Screwball Posted Tuesday at 03:46 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:46 AM That proves nothing. I'm glad your not a car designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screwball Posted Tuesday at 03:56 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:56 AM Adding; your cherry picking what you think are structural design issues to build a strawman about corrosion that IS preventable by using a different grade of stainless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted Tuesday at 04:01 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:01 AM (edited) 18 minutes ago, Screwball said: That proves nothing. I'm glad your not a car designer. Goodness you're touchy. Do you own one? I never said anything about proving anything, just pointing out places where execution matters more than average. If you recall when Ford started adding Al body panels to the F150 there was were questions raised about whether they had adequately designed to protect against interaction between the steel undercarriage and the body. They seemed to have done well with it, but it was not a foregone conclusion and it takes work to get it right. Grade wise you can pick any grade of SS you like and they are all still much less active on a galvanic series then any kind of sheet carbon steel. Edited Tuesday at 04:05 AM by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screwball Posted Tuesday at 04:06 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:06 AM Still two different issues, that's my point. This isn't difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted Tuesday at 04:10 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:10 AM (edited) 4 minutes ago, Screwball said: Still two different issues, that's my point. This isn't difficult. Maybe - but you know as well as I do that it can be a long way from 'not difficult' to 'done right'! Edited Tuesday at 04:11 AM by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted Tuesday at 04:15 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:15 AM I have to admit I am very jaded when it comes to Musk at a technical level. SpaceX flies well but I saw what he was trying to do with hyperloop and that was one of the more hair-brained things I'd ever seen. Some of his people are obviously top notch, but anything that gets close to being a personal pet project of his and I can't help be more more skeptical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted Tuesday at 01:46 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 01:46 PM 11 hours ago, Screwball said: I wonder why he decided to make some of his cars so ugly? I probably shouldn’t do this—probably a leftover from my loose cannon days—but lately when I see some of those fugly tesla trucks on the street, I make a show of pointing and laughing, such that the driver can’t miss seeing me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleterious Posted Thursday at 11:00 AM Share Posted Thursday at 11:00 AM Just Eat Takeaway sold GrubHub to a startup named Wonder for $650M. They bought it in 2021 for $7B. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewsieg Posted Thursday at 01:33 PM Share Posted Thursday at 01:33 PM On 11/11/2024 at 11:15 PM, gehringer_2 said: I have to admit I am very jaded when it comes to Musk at a technical level. SpaceX flies well but I saw what he was trying to do with hyperloop and that was one of the more hair-brained things I'd ever seen. Some of his people are obviously top notch, but anything that gets close to being a personal pet project of his and I can't help be more more skeptical. He's an ideas man with money. He's reminded me of Jobs on that front a bit. Doesn't necessarily care how it works, just has a vision and relies on someone to make it happen. Sometimes that can work, sometimes it doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger337 Posted Thursday at 01:36 PM Share Posted Thursday at 01:36 PM 1 minute ago, ewsieg said: He's an ideas man with money. He's reminded me of Jobs on that front a bit. Doesn't necessarily care how it works, just has a vision and relies on someone to make it happen. Sometimes that can work, sometimes it doesn't. Starting out with a fortune makes it easier to be that way whereas building from the ground up requires a lot more know how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted Thursday at 02:18 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:18 PM (edited) 46 minutes ago, ewsieg said: He's an ideas man with money. He's reminded me of Jobs on that front a bit. Doesn't necessarily care how it works, just has a vision and relies on someone to make it happen. Sometimes that can work, sometimes it doesn't. There is a difference between pursuing things which are known to be possible but where the technical feasibility is unknown, and pursuing things that can never work. Edited Thursday at 02:21 PM by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1776 Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago The assumed .25 rate cut for December may well not happen per talking heads in the Fed. I’m good with this. I disagreed with the November cut and didn’t like the December plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago they know they are going to be ****canned and their successors will be made to cut later on so they are trying to thwart... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screwball Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago Jerome Powell's term as Fed Chair expires May 2026. Board post ends Jan 2028. He will not be fired because the president cannot fire him. He will be the Fed chair until May 2026 unless he resigns, or congress ends the Fed itself. Powell isn't going anywhere, nor any of the rest of them, regardless of what the idiots in these echo chambers try to feed the gullible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago 7 minutes ago, Screwball said: Jerome Powell's term as Fed Chair expires May 2026. Board post ends Jan 2028. He will not be fired because the president cannot fire him. Supreme Court to the rescue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleterious Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago I'm old enough to remember the last time Trump was president and everyone said he would fire Powell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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