
Just remember folks
It's not armed robbery if the truck you hijack & rob does not have a human driver.
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Agreed. Tesla has a PE Ratio of almost 80, vs Ford's of about 12, GM's of about 5, Mecedes's about 5, BMW about 6. If you properly price Tesla as a car company, the proper value for it's stock is about $17 per share, not $274. Even if you want to delude yourself into thinking it should be more like Ford, you'd still only be at about $30. Gates made the right call but got caught in a short squeeze.
Shorting Tesla on the scale of Gates purchase doesn't hurt Tesla. The risk for the person doing the shorting is that they get stuck in a short squeeze, which Gates did which is why he lost $1.5B. Had Tesla stock dropped in price & Gates sold, Gates holdings would not have materially driven the stock price lower & so it's effect would be in the noise. Both of these men know all of that. What this really tells you is Musk (surprise! surprise!) simply doesn't like viewpoints not aligned with his own.
"...lane keeping and adaptive cruise control is essentially what it is - worked very well."
As it does on my 2018 Subaru Impreza. It even yaks at me if I take my hands off the wheel for more than about 30 seconds and let it drive itself down the Interstate. But Subaru does not sucker charge me $10k for it.
I have had excellent experience over many PC's and many years with Samsung SSD's. The issue with them now however, is they only make M.2 SSD's up to 2TB. If you want a 4TB Samsung SSD, you're stuck with a 2.5" SATA drive. The last few laptops I've upgraded to 4TB M.2 NVMe SSD's, I had to use Corsair MP600 PRO's & WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X's.
According to the US Department of Transportation, the average age of autos on US roads is about 12 years. That's the average. People don't get rid of perfectly good cars due to marketing nor rebates. That's why any claims about the fleet changing to EV's in half a dozen years or so are gibberish.
https://www.bts.gov/content/average-age-automobiles-and-trucks-operation-united-states
"There's no mention in the story of any of it being clawed back or of how much was left to claw back after the obligatory "lavish lifestyle"."
That's why I only rent my lavish mansions to criminals I've introduced to crime, and only have a "criminal lair" rental business.
As was pointed out in the article, SpaceX launches basically the same number of rockets per year as Ariane 5's launched in the programs lifetime. In this day and age, to design more of the same is just an inefficient jobs program, not real technology development. All the arguments that try to spin trickledown benefits apply to reusable rockets as well, except for the more efficient resource utilization. Downvote me all you want, just illustrates that popularity has nothing to do with right.
I have been working in high tech for almost 40 years. I have only come across one time when H1B visa hiring was truely due to a lack of qualified applicants. The field was Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) in the early '90's. The US produced maybe 2 PhD's a year in that field at that time. I hired a bunch of Russians to fill the void. Every other place, including my present employer, uses H1B visas to hire at below market wages folks who are of low risk of leaving.
"Past performance is no guarantee of future results" isn't limited to mutual funds.
The fact that humanity has not used nukes, for example, since WWII, is no assurance they won't get used in the future. Especially as they proliferate and become subject to weaker controls.
As technology has amplified the destructive potential of individuals, the threat increases as "improvements" in technology continue. 1000 years ago one individual could not go into a crowded church or school and slaughter tens of people in seconds. Not even 200 years ago. Today, in some places (looking at you, Texas) it's a weekly occurrence. It would not be a shock if in the future, some misuse of technology by individuals can allow them to wreak even more destruction. The only way to lower the probability of these technology improvements resulting in large-scale negative consequences is to try to restrict their usage in certain ways. Even that is pretty limited in that a lot of the large-scale systemic threats to humanity are unanticipated consequences (at the time those innovations when into large-scale use) to technology (CFC's creating the ozone hole, microplastics, pFOS, anthropomorphic climate change, etc.)
I forget who pointed it out first may years ago, but the biggest threat from AI may simply be loss of habitat for humans over time as AI takes resources for it's own use, like we've done to other species.
You have no clue.
Your Federal and State (& local) income taxes are deducted from your pay by your employer, and you get the net pay apparently the same as where you live. It's only if you have income from investments, gambling, have some type of business or other income ( e.g. you own rental property) or are self-employed that you have to write a check to the IRS, which technically you are supposed to do in the same quarter as you received the income.
The problem with the fire door approach is it is power intensive. Which is usually not OK for spacecraft. However it would not take much additional code to have the Ardrino deploy the sail at a certain date if it's not been commanded to do so before that date, as a backup plan for a communication failure.