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You are very misinformed. there is some questions on how legit the polls were but most subs voted to go private. The mods didn’t decide on their own. No one says the API has to be free. It just needs a reasonable price. Reddit is going from free to ~$12k per 50k calls. Imgur apparently charges $166 for 50k calls. Reddit can claim whatever it wants. The Apollo dev recorded his calls with the CEO. They blatantly lied about basically everything in the call. You criticize the devs for not preparing for this but they were told by Reddit in January/February that NO changes to the API were being planned. Any changes were at least a year out and likely more. Then they did start a conversation with the devs in March about changes but refused to say what the price was going to be. They waited two months to reveal pricing and they only gave a single month’s notice. The Apollo dev tried for over a week to get back in touch with Reddit to try and negotiate a more reasonable timeline. They completely stonewalled him. Come July 1st Apollo was going to start racking up a few million in API fees. When Apple bought a company that had a widely used API they told everyone it was being shut off in 18 months. They then extended the deadline about another 12 months. The devs can’t change sub prices on the fly. Apollo premium users were locked in at $10 a year. Having to wait a year to change the price was impossible. Reddit had every opportunity to keep third party apps and get them to pay for API access. Instead they purposely priced them out and tried to make themselves the victims. The Apollo dev has documented all this if you want a more thorough explanation.

Tesla was incorporated in June/July of 2003. Musk joined in February 2004. Both Musk and Eberhard had previously approached AC propulsions to try and make the project car into a commercial product. Eberhard was first and when Musk approached them they turned him down too and pointed him in the direction of the brand new Tesla. When Musk joined Tesla as employee #4 they had no money, no engineering team, and no prototype. It was an idea. Musk invested in this idea. He didn’t buy anything. Tesla’s first car was launched 4 years after Musk joined. He became CEO months after the Roadster launched and has been CEO ever since. Since he’s been CEO the company has gone from selling a few cars a quarter to now selling over 400,000 in a quarter.

There is zero logic here. SpaceX isn’t competing with NASA. NASA is SpaceX’s largest customer. They just recently got like $4+ billion in contracts from NASA for two Starship launches to the Moon and something like 6 more crewed missions to the ISS. SpaceX’s actually competition is companies like Boeing who has yet to compete a single crewed mission to the ISS, despite getting paid over a billion more Hyperloop was a crazy idea brought up to challenge that HSR project. It’s the slowest and most expensive HSR on the planet. However despite that it’s still being built. Hyperloop didn’t even stop it for a second nor was any progress ever actually made on hyperloop. None of Musk’s companies are working on it. SpaceX did have a test track for a while but they got rid of that years ago. There are some completely unrelated companies working on hyperloops but they have made little progress. your two examples are terrible. You have no idea what you are talking about.

Any iPhone can be charged with any brick. Apple includes a lighting to C cable so you can connect to modern bricks and computers. We don’t need chargers with every device. It’s excessive. It’s why the EU is looking to ban the bundling of bricks with mobile devices.

A data subscription is very different than a subscription for an RF remote starter. People in this thread are pointing out how it would make more sense Toyota is doing this if the remote start went though the internet as there would be some recurring costs to Toyota that way. Many cars have had data subscriptions for years as that actually costs them money. Tesla isn’t charging a subscription for Apple CarPlay like BMW tried or an RF starter like Toyota is trying. Subscriptions aren’t inherently bad. Acknowledging sensible subscriptions isn’t weakening my point.

This isn’t a thing. A car with a salvaged title likely can’t supercharge but Tesla isn’t going into people’s accounts and deactivating features they’ve paid for if they say something mean on Twitter. They would be sued instantly. Can you actually quote any examples of Tesla removing all those listed features from someone? Right now with the FSD beta you can lose access to it if you are abusing it but it’s not easy to lose access. I don’t know if anyone has actually lost access to the beta.

Autopilot used to be an option. For years now it’s been included as a standard feature. FSD is the paid upgrade. There was one instance were it was removed during a sale and Tesla fixed that. It can only be removed if you sell the car back to Tesla. I test drove a used Model 3 that had FSD and heated rear seats and both paid upgrades stay with the car. Heated seats thought are now also a standard feature.

Lol Tesla doesn’t have a subscription for remote start. The only subscriptions they offer are for a data plan for the car and FSD. If you want you can just buy FSD too so you have options. The car can also connect to hotspots so you don’t need a data plan either. Tesla did not start this trend and they aren’t even participating in it.

