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This is exactly what I’m talking about what I say I fucking hate capitalism.

Apple already make more money than just about anyone else in the world, but because shareholders expect infinite unending YoY growth they’re not allowed to just keep making billions of dollars. Every year senior management have to find new ways of bilking more cash than the year before, otherwise they’ll get replaced by someone who will.

Every now and then I get reminders like this that most people don’t pay that much attention to the news

Yeah this is kind of conflicting feelings for me because definitely fuck both megacorps and ICE, but on the other hand I don’t know any other countries where it’s common practice for individuals hang around hardware stores for work.

The author of the piece would have been better served leaving out the attempts to portray drinking Diet Coke as bad or weird behaviour. Lots of people drink Diet Coke without forming fascist governments. Mentioning it multiple times in one article makes it sound like you’re desperately reaching, which isn’t necessary.

It’s not even about profit any more, Elon’s ego just won’t let him admit that he was wrong about a camera-only system, when the entire rest of the industry is using LIDAR. Genius businessman doesn’t understand the concept of sunk cost.

Post is in the correct sub and yet everyone in the comments is taking it entirely at face value. Are you all new, or are you just playing along?

Basically yes. You can't usefully put a car into one of "crashes" or "doesn't crash" categories the way you can with e.g. what colour an M&M is, or whether Drug X did or didn't lower blood pressure in a patient, so miles travelled is a reasonable metric.

It's possible you might be getting hung up on notions of sample size having to be above a particular fixed number and therefore miles sounding like a cheat, but actually there never has been a universal "correct" minimum sample size; it all depends on the data. A billion of one thing might not be enough, but 4 of another might be plenty.

They gave you all the numbers you need to calculate the sample size for the Robotaxis, and it's safe to assume the sample size for regular cars will be much higher.

Tesla Robotaxis are involved in a crash for every 40,000 miles they drive. For comparison, the publication reported, cars driven by humans crash about once every 500,000 miles, meaning the Robotaxis so far have crashed 12.5 times more frequently than human-driven cars.

That's not how you measure sample size. There were 8 Tesla crashes. The crash is the outcome, not the sample.

8 Robotaxis crashed, having collectively driven the same distance that human-driven cars average two-thirds of a crash on. That's statistically significant and then some.

If we could only train everyone to loudly hiss whenever they hear GDP or Tax Rate used as a metric to gauge a country's value, a lot of people would be a lot better off.

LibreOffice is as good as Word. Which sadly means there are still no really good document editors out there.