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Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by panick21_ »

roflyear wrote: post #928
panick21_ wrote: post #695

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Comparing it to the F150 is idiotic. That's the most sold car in the US and in a different segment. Compare it to other comparable cars in the same segment and it looks pretty damn good. Lower volume high margin cars are really worth it for companies and Ford wishes it had an EV in that classed that sold have as well. The Model X sells in numbers not unlike Mach E while having double the price.

They said the most profitable car! I know it isn't a good comparison, I'm just saying what they are saying isn't true. The profit MARGIN of the model x is great tho.

I assumed he meant margin.

In terms of total profit, the Model Y will be the most profitable car next year, overtaking the F150.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by panick21_ »

aredox wrote: post #949
panick21_ wrote: post #692

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I live in cold Switzerland and a family in my house with 3 little children has one of them. The car is always parked outside. They seem really happy with it and this was never mentioned as an issue.

"Cold" Switzerland? Hasn't been the case in years. Bielersee used to freeze over dozens of metres for weeks, it hasn't happened for at least five years if not height.

In terms of places that are even colder then Switzerland not many people live. And you can't just compare the Bielersee, there are these things called mountains where people go up to ski and it does get quite cold.

Model X also sells fine in Norway of course.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by panick21_ »

bagels wrote: post #821
panick21_ wrote: post #690

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Model X is one of the best selling electric cars in the US and has very large margin for Tesla. It made a lot of news and an differentiates it from other vehicles in the class. I'm not sure I would consider it a failure.

Do you mean the Model Y is one of the best selling? Model X doesn't fit that bill.

Go look at the list of EV sold in the US. Model X is in the Top 5.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by panick21_ »

tenpies wrote: post #747
panick21_ wrote: post #690

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Model X is one of the best selling electric cars in the US and has very large margin for Tesla. It made a lot of news and an differentiates it from other vehicles in the class. I'm not sure I would consider it a failure.

> Model X is one of the best selling electric cars in the US No, that car is essentially a failure and I'm amazed Tesla hasn't completely cut it from production. It sold 1,316 units in the US September. They were selling almost 4,000 in September of '18. Even if you wanted to go by year, you're talking about 26,000 sold in the entire US in 2020 (it's best year and I'm ignoring '21 since there was a factory shut down)…

You are just talking nonsense.

Its a luxury car, Audi is selling less e-Trons then Tesla is selling Model X in the US. The Model X this year sold almost as many vehicles as Ford Mach-E while costing 2x as much. If you compare the Model X to other cars in that price class the Model X is doing fine.

And of course they did a major revamp completely changing the architecture and have to deliver the car from 1 factory to whole world. The Model S had priority at first and the Model X was only slowly added to production again.

If you think Model X is a failure you don't understand the car industry. A car with that kind of margin is well worth doing even if it peaks at 40-50k a year globally.

> and is utterly unusable if you live anywhere with rain or snow

This is simply inaccurate.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by abhaynayar »

So there will be a separate indicator for famous personalities according to this thread. This makes a lot more sense then.

The verification badge will only be used to know whether someone is human verified against an ID. And the other indicator will tell whether they’re a celebrity.

This way we will still have a way to know whether it’s a celebrity, and it will also solve the bot problem.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by bumby »

ianferrel wrote: post #987
bumby wrote: post #626

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I considered that before posting, but what made me ultimately disagree is that well-being is not objective. It is very often completely subjective. Consider that fact that at one point in the past you probably thought what you have now would make you happy. And maybe for a short time you were. But invariably that feeling of well-being wanes. You can say your new car is objectively better than your old one, yet after…

>You can say your new car is objectively better than your old one, yet after having it a few years it feels exactly like the previous vehicle from the standpoint about how much it contributes to your well-being. I agree with your point on human psychology, but survivorship bias is relevant here. One way in which my new car is objectively better is that it has better safety features, which makes me less likely to die…

I'm not sure this is the best application of a survivorship bias. I believe the point holds even when survivability is not a factor.

>My feelings about it may well normalize over time, but only if I survive long enough.

Based on what you said, it implies that well-being drops as a time-dependent function. Yet when we study psychological well-being, we see the opposite trend except at the very, very end of life when well-being dips. If your assumption were true, wouldn't well-being be expected to continually drop across one's life? (Unless, I suppose, the other assumption is that we bolster that through more consumption.)

I think this is change in how you initially framed the problem. If "better" can be objectively measured and "better" correlates to happiness, then I wouldn't expect it to normalize at all. The fact that it does change implies that subjective well-being doesn't actually hinge on how objectively better something is.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by felinix »

xtracto wrote: post #335
paxys wrote: post #322

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That's the core problem with this approach. Elon and others have the idea in their head that Twitter is a social graph where people come to interact with each other, and everyone is relatively equal. So every user paying $X/mo to solidify their place in the graph makes some conceptual sense. In reality Twitter is more akin to YouTube than Facebook. A tiny percentage of users are creators while the vast majority are c…

I always felt Twitter as "old man yells at cloud" kind of communication. I've never seen proper "content" created (like pinterest, tik tok, etc). Most of the "content" I see are the asinine multi-post threads and text-pictures notices from angry people/companies.

Well, the funny thing is that Twitter itself is THE content It kind serves as a continuation of bashorg for millenials and zoomers

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by ianferrel »

bumby wrote: post #996
ianferrel wrote: post #987

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>You can say your new car is objectively better than your old one, yet after having it a few years it feels exactly like the previous vehicle from the standpoint about how much it contributes to your well-being. I agree with your point on human psychology, but survivorship bias is relevant here. One way in which my new car is objectively better is that it has better safety features, which makes me less likely to die…

I'm not sure this is the best application of a survivorship bias. I believe the point holds even when survivability is not a factor. > My feelings about it may well normalize over time, but only if I survive long enough. Based on what you said, it implies that well-being drops as a time-dependent function. Yet when we study psychological well-being, we see the opposite trend except at the very, very end of life when…

>Based on what you said, it implies that well-being drops as a time-dependent function.

No, sorry, that was not my intent at all. My point was to get you out of thinking of well-being as a purely psychological phenomenon.

Dead people have no well-being at all. Many advances improve our well-being in an objective sense by keeping more of us alive longer. This is not a psychological effect.

And there is definitely survivorship bias. When you survey people about their psychological state, you only survey the ones who aren't too dead to respond.

Re: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

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Post by bumby »

ianferrel wrote: post #999
bumby wrote: post #996

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I'm not sure this is the best application of a survivorship bias. I believe the point holds even when survivability is not a factor. > My feelings about it may well normalize over time, but only if I survive long enough. Based on what you said, it implies that well-being drops as a time-dependent function. Yet when we study psychological well-being, we see the opposite trend except at the very, very end of life when…

>Based on what you said, it implies that well-being drops as a time-dependent function. No, sorry, that was not my intent at all. My point was to get you out of thinking of well-being as a purely psychological phenomenon. Dead people have no well-being at all. Many advances improve our well-being in an objective sense by keeping more of us alive longer. This is not a psychological effect. And there is definitely surv…

>And there is definitely survivorship bias. When you survey people about their psychological state, you only survey the ones who aren't too dead to respond

What is the correlation to outcomes? Are you saying a negative outlook correlates to higher survivability so we are primed to view everything through a more negative lens?

That makes sense from an evolutionary psychology point of view, but doesn’t explain why we the well being wanes rather than just stays low from the onset.

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