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Comment Re:Not buying his hype anymore (Score 1) 153

According to Tesla you shouldn’t or can’t use any of the self driving features in inclement weather because it cannot identify ice or surface traction conditions and snow obstructs the sensors, fouling them quickly. They say it’s on the user to continuously monitor conditions and adjust them, which is by definition not full self driving. It does this to all cars and all sensors, even my auto follow cruise control gives warnings in all my vehicles when it is slushy/snowy.

Comment Re:Not buying his hype anymore (Score 1) 153

No we haven't had FSD on the road "for some time now" .. as a percentage of cars on the road FSD is a very minuscule amount. Less than 1 percent of total cars on the road in America have paid for FSD -- and of those only a certain percentage even have it enabled (the early versions from a few years ago drove overly cautious and people just disabled it and haven't yet enabled it even though it's paid for), so you wouldn't easily see the impact on traffic deaths.

More than that, it’s only used in the safest conditions. Around here you can’t read the lines on the road, sometimes for months, because they are covered in snow. Try to use any of the “self driving” technologies and the car will refuse or worse. If you want to compare numbers with human vs computer drivers, then the same conditions should be used. Sunny day freeway miles to sunny day freeway miles. It’s not clear at all they are safer than average humans, including drunk texting teens. Pitted against actual capable attentive humans and it’s clear we are no where near supremacy and won’t be for decades at least.

Comment Re:Plex is funny! (Score 1) 60

that's what's so weird about this they're going after them because it could potentially be used for piracy, and that's something I've never considered, but it's actually a good way to save money, to be honest.

They didn’t consider it either, there are any number of sites to get pirated content. However, plex is a legal way to save money and share with family and friends both of which corporations are trying to get rid of.

Comment Re: Welding helmets (Score 1) 90

I’ve found the image is pretty good quality, but the thickness means you see internal reflections of any really bright point light source. Still, I’d rather view through welding glass than film but for photography a thin filter is probably better.

Comment Re:Do you care? (Score 1) 90

Don't use glasses, use the simplest camera obscura - a piece of black paper with a pinhole in it. Project the image on a sheet of white paper. Enjoy.

If you want more, you know where to go, to the surplus shed :)

If you want more, just do what Dr.Becky on YT recommended, hold up a colander and look at the shadow. If things get too intense you can use it as a hat to block the mind control rays.

Comment Re:Welding helmets (Score 1) 90

Welding helmets work, but only if they are at least Shade 12 or darker.

Or if you don't trust ready-made glasses, just grab a bit of mylar (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Baader-... ) and make your own.

I just bought some shade 13 welding glass plate inserts for helmets. Cost me about $8 each. They work just fine without a helmet, we made cardboard glasses from them for fun with the kids and they can also just be attached/held to a smartphone for easy photography/videos.

Comment Re:Is anyone else waiting (Score 1) 57

Depends greatly what you hold and when. Unsurprised a vax maker would be volatile during covid. You posted it was common. I submit it is not common. You can find volatility if you want, but the majority of stocks trade on actual earnings, and those don't change day to day. Meme stocks on the other hand, like the latest crazy, djt. You can find them, they are in the news. Most stocks are boring on purpose and don't scream look at me.

Are we in Covid now? Because the 5%+ drop was in todays trading.

I would argue the majority of stocks don’t trade on actual earnings any more than that’s what gives a fair amount of people confidence to buy. The reality is all stocks are manipulated by the larger players to the greatest extent possible to get the most money possible from the market, hence the adage the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Comment Re:Is anyone else waiting (Score 1) 57

I hold individual stocks. A 5% change in a day is big, at least with most companies. I just looked, I've got one at .4% down, one at .05% down, one 1.2%up, one at 1.5% up, one unchanged... You get the idea. On a day with an event, say take INTC which I don't hold, it is down 7% due to some very very bad news. I've held INTC in the past though, and a typical day at Intel is less than 1% change.

It’s not that unusual at all. I used to hold MRNA, got in at 130, sold up to @400 and got out my remainder at 130 again. It just dropped 5% today. News that interest rates are changing is quite a time honored cause of stocks changing value quickly.

Comment Re:Is anyone else waiting (Score 1) 57

Difficult to do when a relatively small number of whales are holding onto a significant portion of the available coins and they aren't selling.

Eventually one of them will blink and the price of the tulips will crash again.

Crypto will continue to be a domain that exists mostly to enable criminal activity and a novelty for most other people.

Good luck with that.

At this point a 5% drop in a day makes it a stablecoin. Go look at the stock market, individual stocks bounce like that all the time. I seem to remember a bit over a year ago it peaked at the same price it’s at today. If bitcoin does anything really reliable it’s peak and crash with a period of about 1-2 years. Anyone who bought in at 60 back then near the peak and was called a fool could have sold at 70 just a few days ago and made a reasonable rate of return. If I had to bet I’d say we are either peaked, or close to it and it will hit 80k sometime before the end of 2026. If it’s manipulated they can only maximize gain, not price differently to individuals so by not following the crowd and embracing you missed out and waiting till a trough to gamble they have little they can do if you hold.

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