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Some pretty flawed studies quoted in this video. For most of the studies he didn't really explain what was studied, the ones he did pretty much supported the golden hour, or weren't relevant. One talked about the 8 minute EMS response time instead of the golden hour, another said that time didn't matter, as long as it was less than 90 minutes (ok, so we can quibble on the exact number of minutes, but 90 vs 60 isn't really that different, and you have to factor in time before emergency services gets there, time stabilizing for transport, time at hospital, and the fact that the hospital you're 90 minutes away from might be level 5 not level 1).
As a paramedic with many years of rural experience, I will never hesitate to call a helicopter when one is needed. That said, here the bill my ground ambulance will send the patient is higher than the one the helicopter will charge them. (Ground ambulance has a flat fee of $385, air ambulance is free)
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The idea that the money supply and inflation are not related is patently absurd. Unfortunately it sounds like Ben actually believes that garbage. If the two were not related that also means that supply and demand are not a thing, nor are market based economies. Unfortunately it's that same idiotic viewpoint that has caused a large portion of our current inflation. You can't add that much money to the economy and not expect inflation, but unfortunately politicians, and Central bankers, and apparently Ben, all believe in that fairy tale where the amount of money in circulation means nothing. In that fantasy world you might as well give each household a trillion dollars, everyone will be fabulously wealthy, and will be able to buy anything they want. We know that's not actually the case, but it's an expansion of exactly that mindset that money supply and inflation are not related. Of course that's also the premise of UBI, what proponents of all these ridiculous ideas completely fail to grasp, is it goods and services are still limited, and that money itself has no actual value, money is only a medium of exchange, it's a method of exchanging one person's goods or services for another person's goods or services, having more of it is only relevant if it's in relation to other people's money, if everyone has more money the money itself just simply buys less. The important part is the underlying goods and services, not the money.
I am really sad that even economics courses no longer teach basic economics. It does not bode well for the future
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Our problem at the moment is not open source software, it's open source hardware. Or the complete lack thereof. Show me the open source car, it doesn't exist. Even open source phones mean you're working with essentially a 10-year-old device.
My home computer uses open source software, as does my entire home automation system. But my phone is a Samsung, and my car is a Tesla. I can 100% guarantee I will never buy a Tesla again, however as much as I would like not to buy Samsung again, their hardware does tend to be the best, and the alternatives while being much worse in the hardware department, are only very marginally better in the software department.
And this is the problem with the world we live in right now. If you want modern capabilities, you give up any ownership of the product. We shouldn't have to choose between those things, but at the moment, we do.
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The bigger point they missed is that polls show that 54% of the population have exactly the same views as the truckers towards the mandates, it's all about how you phrase the question. The truckers have been falsely accused of being extremist nuts instead of the peaceful protesters they actually are, so the fact that 32% of the population still claim that they support them despite those false accusations is really telling. So by asking people if they support the truckers you get a very different answer than if you ask if they support all the same things that the truckers stand for. I must say that this reporting from tldr was much better than I expected given their usual very left-wing stances, but it still followed much closer to the left-wing talking points, and the reality on the ground. The reality is that there has been no violence at all, not mostly peaceful, completely peaceful. There were two examples of people carrying racist flags, in the first example the protesters themselves immediately escorted the person out, and in the second example they set up a reward to try to identify who the person was. It was also interesting to note that in both cases those particular people were masked, and those were the only masks that we've seen so far. It would be easy to suspect that those people were planted. And while there was an incident of some minor graffiti on a memorial, what is being reported is that the protest organizers have since cleaned and polished the memorials in the area, and established 24-hour security around them. They've also been picking up garbage in the area, and overall the crime rate in the city has gone down, not up during the protest.
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I need to disagree with a fair amount of this speaking as a Tesla driver:
I live somewhere where almost every workplace has "level 1 charging" because we get real winter, so most workplaces have block heater outlets in the parking lot. Nobody will use them because it's too inconvenient to lug your cable around instead of just leaving it in your garage, and because it's significantly less efficient than Level 2, and because it adds so little range it's not worth bothering. Additionally, because EVs actively heat or cool their batteries before charging, that conditioning can use up all of the level 1 current available, leaving none for charging when it's really cold or really hot out.
There is no point to any business installing level 1. Nobody will use it. It's not even worth plugging in unless I plan to be there at least 24 hours, probably more, and the weather is decent.
Level 2 charging is appropriate for homes. If you've spent tens of thousands of dollars on a car (or over a hundred thousand!) you can spend a couple hundred to get an outlet in your garage. You'll be thankful you did. Level 2 charging is also appropriate for hotels as you'll be there overnight to charge. Nobody else should waste their time installing level 2. It's useless at a restaurant, or theatre, or grocery store. I'm not at those places long enough for a level 2 charger to give me enough range to matter, and most of the time I'm not far from home anyway, so it's not worth the hassle.
Level 3 charging. Here I'm in complete agreement. I'm surprised no national chain restaurant has announced plans to equip all their highway locations with Level 3 charging. Even if they require payment for charging, it would still be a great draw for EV drivers.
Overall infrastructure: We DO need more infrastructure, but we don't need more Level 1 and 2, we are way over saturated on those (except in apartment buildings where these are legitimate concerns) What we need is Level 3. Talking about the "average" commute is pointless, that's covered from your garage at home. But we can't ignore roadtrips. It may only be a few times a year, but dismissing the need does a real disservice to EV adoption. Level 3 chargers are the only ones that enable long distance driving. Those need to be more common, and so far, they just aren't. Sure Tesla has tried, but their network has a lot of very noticeable holes in it yet, and nobody else is even making an effort.
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@BenFelixCSI that's because they no longer teach economics in modern economics, the statement they are not related is completely 100% false. And even my 6-year-old can explain why. Money itself has no real value, its only value is in its ability for one person to exchange their goods and services for another person's goods and services. Adding more money to the system does not change the amount of underlying goods and services.
Unfortunately politicians, Central bankers, and obviously yourself, have bought into this fantasy world, and have caused the exact situation we are in today with skyrocketing inflation. You, politicians, and Central bankers are in the process of getting a massive wake-up call. The massive inflation that is already started, and has actually been with us for quite a while in the housing sector, should open your eyes. If it doesn't, then that shows that you are not interested in evidence at all, and are solely based on ideological principles, rather than facts.
It's really too bad that we have tried to take economics out of education, it has led to very predictable results
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SRS Emergency disable: on most vehicles, when you crash first responders disconnect the 12v battery to disable any airbags that haven't yet gone off so as to be able to work safely. In the original roadster, there was no 12v battery, there was only the high voltage battery with a constantly running DC-DC converter. as a result, this emergency disable switch was put in for first responders to be able to disable the airbags without disconnecting a several hundred volt cable.
