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A fully-aware AI is one of those things that tech types claim are JUST AROUND THE CORNER but never actually comes because AI is hard, dipshits. See also: singularity.
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No one bothered to think about it in the rush to get it out the door. I wouldn't be surprised if the other models are the same
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Sep 24, 2018 02:47
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bawfuls posted:I'm not sure this is all that accurate really. SpaceX has a notoriously high rate of turnover among their engineers, something like 30% or so. The pay and workload are no better (and in many cases worse) than other aerospace competitors in the region. They definitely have a core of true believers who are there for Epic Bacon Mars missions, but Tesla has that too. If you have engineering skills and aerospace industry experience, there's plenty of defense contractors near SpaceX willing to pay well without demanding 80 hour weeks. A good friend of mine from high school worked there and he lasted barely a year before he had to leave "the cult of Elon" as he called it. Maybe if we had this thing called unions to prevent excessive overtime 
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Sep 24, 2018 22:04
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Zil posted:Is there anywhere where we can read up on when exactly the railroad spur to be ripped out? Or did it just kind of disappear over the past few months? From what I was able to dig up, Elon wanted an express freight from GF1 to Fremont to ship batteries with unreasonable terms (unit train, next to impossible deadlines to avoid fees, etc) while paying a cheap price. Union Pacific told him to gently caress off, and things went from there.
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Sep 25, 2018 11:34
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Zil posted:Ah cool thanks. Interesting that Musk didn't go more public with it, was hoping for even more schadenfreude, but these two posts are good. The other thing is NIMBYs appeared to have played a factor, because they always do.
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Sep 26, 2018 01:04
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Bearded Whiteguy posted:Also, lol, loving cultists: Hmm... yes. Let's violate law and ISO standards.
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Sep 26, 2018 01:06
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I rode a bike older than me in the rain today and it didn't fall apart.
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Sep 26, 2018 01:30
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Martout posted:just caught up and let me just carefully phrase my take on all this:
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Sep 28, 2018 02:24
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etalian posted:I like the SEC ruling, it's almost like they admitted they had to let him continue his clown circus in order to not hurt bull investors. 
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Oct 3, 2018 00:48
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infernal machines posted:No, but like, we can "sell" the vehicle to our fulfillment center, right? I think you figured out how they're inflating the numbers
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Oct 3, 2018 00:55
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Smoke weed every day?
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Oct 4, 2018 20:14
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Dejawesp posted:Musk is a tricky issue for conservative assholes. He's also a modern day robber baron and is defrauding a lot of people.
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Oct 4, 2018 20:43
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Kommienzuspadt posted:Thats' basically the only reason I am so glued to this story. It perfectly embodies the times we live in. It's the era of big ideas, and con men are basically coming out of the woodwork to take advantage. Theranos is another great example. I think the biggest thing is he positioned himself as the next Steve Jobs. He did a drat good job of doing so at the start, and there's probably a significant overlap of the apple fanboys and musk fanboys here. The problem is, unlike Jobs, he has delivered not much in the way of a product the average consumer can use. Paypal sure, but no one remembers him for that. The Model S was pretty much proof that an EV can be good and effective in both speed and range to the world at large. Everything else about Tesla is utter poo poo, but you see the same thing with the Musk fans as the Apple fans: A utter unwillingness to admit what they sunk their time/money into is bad or overrated. The vocal apple contingent has largely disappeared when Jobs kicked the bucket, and while iPhones are still hot sellers, they don't carry the same cultural weight as they used to. You see the networks advertising they have it and the new Galaxies at the same amount.
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Oct 5, 2018 18:14
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He plays perfectly into the CHUDs hands because he's: 1. Rich 2. Is going after Wall Street 3. White 4. Made money off of slave labor 5. Hates unions
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Oct 5, 2018 18:31
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I think it's a bit much to talk about the downfall of the iPhone just because it didn't kill every other major cell phone off. It's expensive as poo poo and everyone has one, there's no more vocal weirdos because like....there's no need to evangelize them anymore they're loving everywhere and it's just embedded in society now. I never said it had a downfall, per se, it's no longer the cultural juggernaut it once was. I suppose that technically is a downfall, but the Mac Evangelicals are largely gone at this point.
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Oct 5, 2018 18:32
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A model x drove by and gods that thing is ugly
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Oct 6, 2018 23:20
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orcinus posted:Maybe if you put it in terms of "is green", "is not green"? What about "super green"?
