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I see...going for #5? https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/10-popular-techniques-used-by-manipulators-and-how-to-fight-them.html I still don't see your list of sources on Twitter that you allege are so good.

Twitter (and social media) is a great source of information for being enlightened about just how stupid a large fraction of humanity really is. Educated people know where to find information from experts in the field, which is often in peer-reviewed journals. MSM has reporters who often don't...

Social media has never amplified the opinions of experts in the field and suppressed the posts of idiots. It's always been about engagement and it's the outrageous, extremist crap that generates the most engagement. Since social media companies are funded by advertisers, and more engagement...

And the media (or at least, most of the reputable outlets) aren't going to go around saying that the Earth is flat, and if a reporter did, said reporter would quickly get fired because most outlets want to protect their reputation as a reputable source of information. Which is in stark contrast...

And I doubt the pilot for these short flights is going to be paid anywhere close to what a pilot for a major airline gets paid. You work your way up to a job at a major airline.

...and a much larger section of population who, if some random idiot on Twitter says that the Earth is flat, will retweet and amplify the lie, not realizing that the so-called "evidence" that this person presented for a flat Earth does not line up with reality, and who are too uneducated to even...

What a jackass. Why didn't he just block the aisle which would have only been two spaces instead of 5?

Break even in Q2? Is this like FSD out of beta "next year"?

That part is unknowable. And that part is missing the point entirely.

Completely missed the point.

That really doesn't mean anything. The fact is, we're never going to know how many customers would have purchased a Tesla if Elon had shut up on Twitter. In order to figure it out, you'd have to run the experiment twice, once where Elon did shut up, and another time where Elon did exactly what...

His public statements on Twitter -- even though not related to his management of Tesla -- can nevertheless affect whether people want to buy a Tesla or not.

Let's see...he could do better by realizing that he's the public face of Tesla, and everything he says and does, whether in his capacity as CEO of Tesla or on his own time, reflects on the company in the eyes of many potential customers. As such, he would do Tesla and its investors a favor by...

Why do you even need to go to 100% once a week? Or even once a month? If you aren't using the bottom 20%, such that BMS drift could be a problem, you can just treat 20% as 0% and 50% as 30%. Then any time you do need to go below 20%, or once every 3 months if this does not happen, charge to 100%...

Take heat from the cabin and move it to the battery.

The idea that humans drive without RADAR so vehicles should be able to also is stupid. There are a lot of things humans end up hitting because humans can't see beyond the vehicle ahead of them. Automated driving should aim to be better than human drivers, not to just make exactly the same...

If the cabin needs cooling, yes. But when I was doing this, the cabin required heating, so my car was pumping heat from the atmosphere into both the cabin and the battery.

The newer ones use the heat pump when it's possible to do so and take heat from the atmosphere. When I navigate to a supercharger, the radiator fans turn on and I can feel cold air coming out of the radiator.

This isn't surprising BUT...do you think the little blue check marks make a difference? I think people will read and amplify crap on Twitter regardless of whether there's a blue mark there or not. The problem is less about the blue check marks and more about the general lack of moderation on...

I have not seen any evidence that he's going in the right direction or even realizes he's one of the biggest problems. Fact of the matter is, getting social media right is hard. People who are actually, you know, social, and do not have any mental disorders that affect their ability to socialize...

With one notable exception: Twitter.

For one thing, cars used to be better at providing the driver visibility of not only their own bumpers, but also visibility of what's around the vehicle. For example, one car I had, I could see not only the very corners of my own hood, but I could look out the back when parallel parking and see...

The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet says the Tesla CEO only seems to care about tracking planes if it affects him https://finance.yahoo.com/news/college-student-tracks-elon-musks-153000037.html Hopefully Jack focuses all of his efforts on tracking Elon, in retaliation for...

Whole house surge suppressor on main panel to protect against lightning.

If you want to preserve your battery, use Scheduled Departure to charge it. And you should charge on Thursday night if your weekend begins on Friday.

Assuming the panel is close to (or in) the garage, the materials costs are only a breaker, some wiring, and a receptacle. I'm unsure about whether you include the NEMA 14-50 adapter for the Mobile Connector in there. Plus, we're at over 30¢/kWh here. I think the big benefits (besides not paying...

