Yup, it’s a subsidy that I think generally makes sense, except I don’t think the plan was for everyone to pour so much resources into corn.
Probably around the point we got to: “can we use mashed up corn as fuel and plastic” is when we should’ve tried incentivizing a greater diversity of crops 😅
The US government subsidizes corn heavily.
Less sympathy now as farming is increasingly industrial but if your options are:
A) grow a crop and risk not getting paid anything if it comes out poorly
B) grow corn and get a nearly-guaranteed payout
B seems to be the safe bet. I don’t think blaming people on choosing B is the move. I know I wouldn’t voluntarily choose A if my livelihood depended on it.
The wild thing is that he was jailed for obstructing the investigation, not necessarily doing this dumb stunt.
Never had the chance to see a Fry’s but yeah, a number of things that I’d desperately need on short notice are overly marked up.
Then again, I guess I’d take a markup than waiting a few days for shipping if I’m on the cusp of finishing a project.
The only hope I’ve had near me is Microcenter. Only place I’ve seen in ages where I can walk out with at least some resistors and sensors but the selection can be…eh on some items.
I used to live like 3 blocks away and used the trail near his house when doing aimless walks. It’s just wild.
Did you read the article?
It was specifically calling out tech outlets erroneously stating that extensions must undergo an extensive review process. This wasn’t supported by the original interviews.
The new limitations placed on extensions I digress on.
The rush to publish first has become very frustrating because so much tech reporting has become catering to the doom-and-gloom crowd that rush to post links on link sharing sites and social media because it gets views and updoots.
Specifically with Ars Technica, this isn’t the first article they’ve published with at least a misleading premise. The commenter base there really basks in negativity and it seems like that’s the target audience.
I think it’s just folks being naive and needing to expand their world view by meeting more people IRL.
A lot of people just can’t afford buying decent sized places in more densely populated areas. Telling these people to suck it up and deal with a 1/2BR condo will be extremely uncomfortable for a family of 4. And why deal with that when there’s places with more space a bit away? I don’t think anyone’s kids are ever going to say “hey dad, thanks for cramming us in a condo so we never had to drive”. It’s not like the person can go back in time to petition a planning department to be more forward thinking either.
Cookie-cutter suburbia, endless highways, and sparse development have definitely not been the correct answer either, but this problem isn’t solved overnight. A person with 40 years left on their clock and with kids isn’t realistically going to put their life on hold until they successfully picket the local government for transit projects and wait 15 years (at least, in the US) before it’s operational.
The most pragmatic way to go about this is advocate for transit and more intelligent planning, then replace what usage you can with transit when feasible. Folks screaming into the void online, demanding people walk 3 miles to the grocery store each week is a waste of keyboard clicks.
But heck, I’m within biking distance of using the 3rd? largest transit network in the US. It takes literally 1/3rd-1/4th of the time to drive for some trips. I’m not riding a train for 1.5 hours when I can drive up, do what I need, then drive back by time biking+train+transfers would take going one-way. For a number of other trips? Sure. Where transit takes less time and/or would be much more convenient than driving it’ll be strongly considered.
Unfortunately, I just don’t have the same levels of free time to raise this up as often as it should be pointed out.
I’m in full agreement.
Expanding on your concern about the sun gear is what dirt, brine water/winter treatment will have on the mechanism over time. The best case scenario is this becoming more inefficient over time if it gums up, the worst case is having debris act like sandpaper on the gears, ever-so-slowly weakening the teeth over time.
Maybe they’ve thought of this but I can’t help but to think this is just trying to get a headline or two.
It’s a bit wild.
Public and mass transportation is a good thing that is not prioritized enough in a lot of areas. However, covering 100.00% of the population for 100.00% of their needs is infeasible regardless of whatever economic model is used.
This is why cars will always exist.
I agree that the acceleration thing shouldn’t be classified as a problem, but I think you should familiarize yourself with the scope of vehicle recalls because those are comparatively minor defects based on number of affected vehicles. While any number above 0 for safety defects is seriously concerning, overall, Tesla hasn’t been bad despite the blog posts otherwise.
Recalls are typically given to a large range of potentially affected vehicles and assessed with the actual realistic number that might have an issue. A lot of times this will be a low percentage of a batch of affected units. Any number of recalls for safety-critical issues that is above zero is terrible, but most vehicles have safety issues of varying risk, and the risk varies based on circumstance.