The noise from the battery "No modern electric vehicle does this", my 2014 model S does...
gear selector: The original roadsters had the 2 speed transmission, the later ones did not as it was found that it provided no benefit, but was a big point of failure with the extremely high torques electric motors put out. Pro tip, any time you hear a company talking about making a multi-speed transmission in an EV, it's proof that they don't have the faintest clue how EVs work, and should be avoided at all costs.
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I have to question some of these numbers. I've never seen an incandescent bulb that expensive, nor an LED bulb that cheap. The assumption of having 40 bulbs that are on for 5 hours a day each is also pretty extreme. It's far more likely that there are 40 bulbs, but that you only have a couple on at a time, not all 40. Making the more likely break-even period on the order of years, not months. A much better thing if you wanted to save both money and the environment would be to turn off some of those bulbs. Having that many lights on is pretty much inescusable.
For electric vehicles, the maintenance thing is way overblown. sure, no oil changes are needed, but most of what is needed is WAY more expensive than on an internal combustion engine car. 7 year old leafs are starting to need $15000 batteries. You could go with a vehicle that has better battery longevity, like say Tesla, but then your maintenance costs just skyrocket. My Model S is hands down by far the single most expensive vehicle to maintain that I've ever owned ($2000 windshield, $1400 parking brake calliper, $3000 for a suspension component (that's under recall in china, but not here!))
I don't know what jurisdiction they're talking for Solar, but 5kw array saving $100/mo is highly unreasonable. With ideal placement it would generate maybe 850kwh/month, which would be about $100 at the $0.13 quoted earlier, but that would require both ideal placement which is highly unlikely, and that either you consume all that electricity locally (which means you use a lot of daytime electricity, unlikley), or more likely, that your provider is willing to pay you the full $0.13 for it in a full net-metering arrangement. Around here I pay $0.13 for my electricity, but I we have bi-directional metering, not net-metering, so I can only get $0.04 back for electricity sold to the grid. So even with ideal placement (which is unlikely in the real world) I'm only talking about $34/month in savings for a 30 year payback. That same money in a savings account would earn me 2/3 of that much, and properly invested would earn me more than the electricity savings, not to mention that these systems generally have a quoteed lifespan of less than that 30 years. Again, a much better way to save both money, and the environment, would be to turn off some of those 40 lightbulbs.
And then we don't even touch on "greenwashing" by companies who often tout things that are actually not at all green as being so. Also, organic farming which is advocated for in this video is an environmental nightmare. it requires vastly more land, which usually means destruction of forests, just to feed the same number of people. If you care about the environment, organics are the last thing you should advocate for.
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@SyndicShadow according to DEI, the ONLY traits that matter in a person are their race, gender, and sexual orientation. Nothing else has any relevance to them as a person. All people must be put into groups based exclusively on those traits, and all hiring, school admissions, political appointments, etc, must be done by selecting from the "correct" groups.
If you think people are their own individuals, or think judging people by the traits listed above is not good, you WILL be villianized, cancelled, and called a Nazi.
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@victorgbs you can't explain it, because it doesn't make any sense. And because it's 100% false. The amount of money on bank balance sheets does 100% directly impact the real economy. It causes inflation. For hundreds of years this has been true, and somehow in the last decade economists have chosen to ignore this fact, this isn't based on any science, or any evidence, but purely based on ideology.
This ideological view is causing massive devastation right now in the real world. But when you decide to have your monetary policy based on ideology, instead of facts, that's 100% predictable. Inflation right now is not unexpected as ben talks about in this video, every person I've talked to saw it coming, the only people who didn't were Central bankers, politicians, and Ben. When the bank first saw the inflation, they ignored it, then they called it transitory, now they see that it's systemic, but they still don't understand what caused it. Which is precisely why it happened. My 6-year-old knows what caused it, and so do i. The fact that economists can't figure it out just shows the state of our current ideology driven education
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The "good scenario" here is a nightmare. Humans without purpose, that never goes well. Mental health issues abound, suicide rates, drug use, and crime skyrocket.
The "bad scenario" here is unworkable. UBI has never been proven to work anywhere, communist countries have been trying it for a very long time, and it hasn't made their populations richer, and make no mistake, it requires communism to work.
The "ugly scenario" is pure fear mongering. In all of human history, that "current economic system" has produced the most improvement in quality of life, even for the poorest members of society. And despite hundreds of years of increased automation, our current unemployment rate is largely the same as it always has been.
The whole premise of this video is faulty. And it's just shilling for UBI as if it would usher in a utopia. It won't, it's been tried, it always fails. We have a proven way of improving quality of life, and there's absolutely no reason to suspect that it's going to change anytime soon.
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As part of a local government program, I had the energy efficiency of my home audited. According to that audit, the design heating load for my home is 11.25 kilowatts, according to the same audit, the output of my existing heating system is 12.5 kW, I'll consider that close enough!
A note about smart thermostats, I'm glad yours provides useful statistics, mine does not. In theory I have the same data you do, however I have found way too many times when the thermostat shows as heating while the furnace is off, or times when the furnace is running, but the thermostat does not show heating. I don't know why mine is so inaccurate, but it is a little frustrating!
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Online clothing is a big challenge. But there are ways to mitigate it. I have bought clothing items from a few retailers online that have not worked out, but where the company has made it right without an outright return. In the first case, they sent me the wrong size, like literally the tag did not match my order, When I brought this to their attention (they had me send a photo of the tag to compare to the order), they shipped me the correct size, and told me to donate the other one to a local charity. In the second case, I had ordered custom clothing made to measure, when they didn't fit, they simply asked what adjustments needed to be made, and sent me new items with those adjustments. They did not ask for the old ones back.
In neither case did I get money back, but in both cases they addressed the issue of fit for online shopping.
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FIRE isn't one homogenous group. Keep in mind that "early" really just means before traditional retirement age, and FI just means you have enough money saved up that you can live off it. If you chose to live in a cardboard box and eat nothing but Ramen noodles your FI number will be lower than if you like nice things, but that doesn't make one approach more "right" than the other.
I believe myself to be part of FIRE. I'm in my early 40s and have hit the minimum FI number I'd need to stop working and live off my investments for the rest of my life. I haven't stopped working, I've instead switched to a more rewarding career and fewer hours per week. I've never made the 6 figure incomes many FIRE proponents talk about. I own a nice house, and drive a nice car, I buy whatever food I want, and I even eat out on occasion (though rarely), I buy various tech "toys", go on vacations, etc. What makes me frugal (rather than cheap) is that I think about my purchases. I don't spend on things that bring me no value, I research what I buy, I fix things myself rather than paying someone to do it or throwing things out and replacing them.
