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I keep a saved search on Zillow for Napa and up-valley (Silverado Trail, Hagen Rd, St. Helena, etc.), and my inbox just got flooded with pending sale notifications almost all at once.

It feels like a sudden wave of activity across the area. Is this a wave of Bay Area tech / AI liquidity (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.) buying up second homes and wine country retreats, or is there another shift happening locally that I’m missing?

Curious to hear what locals, agents, or folks following the Napa market are seeing on the ground right now.

Hi everyone,

I'm planning a trip to India this October from the US West Coast. In the past, I've almost always flown Emirates or Qatar. Aside from the great service, I always loved picking up Cuban cigars and Cuban rum at Dubai/Doha duty-free on the way back since you can't get them in the US.

With everything going on in the Gulf right now, I'm second-guessing routing through the Middle East this time around.

For those of you traveling to India soon, what are you doing?

• Are you switching to European carriers (British Airways, KLM, Lufthansa, etc.)?
• Are you routing over the Pacific instead?

Since I'm on the West Coast, I'm leaning toward Singapore Airlines as an option. If anyone has flown SQ or other transpacific routes to India recently, I'd love to hear how the layover and total travel time felt compared to ME3 routes.

Appreciate any thoughts or recent experiences!

Hey everyone,

I pulled a set of wheels/tires out of storage and want to swap them onto my car. I've called three different tire shops so far, but they all refused—saying they'll only install wheels or tires purchased directly through them (or via Tire Rack).

Does anyone know of a solid local shop that's willing to balance a set I already have, mount them on the car, and throw the old set into my trunk for me?

Appreciate any recommendations!

Hi,

I am an NRI living in the US. I want to open an Indian bank account that I can easily manage from here.

About my current setup, I have an account with Union Bank of India. They are the most unprofessional bank I have ever dealt with. I need to move away from them.

I did some research and saw there is a Bank of Baroda branch in New York. I also see ICICI and SBI have branches in the US. I want to know if anyone uses these US branches for their banking needs.

I would like to hear from other NRIs who have gone through this. Please let me know the following.

1. What are the pros and cons of having an account with an Indian bank that has branches in the US?
2. Does anyone use the Bank of Baroda NY branch specifically?
3. Are there any hidden fees or issues I should know about?

Please let me know your experiences.

Thanks

Been watching the recent SPCX stock price drop below its IPO level, and it got me thinking about the merger rumors.

Chamath was on CNBC yesterday saying that SPCX would have to offer a 50% premium for TSLA shareholders to even agree to a vote to sell themselves.

Right now, Tesla's market cap is hovering around $1.47 trillion. A 50% premium means SpaceX would need to facilitate a buyout valued at over $2.2 trillion. Meanwhile, with the recent slide, SpaceX's market cap has dropped down into the $1.7 trillion range.

This makes me wonder: what does the market cap and stock price for SPCX actually need to be for them to acquire Tesla in an all-stock deal? If SPCX keeps bleeding, at what price point does the math completely fall apart because the dilution to SpaceX shareholders would just be too massive?

Any thoughts or modeling on this? Would love to hear how you guys are running the numbers

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Been watching the recent SPCX stock price drop below its IPO level, and it got me thinking about the merger rumors.

Chamath was on CNBC yesterday saying that SPCX would have to offer a 50% premium for TSLA shareholders to even agree to a vote to sell themselves.

Right now, Tesla's market cap is hovering around $1.47 trillion. A 50% premium means SpaceX would need to facilitate a buyout valued at over $2.2 trillion. Meanwhile, with the recent slide, SpaceX's market cap has dropped down into the $1.7 trillion range.

This makes me wonder: what does the market cap and stock price for SPCX actually need to be for them to acquire Tesla in an all-stock deal? If SPCX keeps bleeding, at what price point does the math completely fall apart because the dilution to SpaceX shareholders would just be too massive?

Any thoughts or modeling on this? Would love to hear how you guys are running the numbers.

Hey folks. This popped up on my Zillow feed a few days ago, and the views look absolutely incredible. It is a piece of land that seems to have a great panoramic view of the valley, but I'm having a hard time sizing it up just from the listing photos.

Mainly, it’s really hard to tell from the pictures how steep the slope actually is. I can't quite figure out how much of the land is flat enough to work with versus what part is just a massive drop-off. On top of that, it looks like there is solid rock exposed on part of the plot. I’m guessing that would make building anything up there a massive headache, including trying to dig out or put in a septic tank.

The interesting part is that it looks like a 50% price cut from its last sale price, so it's sitting at $549k now when it sold for over a million back in 2017. The listing mentions it used to have a mid-century house on it with a pool, and it still has a city water hookup, which are definitely pros. But if any of you are local to the area or know the hillside out that way, I would appreciate any insight you have on the pros and cons. Is the rock and steepness a known dealbreaker for this pocket of Monticello Rd, or is there something else I'm missing?

Thanks in advance!

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2277-Monticello-Rd-Napa-CA-94558/19418433_zpid/?utm_campaign=zillowwebmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

I have two Litter-Robot 4s and three cats, and one day it hit me that these things are quietly logging a goldmine of data — every visit, every weight reading, every clean cycle — and I was doing absolutely nothing with it. So I built a dashboard.

It pulls from the Whisker API (via the pylitterbot library) and shows both robots at a glance: whether they're online, current litter level, how full the waste drawer is, cycle counts, and — the part I actually care about — each cat's weight over time and how often they're using the box. Watching weight and visit frequency turned out to be a surprisingly good early-warning signal for a cat that might be off.

A script runs every hour, rebuilds the page, and pushes it to S3 behind CloudFront, so it's always current without me touching anything. It's also mobile-friendly now, so I can glance at it on my phone.

Live dashboard (updates hourly): https://litterrobot.sunit.dev/litter_robot_dashboard.html

Code + a full README explaining how it works: https://github.com/sunitc-berk/Litter-Robot-Dashboard

Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to do the same with their setup. Curious if others are tracking their cats' habits this way too — and whether anyone's caught a health issue early from the weight trends.

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the true reasons behind the delay in getting the Robotaxi deployed, and I wanted to see if this theory makes sense to anyone else based on what we saw with the Cybertruck.

I own a Cybertruck, and when it first launched, it didn’t have FSD at all. If I remember right, it took something like 8 to 10 months after delivery day for FSD to finally roll out to the truck.

My assumption at the time was that Tesla’s AI team needed real-world fleet data to train the FSD model specifically for the Cybertruck's unique physical dimensions, camera placements, and steering physics.

Since the Robotaxi (Cybercab) is a completely new form factor, it stands to reason that they’re running into the exact same hurdle. Even if the software is great on a Model 3 or Y, they probably need to rack up millions of validation miles on actual Robotaxi prototypes before the model is safe and accurate enough to handle that specific body type unsupervised.

Does this logic hold up, or do you think the delays are driven more by regulatory hurdles, hardware production scaling, or something else entirely?

Would love to hear your thoughts.