You are completely Ignoring the fact that Tesla batteries last at least 200k miles now with 85% capacity (13 years of driving 15k miles a year), can be upcycled into stationary storage, or recycled into new batteries with 95% efficiency. These aren't 2012 nissan leaf's that need battery replacement after 100k miles. Also Modular batteries are far inferior to load-bearing structural batteries, which is why GM is possibly dropping Ultium altogether.

Electric cars break down less in general because of less moving parts, and you don't have a vibrating engine that wears down the entire car. the only maintenance that increases is tire replacement more often.

$250 a month would make a Tesla affordable to at least 50% of the US population. The average new car price is over $45k and the average car payment in the US today is over $700. And can't forget that in 3 years after the lease is over, all those cars will be resold on the used market, likely costing new buyers with longer terms under $250 a month.

Of course any public transit like a train, bus or tram, or even bicycling is better than any Tesla for global warming and humans in general, But most of the US was built around car infrastructure and Tesla's reduce GHG emissions within this broken system.

"they're built as tough as hot wheels" Model's S, 3, X and Y are the safest cars tested by NHSTA. Remember that Y that flew off a 250 foot cliff last month and everyone survived?

"Electric cars won't be effective for mass production" EV's make up 5% of US sales today, and are over 20% in China and EU. by end of year it should be 10% in the US, and between 30-40% in the EU and China, by 2026 we will likely pass 50% of all cars sold being electric world wide.

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I wasn’t referring to you, i was referring to the outsourcing. Instead of innovation they always go for the low hanging fruit, the hell with everything else, that’s my experience with them

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No one else on this damn website seems to bring this up enough- automation won't mean everyone has no job, that's an insanely dangerous situation politically. Idle hands and what not. UBI for that sweet data we produce will be an absolute necessity, or something equivalent.

What's the song?

Thanks for letting us know ESA...

Forewarned is four-armed!

We're already bound for idiocracy: look who breeds and who abstains. Demographics are destiny.

Idiots are already discussing idiotic topics when not consuming idiotic media. Accepting this, why not also allow intelligent people to discuss topics without imposing moderators who only permit opinions and ideas that can be accompanied by advertising revenue?

The idea of online "community standards" is absurd for large sites like Facebook. There is no community. People should be allowed to talk about topics of interest and organize however they like. We've even seen PayPal insist they are a "community" with standards that can impose financial penalties when people discuss ideas contrary to their baseless rules.

The crazies will do whatever they do. We should preserve some space for sane adults too where censors cannot intrude and silence us all to infantile norms.

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Agreed. What I meant is that I feel like we should try to make emotions such as empathy and kindness more dominant, but for some reason it’s seen as less masculine.

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OMG if I could have a robot paint the rooms in my house that need to be painted …

Great point!

And again, while I agree, it’s a great idea in theory, getting a group of greedy sociopaths, to agree to give a large portion of what they consider to be “their money” to people they consider to be “lazy, unemployed people” is going to be a challenge that will rock the ages

$269/month for 10k miles annually. $275/month for 12k miles annually. $286/month for 15k miles annually.

All lease prices for an ~$25k Corolla …

You are wrong twice. I showed you the math, for a $25k vehicle that exists for both leases and finance via Toyota. And leases are typically cheaper unless you are talking an outlier vehicle with seriously abnormal depreciation curves. So yeah, no. YOU are wrong. Twice.

Yes, for example, I would like a Rosie to help us at home. I don't always feel like doing some housework after work or on my days off. But seeing as how a phone model changes every year along with being expensive, impossible or difficult to repair, let alone collect data, I'll pass for now.

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I don’t really get what you’re trying to say?

I was responding to your idea that being remote means they’ll start outsourcing you. They’ll start outsourcing you regardless.

I don't consult on a management level, we helped with automation implementation. Specifically how automation systems could be designed to solve problems that the client's engineers already found and worked closely to provide expertise and band width that they currently didn't have. I've worked with bad consultants (currently have one that I gotta keep tabs on cause his ideas are stupid and insane) and what we did was very different, far more collaborative approach.

Spousal automation. Now THERE'S the future.

I love WFH. But:

• I also believe there are intangible benefits of working in the same place. I wouldn't be surprised if democracy goes even more into the shitter after 10 years WFH, just like after 10 years of Facebook.

• IIRC, the Microsoft study found that certain kinds of cross-team collaboration and innovation are much harder during WFH.

There are already very expensive humanoid robots that that do all the domestic chores since it only needs to be able to recognise stuff and run the appropriate neural network since domestic chores are just tedious, not hard.

You are not alone! Where’s my Rosey?

No, I dont dismiss the increase. Its something difficult to measure though because they are on very long cycles and we just dont have records for that long. You also cannot only measure the number of, say, hurricanes. Because a strong hurricane in the Altantic pulls cold water from deeper and will reduce the chance of another atlantic hurricane afterwards. But a Gulf of Mexico hurricane will not have this effect because of warmer, shallower water. See how complicated this gets? You can't measure damage either because development increases. Im saying this is complicated and important and outlandish, misleading claims dont help the cause.

Im not a climate change denier, Im a data scientist that likes proper science.

Tell me you don’t understand how banking works, without telling me you don’t understand how banking works