I don't think they thought it would work. Companies have been firing people because we are in a recession for some time now.

Sometimes they fire too many and they end up having to hire some of them back. But they always use AI as the excuse for firing them in order to prevent investors from discussing the deep deep recession we are actually in.

Remember the only thing making the GDP look positive is that the Epstein class is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI bullshit that doesn't create any jobs.

I'd say we passed that bar at Dr. Sbaitso.

This is complete BS from start to finish.

A level 2 NACS charger will cost around $250-500 plus installation. If you already have a standard 220V dryer port in your garage you don't need to install anything. If you need an electrician, the costs are likely to be around $100 unless there's genuinely no 220V supply within range of your garage in which case you might be looking at $500.

Trickle charging can take the car from 20 to 80% charged if done for 20 hours. Not ideal, but given the car has a range of 200 miles, and most people don't drive for more than 50 miles a day, you're more looking at charging constantly from 55% to 80% each day, essentially more than covered by an overnight charge. So for most people, trickle charging is fine. And what the hell are you talking about "spend an extra 15 minutes sitting in the grocery store parking lot"? Why would anyone need to do that? Do you think electric cars that are short on power somehow work better if left idle for 15 minutes?

For 99% of people the specs are fine even with trickle charging. Less than 50 miles a day is more than covered, and the occasional trip that takes longer will be covered by fast chargers en-route.

It's obviously protectionism, because we're fine with inexpensive Chinese EVs so long as they happen to look like this.

Anecdotally, I've actually noticed an uptick in people riding e-scooters. I guess that's what you get when the least expensive new car in the US starts at over $20k.

Looking at Polestar's sales numbers, I don't think Tesla really had anything to worry about. It's mostly BYD (who has been eating Tesla's lunch in the rest of the world) that Tesla fears, and Polestar likely just became a casualty of the protectionism designed to keep BYD out.

Except that they're positioned as luxury vehicles and those kind of features are expected at those price points. The Polestar 3's MSRP is $68,900 and the Polestar 4 is $57,800. This isn't a BYD Seagull.

Sigh. Ontogeny is NOT evolution. It is not the same thing as having a low MHC diversity due to a genetic bottleneck as well as lacking tens of thousands of years of evolution to a pathogen. Not the same at all. It's silly to even suggest that. Epigenetic shifts in an individual do not create new HLA genes.

Consider COVID. Novel bat coronavirus, nobody had preexisting immunity. Did everybody die? No. Because we had high HLA/MHC diversity, making it easier to target SARS-COV-2 epitopes. Native Americans lacked this diversity. It left them ill prepared for novel pathogens.

Also, you seem to believe that any disease you've never encountered before is fundamentally dangerous to an adult. That's simply not the case. Rhinovirus is intrinsically mild. It's an upper respiratory infection; it's not adapted to lower respiratory or systemic infection. It's not ebola. It's not going to become like ebola just because you've never caught it before. If a rhinovirus strain was reintroduced after 200 years after having been eradicated, we'd all get a cold, but by and large, we'd be fine.

And what would happen if Yamagata reappeared? We'd just add it back to our flu vaccines. Furthermore, the reintroduction of Yamagata wouldn't be catastrophic without that. You do not have to catch every Influenza B lineage at all, let alone every year. If you had been infected with B/Victoria and you were exposed to B/Yamagata, you'd have little sterilizing immunity against it - you'd very likely catch it. But your past exposure to B/Victoria is still greatly protective against hospitalization and death; B and T immunity against NA and the HA stem and stalk are conserved.

And this is about whether or not to catch every lineage. Well guess what, even with air filtration, that's still going to happen. Air filtration only has a meaningful impact for people at a distance, not people close together. It's about protecting the person across the room, not the person you're standing 50 centimetres away from. What it does change is how often you catch them. And if lineages or whole viruses go extinct, that's great. Worrying about some sort of reintroduction 200 years later is just inventing your own unrealistic misery when we have actual pandemic threats to worry about.

My voltage doesn't vary much at all no matter how much power I'm pushing. And, unfortunately, I couldn't set my inverters to derate if I wanted. I'm fighting with the installer over access to configure/manager my inverters. They offer quite a good repair/service warranty and also a production guarantee, and won't give me control without voiding both of those so I'm debating which I care about most.

(I somehow replied to myself instead of you. What am I, some sort of /. n00b?)

And there won't be unless we motivate research into it.

Indeed! This is an ideal use for overprovisioned capacity.

Wow. I generate way more than I use in the summer, but my (also rural) grid connection can absolutely take it just fine. I have 200A service with a 150A breaker (so, about 37 kW), but my generation peaks at about 20 kW. My bigger problem is that if I try to charge my house batteries (20 kW) and my car (12kW) and run my AC (4 kW) and the steam generator (9 kW) and run basic house loads (2 kW) and run my welder (10 kW) that's 57 kW or about 235A. In practice I don't ever do all of those things at the same time (and rarely charge batteries from the grid), so I've never actually tripped the main breaker, but I could do it easily if I tried. I imagine it will happen someday. I could swap the breaker, but the wiring from the main panel isn't big enough to have the proper safety margin at 200A. Running new wiring would be... a big project, likely involving tearing up and replacing a big chunk of my driveway. So, 150A will have to do.

Me neither. I ran the math on doing some BTC mining (I think BTC is a scourge on the planet, but I'm happy to take money) but it didn't pencil out. Free power is great for mining, but the cost of the rigs is high enough that you really need to keep them humming 24x7, and I don't have enough battery capacity for that.

And there won't be unless we motivate research into it.

Indeed! This is an ideal use for overprovisioned capacity.

Wow. I generate way more than I use in the summer, but my (also rural) grid connection can absolutely take it just fine. I have 200A service with a 150A breaker (so, about 37 kW), but my generation peaks at about 20 kW. My bigger problem is that if I try to charge my house batteries (20 kW) and my car (12kW) and run my AC (4 kW) and the steam generator (9 kW) and run basic house loads (2 kW) and run my welder (10 kW) that's 57 kW or about 235A. In practice I don't ever do all of those things at the same time (and rarely charge batteries from the grid), so I've never actually tripped the main breaker, but I could do it easily if I tried. I imagine it will happen someday.

I could swap the breaker, but the wiring from the main panel isn't big enough to have the proper safety margin at 200A. Running new wiring would be... a big project, likely involving tearing up and replacing a big chunk of my driveway. So, 150A will have to do.

Me neither. I ran the math on doing some BTC mining (I think BTC is a scourge on the planet, but I'm happy to take money) but it didn't pencil out. Free power is great for mining, but the cost of the rigs is high enough that you really need to keep them humming 24x7, and I don't have enough battery capacity for that.

No problem here. Nothing about cookies or anything else. The problem must be on your end.

They know nobody new is going to compete because we aren't enforcing antitrust law.

Like it or not, is you want cheap RAM vote Democrat (or whatever your local equivalent is)

Because mark my words in 10 years we'll find out they were all colluding. Just like the flat panel guys were

Except for those pesky times when motorists become distracted or impatient and ignore the traffic signals, but we know that never happens.

Many homes have 30A 240v clothes dryer circuits that can be repurposed for EV charging with a smart splitter or by upgrading to a heat pump clothes dryer that plugs into a standard 120v outlet. That'd provide enough capacity to recharge the Slate from completely flat (which you really shouldn't be doing regularly in an EV anyway) in about 12 hours.

It's conspiring because those loopholes exist on the behest of the manufacturers to begin with. They didn't 'react' to the legislation, they helped in crafting it.

It's not even a 'take' - it's literally what happened. It's reality.
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