So for you, the lowest price is the only thing that matters? It doesn’t matter whether it’s a shitty product? Or that they’re one of the least efficient shippers due to their tariff avoidance strategy, and in doing so are contributing more per purchase to climate change than even companies like Amazon and Walmart?
You demanding more evidence right now and saying these students’ project “is concerning” is not having a conversation about the validity of their claims, it’s just being petulant. Saying, “I’ll be interested to see the specs” or “I’ll keep an eye out for testing data before I believe this” would convey the same thing without coming off like an asshole
You seem really worked up about these undergrads’ project
I don’t know, it sounds like it slightly redirects only the air at the margins that contacts the blower tube, which reduces turbulence. The noise reduction is due to the decreased turbulence, not a reduction in airflow. If I had to guess, the actual reduction in airflow is probably negligible, and they don’t describe it in more detail because they’re trying to commercialize it
To be fair, that article’s only about one of their education initiatives, and they’ve had many
The Gates Foundation has been working in education for over two decades, and still is
You, too, will be assimilated.
I think you’re mistaken…they refund security deposits, but there is a separate fee that scales with how long you keep the equipment. Maybe go back and check your receipts
I guess it’s easy to be cynical, but no, this is not at all orphancrushingmachine material
Home Depot and Lowe’s charge you out the ass for tool rentals…what are you talking about
Dude, I’ve had my 40V mower for almost 8 years and it’s still kicking. So incredibly easy to use. One of my batteries crapped out after about 6 years, but the other still holds a great charge, and I’ve collected a couple others over the years as I’ve added the trimmer, blower, and chainsaw from the same brand. In retrospect, my life was terrible in the before-times.
That last sentence stuck out to me too, a simple summary of all this mess. The other interesting part was at the end of the article, where they talk about the potential for the NHTSA requiring a recall fix for the “autopilot” feature that would be so expensive as to seriously damage the company:
The scenario there is if the government is really serious about Autopilot, and frankly, I don’t remember the last time NHTSA investigated the efficacy of a recall remedy… he knows that NHTSA is insisting on a hardware fix for Autopilot and FSD," Niedermeyer said, referencing the auto safety regulator’s unusual decision to apply extra scrutiny to Tesla’s 2-million-car safety recall, announced last week.
With 2 million affected cars on the road, any fix that requires hardware—adding back radar, perhaps, or infrared gaze-tracking driver monitoring, wouldn’t be cheap or quick to complete. “If NHTSA demands a level of remedy to problems that can’t simply be done affordably… then it’s a negative margin business with no way out. And that’s a problem you can’t just spend your way out of,” Niedermeyer said.
Bro, they’re talking about the blatantly terrible CG image in the article. Who are you talking to
There’s a lot in East Austin near the Giga factory with hundreds of Cybertrucks that don’t seem to be moving…
Honestly though, the size of that building is obscene. It’s hard to look at it and not think vanity is playing a serious role in top-level decision-making at Tesla.
$2 million over two years is actually a pretty reasonable salary for the founder and CEO of a major company by comparison to other major companies, and is two orders of magnitude less than $200 million. Two orders of magnitude less than $2 million is $20,000, that’s the scale of difference we’re talking about here
I read it when I wrote it, I’m comparing $2M to $200M here, not to minimum wage, and not defending anyone
The reality of his compensation package is a lot more nuanced. The 9 figure number is eye popping, but he’s being paid less than $2 million over 2023-2024, and almost all of the rest is contingent upon a successful IPO and then reaching a set of (incredibly unrealistic) stock valuation benchmarks. Reddit’s stock has to hit something like $45/share for him to see 8 figures and $90/share for him to realize the full amount.
I’m in no way defending this pay package or his shitty behavior, just pointing out that he’s not just getting handed $200 million outright
My few posts were almost exclusively in my local sub and plant identification, I never had a post crack 1000. Almost all my karma came from comments. Since I also got the offer, I’m guessing the bar was set very low
I also left in June, and also got the offer. My karma was in the low 6 figures and I had been on for like 5 or 6 years. Honestly, a low bar
I’m blown away by how many people use apps when they don’t have to. There’s a reason companies are always trying to get you to download their app, and it’s so they can put their software on your phone and harvest more of your data.