Not going "all in" on cutting costs will have delayed my FIRE by quite a few years, but I don't think it makes it any less FIRE, and the tradeoffs have been worth it.
I think the biggest component to FIRE is simply being thoughtful and purposeful with your income/expense decisions.
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I've been eyeing this one for a while, all the way through development. I really want to like it, that said, I'm disappointed that the better middle row seats aren't coming to North America, apparently we're not allowed to swivel over here, only slide (I used to have a Mitsubishi delica, and those middle row sliding, swiveling seats were amazing!) But realistically, my next vehicle is going to have a minimum of 300 mile range, and all wheel drive, The EV9 makes you choose between those two, so unfortunately, it's not going to be my pick.
I do like where Hyundai and Kia are going right now though, and I certainly don't hesitate to recommend them to people looking for an EV, just doesn't quite get there for my use case.
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I must say, when I last visited Australia, I was appalled by the massive amounts of racism there. It seemed I couldn't go anywhere without running into some pro indigenous display. Everything was about how indigenous people needed to be treated differently from everyone else, the racists on the left really need to be stopped!
Unfortunately it's exactly the same where I come from, my daughter in school is being taught that indigenous people are the superior race in all ways, nothing is worth learning unless it is learned from an indigenous elder.
Nothing good ever comes from racism. As soon as you treat one race differently from another, you cause massive societal problems, problems which can take many generations to solve, if they can be solved at all. Unfortunately the left doesn't know what a history book is, so they are doomed to repeat all the same mistakes of the past by trying to segregate people by race, gender, sexual orientation, and any other trait they can find.
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@jddplays2757 the only reason anyone even talks about comparisons like that is just because of the complete absence of options in the space. As I pointed out, in internal combustion vehicles, nobody would even consider such a comparison. They're just simply different market segments, but somehow as soon as the electric we just lump everything together. It's not because it makes sense to cross shop those vehicles, it's just that there's nothing else to cross shop against. The F-150 starts at a lower price, but also in a much lower trim, once you option it up similarly, not that there really is a similar, you end up up at that same price point. If you're looking for something to take to the job site, get the F-150. If you're looking to for something to take into the backwoods, get the r1t. But you can't ignore what you plan to use the vehicle for.
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While the overall theme is right, so many of the details are so far out to lunch as to make me wonder if any research went into this video at all.
1) Chevy Bolt, not Volt. The Volt was a plugin hybrid vehicle that has long since been discontinued. The Bolt is the EV.
2) Nobody who has had any experience with EVs at all has ever advocated needing as many charging stations as there are gas stations. That's just not how people charge. the vast majority of charging is done at home overnight. Sure, there needs to be some accommodation for apartment dwellers and others who can't charge at home, but it's a small fraction of the total EV miles that need to be charged at DC fast chargers. Yes, there need to be a lot more DC fast chargers than there are, but nowhere near as many locations as there are gas stations now. Basically it's the highways outside of towns that need them, very few stations are needed in cities.
3) J1772 is not DC fast charging, it's a slow charger, so in the small town example, it's a non-sequitur. There are only 3 DC fast charge standards in that town.
4) Europe mandated that the physical plugs fit, but that doesn't mean that any car can charge on any charger. Tesla won't allow non-Tesla vehicles to use it's stations, even though they could physically plug in, they still won't get any charge. The end result is exactly the same in practice as the USA. All cars except Tesla can charge on one charger (CCS in europe, CCS/chademo in the USA (all fast charge stations have both in the USA) and Teslas all charge on a different one (Supercharger).
5) When converting AC-DC you don't use an inverter, that does the opposite. You could call it a converter.
That said, The video is spot on in that subsidies for ownership are the absolute wrong method of making the cars attractive. I've never met anyone who's decision to buy was made based on the incentive, but I know a ton of people who have been dissuaded based on charging infrastructure. If the government has a fixed pot of money to throw at encouraging EV ownership, it would be far better spent on the charging infrastructure side, rather than the vehicle purchase side.
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That's what happened to me. I got a rental increase notice for a 55% increase in my rent, and immediately went shopping for a house. The end result was a mortgage cheaper than what the new rent would have been. Now utilities are slightly more, and property tax has to be accounted for, plus property insurance and maintenance, but I also went from 650sqft to over 2000sqft, and I don't smell the neighbour's marijuana or hear their kid bouncing balls off the common wall anymore.
The big thing that usually gets left out of these videos is that rent vs buy is not really a financial decision, there are some financial aspects to it, but it's a lifestyle decision more than a financial one. I don't mind doing home maintenance, cutting the grass, and managing a bunch of bills in exchange for more space, and more autonomy. But some people prefer the lower maintenance that comes with renting, they don't want the big yard they have to mow, or to have to worry about a burst pipe or crumbling roof. Some people want to move around every couple years. Renting is a different lifestyle to owning. You can't look at it purely from a financial point of view.
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Stick to car reviews Doug, you're lousy with financial planning. Sure, in this particular case the stock market went up. But you had no way of knowing ahead of time which way it would go, nor by how much. Interest rates are to some extent tied to the market. If the bank thought they could make more money reliably in the stock market, they wouldn't be willing to loan you the money at that low an interest rate.
This is exactly the same logic as borrowing to invest, there are people who advocate that too, but it greatly increases your risk, and can cause you to be in a world of trouble if things don't go well. Imagine that you invested the money, lost the money, and then had to make the car payments. Now you have more car than you can afford, and possibly more debt than the car is now worth.
Your safety stats are also greatly exaggerated. Sure new cars are safer, but statistically it's not as much as you seem to make it out to be. Improvements in this area have been incremental, not revolutionary.
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Ford has done a lot right here, overall I really like it. A few little niggles:
1) range, it's "ok", but not exceptional. The big battery version should be the standard, and there should be a bigger one above that.
2) Bluecruise - take one look at the map of roads it works on. Supercruise is useless as a driver assistance feature due to the geofencing, bluecruise has somehow managed to be even more useless by having only half the roads that supercruise does. As long as they insist on geofencing it will never become a useful feature.
Number 1 I could just about live with assuming I got the big battery one, number 2 is a real issue for me. I hate Tesla with an intense passion, but I've been driving on autopilot since 2015, it is really sad that nobody has managed to come even remotely close to that over 5 years later. The first EV that has a decent range and can match 2015 autopilot (I'd even accept the neutered 2021 version even though it's not as good as it was in 2015) will get my business. I'll never buy another Tesla, but I sure hope my Model S survives long enough that someone else releases a decent driver assist package.