They aren’t the first. Audi had a very restricted lvl 3 platform before too. It also only worked on highways at below highway speed while in traffic and required a physical barrier between opposing traffic. These lvl 3 systems are basically useless and not that technically impressive with how restricted the conditions they work in are. Wayme, Tesla, and GM have impressive tech. Ford will get there but the demo of BlueCruse failing on the slightest of turns was pretty bad. Tesla and Waymo can navigate city street turns tighter than 90 degrees and Ford fails on large genital curves on highways.

They will never have a monopoly on the internet. They can’t service cities at all due to the density. They also have a relatively low max user count. They are doing this as it’s a market they are uniquely positioned to dominate and it will raise a lot of money they need to fund Starship and their goal of landing humans on Mars. There’s a middle ground between giving stuff away and bleeding your customers for every cent they have.

That 71% includes the oil we burn. So burning less oil is critical to impacting climate change.

The FSD beta already has creeping for vision and will drive over yellow lines to pass stopped vehicles. There was one update to the beta that made that behaviour too strong and the car kept wanting to drive around cars waiting at stoplights and stop signs. It’s capable of bending the rules the way humans do.

You weren’t using the FSD beta which has all the advancements. Autopilot is just adaptive cruse control with steering. Navigate on autopilot adds automatic lane changes and can take exits and entrances for you. The FSD beta is only open to a few hundred people or less. AI Driver is a great YouTube channel that covers the FSD beta.

You got like nothing right. first Must founded Zip2 with his brother and some other people. That company was later sold for over 100 million. Musk used that money to found X.com. X.com offered online banking. Another company called Confinity started around the same time and the two directly competed. They eventually decided to merge. Musk was made the CEO of the new company and he was the largest shareholder of it. It was called X.com. One of the products offered by X.com was PayPal which was originally under Confinity. There was disagreements within the company and about a year after the merger Musk was forced out while on Vacation. He was still the largest shareholder, just not a majority. The company remained to PayPal and focused just on that one product. They sold to EBay and Musk made the most off the sale. Eberhard and another were wanting to create an EV. They initially tried to get a team who were working on this project electric car to partner with them and make it into a commercial product. They were rejected so they started thinking about making their own company. Musk ran into that same team and also tried to get them to make it a commercial product but they said no and pointed him in the direction of Eberhard. At this point Tesla was three guys with an idea. Musk was the fourth to join and a fifth guy joined soon after. Musk co-lead the first ever investment round and put in $7.5 million of 9 million raised. Musk was made chairman of the board and appointed Eberhard CEO of the new company. Eberhard left in ~2006/7 due to large issues that had come to light with the Roadster’s development. An intern CEO stepped in who was a large shareholder of the company and oversaw the final development and launch of the Roadster. Musk became CEO in 2008. About a year after leaving Eberhard tried to sue Tesla end Musk over Musk calling himself a founder of Tesla. Much of the case was tossed out and Eberhard settled. There are legally five founders of Tesla. SpaceX was acutely created before Tesla. Musk tried to buy old ICBMs from Russia but was laughed out of the country. He apparently spent the flight home working on an outline design for the Falcon 1 rocket. Despite what people love to say he’s heavily involved in the design and engineering of the products his companies make, mainly Tesla and SpaceX. Idk how involved he is with his other companies. Many employees have been quoted as saying such. Starlink isn’t a company. It’s a constellation being built by SpaceX. There are many rumours that it will be spun off as its own company once its close to being finished. I don’t see how you can call claims about Starship lies already when it’s still in development. Crazy maybe but not yet lies. You definitely don’t have to like Musk as a person or the cult of followers but being a blind hater makes you just as bad as those you act better than. And for the record everyone who keeps attaching Hyperlook to Musk actually look it up. Besides some test track SpaceX offered he has no involvement with it. Instead multiple independent companies are working on trying to make it or something very similar to it a reality. The closest Musk comes is what The Boring Company is doing but it’s nothing like Hyperloop.

He didn’t hire people. He was the lead coder in both companies. I don’t get why people are sooo adamant that Musk can’t have any talent except money. There are sooo many people with millions of dollars yet they aren’t turning into billionaires. Bezos didn’t find some geek and finance him. Gates, jobs etc. All these people were the ones with the idea. They obviously weren’t alone but the fact that they were there at ground zero and stayed till the end shows that they were contributing something critical. Apple even tried to go at it without Jobs and had to buy NeXT out of debt to get him back to save their own ass. The only money Musk has ever had was in the companies he owned. He didn’t bring billions of liquid capital. He got his companies off the ground with what little he had and then what did he bring? According to you that’s where his contributions ended but quotes from his employees beg to differ. They say he’s heavily involved in the designing of his company’s products. What actual evidence do you have that Musk contributes nothing? You also touched on nothing in my post. Are you backing down that he bought his companies or just ignoring that claim now?