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Tile never gained enough market traction for it to be an issue. No use using a system to track your stolen goods that can't provide you with a location because there's no phone run…

Reading The Fine Manual here : ( https://blockprotocol.org/spec ) - blocks are expected to include code to render the block information in a displayable format. So, a block isn't j…

I can see how, if you get to critical mass, the network effect will drive adoption. For example, building a Blocks-based project management system becomes much, much easier if it c…

Check out https://helium.com - it's a blockchain-based LoRA network, where the blockchain is used to reward uptime and certainty of location of the base stations. Transmissions can…

The thing that people are missing here is that these aren’t natural gas wells, they are oil wells. Natural gas is a byproduct of oil production (crude oil can have a lot of natural…

Specifically, it needs to absorb/emit in a frequency range called the “sky window”, where the atmosphere is transparent. In this range, the object is basically seeing the cold of s…

They don’t have to do this in most states. Only a few states have laws against selling cars factory-direct.

Car manufacturers contracted with car dealers back when the car business was uncertain - they needed a local dealer network to sell and service their cars. Once dealers were establ…

Not entirely true. Certain classes of jobs, like working in health care, have always mandated vaccination. Additionally, when most vaccines are given in childhood, making sure ever…

This. What’s your long-term business plan? If you plan to keep this business as a privately held enterprise in the long term, equity is basically useless and worthless. Are you pla…

The issue is, most of the things you mention never happened. Not even close.

In most places in CA, the touchscreens spit out a marked paper ballot that is then counted and stored with the rest.

Can you please explain how criminalizing homelessness, for example by enforcing sit/lie ordinances, would help homeless people find homes? Likewise, getting people into mental heal…

There have actually been studies done on this. The estimate I’ve seen is that for every year of life that would be prolonged by mandating helmet use in NL, 25 years of life would b…

I probably would have agreed with you until I spent a lot of time in the Netherlands. Imagine saying the same thing about pedestrians: “I think we should normalize walking among ca…

This is wrong on so many levels. I’ve spent years biking in the Netherlands. People from age 7 up into their 70s ride their bikes regularly and safely - so safely that bike helmets…

Not quite. It was called the Spanish Flu because the Spanish press, being neutral during WWI, were free to write about the flu epidemic, while wartime censors in every other major …

They aren’t spreading misinformation at all. They are merely pointing out that the placebo injection used in the study has almost exactly the same serious adverse event rate as the…

I’m still learning, but the concept of “sterilizing immunity” has started to come up recently. What I infer from cursory reading is that “immunity” means the body will mount an imm…

Well, there’s nothing in their marketing copy that says that any of this is in doubt - it’s all in terms of what the car will do, not what it might do someday. This is all associat…

Tesla represents that the current cars they are selling will achieve these functions with a software update to be delivered at some future date. I do not personally believe that to…

OK. It is far more likely to happen by the programs being executed by companies like Waymo and Cruise, who are deploying vehicles with far more sensors and compute capability than …

Yes, you can, that’s called traffic aware cruise control (TACC), and is activated with a single pull on the stick. TACC absolutely does exactly what is mentioned in this article - …

This is all written in terms of future capabilities of the system that it doesn’t have today, but that’s extremely unclear to many people who buy Tesla’s.

You’ve fallen prey to a mathematical fallacy. Imagine a place where one person is born each year, and all of them die upon reaching age 10. The average age of that population is 5,…