It’s for your safety.

That new surface is very risky, and if you don’t use the right connector it might catch the whole mini on fire!

it opens up a whole new surface for things. Soon there will be a dozen USB C ports on the bottom and you’ll need to buy special apple right angle cables to access them that they charge $30 per 1m cable.

Do people from Virginia never travel 350miles north?

The guidance on that page is incorrect and if that’s what they teach it might kill someone.

If you can safely change lanes then of course change lanes as your normally would do to avoid anything in your lane.

Beyond that it’s now dangerous. Stay in lane, hit the deer.

If you wouldn’t normally change lanes like that, then don’t do it for the deer.

The idea of don’t swerve for deer is very common and is taught in driving schools. If you’ve never heard it until today, well you were let down and today you learn. You don’t know dismiss it because you haven’t heard it.

Swerving is dangerous and even if you think you can do it safely, having a deer appear while travelling at high speeds is risky, even more so at night.

You’re supposed to slow down but stay in lane.

The reason you’re supposed to swerve for things like Moose is because moose are big as fuck and tall, and if you hit one head on, you will cut the legs out from under it, and it’s massive body will roll through the windshield and crush you, killing you or causing massive bodily harm.

This is from the Virginia DMV for example (emphasis mine). Them not having something about moose is actually bad as well.

https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/sites/default/files/forms/dmv39d.pdf

Deer/Large Animal Hazards Tens of thousands of crashes with deer, elk, and bears take place in Virginia each year, resulting in fatalities, injuries and costly vehicle damage. To avoid hitting a deer or other large animal:

• Be alert at dusk and dawn especially in the fall.
• Slow down if you see a large animal near or crossing the road. Large animals frequently travel in groups; there are likely others nearby.
• Use the horn to scare the animal away.
• If a collision with a deer or other animal is unavoidable, do not swerve. Brake firmly, stay in your lane, and come to a controlled stop.

Hit the deer head on, but swerve for moose and elk.

There are a lot of scams out there pretending to be Musk. If you want to watch a SpaceX launch, there’s probably at least 1 scam youtube stream out there that looks legit with thousands of viewers and then turns into a scam before the launch.

After all of the send me crypto and i’ll send double back… I find it hilarious that he’s now telling people to do things and he’ll pay them… and it’ll be even funnier when they realize they don’t get it and were scammed into giving him their info for no money.

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Both actions would cost billions more than any amount they would move or a signed transaction.

The price would crash knowing those coins were back in play.

It’d be a huge influx of potential coins considered to be lost.

I wonder how things would go if they made you agree to the terms before being allowed to purchase it.

People bring it to the till, and then just hand it back saying nope.

There a lot of reasons to hate Elon. He’s making new reasons every day lately.

A lot of people hate him for completely bs reasons like this though and then come off as hating anything he does just for the sake of hating him.

Preventing engaging something in bad conditions is a lot easier than what do you do if the conditions suddenly happen.

If it’s suddenly foggy it needs to be able to handle the situation well.

Cameras/Lidar don’t work well in fog. Radar does, but it isn’t a primary sensor and can’t be driven on safely alone in any circumstance.

So now you need to slow down (which humans will do) but also since the sensors are failing or insufficient, safely get out of the way of what might be other incoming vehicles behind you, or slow/stopped vehicles ahead of you.

You could restrict hours the system can be engaged which will reduce the likely hood of certain events (e.g morning fog, or sunrise/sunset head on sun) but there’s still unpredictability.

For twitter, he actually isn’t. That was the original plan, but he moved away from it and got additional external financing, and then put up more cash himself by selling additional Tesla stock.

Not sure about boring company / neuralink.

Google: We changed a color

Fork Developer: they changed a color and it caused 50,000 breaking changes that a diff tool can’t handle automatically wtf.

Google: sorry wrong color here’s a new one

Fork developer: another 100,000 breaking changes that a diff can’t handle?!?!

This is a pretty textbook definition of monopoly abuse.

I can’t see them keeping control of chrome as this goes forward.

I’ve heard of places doing solar panels above landfills as well. So if you tap it for methane, and then put panels over it, you can get even more energy out of the space.

Elon founding spacex in the first place had people laughing at him and the thought of him destroying all his wealth.

Reusing f9, landing F9 on barge, and Stainless steel were his initiatives. The SS one was a particularly hard win for him with a lot of internal push back.

Catching Starship on the chopsticks might have been an idea he heard outside of SpaceX, but that he then championed, again to a lot of internal push back, I’m not 100% about it being an external to spacex idea though.

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Those are just examples though. And I’m sure there are times as you suggest that people suggest a difficult idea that he then champions as well.

That he can champion these radical things, his idea or not, is still the key point of his leadership that will be lost.

For example, someone must have suggested they use a full-flow staged combustion fuel cycle for raptor. He had to sign off on that. No one had ever designed and flown a engine like this before. The russians came closest making one, but never flew it. The predecessor to this engine in the 60s or whenever, NASA didn’t even think it was physically possible to make until the Russians made it.

Serious question - is it nasa over spending, or is it congress forcing certain requirements on them making things more complicated that leads to over spending?

People really under estimate how important he is to SpaceX.

Reusing f9 1st stage - His initiative

Landing f9 on a barge - His initiative.

Making Starship Stainless Steel - His initiative

Catching Starship booster on chopsticks - His initiative.

The list goes on and on.

Without someone like him pushing for these radical things that everyone else thinks is impossible or a bad idea we wouldn’t recognize what SpaceX would be.

Instead we have things like starliner which is a disaster, and blue origin which started before SpaceX and has never reached orbit.

SpaceX would slowly transform back into ‘old space’ if he was forced out as there are very few people willing to take the risks he takes.

Edit: and it’s even very possible that the wrong CEO takes SpaceX public too soon which would make all the risk taking and fail fast development cycle they use impossible. Think of the stock crashing when a test flight fails and the pressure from investors around that.