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Oct 6, 2018 23:24
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Raldikuk posted:Me a Dummy: But what if my kid's car crashes and it loses power and they can't get out while they're engulfed in flames? The front doors have a manual release that's some what accessible. The rears are varying levels of accessible to non-existent based on the model. I think the exact loophole they're using is the whole child safety lock law.
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Oct 7, 2018 00:16
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GWBBQ posted:It's hilarious that SpaceX can launch a rocket and land the first stage after learning from mistakes and unknown factors but Tesla is bricking cars with lovely software updates and can't even manage to make sure bumpers are actually bolted on. Also noteworthy is that SpaceX benefited greatly from developments in friction stir welding and metalworking but Tesla is shipping cars with aluminum sponges for control arms. I've mentioned this many times before, but SpaceX has two major advantages over Tesla: 1. Space travel is heavily regulated, and with massive consequences for violating these regulations in both governmental punishment and public perception. 2. Most of what SpaceX is doing is nothing new. Returning the 1st stage? Well that's after it's most critical portion of the mission, so if it fails to land, it's not going to cause the launch to fail. There's little room for SpaceX to "disrupt" the whole launch industry aside from massively undercutting the competition.
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Oct 8, 2018 13:14
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https://twitter.com/scot_work/status/1049002869582520321/photo/1
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Oct 8, 2018 18:49
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Could someone please change the original "sickos" to "shorts" thanks and gods bless
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Oct 8, 2018 19:07
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Did we ever figure out if Elon's margin call is 250 or 230?
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Oct 10, 2018 16:38
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Rex-Goliath posted:yep. it’s a delicate dance If the subject of the call has money: Eat the loss or only go after a fraction of it. If they don't: drain them dry
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Oct 10, 2018 18:00
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Lote posted:Nasdaq futures are down 2%. If Tesla gets to -4% or <240, that’s upper end of possible margin call territory for Musk. I mean, it is Tesla
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Oct 11, 2018 03:29
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The hilarious thing is Elon poisoned the "take it private" well. Because he already said 420, people will expect nothing less.
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Oct 11, 2018 19:12
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Proteus Jones posted:Willing to bet it's fallout from the Joe Rogan appearance. I made that claim over in the Spaceflight Thread and a bazinga melted down because I didn't phrase it in the proper manner.
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Oct 12, 2018 18:55
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infernal machines posted:someone in yospos pointed out it's probably because the falcon sucks at doing the kinds of launches the dod needs, heavy, high orbit B-b-b-b-but the falcon heavy  Scott Manley, a goon, did a video on this. All of ULA's current offerings have a higher mass to orbit ratio than SpaceX's, except the Falcon Heavy, and even then, those loads are few and far between. So the long and short of it, if you want a larger payload to a higher orbit, ULA has you covered.
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Oct 12, 2018 18:59
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How much do you want to bet his mars city has a paper bag test.
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Oct 12, 2018 19:18
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etalian posted:Remember all the Tesla beats sports car videos out there? Aren't half of those staged?
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Oct 13, 2018 19:37
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the onion wizard posted:They are very quick if you don't need to turn/brake Or dodge a firetruck
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Oct 13, 2018 19:52
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Okan170 posted:Ironically, just a few months ago, the SpaceX subreddit was creaming themselves over liklihood that SpaceX bid BFR for EELV 2 development and that this would mean that its insanely cheap prices (if launched multiple times a week, not at normal flight rates) would destroy all competition and that the great Mars dream would be close to reality because the US military would help fund it. The other argument you hear, and it was mentioned on these very forums, is "oh, that means the Falcon 9 is mature!  " while ignoring that the Delta and Atlas programs were also well mature by that point.
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Oct 13, 2018 21:02
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My favorite counterpoint to the german tech is superior argument is "who was taking bolt action rifles into the front lines and who brought semi-automatics?"
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Oct 13, 2018 21:29
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orcinus posted:How the gently caress do threads i visit always spontaneously devolve into nazi tech threads?! Who brought it up?
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Oct 13, 2018 22:58
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orcinus posted:Indeedly, this has been done in trains for quite a while now. Yup, AC locomotives have been a thing since the 90s
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Oct 14, 2018 05:35
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Boner Pill Connoisseur posted:
That's almost word for word the "send me X isk and I'll DOUBLE IT for you!" scam from Eve.
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Oct 25, 2018 00:31
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19 o'clock posted:“Just make the whole plane out of the black box! The Soviets also used a pencil
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I know a couple pages ago someone brought up that accounting rules only consider a sale to be "complete" when the customer has the product. What if, and hear me out here, Tesla doesn't consider the car to be the final product, but the VIN number. It would explain a loving lot.
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Dumb Lowtax posted::pop: It's munch, not pop. 
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