For the seatbelt incident, the recall report estimates ~158 vehicles being impacted of a pool of 15869. For the steering wheel issue, the recall report indicates that 13 vehicles, of a pool of 137 are affected. But if you look at the design of the steering wheel, the bolt is not the only instrument passing control from the wheel to the column, so at least you can pull over. As far as steering safety recalls go, this is dangerously embarrassing that they didn’t attach a bolt but you can maintain control of the vehicle by pushing the wheel forward.
For fun, let’s take a look at a 2018 F-150 (pick any car at least a couple years old, I just know Ford’s been in the news for big recalls lately). While the F-150 is among the most-sold vehicles, even if it outsold Teslas 100:1, Ford’s numbers get… concerning.
But if we’re using these numbers as the bar for dangerous behavior, consider the handful of vehicles that forced Hyundai and Kia to do a recall on most of their eGMP EVs to fix an issue where a voltage fluctuation can make the car roll away when parked (~107 vehicles for Hyundai) and ~90 for Kia, with an ongoing investigation of 30 reports of sudden power loss which can also be dangerous if you’re travelling at highway speeds. There are a potential 39,557 vehicles impacted (though I’d guess if this becomes a recall, it’ll get narrowed down to 1-2% with an actual risk).
I’ve driven the major interstate highways as it crosses between states and a couple rural highways, I am not aware of any conventional crossing of the state where you can pass through it and only see that (or even a majority).
If you can show on a map, I’d be interested to know where this is.
There is no question that WV is in an incredibly bleak situation caused by poor planning and bad business with an insane environmental cost. These exaggerations are deceitful and do more harm by discrediting the entire argument.
It doesn’t have to, but who wants to subsidize people driving unnecessarily large vehicles for recreation?
I get ~4 miles per kW (and around that mark isn’t unusual for a lot of others) but a Hummer EV is substantially worse at 1.6 miles per kW.
Elaborate?
Most people’s driving isn’t (or shouldn’t be) a marathon sport. It’s not like this is F1.
Set your expectations realistically. This road just isn’t going to take off as a practical solution. EV makers have already seemed to decide 300 miles is about the target for a vehicle range, and there’s no incentive to beef up batteries.
Spending billions of dollars to build out roads so people can go from waiting 15 mins to charge down to 10 minutes is an insane waste of money. Most large charging operators are now partnering with locations that are designed to keep you sitting around for a bit longer than a rural interstate rest area, so there’s not much of a reason for them to throw money at this.
I’m sorry this isn’t the answer the very hopeful folks want to hear but find any manufacturer who’s taking in-motion wireless charging seriously right now 🤷♂️
You win :)
Canada has a ways to go with charging before I can proselytize about EVs.
I’d argue a lot of these articles are missing the bigger point here. Okta appears to have gaslit their customer base.
Coming forward with a substantially worse finding than the initial one in October is not good. This probably means someone wanted to rush out the memo that “fewer than 1%” of customers were impacted without diligence in their investigation. This is worsened by the fact that they had a breach near the start of this year.
Best case, this was a process failure when analyzing the impact of the breach. While process failures can be fixed, this erodes trust and calls into question how they missed this information.
Worst case, though? The initial set of findings was a cheap attempt at trying to save face and sweep the news under the rug, but they were caught when they could no longer plausibly say “less than 1% of customers” were affected. This feels like a lie. A lie about anything related to security destroys trust quickly.
Going forward, I think there will be a lot of skepticism around Okta’s investigations of their breaches and the trust lost will be very difficult to regain.
As I said to the other commenter, if you get a weekend of free time that you want to burn down, I highly encourage you to try doing a trip in a Model 3 (if you’re in the US, I absolutely cannot recommend CCS infrastructure right now). I think you’d be surprised how much of a non-issue it can be if you build any form of food break in the trip, whether it’s driving -> breakfast -> driving or whatnot.
Sure but in the US, commercial truckers are mandated to take at least a 30 minute break after 8 hours of driving. And the EU tells personal drivers to take a break of 45 mins after 4ish hours of driving.
Realistically, if you get a weekend to burn and are feeling bored, rent a Model 3 and go on a trip. I think you’d be surprised how much of a non-issue it would be.
That’s been a trend where I am. Drivers are a bit aggressive and I assume it’s an attempt at getting people to chill out around them even though I bet it’s just ignored.
It’s wild seeing the occasional car with multiple of these stickers.