And Doug, quit with garbage about how Rivian won't make it to market this year. Nobody credible is saying that. They are the furthest along of any EV pickup with a fully built factory with pre-production vehicles already rolling off the line. Their prototypes have thousands upon thousands of real world public road miles on them. I can't say who will be the most successful truck, but who will be first to market is obvious by now. I don't know why you keep repeating that BS every chance you get, you seem to really not like them, but I have no idea why.
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The light bar has so many advantages, much better looks, better aerodynamics, better clearance for low branches/parkades/etc, less likely to die from rock chips, less likely to be damaged in the car wash, and the aim doesn't drift over time. Now this particular light bar may be too cheap, but find one that's 1/4 the cost of those KCs and it will likely be better in every single way, better looks, better light, better durability, better clearance, etc. Let's face it, when you buy KC, you're paying for the KC name more than for anything practical about them. Sure, they're decent lights, but they are over twenty times the price of that cheap light bar, there are many decent options in between, many of which are probably way better than those KCs.
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According to the actual study the 4% rule came from, if you withdraw 4% of your savings in the first year, and adjust that amount for inflation every year thereafter, there is a 95% chance that you will not run out of money in a 30 year retirement based on the entire history of the stock market as far back as we have reliable data.
That's the entire 4% rule. Many people however misinterpret the rule, especially in the "FIRE" movement, to be a 100% chance of success, and lasting forever. It's not a bad rule, but understand what it actually is.
That said, while there's still a 5% chance of running out of money, there's a huge chance that you'll end up growing your savings, and a good chance it will last MUCH longer than 30 years. New studies were done by the original authors who now state that it could be closer to a 4.5% or even 5% rule.
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The 4% rule does account for inflation. It's expecting that the return on your investment will be over 7%, but that 3% of that will be eaten by inflation. The full 4% rule states that if you withdraw 4% from your portfolio in the first year, and adjust that number by inflation each year after the first year, there is a 95% chance that you won't run out of money over the course of a 30 year retirement. (e.g. if you have a portfolio of 1,000,000 you'd withdraw 40,000 the first year. If inflation the first year is 3%, you'd withdraw 41,200 the second year, if inflation is 1% the second year, you'd withdraw 41,612 the third year, and so on for 30 years total adjusting each year for inflation based on the previous year's withdrawal)
There are legitimate concerns with the 4% rule, but lack of inflation adjustment isn't one of them. The biggest issue with the 4% rule tends to be that people take a rule designed to be 95% successful over 30 years, and claim it as 100% successful over 50-70 years.
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@RC-fp1tl they very much intentionally lie, see ”full self-driving” they have admitted to regulators that the car cannot, and most importantly, never will be able to, drive by itself without a fully attentive driver behind the wheel. But it's not a one-off either. Review Elon's original presentation at the D event when they showed off autopilot and started taking money for the feature. The cars sold at that time still cannot to this day do even a single one of the things he promised in that presentation.
As for my delivery, I bought from Tesla's pre-owned stock off their website, their store employees didn't know the car I found even existed, and in fact told me such a configuration could not exist. When they finally assumed it did, I was not allowed to see the car, or even pictures of it before purchase having to buy a used car without so much as a description of it's condition. It then took over 3 months for delivery, of a used car sitting on their lot, all of which time there was no communication at all and nobody could tell me where the car was, out when it would be delivered. They also flat out lied to me many times about where it was as I found out later. When it finally did arrive I was given 3 hours notice to pull together the full purchase price and drop everything in the middle of the work day for delivery.
The worst part is that the whole ownership experience has been that way or worse ever since.
Best car ever made. By the slimiest, sleaziest, company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I love my Model S, but I will never buy another Tesla as long as I live.
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This is what is referred to as the Swiss cheese model of safety. We know that any safety procedure you put in place has holes, so you layer lots of safety procedures, with the hope that the holes don't all line up. In this case they did.
In the end, it appears that this was completely the fault of the helicopter pilot. That said, is it possible that it could have been avoided had the controller used different words, or taken different actions? It seems quite likely. Watching the radar tracks and hearing the ATC audio posted on another channel, you can hear the controller twice ask helicopter pilot to confirm visual on the crj, both times the pilot confirms, and both times the pilot explicitly takes responsibility for maintaining visual separation. It is obvious in retrospect that the pilot was looking at the wrong plane. The first time this happened, I think the actions the controller took were perfectly reasonable. By the second time the controller asked, it was because the radar track was showing a pretty scary sight, and I think at that time the controller absolutely should have denied the helicopter the authority to take responsibility for maintaining separation, and should have explicitly directed both them and the regional jet to take specific actions to avoid the collision, or at the very least been more explicit about the situation as to the distance and bearing between the two aircraft.
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Their sunk cost fallacy isn't completely right. What you need to mention is that it's only a fallacy if you wouldn't pay money to replace it. i.e. if you rent a bad movie, and watch it vs doing nothing, that's the sunk cost fallacy, but if the alternative is renting another movie because you didn't like the first, that's worse as you're spending more money than in the first case. Now in the movie example, it's probably worth just walking away from your lost money. But in a meal example at a restaurant, it's often worth having the bad meal, so you aren't hungry and pay for a second meal later. (From a purely economic standpoint. From the point of view of enjoyment or pleasure this may not be the case, and that too should be taken in to account.)
I also have a small issue with their description of how "extra" money is handled. Yes money is, and should, be fungible. But if you're accounting properly, and have already covered your normal "buckets" of money with money from other sources, then treating yourself with any "extra" money you have isn't a bad thing. Of course you have to make sure you HAVE covered all your expenses (including funding for things like retirement and such) But if you've done all that, then it's not "dumb" to do something that makes you happy with extra money you weren't expecting.
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@jessicav2031 while true, Tesla got around this by slowly removing features over time if you didn't update. First they refused any maintenance on the vehicle, remember that they are the only people who can do maintenance on the vehicle because they refuse to authorize anyone else to use the software, and refuse to sell many of the parts. Next, they removed the streaming audio, access to the app, and updates to the map, this wouldn't have been such a big deal if they allowed you to use your phone for those things, but of course there's no Android auto in their cars.
When all of that didn't convince me to update my software to a version where they had crippled certain frequently used features, they threatened to remove all access to DC fast charging, and not just from their own supercharger network, but from all DC chargers.
That's when I gave in and installed their update that removed many features. What their next pain point would have been? Undoubtedly bricking the car completely. You don't own your car. They do, and they are not about to give up that ownership.
