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Just starting to record food in an app made a huge difference for me, I was working out pretty aggressively and making progress on lifting/biking but my weight wasn't moving until …

I like that we're arguing over the word "recall" being an issue when the system it applies to is called "full self driving". I think calling a level 2 driver assistance system "ful…

Tesla is only far ahead in their willingness to take on risk and make at least partially untrue claims. There are multiple companies running actual robo-taxis in other cities but n…

"People who believe the system they paid 10-12k for called 'full self driving' should be able to drive itself are idiots" is a pretty special class of Elon bootlicking. People who …

That's not true and Karpathy has confirmed it multiple times. They can create a fingerprint for data they want the system to feed back to the mothership and they may manually label…

> these are support agents and they need access to customer data to do their job. In these cases, the support agents should not have the ability to open support tickets or modify t…

It would have been, Musk didn't think so and felt the need to embellish/exaggerate - his habit of exaggerating/lying I think is more on trial than the actual Tesla vehicles here.

Trump literally still calls it the "Trump Vaccine". Also I think people forget how much airtime went into "the vaccine isn't the answer" once Trump started talking about warp speed…

> 2) do not give you a chance to explain your point of view. You can't eliminate the department meant to answer media queries and then cry that they don't tell your side. He chose …

It seems to me that Elon has pulled the pin in the grenade and is now standing there daring the regulators to do something. I think he has realized FSD is a lot further off than th…

I feel like 90% of modern cars would have stopped for the object blocking the lane. Even if the police weren't there, then it would have just smashed into the car stopped on the hi…

> Beta button will request permission to assess driving behavior using Tesla insurance calculator. The CA Insurance Board should have some questions about this. According to the pa…

Do you mean panasonic battery factory? Because that's who Tesla buys most of their cells from (some LG and in China CATL). Tesla has no scale battery manufacturing right now.

There was a point in the pandemic (very early) where saying people should be wearing masks would have been considered misinformation compared to official statements from the CDC. T…

> And don't forget the power bill. Some old servers idle at hundreds of watts, which will add up over the several years you leave it running. 24/7 server hardware is a good example…

We've been hiring in Panama and its not cheaper really at the end of the day but there's a lot more people to hire. I might do 10 interviews for a position there and find someone v…

It's one thing to sell "Full Self Driving" with the idea that you are basically preordering and get access for now to something that is level 2 but more advanced than any other lev…

> Tesla is achieving vertical integration to a degree no other mainstream auto OEM has achieved. Tesla has made a lot of claims - volumetric efficiency, worrying about air resistan…

Yeah, and then if you under reserve on warranty costs and stuff repairs into "goodwill" under Services/Other, people who don't know better will go on the internet and talk about ho…

Almost no one is buying these systems outright and based on my experience last year buying a house the ones with solar leases were unattractive to buyers since they had been on the…

This is why Musk gets away with what he does, his fans never know better. The Freemont gigafactory isn't even producing close to as many cars as when it was the NUMMI plant run by …

> Because a large portion of the population in the USA is philosophically opposed to any kind of government regulation or action. My biggest issue is that it seems like regulations…

He said on an earnings call just a couple years ago that when he did the Toyota factory tour things were moving like granny on a walker slow and you would need a strobe light to se…

I think a lot of people just know once done, this is not the last time a tech company will get letters from senators asking for content to be removed. This time, I happen to agree …

Not only that, they went after the short sellers who were writing about it publicly. > Germany's pursuit of short sellers began when Perring’s previously little-known outfit, calle…