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There isn't going to be a lot of improvement in overall EV performance/capability from better motors. Existing, boring motors are already close to 100% efficient, already small, and already powerful.

Advancements here chip away at margins, its nice but nothing to get super excited about. Whereas a modest ~20% increase in energy density from batteries would be amazing. Every little bit we improve there unlocks new capabilities. Towing long distances, smaller affordable economy cars and sports cars, airplanes, etc.


While you are eight at the efficiency part, motor designs like these reduce supply chain complexity, improve resiliency and bring costs down. So while this isn‘t going to give you more range, there certainly is a non trivial impact in stuff like that

supply and demand as always


In countries where students perform better, they do the opposite of your plan. Resources are pumped into the failing schools to get them to do better. You seem to be just arguing for even more privatization in American which is awful, the kids that are failing have parents that won't be paying for good education or setting up schools. They won't bother with it at all if it isn't public and required.


> the kids that are failing have parents that won't be paying for good education

As in, they would be spending their vouchers on things besides education? Because typically when people speak of privatizing education it means creating a marketplace of educators which parents select and buy with publicly funded vouchers.


Nate was a huge outlier in that prediction, he gave trump a better chance than almost anyone else that I can recall, so why are you mad at him about that?

What made me mad is Nate seemed to turn into a MAGA troll himself after that election.


It did until oligarchs bought it.


Why does anyone want to work for companies run by such awful people in the first place? I saw me CEO make up a whole new persona to suck up the new nazi administration I would be gone the next day.


Have you heard of money?


I have a friend at Meta. He said he hates every moment of working there but when the sweet RSUs drop every month it makes it all worth it.


Yuck…

At least you know how much he is willing to sell his happiness for?


I'm certain they'll be saddened to learn someone on HN disapproves of their >95th percentile remuneration.


I recently started a game project in Rust aided by Claude Code because I asked myself that same question. I like Rust, but it is definitely harder than C# for me. But with the AI aid, doesn't seem to matter which language I use. So I take the performance and safety wins.


With some care about what features to use and when, F# can be very fast. Which is nice, use functional paradigm when you want, or low level imperative code in hot loops if you need. But yeah if you use linked lists and sequences and immutable data types everywhere it sure isn't Rust.


I think you are right that we should focus on the fact that the president raped children, invaded Iran with no plan and for no reason when he promised not to start a war, and violates the constitution and law daily without consequence.

We are all failing morally for not revolting at this level of corruption.

He raped kids and the entire GOP is helping to cover that up.

He raped kids and the entire GOP is helping to cover that up.


The disingenuous people who discredit climate change will do so no matter how serious people act. There is no point in changing behavior on their account.


The point is to convince people who are undecided. Using information that's known to be false or weakly supported is then short-sighted and counterproductive, because enough false predictions will turn up that those undecided will tune out entirely


>Using information that's known to be false or weakly supported

But where does such information originate from? Is laypeople just making it up?


It applies to anyone knowingly using false information to try to influence people


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