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I'm married, I have a daughter, and depending on your definition, I've achieved FIRE. Now "early" is my early 40s, not my early 30s, and I chose to switch careers to something more rewarding and with fewer hours per week (and paying half as much) rather than just live on my nest egg (though technically I could, it just wouldn't be generous).
I wouldn't say I had a "really high" income, I made decent money at my previous job (as a tradesman), but not the 6 figures or more of many FIRE proponents.
I also wouldn't say I received significant financial support from my parents. They did cover my education (2 years trade school, not university), and an inheritance did cover a portion of the downpayment on my house, but I didn't live with them beyond age 21, (and I paid them rent after I graduated until I moved out).
Even more importantly, I wouldn't say I've really sacrificed to get here. I have a reasonably sized 3 bedroom house in a decent sized city, we buy whatever food we want to eat, eat out on occasion (though admittedly not that often), I buy various tech toys, our daughter has far more toys than she knows what to do with, and we keep her busy with extracurricular activities, we take vacations, and I even splurged on a nice car. Saving is mostly about priorities, I don't spend on meaningless stuff, and I do research what I buy. I'm happy to buy used things often, I also do a lot of stuff myself when it comes to home repairs, keeping appliances running, etc.
All depends on your definition, but FIRE is definitely achievable, even for those married with kids.
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I have the other type of thermacell device, the one that uses a liquid instead of the pad. We have found it to be effective at reducing the number of mosquitoes with some big caveats. First is it is not 100%, not even close, but when sitting around at camp any reduction is welcome! Second is that it does not work if the wind is blowing, because it moves the cloud away from you. Same issue if you are moving, so it is only really good when you are sitting in one place on a relatively calm day. That said, sitting still and in a calm wind is also when you need these things the most, because if it is windy, or you are moving, you don't get bothered quite as much as if you are sitting still. The other huge advantage is that you don't end up covered in that greasy or sticky feeling that you get with sprays or lotions.
As for deet, what I have generally found, Is that it too is not 100% effective, however it will make you less attractive than the next person / animal nearby.
The best repellent I find, is someone who forgot to put on bug spray who is about 10 to 20 feet away from you! Sort of like the joke about a bear, you don't need to outrun the bear, only your slowest buddy.
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@AussieMoneyMan not according to any actual research. The research for the 4% rule, and I have yet to see any research disproving this, states that if you withdraw 4% of your portfolio the first year, and adjust that number for inflation each year thereafter, you have a 95% chance of not running out of money during a 30 year retirement based on all available historical data.
Many people on both sides of the issue love to twist and misrepresent this. Either by stating that the 4% rule means that they're guaranteed not to run out of money during a 50-70 year retirement (it's only a 95% chance over 30 years), or by stating that 4% doesn't account for inflation (it does), or by simply stating that the 4% number is really too high or too low (all based on "this time is different", which is never a good argument).
If you take the 4% rule, as originally written, and use it as such, I've never seen anything that disproves it.
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@mmmhorsesteaks The drivers are definitely the weak spot. Wiring has been inspected and certified several times, main entrance cable and panel has been upgraded. Power in my area is known for reliability as generation is close to the end user on a stable grid. The philips bulbs as pictured at the start of this video were really bad and have almost all failed at this point, I also have ceiling fixtures that have non-replacable LED panels, several LED light tubes (replace flourescent tubes) and many other LED bulbs, I have tried ones from pretty much every major brand. I replace a bulb, tube, or integrated fixture a few times a year. The only filament bulb I have left is the one in the oven, and after 12 years I finally had to replace that one this past month. I wish I could get that kind of life from an LED! As it stands, with the cost of LED bulbs, and the ridiculously short lifespans, they are both a financial, and environmental, disaster.
That said, the sucker in me keeps buying them because they're "Supposed" to last so much longer that I should be saving on both purchase price and electricity use. I just wish it were actually true.
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The odd part about economics is that what's great for the individual, is lousy for the society. Any one person is better off following this advice, but if everyone followed it, the economy would be in trouble, and with it, the investments that we count on to make FI possible. For an individual the best advice is always to save lots, spend little, and stay out of debt. For society as a whole though the best advice is if people take on as much debt as they can reliably service, to spend as much as they can, and save nothing.
The bright side for the responsible people out there, is that the irresponsible ones are likely to continue to outnumber us for the foreseeable future!
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For your first complaint, thieves don't hack into homes, just like they don't pick locks. Thieves break doors and windows, it is MUCH faster, and MUCH easier. You do have to be conscious of the security implications, but as long as you didn't do something stupid in your setup, the security implications are negligible as the existing ways into houses are so much easier.
For power outages, there's no problem. First, the lock itself is battery powered, so the keypad works just as well with, or without, power. If the batteries die, the lock still has a physical key, just like it did before you made it "smart", so you can always do that. If you design a smart home properly, as he says in the video, it always only adds to existing, and never takes away. So losing power to a smart home is no different from losing power to a non-smart one. Sure the smart lights don't work, but then again, the old non-smart ones don't either.
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I'm a big EV fan, I drive an EV, but the jurisdiction I'm in had zero subsidies or incentives for me to purchase it. I am also extremely against spending government money on any of this. EVs are simply better than gasoline vehicles for most use cases, note I did not say all, I said most. As such, they don't need any government funding. As for wireless charging it's a stupid idea, I don't even want a wireless charging pad in my garage at home, let alone buried under all the roads. Because unless you dig up every road, which seems very unlikely, especially the roads in the middle of nowhere, you'll still need the big battery in your car, most likely the only place they would ever install these is the same places where you don't need the extra range. Because those places you need the extra range are also the places farthest away from the electric grid. No, the right answer is what we're already seeing larger batteries with more power density and newer chemistries that are bringing down the cost of those batteries along with bringing down their weight size and complexity. Wireless charging roads are a bad idea all around.
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Defence of the country from invading armies. The first half of the amedment makes that perfectly clear, the part about a "well regulated militia". What it's become has nothing to do with what the point is.
That said, I personally believe that the court erred in this case, for a few reasons:
1) the couple had tried multiple, escalating, defences that all proved ineffective.
2) the trap could not in any way be activated, or pose any risk to anyone, who was not already illegally in that location. It wasn't at the front gate in a way that the mailman could set it off by accident, it was deep within the dwelling.
I find #1 quite compelling. This court has ruled that the couple have no recourse to defend themselves (all attempts short of lethal force failed to do so) and should have just allowed the burglaries to persist.
This has actually recently come to the fore where I live when a criminal entered a rural property and the owner defended themselves and their family with a gun. The police immediately charged the property owner, and the public outcry made politicians step in and change laws, and has been part of a push locally to jettison that whole police force in favour of one whose priorities are set at a more local level.
