Elon Musk

well, s/admitted/was proven to have, but nevertheless

https://nypost.com/2012/04/01/how-crazy-days-and-nights-fooled-hollywood/

he had some good stories too tho before ~the msm~

ELon once ate with Max Tegmark, that crazy Swede! that must have been one funky night

a have a friend that listened to the whole interview and is now bemoaning that the "so-called news" is only talking about him smoking a blunt and not all his musings on robotics and AI and giant tunnels and all the other things he is constantly and publicly talking about

he's not exactly a modern day tesla more like the Bill Gates of electric cars

he's clive sinclair without the common decency to even produce a zx spectrum

elon musk test drives the new tesla c5

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-KzxRgmmC1ks%2FTlOiFMLp06I%2FAAAAAAAAB14%2F6NPuVPUbRkw%2Fs1600%2Fsovibrant%2Bsinclair%2Bc5_2.jpg&f=1

and clive sinlcair was man enough to embrace his baldness

shakey is there a thread where we talk about this?

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/8/31/17799094/california-100-percent-clean-energy-target-brown-de-leon

(also i want de leon to run for LA mayor when he loses to feinstein)

The Energy Thread

probably best one

sometimes I wonder if the electricity used to power electric cars is dirty anyway what is the clean ness there

https://www.quora.com/What-is-more-efficient-a-power-plant-providing-electricity-for-electric-cars-or-gasoline-powered-cars

a have a friend that listened to the whole interview and is now bemoaning that the "so-called news" is only talking about him smoking a blunt and not all his musings on robotics and AI and giant tunnels and all the other things he is constantly and publicly talking about

― frogbs, Tuesday, September 11, 2018 2:08 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The first 100+ comments on the YouTube video itself are basically this. He's not a total idiot, but fuck he's got so many red flags and a clear propensity for childish distractions. What he said about AI and robotics was nothing new.

I don't understand how people accept that the technology necessary to simulate their human experience many times over is a given or that it would only not happen if the world abruptly ended in the near future.

step 1 of his simulation theory fun -- imagine any rate of improvement in computing power, gaming, etc., already seems so naive. why would you assume this shit won't roll off? but maybe I'm missing something.

and he describes the neuralink stuff as solving a bandwidth issue at the link between your mind's queries and the internet. but it seems like the speed at which my dumb brain can generate these queries will remain as a serious bottleneck? neuralink will disrupt mavis beacon typing instruction software!

he's not exactly a modern day tesla more like the Bill Gates of electric cars

― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, September 11, 2018 2:12 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bill gates was a business genius, musk seems like more of a startup guy + good at media

gates obvs more technical than musk too

'gates' also a more technical term than 'musk'

otm

BREAKING: Tesla's VP of Worldwide Finance, Justin McAnear, is leaving the company https://t.co/TGNPdho6Ha pic.twitter.com/jXw7oyHUYb

— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) September 12, 2018

Tesla's biggest institutional investor says Elon Musk needs psychological helphttps://t.co/lMV9gmgjhL

— Adam Pasick (@Adampasick) September 12, 2018

http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/cosmostheinlost/files/2016/02/14758364689_bec87da428_k-1.jpg

things are going great!!!!

I would have Musk pegged as a Timbuk 3 fan, their hit does seem to represent his outlook on the world

https://i.redd.it/hjo6ykhn0tl11.jpg

does this mean what I think it does

Wait, so Teslas are usually being ... throttled?

ha, exactly

its like that thing they do with video games now where all the content is on the disc but you have to pay an extra $15 to unlock some of it

'throttling' applies to changing or limiting a rate and not to changing or limiting capacity

tesla: the ea of car manufacturers

I don't know. there could be warrantied maintenance implications tied to the amount you're allowed to discharge the battery.

xp fitting tbh. he said in the Rogan interview that they've just installed an Atari emulator in the latest Tesla. god this guy is so LAME

xp that's a good point, they could just be suspending the warranty for charge/discharge greater than the maximum in the specs

"warranty penalty", sorry

another thing: 'throttling' was really only an issue in that it would favor large internet businesses over the smaller guys with less money. There's always been throttling of internet speeds for the customer based on what that customer would pay.

GET OFF THE GANJA ELON!!YOU WRECKIN YOR MIND

just gonna FP your garbage posts from now on, knock it off

what is FP

and I also don't see a problem with charging someone to unlock content that's already on the disc. The game company had to invest some resources to make the non-essential content, and they need to figure out a way to make money on that investment. Otherwise there'd just be less content. You can argue that greed makes them lock more content than they should, but the very idea of not having access to all of the content on a blu-ray you purchased isn't so outrageous. Obviously, it'd be outrageous if you had to buy the additional content to make your original base purchase worthwhile at all. But usually the consumer outrage is based on just wanting everything.

Oh "flag post" - jeez osrry dude! didn't realize you were taking offinese here :(

'throttling' applies to changing or limiting a rate and not to changing or limiting capacity

― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:41 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes but "free supercharging" -- does this also mean they throttle the speed of electricity transfer? what is this insane world

supercharging is just what happens when you charge at one of those tesla-specific charging stations instead of via a normal outlet. It is faster, but it's faster because the charging hardware is different.

so I think they're just saying you get free electricity at their charging stations, which are always faster charging than an outlet

so it's like that other kind of dlc where you pay $5 for the cheat codes

no, it's not. it's a real hardware difference.

but you pay for it, right? and it lets you access a better power-up than you would have if you did not pay?

it's not a power up. the car needs electrical energy to run. you need to pull that energy out of the grid somehow. and there are real limitations to what you can conceivably do at most homes. Tesla has "supercharging" stations in public places where you can pay to charge with the larger, more expensive hardware that is required without needing to buy, permit, and install your own.

What about the additional battery capacity component?

I don't know. there could be warrantied maintenance implications tied to the amount you're allowed to discharge the battery.

― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:44 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp that's a good point, they could just be suspending the warranty for charge/discharge greater than the maximum in the specs

― sleeve, Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:50 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"warranty penalty", sorry

― sleeve, Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:50 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know for sure, but it isn't a given that it's based entirely in arbitrary greed.

they might have qual and/or failure analysis data that suggests allowing X deeper discharge will cost them Y in warranty repairs. So they could just be covering the calculated cost of this. ant this is also probably about marketing on some level. some other big player could have similar batteries, but claim better engineering based on that one spec (while taking the higher failure rate hit). By having a higher the option at a higher cost, they can win or compete in spec battles while also discouraging widespread adoption of something that will cause more failures and ultimately be a bit more wasteful.