* Since the beginning of 2024, not "for".

Since Q3 2020, regulatory credits totaled 22.7% of Tesla's cumulative profits. $9.6B of $52.4B.

For 2024, the credits were 43.3% of profits. ~ $3.8B of $8.7B.

Has anyone here done serious investigation into the reliability of the models and research indicating that human activity is causing climate change? I keep hearing that anyone who publishes research contrary to the dominant narrative becomes effectively unemployable. Is there evidence that the research is unbiased?

RIP VMware.

Reddit has had 3 major stages:

1: Hidden gem, imperfect, mostly unprofitable, driven by people who care
2: Liberal rabbit-hole, still unprofitable, but much better at censorship
3: Corporate, liberal rabbit-hole. Most interesting people left long ago.

1. MEMS clocks with microsecond-per-day accuracy are commercially available and they're getting better.
2. 1 ns drift = 30 cm position accuracy.
3. You still need signals from known positions to triangulate your location.

So while jamming GPS is trivial, the alternative is using other sat networks or building terrestrial radio beacons. Variations on the same problem. Just having accurate, portable clocks does not help.

This article boils down to: UK is working on portable atomic clocks, just like everyone else.

CA dept of insurance regulates this. It sets prices, practices and coverage requirements. It's not really a free market, so the limitations make it impossible to offer insurances that would otherwise be available.

The first approximation of a fix should be to abolish the department, but a better solution might be to create something like a set of standards for coverage verbiage to make it possible to commoditize offerings and make products comparable. All other limitations should probably be removed. A free market gives people the chance to actually discover the cost of insurance and find innovative ways to keep themselves safe. Unfortunately, in the name of protecting people, we severely limit the options that are available and add a lot of overhead costs in regulation. Companies pulling out and state-backed insurances are telltales of broken markets and wasted resources.

Same story in Florida.

Hopefully this will officially expose the big lie and land a blow against the climate cult. Even if climate change were dire, this would be the least practical course of action.

This place has become a ghetto.

RTX/Raytheon are feckless leeches.

SpaceX could probably design, build, launch and go live on a new GPS system in less time than it would take these buffoons to synchronize their wrist watches. Wouldn't be surprised if they did it for 10% of the cost.

If you track a large number of people long enough and get a lot of data, you can find the signal in the noise. "Proving" it is nice to have but unneccesary. Most likely Google and/or Apple could do this already using shopping and purchase data for people who wear smart watches and use fitness tracking apps.

So, the toughest, meanest action hero humanity can muster to save itself is J Lo?

Pass.

She's great, but if humanity's ass was really on the line, I'm looking for Jack Reacher or Iron Man to save us, not The Wedding Planner.

It won't be that long until you can effectively analyze every neuron of a person's brain. 15-20 years at most.

If they make art, will they have to pay a fee for every part of it that is inspired by copyrighted works they've seen or experienced?

1. Everyone and everything is indoors. The outside world is literally desert.
2. Government controls your access to adjacent neighborhoods and can divide the "city" into zones arbitrarily cutting off all traffic with a single barrier (that will probably be automated).
3. It's trivial to monitor the entire thing centrally.
4. Your infrastructure cost is now approximately 2x because you're laid out in a line instead of a grid. Wire, plumbing and transport runs between any two random points in the city are now much higher.
5. Wherever the "center" of some activity is, let's say a concert or a Mosque, will now become a hotspot that has A LOT more traffic pressure because everyone will be forming long lines to get there and get out. The longer you make this stupid thing, the more you cause problems for yourself or make different "sections" of the city start to naturally form their own villages and towns, except they will all be of limited size and inefficient.
6. You could dramatically increase efficiency by changing this stupid thing to a ring and increase it again by changing it to a dome, but then it's no longer an easily controllable prison.

No?

Yes. 95% of the time it works every time.