He did not make a statement about quality, he made a statement about perception. It may be changing now, but as recent as 2022, owning a Tesla was a status symbol in China.

Because it costs trillions of dollars to retrofit a city?

Source? Billions at worst. Like I said, this is a solved problem, and places like Amsterdam have solved this for way less than "Trillions".

How much more inefficient is it? Because on my budget smartphone I can easily last two days with heavy use. So now I will only get 1.5 days?

If you play a long AV1 wide with CPU only decoding you are more than likely to get only two HOURS instead of days.

Vastly less useful than Teslas also driverless miles driven in MANY other states and conditions than Waymo drives in.

Tesla has a far broader range of conditions to train with.

How exactly has a non-profit helped women get jobs in tech fields?

Just recently I ran into a woman having trouble finding coding work despite a solid background and resume, some people had suggested to her she try Women Who Code to get some connections that could help her find some job opportunities.

I had contributed to them in the past as they also held women only coding camps for teenagers, that is I think the key way you actually get more women into coding as opposed to simply juggling the few professional woman coders in a sightly different mix across existing companies.

I had kind of lost track of them though and hadn't contributed for a few years, I think the coding camps were shut down... maybe the organization just lost track of the core mission.

Lots of the Netherlands sits below sea level.

So why should we be concerned even slightly about cities subsiding when we already can easily deal with places that exist many meters below sea level?

I figured they skimped on both when providing the ones that come with the printer. Is that not the case?

Dangit! I thought this stuff was struck down by the courts! I didn't realize any of the major manufacturers were still doing this. grrrrrrrrr.....

So how about we develop those things instead of developing a proprietary competitor?

LOL, that was a rare deal and I'm impressed that worked out for you. I've seen people throw out inkjet printers and just buy new ones every time instead of buying ink cartridges, only to find that the cartridge that came with the unit lasted for about 50 pages. This is a lose-lose situation since the printers are loss-leaders: the manufacturer sold the printer at a loss hoping to make money back on cartridge sales, so they lost money. The customer wasted money because buying the printer didn't actually get them as much ink as they wanted.

I had a 4L. Since then, it has been Epson and Brother. I avoided Lexmark because they tried this same BS a while ago.

I have been seeing this same story repeat in various forms since before the year started with the number two. I don't understand why this keeps coming up. Lexmark tried putting chips in their ink/toner in 2003 and lost that case even up to the supreme court. The Magnuson-Moss warranty act was passed in 1975 and was intended to prevent this kind of shenanigans. Obviously at the time nobody was putting computer chips into vacuum cleaner bags, but it is the same spirit.

This just should not be a discussion any longer! Settled! Done! Kaput! Go away!

Why do you fear that? That's exactly what I want! Everything is already too cloud-connected, and AI is increasing that dependency. We are on course to a world where every application needs full-time internet connectivity. Moving AI out of the cloud rental space and onto the end-user is exactly what we need to prevent that.

What are you talking about with the foreign credentials thing? I am an American who works with a great many immigrants whose degrees are from outside the US: off the top of my head: China, Canada, Ireland, England, Iran, India, Netherlands, and Germany. Mostly India and China.

Based on what evidence? Faith in Musk?

Over one billion miles driven using FSD.

Looking that that graph is should be obvious where it is going, and how soon.

The last I heard about the taxi idea, they mentioned they were considering letting people send out their cars as taxis when not in use, and thus owning a Tesla could actually make you money.

That does depend on true self driving to work but it seems like they are pretty close now.