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@bobblacka918 I've never met anyone that I would qualify as "far right". However the media usually defines far right to include anyone who stands up for human rights, disagrees with separating people based on race, gender or sexual orientation, or who dares to question any official narrative, even if that narrative has been proven false repeatedly.
I define "radical left" as anyone who thinks any portion of society should be given special treatment just because of their skin color, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Anyone who thinks taking away rights and increasing government oversight is a good thing, and anyone who doesn't understand how supply and demand, and finite resources, work and therefore think that giving everything away for free, or printing money, will actually mean people are better off.
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I would like to add one more data point. I just looked at my spare parts bin, and I found 4 different outlets from 4 different brands. in every single case, the writing stamped into the metal tabs at top and bottom of the receptacles, and the writing moulded into the plastic on the rear of the receptacle, all appear right-side up only in a ground down orientation. Writing on the front that would be visible when the outlet is installed is all duplicated in both directions. (i.e. TR at each end of the face-plate, one in each orientation, or GFCI test/reset lettering as shown in the video)
Based on this, I can't see any reason to conclude that the manufacturers believe that the outlets should be installed ground up, in fact the reverse appears to be true.
Contrast this with light switches, and every one of them has "top" stamped into the upper metal tab to indicate orientation.
EDIT: It appears that I was wrong in that the 4 different outlets are actually all from the same brand, Leviton. I also found 3 more models from them as well, all labelled similarly. So maybe it's less universal than I thought. It seems I don't have anything non-Leviton to compare to though.
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This is the first I'd heard of heat pump clothes dryers, neat! A couple points about water heaters though. You state that if you have natural gas heating you'd "indirectly" be heating your water with natural gas. I can't imagine why you'd have natural gas heating, without already having natural gas heating your water. Also, tankless systems are "instant" the same way the water tanks are. That's what they mean, not that they're faster. The efficiency gains come from not storing the hot water, so I'm not convinced that you'd end up more efficient with the hybrid system you talk about being that you're still heating the water the "traditional" way first, and then just using the heat pump to maintain temperature vs just not storing the hot water in the first place.
Really, if you want to look at heat pumps for water heating, most ground source home heating systems I see include both water, and space heating. That's the way to go.
I really love the idea of a heat pump, but the economics are brutal. In my climate I don't need an air conditioner at all, and most of the winter is below where an air source heat pump makes sense. The end result is that the cost of an air source heat pump is hard to offset by the use in the shoulder seasons. As for ground source, that would be great, but until they come up with cheaper installation, that too is a non-starter.
It's a technology I'm watching closely, and I hope to soon be able to go that way, but we're just not there yet economically.
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Speaking as an outsider, there's obviously a lot more going on, and I think both sides are being disingenuous. Australia tightened control, and did gun buybacks, and saw a big drop in violent crime, and got the same result, Canada is currently trying to ban more weapons, but is seeing an increase in violent crime despite it. My suspicion is that the actual gun policies have very little effect in either direction. What actually has an effect is societal change, cultural impact. This is why I don't think that new gun laws are going to solve anything in the US, but neither do I think getting more guns into the population will solve it either. What's needed to make a change is a change of attitudes, and a change of culture, and changing gun laws doesn't accomplish that.
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No idea what you mean by "polar prince", but detecting anything at those depths isn't so straight forward. First of all "radar" doesn't work underwater at all. They use sonar. Secondly, the deeper you go, the harder it is for surface sonar to detect, and if you actually get onto the bottom, it's nearly impossible for anything on the surface to tell the difference between your ship, and the bottom of the ocean.
We do know that they stopped communicating, but that only proved that the communications gear stopped working, there was no way of knowing from that information whether the submarine was just sitting on the bottom intact and unable to reply, or whether it had been destroyed.
If you're ever missing, I suspect you won't want them to stop spending money on search and rescue just because you might not be alive. I suspect you'll want them to keep searching until they know for sure!
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Depends who you ask. The Tesla plug design is sleeker, easier to plug in and unplug, and takes up less space on the vehicle. It also allows both DC and AC with the same plug. So from that standpoint it's "better". That said, CCS can in theory handle more current due to larger conductors, and is an actual official standard usable by anyone who wants to (For all Tesla's talk, they would not likely allow anyone else to use their charging connector or infrastructure without some significant money changing hands)
The EU was really choosing between chademo and CCS as the Tesla one is a non-starter as nobody other than Tesla could use it. Beyond that, in Europe CCS was already in use by far more manufacturers than chademo, making that choice far less disruptive than choosing chademo (Japan is a different matter as chademo outnumber CCS there). CCS is a newer standard though. That said, in North America, with the exception of Tesla, nearly all DC fast chargers have both CCS and chademo plugs available.
Wordwide it appears that CCS is winning the format war though, the Japanese manufacturers are starting to switch to CCS, at least for their foreign market vehicles, and we'll likely see all DC fast chargers eventually go that way. The question will be weather Tesla sticks to their own proprietary standard forever, or eventually see the light and join the rest of the world. It's not good for anyone to have infrastructure fragmentation where each brand of car have their own chargers and can't use the others.
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In terms of revolving doors, they are on their way out. The problems with wheelchairs, walkers, strollers, etc cause enough trouble, and there are more modern solutions to the problem. I've seen a lot of them recently replaced with air curtains on sliding doors. You also mentioned that you hadn't seen airlocks that forced you to wait for one door to close before the other would open. I actually have, at the zoo here, the penguin exhibit used to have revolving doors on each end to keep the cold air inside the exhibit. They have since replaced both revolving doors with proper airlocks where you have to wait for one door to close before the other will open. They hold about 20 people if you stand close together, and there are prominent emergency exit override buttons inside them.
You also said you couldn't think of a reason to have the swing speed faster than the watch speed, I absolutely can. I can foresee lots of reasons why you would want the door to be closed as quick as possible, but also want as soft to touch as possible for noise mitigation. Your hotel is actually a perfect example where you want to close the door quickly for privacy, but you want to avoid slamming the door. So assuming the latch works smoothly, you can have the door move quickly through most of its swing but only slow down at the last moment to avoid the slam at the end.
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I'm right on that cusp at the moment, did a career change a few years ago to a job working fewer hours, (and therefore making less annually) and drastically cut how much I add to my savings. My new job is flexible, and I get to choose how much I work. Still trying to work out what's right for me at the moment, My savings are pretty decent, but it's hard to know if it's "enough" for my plans if I start withdrawing instead of waiting longer.
I always thought I could do this all without a financial planner, but I'm starting to think there are just too many variables between government pensions, withdrawal strategies to minimize tax, factoring my spouse's stuff, fluctuating markets, etc. I plan to talk to a fee only planner this year to setup a plan, and who knows, they may tell me to cut my hours back even further!
