eltrain123 @ eltrain123 @lemmy.world

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So… where is the complicated part?

Guy has a 192million dollar package, gets a million and change up front, almost 100mil when they go public and pump the stock up to 25 bucks. If they can inflate it hard enough to spike at ipo, he gets the rest of the 192mil. Once it crashes, the little guys are left holding the bag while Spez walks away with all of their money.

This is why they are trying to create an atmosphere of exclusion and by selling stock internally at tiers based on user engagement until they go public.

No one is too dumb to understand that. That’s why people are declining the option to buy pre-ipo. spez has been making shit decisions and preying off user/mod labor since the inception of the company. This is where they finally try to slit the golden goose’s throat… problem is, they forgot to fatten the goose first.

This was testing by an independent group that generated their own metrics which were heavily slanted toward driver monitoring rather than automated driving.

It also used out of date Tesla firmware. The specific test in figure 3b of the article used to ‘trick’ a Tesla hasn’t worked for months. The car warns you that using a ‘defeat device’ will result in being unable to use the self-driving feature for the remainder of your drive and will eventually lose you the access to the beta program for FSD.

FSD still is a way to go before it gets released out of beta.

To add a bit more to the national security angle: with the potential to escalate into open warfare with China, due to tensions between Taiwan and China, we really don’t want millions of drivable computers sending harvested metadata about our road systems and behavior patterns directly to enemy leadership.

I’ve had mine for 4 years. A few months back I started traveling with it. I average about 230-250 miles per charge for around 15-18$. That’s a charge every 3.5 hours or so. Sometimes, you can find hotels that let you charge for free overnight, too.

If you have an Asian, Mexican, or Indian market where you live, you can usually find spices in bigger packs for lower prices.

“Now” available on iOS in Aug 2024…

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Unfortunately for you, no one gives a shit about your opinion. The courts’ opinions are the only ones that matter.

Anyone that committed crimes on Jan 6th deserves what they get. The people behind planning the coup prior to Jan6th will get their day in court and, hopefully, justice will be served for them, too.

That’d be great if other people using plastic bags didn’t end up with them in my parks, streets, and waterways…

I loved being able to control the dimmer level or color of the lights using voices controls.

I set up a few IFTTT recipes to create lighting and music scenes for things like reading, conversation, movie watching, date night, party time, and a few others and triggered them with a voice command.

It was always a hit with whoever I brought over, but mostly it just did 4 or 5 things with one voice command.

Or taxing the shit out of plastic production…

Tax the things you don’t want out of existence. Subsidize the things you want until they stand up on their own.

We’ve been subsidizing oil and gas/petrochem plastic manufacturing for far too long.

That’s the case in the US, too. The car automatically shuts off autopilot after 3 warnings of not keeping your hands on the steering wheel. It produces a loud audible alert after a few seconds if it senses the driver isn’t keeping their hands on the wheel. After the 3rd time, it continues the audible alert until the driver takes back control.

There are also several warnings about keeping your hands on the wheel and staying alert when engaging autopilot.

The people saying otherwise are either ignorant or disingenuous.

You do recognize that secession won’t be a simple process where they can just leave and we keep going about our business as usual, right?

Texas has a huge effect on the national economy. A ton of commerce, energy production,manufacturing, and transport all goes through the Houston ship channel, Mexican points of entry, and across the state through I-10 and I-35.

Secession would mean almost immediate war between the US and Texas, which would cause not only significant loss of life but instability and inflation to a large number of both sides’ civilian population.

The “let them go” arguement is short sighted and unrealistic. It’s just not going to happen.

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You don’t get to claim part of the equity just for living with someone and paying part of their mortgage. You would have to set up a joint venture or other business structure, otherwise you would just pay rent to the owner/ roommate like they were your landlord.

And even if the partnership was legally set up where you got a percentage for paying rent on a room in a house, unless you retroactively paid part of their downpayment, it would be an insignificant percent the home’s value..probably to the tune of 1/360th of the home’s value, minus the downpayment, minus the growth in value for however many years they have been paying on the loan, and your share would essentially be less than half of your rent going to the value of the investment due to taxes and insurance.

Most of what you are paying for on a home is taxes and insurance. My mortgage is about 65% taxes and insurance. If I were to rent my home, should I pay all of the taxes and insurance that occur in real time so the tenant has a less expensive place to live or pass that on to the renter as a cost of living in the residence?

I’m not a landlord because I ran the numbers and this just barely profitable in a best case scenario where you had nothing but great tenants, no downtime between renters, and no major house repairs, but there is a huge amount of risk with letting stranger occupy your most valuable asset. The expectation that a home owner should offer a discount on the actual cost of the home because they get to sell the house and recoup the asset value is not realistic. When you consider the amount of damage, additional maintenance, turnover costs, downtime between renters, and a whole mess of other things that cost additional money that come with renting to tenants, it is understandable why it’s hard to find cheap rent.

It sucks that this is how the system is, but housing prices have to come down and wages have to come up before this problem gets fixed, and the landlord isn’t the demon you think he is. Corporate firms buying up hundreds of houses to manipulate prices up on the other hand…