phlhr's comments

Same could have been said for smartphone physical keyboard yet here we are.

Touch screen is a better interface because the UI can adapt to the context. I get that when you are driving you don’t want to have to look at the screen but honestly the benefits far outweigh the perceived cons.

the contract does not allow twitter to commit fraud. Which they have.

This is much less of a problem than you think it is.

30min to add ~200mi of range is enough for 99% of people. Most people who take road trips need to stop every 3hrs for food/bathroom etc. By the time that's done, your car is charge. Remember that typically you charge while your car is parked, so the net time loss is usually less than that of an ICE.

8-15 years is to get to 80% battery degradation. Total loss of vehicle probably around the 500k to 1mil mile mark.

If you have a 15 and 25 year old ICE, you are far better off driving them into the ground than buying an EV. Don't try to dissuade people about the concept of EVs because of your personal circumstance. If you are in the market for a new car circa $40k USD, buying anything other than EV is financial insanity.

1/ thermal management system works for temps -50c to +50c

2/ see above

3/ fast DC charging will give you 300+ KM of range for 30min of charging. 99% of the time you charge at home so over a year, you end up saving time with an EV.

4/ Batteries last 8-15 years.

5/ every house as at least 220v

>You’re drawing an arbitrary line. The majority of digital advertisers are using digital advertising because the value is quantifiable through attributable revenue.

If you are talking about the majority of ad impressions being programmatic/attribution based then yes you are correct, however if you talking about dollars spent that direct sponsorship with large internal agencies is still very much king.

To give some context, large corps would routinely drop $5 million on a direct deal with Twitter for a combination of promoted tweets, hashtags, trending etc. This was also almost pure margin as there was no middle DSP/SSP taking a cut. To get the same profit from the method you are purporting to be most common would take years.

>Maybe a decade ago you could have said that advertisers were just trusting platforms to deliver value, and that ad-fraud could make or break a platform if they got caught, but that’s not true anymore, it’s a much more sophisticated market. Advertisers aren’t (as) dumb (as they once were).

Maybe a decade ago? So the people who are now in senior positions at the agency and call all the shots are the ones making the major deals. Well then it would stand to reason that the biggest profit comes from deals that are structured like they were 10 years ago.

That's completely false. I've worked in both the media buying and inventory side of advertising and the large accounts definitely care about the quality of audience. Nike, Apple, Nestle etc have huge internal agencies that are tasked with finding brand safe platforms to advertise against.

The type of attribution based advertising you are talking about certainly also exists whereby the advertiser pays $x per (milli)impression, then a further $x for click-thru and then a final $x for a conversion. However the vast majority of twitter's revenue is in the first bucket (CPM) which is entirely valued based on the size and quality of the audience.

It matters because Twitter have misled advertisers as to the quality of their audience.

If Twitter did come out and say they underestimated non human activity by 50% or the like then yes Musk should be forced to continue the sale.

Twitter haven't though. They are still pretending that less than 5% of daily active users are non-monetizable.

the poster is defending Twitter be able to lie on their public filings. If their bot % is materially higher then 5% they have committed securities fraud.

Twitter are stuck. If they admit a bot count of say 25% and say "sorry Mr. Musk but you committed to buy no matter what... buyer beware" then yes, Musk should be force to continue the sale but they can't because it raises much more serious questions.

this will be the winner purely because Apple devices are the lowest common denominator. That is, one must support iOS and if iOS only supports LL-HLS but other devices optionally support LL-HLS then LL-HLS is the winner.

Are people purposely ignoring the fact that Twitter are clearly lying about the % of non-human users? They say its less then 5% but in reality its between 5% and 25% based on multiple independent research studies.

If it really was < 5% why don't Twitter just release the data Musk is asking for?

I meant the commenters in this thread immediately starting their Tesla/Elon hate without knowing any of the details.

Did anyone bother to check that this bug has nothing to do with Tesla before proudly announcing their EM hatred? It was a 3rd party app that asked users to hand over their email address and password.

This year? They are about to delivery 900k+ in 2021 (i.e. this year) and will be 1.5m in 2022. Toyota is declining at 20% annually and Tesla is growing at 50-70% annually.

Even if you go with the 2020 number their deliveries were 499647 so rounded to the nearest 1,000 it becomes 500k. Just shows the deep seated bias of anything Gizmodo.

This is literally fake news.

The mobile key pairs via bluetooth in all Tesla vehicles built after 2018 so you don't need the server side to be working in order to unlock and/or drive.

This temporary outage merely meant you couldn't remotely turn on climate or remotely unlock the car. Guess what? No other cars can do that at the best of times.