche bursting into flames immediately on impact, one of worst-looking EV crashes I've seen was Richard Hammond, who rolled down a hill in a…

I think Uber/Lyft is that company, they just use human drivers, which has apparently made traffic worse now, and I wouldn't expect it to get better.

Where I grew up my parents had their own 300 gallon gas tank, because you couldn't buy gas for many miles around. Nowadays not even sure how possible that is in some areas, as I am…

The people "investing" in FTX weren't doing it because they wanted cryptocurrency, they wanted a 15% guaranteed return. Without the exchanges, the USD->cryptocurrency onramp/offram…

Gas Suburban small v8 is 15/20, which is better than the 88, but still abysmal in general. Previous year Toyota Sequoia (more comparable than a cruiser), got a combined 15mpg, whic…

Tesla might be worse, but I had a modern Rav4 that people mistook the low beams for high beams all the time and would flash or turn on their high beams. It also had the auto-dimmin…