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@Rob care to elaborate on that one? I can point to nearly endless examples of racism on the left, much harder to find on the right.
At the moment we see left wing racism in communist china against the Ugher population and against blacks. In left wing schools in the USA we see racism in the admissions process against asian and white students. Canada's current radical left-wing prime minister has dressed up in blackface, and done it so often that he admits he doesn't know how many times it has happened, his left wing party, and the other main left-wing party propping up his minority government are both ok with this. Cuba is famous for cracking down on anyone who wants to show pride in their black heritage. And BLM and all the current CRT garbage are all from the left, not the right (and all EXTREMELY racist)
If we look to the past we can see extensive racism in the USSR against Balkars, Crimean Tatars, Chechens, Ingush, Karachays, Kalmyks, Koreans, and Meskhetian Turks. We can go further back and see the extreme racism of the early 20th century german socialists (which despite being an extreme left wing party in every aspect of their policy, have been retroactively branded "right wing" by today's left).
Meanwhile the right is fundamentally incompatible with racism. Capitalism only works when you hire the best people for the job, and serve all customers equally. If you don't do one, or the other, due to race, your competition will, and you'll be out of business. The concept of each person having the freedom to do what they want is an inherently right wing idea, and doesn't mesh with the idea of some people being allowed to tell others they are inferior. That's a left wing concept.
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@Tschacki_Quacki It's a very long list, but let's start with the fact that they halved the speed of my supercharging through an over the air update. They removed hands-free autopilot. They removed the lowest suspension setting on the air suspension. They removed a few kilowatt hours of battery capacity through a software update. They removed the ability to use autopilot at any speed, now you are limited on many roads to 10 km an hour over whatever the car randomly guesses the speed limit to be, often half the real speed limit. On the map, they removed the ability to see when traffic is good, now you can only see when traffic is bad. This is an important distinction because there used to be a difference between no data, and good traffic, now they are the same. They also removed a lot of contrast from the map making it much harder see the difference in terrain unless you use the satellite view which is not feasible on older infotainment units. Along the same lines, they have slowed down the interface so much with updates as to make the original infotainment unit basically unusable to force you to upgrade that.
They reduced the granularity of the power meter on the dash so as to hide the fact that they also reduced the maximum amount of regenerative braking. They moved many frequently used options so they are no longer a single touch, and are now multiple touches on the screen. They removed the ability to tile multiple apps on the screen, e.g. backup camera and energy use at the same time. They reduced the max fan speed. They removed the time remaining from the currently playing music track, they removed the ability to open the windows from the keyfob, And so many more it's hard to remember them all.
And they have added... Podcasts to the music app... Woohoo...
I dread every single software update, 99% of the time they make things worse.
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My only computer is a Pixelbook. I often use it with my USB-C dock with 2 external monitors, a normal keyboard, mouse, etc. Now I don't do video editing, or similarly intensive stuff. but for coding, watching youtube, general office type tasks, etc, I've never felt lacking. But there's something magical about pulling it off the dock, going and lying on the couch, and still having all the same applications, files, configuration, etc still there, even if on a smaller screen.
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@letstalk.2020 apparently the problem here is your basic understanding of how the oil industry works, or put more simply, you actually have no idea at all how it works. There is not now, nor has there ever been, any form of shortage in oil reserves. There are massive reserves under multiple different continents. Sure we can leave all the stuff in the ground here and it will stay there completely unused, but there will be oil to get out of the ground in the middle East and russia. So the oil here will sit completely unused, meanwhile we will continue to spend billions of dollars funding the Russian military and human rights abuses in the middle east.
People will still drive, plastics will still be made, airplanes will still fly. If you completely stopped all oil production in the Western world tomorrow, none of that would change. The amount of oil consumption would remain the same, the only change would be where it comes from. If environmental nut jobs like yourself had their way, all oil would come only from the most polluting, most unethical sources. We already give millions of dollars every week to the Russian military, not to mention all the stuff in the middle east. Giving them more money will not help our cause any.
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Information is the key to any smart home system, the more sensors, the more the system knows about what's going on, and therefore the more you can make it do. He explains some of the things the sensors allow, such as knowing when the laundry is done through a power sensor for the washer, and a movement/humidity sensor for the dryer. Motion sensors let you turn on lights when you enter a room, door/window/motion sensors let you know if someone is home to alert you to intruders, or adjust the thermostat. Humidity sensors control de-humidifiers, or bathroom fans.
In my house (not an extravagant one by any means!) I have 13 motion sensors, 5 door sensors, 4 temperature/humidity sensors, a light sensor, 3 doorbell press/motion sensors, 4 power usage sensors, 2 push button sensors, 4 water sensors, 4 smoke detectors, and a sensor watching a power LED on our furnace. Each one provides more of a picture of what's going on in the house, and each one allows me to do something specific based on what's going on in the house, anything from turning on a light based on how dark it is, and where there's motion, to warning if a door has been left open, to turning off the water and notifying us if there's a leak.
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That damage is so far over the top as to be unbelievable! I am so glad that the police in my jurisdiction don't generally behave like this. I have personally witnessed several police standoffs (ones where the criminal has surrendered, ones where they were captured, and ones where the criminal was killed). Around here patience is the name of the game, not shock or awe. I won't say there's no damage, but I can confidently say it's the minimal possible in the circumstances. A single window pane, and a broken door frame being the worst damage I've seen, and in most cases no damage at all as they simply wait it out until they can convince the person to step outside.
Granted, I also don't live in the USA, so there are a lot of different social, societal, and legal circumstances in play.
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@Voltaic Example: $50,000 Model S, $30,000 Model 3 the 300 mile 2012 model S, for that matter Tesla is the only EV manufacturer who's EVs consistently can't meet their EPA rated range, seems they tested them "differently" than everyone else. The original Autopilot cars still not being able to do even a single one of the things claimed at the original reveal event, the Model 3 being several years late, the new roadster being well delayed, the Model S plaid being super delayed, "full self driving" that can't drive itself, and don't even get me started on how they won't honour their warranties, remove features and functionality through mandatory software updates, 85kWh pack only being 81kWh and a whole host of other issues.
Tesla marketing is 100% lies.
I drive a Model S, it's the best car ever built, by the slimiest, sleaziest company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I love my car, but I will never again make the mistake of buying anything from Tesla.
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While I would never suggest a Cybertruck, I find it disingenuous to say it doesn't exist yet, while welcoming comments on the Denali and Silverado EVs, which also do not exist yet.
