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New comment by don_neufeld in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

don_neufeld — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:56:55 +0000

If Twitter was when Musk jumped the shark this is definitely him sticking the landing.

New comment by don_neufeld in "District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data"

don_neufeld — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:24:05 +0000

It’s actually a real problem because of how we fund schools - with local tax dollars.

I’ve seen someone try to claim their ownership of an empty lot as the basis for getting their children into a better school district.

It’s a mess.

New comment by don_neufeld in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

don_neufeld — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:54:49 +0000

Or they believe the long term value of two customers is bigger than one.

It can be about more than the single sale.

New comment by don_neufeld in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

don_neufeld — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:00:18 +0000

Yup, and it looks like it will be a tough negotiation:

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/26/apple-agrees-100-price-...

New comment by don_neufeld in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

don_neufeld — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:51:55 +0000

Same, just excellent software that I use 100+ times per day.

Quality matters in what you use constantly.

New comment by don_neufeld in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

don_neufeld — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:40:06 +0000

You’ve heard of a bridge to nowhere?

I suspect this is a pivot to nowhere.

New comment by don_neufeld in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

don_neufeld — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:50:14 +0000

One of my all time favorite series - add my upvote to the pile!

New comment by don_neufeld in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

don_neufeld — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:46:16 +0000

Yeah, my response is to say some version of “you’re bringing anecdote knives to a statistics gunfight”

New comment by don_neufeld in "xAI joins SpaceX"

don_neufeld — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:48:48 +0000

By his original timeline we should have landed on Mars… 4 years ago.

https://www.planetary.org/articles/20170929-spacex-updated-c...

New comment by don_neufeld in "How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users"

don_neufeld — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:32:04 +0000

Agreed, the numbers were shockingly low.

New comment by don_neufeld in "Scott Adams has died"

don_neufeld — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:33:06 +0000

Yes, people cry. I’ve had many friends cry while talking to me about hard things they are or have experienced - both men and women.

New comment by don_neufeld in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

don_neufeld — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:44:15 +0000

I wonder if any libertarians have considered reading about the history of banking?

The Federal Reserve was not created “just because”. The US banking system was wildly unstable when run… largely as the libertarian view would have it.

New comment by don_neufeld in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

don_neufeld — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:18:42 +0000

Economists: The interest rate on US Treasuries is often used as a benchmark for the “risk free rate”

Trump: Hold my beer.

New comment by don_neufeld in "The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year"

don_neufeld — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:07:52 +0000

I would say that in the years I was a founder I definitely aged faster than that ;)

New comment by don_neufeld in "When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed"

don_neufeld — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:51:49 +0000

I believe the Founders series was 250K deposit.

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/202x-roadster-delay-...

New comment by don_neufeld in "Realtime BART Arrival Display"

don_neufeld — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:36:57 +0000

It’s funny how different countries handle this differently.

Growing up in the middle of Canada, I heard about schools closing due to weather, but ours only closed if it was below -40C.

New comment by don_neufeld in "When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed"

don_neufeld — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:27:13 +0000

Rivian is definitely up and coming. The increase of them around my neighborhood has been very noticeable over the past 12 months.

New comment by don_neufeld in "When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed"

don_neufeld — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:21:40 +0000

The execution on the roadster baffles me.

IIRC the deposit was 250K, and I know people who signed up on the first day. Can you imagine a more dedicated fan?

How do you not deliver to that group? How big an own-goal is that?

New comment by don_neufeld in "When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed"

don_neufeld — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:21:18 +0000

Not sure if it’s evident in broader statistics yet, but I think that because Tesla got the early adopter market (tech savvy people), they are now losing that same market first.

I had a party at my house a couple months ago, mostly SF tech people. I found the Tesla owners chatting together, and the topic was how much FSD sucks and they don’t trust it.

I asked and no-one said they would buy a Tesla again. Distrust because they felt suckered by FSD was a reason, but several also just said Elon’s behavior was a big negative.

New comment by don_neufeld in "I Want You to Understand Chicago"

don_neufeld — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:57:04 +0000

“Does Chicago have more global business interests than Rome?”

Given that the GDP of the Chicago area is ~5x the GDP of Rome, I suspect the answer is YES!

Chicago: ~900B USD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_metropolitan_area

Rome: ~190B USD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_metropolitan_area

If you were to take exports as a good proxy for “global business interests”, then the USTR would show you that Chicago exports 57.9B in goods, making Chicago’s exports almost 1/3 of Rome’s entire GDP.

https://ustr.gov/map/state-benefits/il