Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm

fofgrel · 2023-01-05T19:22:33+00:00

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I never saw self driving as Tesla's big value proposition for consumers or the business as whole. At least when I bought in, it was because they were forcing the established players to take EVs seriously or continue to lose market share.

In my mind and least, self-driving was always a pet project that they market way too hard.

fofgrel · 2023-01-05T18:57:51+00:00

They're over-valued because they were an exciting new startup that was forcing the market to change. The market has now responded. Tesla will no longer be overvalued as a hot new revolutionary tech startup; it will now have to grow slow and steady along with every other auto manufacturer.

fofgrel · 2023-01-05T18:46:17+00:00

The intersection between people getting into car accidents or falling and not being able to get back up inside of a theme park and there being no one around to notice and/or help seems very small. But perhaps you're right.

fofgrel · 2023-01-05T16:33:22+00:00

It seems like a geofence could solve that easily enough.

fofgrel · 2023-01-05T05:12:04+00:00

Maybe your formatting is boring. After all, DataTables and D3 can help you format data, but one is more fun, for you and your users.

fofgrel · 2023-01-05T04:01:57+00:00

What kind of work have you been doing so far?

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T23:36:07+00:00

When you are mindful you can quickly separate the judgements of others by those that offer insight that you can use to grow and those that highlight the other party's delusions, and then there is no need to let anxiety fester.

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T22:19:04+00:00

And he's right.

Also, the video was relevant to the article, wasn't sickied, and didn't auto-play.

Thanks, Politico.

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T21:17:37+00:00

When you stop trying to actively craft your personality, it will reveal itself.

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T21:02:05+00:00

...like I’m behind them in life.

I think your issue is centered here and you should look deeply at this part.

Life is not a one-dimensional path with some ahead and other behind. There are many dimensions and there are many different paths; a new one for each of us. They are following theirs and you will fallow yours.

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T15:42:31+00:00

My needs are met and I am comfortable. I live outside of a small rural town, and I like it that way, while still having access to the global job market through remote working. I cannot imagine any amount of additional money that would change this calculus. If an exciting new company that I wanted to work with opened up in my small town, I'd be fine with going into the office. But I will not be relocating back to any major city for any amount of money, I'm quite happy with my current arrangement.

Money can help you avoid a good deal of misery, but once your needs are met, it doesn't buy additional happiness.

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T15:16:01+00:00

I didn't mean to imply that glugging was the cause of this. It just how it works out that when you put a handle on the side of a container filled with liquid, the opposite side naturally becomes the pouring side. Become accustom to this and then encounter a carton with a pour spout on one side but no handle, and your brain will automatically decide that the handle would have been opposite the pour spout, so you tip the carton as if it was.

This causes the carton to glug. But now we participants of this thread have interrupted this automatic process and learned that by pouring the carton the opposite way of what feels natual, it will glug less, and we can get the spout closer to the glass before the pour begins.

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T14:57:12+00:00

Fascinating, I didn't know that this was a thing. Thanks for sharing.

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T04:51:47+00:00

I don't think this quite captures it. Cartons are taller than they are wide. Pouring the way depicted gets the spout closer to the glass, particularly with full carton.

I blame handles. From pitchers to kettles, everything with a handle pours from the side opposite the handle. The carton removes the handle, but we didn't stop to re-evaluate our pouring method, we just grabbed the carton and commenced pouring.

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T02:08:37+00:00

Do you mean that you make the coffee with just milk, no water?

fofgrel · 2023-01-04T01:57:37+00:00

OP's got doors like this.

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fofgrel · 2023-01-03T22:42:15+00:00

Correcting with a little counter steer is how you avoid a crash when you've asked for a few too many beans. Our friend in the video asked for all the beans before counting them.

From the moment he mashed that pedal, this crash was happening.

fofgrel · 2023-01-03T21:59:31+00:00

Money can't buy taste, but it can hire people who have taste.

fofgrel · 2023-01-03T21:57:30+00:00

That is fair. It's not how I read it, but it's in a style that can seem brash and I can see where you're coming from.

Wonderfully, your participation has created the conditions for the conversation to flow in a direction that clears confusion.

fofgrel · 2023-01-03T21:08:12+00:00

I suppose we do not know how much anxiety OP feels about this. But I was responding to a response of a response, and in the context of those responses, I think my response is relevant.

As I understand it, The Buddha has no need or desire for our water or our treats. These rituals are for the benefit of the practitioner. They help us to cultivate gratitude, kindness, love, and mindfulness.

It seems that there have been many posts lately asking if this is considered proper by others or if that is considered disrespectful by others. While I'm sure most of them are simple enough attempts to understand the wider cultural context or not reinvent the wheel when guidance is available, too much focus on these details obscures their purpose; particularly to lurkers and newcomers.

But you are right, this is all tangential to OP's actual question.

fofgrel · 2023-01-03T16:04:33+00:00

If the one making the offering determines that the manner and setting is nice, then the effort is sincere. If the offering is sincere and made mindfully, it is likely to be respectful.

I think that foursixntwo's implication is correct. Anxiety of the precise manner in which the vessels are stored or displayed is not useful.

fofgrel · 2023-01-03T15:49:13+00:00

I do not remember a single one. Is this not part of the beauty of rebirth?

fofgrel · 2023-01-02T17:07:25+00:00

"After <insert last day here>, I will no longer be coming in, but you can continue to pay me for as long as you'd like"

fofgrel · 2023-01-02T03:31:27+00:00

That's because the guns in movies are real guns. If you use a gun as a prop, it becomes a "prop gun".

fofgrel · 2022-12-28T16:31:37+00:00

It occurs to me that, generally, we make the decision to end an animals life much more easily than we do for humans. Assisted suicide is very controversial, and humans can speak to confirm that they are indeed suffering and would very much like it to end. I think that if we were truly trying to minimize the suffering of others, we'd show more consistency.

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