Many minor crashes aren't in police reports at all. Either it involves only one party, or the police just straight up won't come out.

tesladeaths.com has the total number of Tesla fatalities, from any cause, at 500.

Are you trolling, or a pro-Tesla bot?

It's not 13 fatalities. It's 13 incidents involving a total of 29 deaths. https://www.tesladeaths.com has the total fatality account involving Slaugherpilot at 42.

Also, you're omitting all the deaths in Teslas for which it hasn't yet been proven that "Autopilot" was involved. Teslas are driven my more affluent people, are newer, and incorporate safer non-Autopilot tech. than the average car.

Finally, 6M is the worldwide number of cars Tesla has sold, which you're comparing to a U.S. count of non-Teslas.

If the fertility + immigration rate is decreasing below replacement, housing will be available due to deaths. Building housing only reduces housing costs for a generation (at most) while increasing pollution, straining infrastructure, and uglifying formerly beautiful places.

Twenty billion dollars is 20,000 clean hydrogen refueling stations.

Citation needed. Assertions without evidence.

Diversity is not something companies do to become successful. It’s something companies do after they become successful. It’s virtue signaling.

YC adds almost no value. They capture all of the startups that would have been founded anyway (and many that wouldn't, because they are idiotic ideas) and tax them. Then, inevitably, some of those hit it big and YC takes the credit. Does the doctor that delivered Steve Jobs at the hospital get to claim credit for Apple? They don't. But YC does. They're a doctor that has talked their way into delivering all the babies in the city, and taking a tax on their future income as adults.

The average wealth of the entrepreneur is actually maximized by having them go into a career in FAANG and not launching a startup at all--or launching a startup from a stronger position with a real VC that values their company at more than $7M. A $7M valuation in today's tech world is an absolute joke. It's scandalous the exploitation that's going on here.

It is absolutely a cult which preys on the naïve. It’s amazing that young founders give up equity so cheaply to chase credentials that pay so poorly, on average, relative to FAANG.

Someone will win in every YC batch, and it’s YC itself, which holds all the lottery tickets. Most everyone else loses.

Um, all of these manufacturers make more varieties of models and have sold, cumulatively, a lot more cars than Tesla. This means more opportunity for recall.

You need to normalize by total sales over the past ten years.

Tesla also has a monopoly on the service of their cars, so they can hide recalls. Most Tesla recalls only started to occur during the Biden administration, as regulatory bodies became less impotent.

This has nothing to do with capitalism.

From: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...

“Alcohol is a toxic, psychoactive, and dependence-producing substance and has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer decades ago – this is the highest risk group, which also includes asbestos, radiation and tobacco. Alcohol causes at least seven types of cancer, including the most common cancer types, such as bowel cancer and female breast cancer.“

There is no safe dose.

This is pretty low effort. You contract yourself in the same sentence, because clearly I just said it!

An Astral Codex Ten article is no substitute for clinical trials and measured experimental data. The ethanol concerns are dismissed by ACT with no real analysis, when the data presented is from an in-vitro thesis that didn't study the actual genetic modified bacterium at all, and feeding it nutrients which aren't found in the mouth of Western diets: that is, a very low sugar blood agar/DNB broth. It's quackery to make comparisons on that kind of flimsy evidence. This bacterium produces ethanol from sugar!

Further, ACT has their facts wrong, citing an average blood alcohol level of 1 mg/dl when it's actually 0.039. 1 mg/dl is the 95th percentile. So, according to the cited source, average blood alcohol levels go up 5.6x, and that is somehow not a risky chronic condition because there are people in the population with higher levels of that toxin in their bloodstream at the 95th percentile. ACT should know better, but is biased because his wife takes it. Probably knows the principals socially in Berkeley.

From the source: "The endogenous alcohol concentration in the blood of sober people is 0.39 ± 0.45 μg/mL or 0.039 mg/dL (Antoschechkin, 2001)."

Further down: 5. Then you’ll end up with 11mg/5L of blood. This is, in more familiar units, 0.22 mg per dL

0.22 / 0.039 = a *5.6x* increase in chronic blood alcohol concentration, albeit under pessimistic assumptions [1].

No thank you. There's no telling what that will do to a person over 50 years.

[1] I'm not sure it's so pessimistic. This number comes from culture on blood agar, which isn't exactly the sugar level of a western diet. Blood agar contains almost no sugar.