DilettanteQuant

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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
Our countries weren't conquered by foreign powers who set up occupation governments with blasphemy laws against the ruling classes. Please leave your German brainwashing on these topics at home.
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
I feel stupid even responding to this. I'll take your comment on the assumption of good faith. If the vehicles can generate revenue people will buy them looking to make money for themselves. Tesla makes money on the sale and the recurr
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
The only Western automaker that can produce electric cars without losing massive amounts of money. Only Western automaker that produces EVs at scale. By far the leader in terms of technology and efficiency in the industry. Best range/d
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
This is a major problem on the scale of carbon induced global warming, deforestation, and other types of environmental pollution? Isn't the solution, presumably some new type of tire, likely to be applicable to all vehicle types? gas e
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
Why does it matter? He's not particularly more narcissistic than any other CEO. Steve Jobs? I'm generally not concerned about the specific personality type of the CEO or any other employee at a company when I buy a product. Tesla
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
The point is just because there are times of day where it's more difficult to hail a taxi, doesn't mean taxis are an unviable business practice. It's likely most of these p2p vehicles will be owned by people who use them excl
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
what does it matter if that ends up being the case with the transportation p2p networks too? You are imagining one way for this to work and then claiming it wont make good business sense, when that is clearly not the only option.
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
People literally do this, it's called Airbnb. I don't understand, this is supposed to be a tech news site and you guys are acting like you haven't heard of any of these massively successful peer 2 peer companies. It seems tha
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
1. Yes some cities allow self driving cars and others don't. It's widely believed that as the technology proves itself, the patchwork regulation will be replaced with a national regulation. 2.Not true in the U.S. No special regist
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
Many people in the comments claiming to be liberals who wont buy from Tesla due to Elon. What exactly do you dislike about him, and why is punishing Elon by boycotting Tesla worth slowing the transition to sustainable transportation?
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
Related, but slightly off topic. Does anyone know any good books on persuasion and charm? Maybe something with some empirical verification.
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
I looked up the definition, and I'm still a bit confused. I'm familiar with word in the context of traversing system states, specifically graph traversal. The term "ergodic literature" doesn't seem to relate to the
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by DilettanteQuant 2y ago
Interesting use of ergodic. What is ergodic literature?
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by DilettanteQuant 3y ago
On what basis do you make this claim? On google scholar I can find 100s of studies pointing to negative impacts which have biological basis. https://assets.cureus.com/uploads/review_article/pdf/131357/...