It's actually much worse than the resistive losses in the wiring. It's also the fact that the car's computer runs continuously (at 150-300W) whenever the car is charging and thus, the overhead sapped by the computer increases as power level decreases. At 120V/12A (NEMA 5-15), this overhead is...

Apparently the WC can be connected to WiFi (which I already knew) and you can gather statistics from it (which I didn't know). Wall Monitor for Tesla | Wall Monitor If battery degradation is your biggest concern, then charge to 50%. Then if you need more for a specific trip, set the charge...

The 2018 banking law is still highly relevant to SVB because SVB was one of the banks that was pushing for it the hardest. But yeah, the fact that regulators ignored interest rate risk makes me wonder exactly what the regulators were doing. Were the regulations inadequate as written, were the...

Did you try pressing left? On my car, it's reversed from what you'd expect. Pressing right lowers the resolution and pressing left raises it.

Is it a requirement that the equipment be able to produce the rated voltage and the rated current simultaneously? If not, it's possible that the power is capped at say 400 kW so as voltage increases, current has to decrease and the maximum the equipment could produce at say 1000V is 400A.

I don't see people who ride horses complaining that it costs more per mile to ride a horse than it does to drive a car. Not everything is driven by economics and minimizing costs.

I'd like to have a word with the CPUC on that one. I knew what the natural gas prices were because I have a dual fuel heating system and check the PG&E tariffs every month to find the crossover point as far as heating costs go, but I don't think 90%+ of consumers knew what was about to hit them...

But lawyers aren't allowed in small claims court (which is where a fine like this would be sorted out).

The only thing a screen is good for is seeing the difference between energy from the station vs. energy delivered to the battery so you can calculate losses when charging.

If the plate actually expires, I would park my car outside the police or sheriff's station and ask them to ticket me just so I could have standing to sue Tesla for damages and then run to the media (something like "NBC Bay Area Investigations" or "7 On Your Side") with the story.

They could just put in one kiosk and not maintain it. EA gets away with not maintaining their credit card readers all the time and I haven't seen California crack down on this behavior. The only payment method that actually works at EA is the app.

Edited. Someone in the comments said it, not Tesla. I think it's easier to just not have the screen-based payment method. If that payment method goes down, does that count as the charger being inoperable?

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Tesla has walked away from $6 million in funding for DC fast chargers in California. Someone has noted that maintaining screens on its supercharger stations would be "a maintenance nightmare", which might explain why they did it...

I highly doubt they extend the CAV decal program for EVs. Maybe for FCVs, but EVs are far too numerous already and are clogging up the HOV lanes. They aren't "special" enough because they've gone mainstream.

Yeah and in order to take Tesla to small claims, you need to show that you were harmed. And to do that, you need to get those units replaced and save the invoice. Also, I would think that the sooner after the warranty expires, the better, as far as your chances at prevailing in small claims court.

Do you want to be unable to charge? Consider this: - One or two of your PCS units have already failed - All 3 are likely from the same batch - If one or two have already failed, what do you think is going to happen to the second and third ones soon? This is kind of like asking the question: if...

I think 1.10.0 is your WallMonitor app version, not the WC firmware version. To find the WC firmware version, hold down the button on the charging handle for 5+ seconds, wait until the green light starts flashing, then connect to the WC using the WiFi SSID and password given with your WC. Then...

I've never seen this. Is this something that was introduced in a recent firmware update? I'm still running 1.4.4 because after that, Tesla made it where I couldn't disable the WiFi beaconing.

New banking standards for small banks coming in 3...2...1... SVB f**ked up by buying long term bonds with short term deposits. What did they expect to happen? You don't buy long term assets that can't easily be liquidated with short term deposits, unless you want to go insolvent when people...

Are FDIC fees structured so that they're paid per account and proportional to the amount in the account, up to $250k? It looks like this is actually not the case, as banks pay assessment fees on all liabilities, not just insured deposits, and I don't see any exclusion for accounts with more than...

Yes, but I would exclude a few people from the FDIC coverage, in the event that they had more than $250k worth of deposits at SVB: Thiel, Sacks, and Ackman. The Incredible Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw Over Silicon Valley Bank If you're going to cut holes in the hull of a ship while you are...

The WC keeps stats?

Studded winter tires count as snow tread tires. Requirements are the same as with 3PMS and M+S tires: If the chain control level is R1, chains are not required. If the chain control level is R2, and you have 4WD/AWD, chains are not required, but if you do not have 4WD/AWD, chains are required...