Keep in mind, the F150 Lightning was never supposed to compete with those 2 vehicles, it was supposed to beat them to market, and it did. Ford project T3 is what's supposed to compete with Silverado/Denali EV (and Ram REV), but Ford hasn't released much detail on that one yet. The F150 Lightning is a generation before those trucks, I'd still probably take it over anything GM offers, but there's a reason those trucks are marketed as longer range and faster charging, they're 3 years newer tech.
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I got just about 11 cents worth of bitcoin about 11 or 12 years ago for free. A few years ago I sold $1,000 of it, a year later I sold $1,000 more of it, the remainder peaked in value at about 4,500 back in December, it's now worth closer to 1500. I still think I'll hold on to it, after all it didn't cost me anything in the first place, and I've already gotten a free $2,000 out of it. If it goes back up, I'll probably sell another thousand when it hits 5000.
I have to agree though about the underlying value, that free Bitcoin is all I hold, and I'm not willing to put my own money into it. Bitcoin is lousy as a currency, for multiple reasons, the extreme value fluctuations, the long transaction times, and the high transaction fees. I know some other cryptos have addressed some of these concerns, but with nothing backing them, it's still pretty risky. There's also the computational aspect, every one of these coins is just one security flaw or one computational breakthrough away from being completely 100% worthless.
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I watched the video, and you massively missed the mark here. You too refuse to actually discuss the issue that Dawkins asked about. You have asserted without evidence, that one immutable trait (gender) is completely different from another immutable trait (race). You read the letter talking about how we should discuss the content of his speech rather than attack the writer, state you agree with the sentiment, and yet completely fail to do so.
By taking this stance, without any evidence whatsoever, you are no different from those seeking to vilify Dawkins. You have agreed that the question cannot be asked, and then only discuss whether Dawkins was doing so out of malice, or ignorance. Is it not even a little bit possible that neither is the case, and that the question itself could in fact be legitimate?
If it truly is so blindingly obvious that there is no similarity between race and gender in this context, should it not be easy enough to explain why? Perhaps instead of discussing "why Dawkins made a mistake" we should be discussing whether it actually is a mistake at all!
Just because the topic is taboo does not mean it shouldn't be examined. In fact the reverse is, more often than not, the case.
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Luddites can be overcome. The key is, as he says in the video, home automation should always add something, and never take away. In my house all smart lights are done using smart switches, not smart bulbs. That means all the switches still work exactly like they did before, but you can also automate things or use your phone. The door lock still opens with the key, but I can also automate things or use my phone. The smart thermostat still has up and down buttons on it to adjust the heat, but you can also automate things or use your phone. Nothing is taken away, and the "luddites" can decide whether or not to try the "new and scary" stuff, or stick to what they know.
Once they see how it can make their lives easier though, they'll end up using some of the things. My wife wasn't thrilled with the idea originally, but now there are several automations that she absolutely loves and isn't sure how she could do without. Go slow, avoid anything that looks ugly or intrusive, and make sure you never take away the old method of using whatever it was.
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@tailwinderic I'm not comparing the Tesla only to a Nissan leaf, my Tesla is orders of magnitude more expensive to maintain than my Mercedes S class was. My first year out of warranty cost over $7,000 in maintenance. It doesn't help any that Tesla has the highest shop rates in the industry, the most expensive parts in the industry, and an absolute prohibition on taking the car to anyone else for repairs. But the point is, that the leaf wasn't cheap to maintain either, their battery degradation is high enough that you're spending $15,000 on a battery for a car that's now worth less than that. Electric vehicles promise cheaper maintenance, but I've yet to see any of them that actually deliver on that promise. Don't get me wrong I love my Model S, and I would never want to go back to a gas vehicle, the cost of maintenance is simply not one of the selling points of any electric vehicle at this point, regardless of what the manufacturers claim.
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There's a whole range of possible systems out there, and each have their own pros/cons. Systems like control 4 or savant are aimed at the top of the top end of the market. They cost an absolute fortune, but come with full support and you know they'll "just work" without you needing to do a thing yourself. Below that are things like Vivint which are still quite expensive, and come with support, but aren't quite as high end. Then there are things like in this video which are much cheaper, pretty easy to setup, but don't have the support, or the slick interface (often multiple apps to each control one or two things). And then at the other end you have systems like Home Assistant which are dirt cheap, extremely flexible, and provide slick unified interfaces, but require a lot of technical competence to setup and have no support.
As the old saying goes, pick 2: easy, cheap, good (where "good" in this case is a single slick interface, and reliable system). Control 4 gives you easy and good, but not cheap. The mix of products shown in this video gives you easy and cheap, but not "good". Home Assistant gives you cheap and good, but not easy. There are always trade offs.
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This is what frustrates me so much about north american lights, the original thing was so manufacturers could save a few pennies on an extra wire, bulb, lens, and reflector (Not a good reason in the first place, but at least it was A reason!), but then you see cars like you describe above where they aren't even doing that, so don't have any excuse at all to make their signals dangerous! Worse yet, many of these vehicles are actually sold in overseas markets with different lenses to comply with those laws, but the manufacturer actually makes life harder for themselves by having different parts for the 2 markets, just to intentionally make their north american vehicles more dangerous!
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In general I can't stand Ryan Reynolds. He tends to exemplify the trend of main characters being incompetent, immature and childlike, whereas my preferred characters are competent, intelligent people. It only worked in this movie, because he's an NPC who wouldn't be expected to have had a chance to learn any maturity. Even so I found him hard to bear at times, but I still found the movie quite enjoyable overall. I initially didn't want to watch it at all, just based on who was playing the main character, but I walked through the room while my wife was watching, and it looked interesting, so I decided it was worth giving it a go.
Comedy is such a difficult genre for me. 99% of comedy is people seeing how immature and crass they can be on film, that's not funny, that's just cringeworthy. Every so often some actual GOOD comedy comes around though, and it can be very entertaining. I hate to write off the whole genre, but it's awful tempting sometimes just based on the large percentage of it that is just so awful.
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If you design your system right, your worst case scenario is that your home reverts to it's old non-smart equivalent. That said, most of these things are electrical, so it doesn't matter if they are smart or not, sure the smart lights don't work in a power outage, but their non-smart predecessors didn't either. The door lock is battery powered, so will still work with the touch screen, but if the batteries die, it still has a key lock just like the door before you installed all this.
In my smart home, even if the whole smart home system stops working, everything can be controlled however it was controlled before (light switches still turn on/off lights, doors still unlock with the key, etc)
As he says in the video, a smart home should only ever add to the existing, never subtract from it. (I have no interest in taking away a light switch to force control through an app on my phone, that makes things harder, not easier.)
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