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February 14, 2013, 08:03:25 PM |
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Wow, they ripped him hard. Sounds like he deserved it. NYT had an agenda, perhaps?
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February 14, 2013, 08:11:08 PM |
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Heh. NYT is supposed to be one of those reliable sources of news. Except that stopped happening about 15 years ago in the name of more profits.
In this case it's just the reporters personal bias and trying to drum up pageviews, which is why I linked to Tesla's blog post and not the NYT piece.
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February 14, 2013, 08:27:44 PM |
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Heh. NYT is supposed to be one of those reliable sources of news. Except that stopped happening about 15 years ago in the name of more profits.
This. If people just could stop thinking profit, and think about doing something properly as the primarily motivation...
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February 14, 2013, 09:13:37 PM |
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I will never again hold anything quoted from the NYT with any regard whatsoever, "isolated incident" or not.
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February 15, 2013, 08:44:18 AM Last edit: February 15, 2013, 03:04:18 PM by bitcool |
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Looking forward to the day buying Tesla with my bitcoin
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February 15, 2013, 09:12:43 AM |
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February 15, 2013, 02:32:22 PM |
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I don't have any special love for subsidized crony industries such as electric cars or for Tesla and Mr. Musk...
...but I must admit I very much enjoy the NYT and the lapdog crony newsmedia getting a black eye and having their reputation lowered still further in the eyes of the public.
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February 15, 2013, 04:51:52 PM |
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I don't have any special love for subsidized crony industries such as electric cars or for Tesla and Mr. Musk...
certain other "crony industries" are "subsidized" a lot more.
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February 15, 2013, 10:08:00 PM |
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I don't have any special love for subsidized crony industries such as electric cars or for Tesla and Mr. Musk...
certain other "crony industries" are "subsidized" a lot more. Then those subsidies should be done away as well. Products should compete for customers on their own merits, and with prices that reflect their real cost of manufacture. Privileges awarded by politicians to their donors and friends should not be tolerated in a just and fair society.
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February 16, 2013, 01:35:01 AM |
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Then those subsidies should be done away as well. Products should compete for customers on their own merits, and with prices that reflect their real cost of manufacture. Privileges awarded by politicians to their donors and friends should not be tolerated in a just and fair society.
Generally I am not a big fan of government subsidies, but the world is not black-and-white. SHA256 was created and published by US government ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2), thus to a degree bitcoin was subsidized too
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February 16, 2013, 10:44:44 AM |
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thus to a degree bitcoin was subsidized too SCANDAL !!1!
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February 17, 2013, 06:30:29 PM |
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The problem is that the both NYT and Top Gear basically lied when pointing out the problems, both making the problems happen when they would not have otherwise. Top Gear rightfully lost in court because they had a script for the car to fail, and did things to make that happen. The NYT article was pretty close as well. Tesla has actually made a electric cars that are usable. They do not do everything a gas car can do, but they have 2x the range of most competing electric cars. Of course Elon Musk the owner of Tesla is also the owner of SpaceX and has done equally (if not more) exciting things in the space industry.
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February 17, 2013, 06:50:39 PM |
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Looking forward to the day buying Tesla with my bitcoin
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February 17, 2013, 07:29:13 PM |
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I have nothing against Tesla, but Musk's handling of the situation was a disaster.
He accused NYT of lies, but lied himself:
a) Downtown Manhattan is nowhere around Lincoln tunnel. b) If he was ever at Milford service area then he would know that a circle around service area is easy over 0.5 mile and easy to miss poorly marked Tesla charging station. c) The car was out of juice as proven by the towing company d) The charts shows a significant drop of charge overnight.
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February 17, 2013, 09:48:39 PM |
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I don't have any special love for subsidized crony industries such as electric cars or for Tesla and Mr. Musk...
certain other "crony industries" are "subsidized" a lot more. 2010: Electric cars: $4 billion USD Oil: $35 billion USD Electric cars "allowed to compete" my foot. I dislike subsidies, but there's no reason to dislike an industry with a subsidy, especially when the competing industries are subsidized even more! If you truly dislike subsidies, surely you would attack the regular cars?
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February 17, 2013, 11:24:24 PM |
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Oh c'mon investing in research is never bad.
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February 18, 2013, 02:58:14 PM |
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The implication is that Tesla Motors only does this for media test drives, but it gives you an idea of the sort of things that will be collected once automobile black boxes become the norm. We're used to airplane black boxes, which only collected a small amount of data from the minutes just before an incident. But that was back when data was expensive. Now that it's cheap, expect black boxes to collect everything all the time. And once it's collected, it'll be used. By auto manufacturers, by insurance companies, by car rental companies, by marketers. The list will be long. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/02/automobile_data.html
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