I think Curriculum could be designed more as an outline of a subject and you then are asking questions about that topic. Different questions may be answered in different ways depending. This would allow students to better learn things in ways that are best for them. Some may need more details and others less. It would be much more personalized.

But worldwide evs were 10% in 2022, so that early adopter bell curve is going to get smashed real soon now. USA is just behind.

If it was for cooking only then what you say makes sense but if people already had robots to do chores then they may as have cooking functionality.

I'll be happy to work remotely and do my own household chores. Or supervise my automatons. I mostly don't want to commute anymore!

More likely that automated restaurants would use robots to quickly and cheaply produce, serve or deliver food. More people could then take advantage of them. It would be more cost efficient than everyone having one at home.

My former employer was pushing return to office so hard it was ridiculous. Luckily, my former boss was based in Europe so he pushed back against "the idiot Americans" all the time and it was priceless to watch. Our CIO (a giant fucking snake) was adamant that all IT return to the office full-time.

Had a call with one of my former staff about how things were going. He said they have moved back to 4 on 1 off for office life. I asked about the C-suite and he said and I quote:

"They work 100% remote except when they need to visit the office."

Tesla prioritizes their mainstream non-exotic vehicles. The rollout of this vehicle would look much more like the rollout of the Model Y

> but I’ll be goddamned if we should be rushing headlong into

We aren't.

Dreams of advanced, time-saving home automation have been on the public's mind for decades while actual progress into this space has been extremely slow, incremental and usually more supplementary than transformative.

Whatever happens with this space won't happen suddenly or unexpectedly. All we should expect for the foreseeable future are consumer appliances that slap "AI-powered" on their marketing and may or may not produce measurable improvements in efficiency or performance.

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Lease or purchase?

Not really, it's more like induction or dominos. Do the first few with a nuclear battery, make the rest with the first batch

If COVID, and stay at home policies did one thing -- it was to show how much of a sham working from office buildings was. For the majority of jobs, it is not required. People have been saying it for decades, and COVID showed the world that you can, in fact, successfully work from home.

I'm sure there are some industries that function better with in person interaction, but there are a ton that simply don't need it. My office is battling this issue with requiring different positions, different required days in office.

Exactly, I tell kids this any time I get I asked why they need to learn math when calculators exist. Long answer is making them do a realistic word problem where there’s extraneous information, multiple math operators, and an explanation of why they used what. Short answer is calculators can’t think critically.

While true - that doesn't mean that local communities/cities still want/need that revenue to operate.

On that we agree. We need to do away with Citizens United, establish ranked-choice voting, end dark money and stop congresspeople from trading specific stocks at the very least.

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You know very little about leases. While you can typically choose to execute the purchase of a lease during or at the end of the lease period, the intent is not to build equity. It’s not a purchase. It’s a long term rental.

For a lease, you pay a combination of the estimated depreciation of the vehicle over the period of the contract + interest + taxes/fees. You will pay minimal regular maintenance. Most leases are short enough to avoid any major maintenance, and leases are notoriously poorly taken care of by owners as they just hand the vehicles back in a few years. And that is generally with very few consequences, short of anything major.

For a purchase, you are paying the entire value of the vehicle + interest + taxes/fees + full preventative maintenance, major maintenance and part replacement, etc.

The value of a lease is nearly entirely dependent on the money factor (interest) and the estimated depreciation curve the leasing entity is currently using. A $25k car that’s expected to lose 40% ($10k) in value over a 39 month lease is going to have a higher lease payment typically than a $30k car that’s expected to lose 30% ($9k) in value over the same period.

Leases are not always worse than purchasing. It really does come down to a vehicle by vehicle basis, and is entirely dependent on what the manufactures offers are currently. It’s the same as the math for rent vs buying a home. Not every vehicle, manufacture, or market is the same or even static.

See the Roomba. I haven't touched a vacuum cleaner in roughly 4 years.

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nice! that way we can have more time to scroll on reddit!

My prior CFO never stopped working in the office because of wife plus 3 kids at home. He was vocal that he wanted people back because it was too quiet.

Even when I left in Nov our conference rooms had a max occupancy of 3, so we still had to have all of our meetings on Teams.

Well edmunds.com is wrong then. Leases are more expensive because you don't earn the same equity, although you may pay a lower monthly bill, the total cost will be higher over the same time period. That's why they lease cars at all.

some people I’ve met have even more ridiculous reason, they desperately want to get out of the house and away from their annoying family, or loneliness if it is a pathetic old fuck. Usually older mid 40s guys. Aged to be in higher position to order this. Last guy spilled me some really nicely wrapped bullshit how it’s important to socialize in person with your colleagues, cause in reality there’s no one willing to tolerate his boomer bullshit

pathetic people

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