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Comment Re:Batteries bad (Score 1) 297

There is literally zero chance this actually happened. Sure perhaps it got stuck, but it didn't cut power because of the batteries overheating when they were out in a cold environment. And what moron goes offroading in deep snow without a buddy and a winch?
Electric trucks won't fix stupid, that's for sure.

Comment Re:All those flames... (Score 5, Insightful) 340

It's hilarious you think that 6 verified Autopilot related deaths in 10 years of data is a lot.
Meanwhile 3700 people are killed by vehicles every day, the vast majority of them due to human error. About 12% or north of 400 deaths/day are caused by a failure in the vehicle itself.

But yeah, we should definitely ban Tesla for being dangerous. Real sound logic there.

Comment Re:Would you by an non-electric car in 2028? (Score 3) 246

Bingo. There will be some use cases for quite some time that rely on gas, but most of the automotive market will shift much faster than people expect that haven't driven an EV yet and don't understand how good they are.
It's not about environmentalism, it's simply a better product. The environmental benefits are a nice side benefit.

Comment Re:Warren Buffett is completely right (Score 1) 217

Not quite the same.

I can choose to have faith in the USD or I can choose not to, but no matter what I need USD to pay my taxes and exist in society. I can't just decide to switch to having faith in another currency and use that.

With Bitcoin I can have faith in it or not, and if not I can choose to have faith in LiteCoin or JunkCoin or DogeCoin or ThelaskoCoin which you create tomorrow. There is endless alternatives that are equally as good, as long as sufficient number of people have faith in them to make them exchangeable.

Comment Re:He's refreshingly clear-eyed on this (Score 1) 217

Sure you can clone systems, yet, there is only one facebook.

Facebook has real value though. You can't just clone facebook tomorrow, it would take millions of dollars of development time to recreate all the features of facebook. To create an exact clone of Bitcoin would take an afternoon. In fact there are already thousands of Bitcoin clones that are functionally identical.

So that leaves the fact that more people use Bitcoin. But that's no different than saying that Bitcoin is purely speculative. It's valuable because a bunch of people decided to buy it. Tomorrow those people may change their minds and decide that LiteCoin is where it's at, and there is no underlying value to Bitcoin. Network effect in Bitcoin (it's exchangable in a lot of places, and has sufficient volume to make it liquid) is far less powerful than network effects in Facebook which has incredible volumes of data on users and advertisers which represents a large moat for any competitors.

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