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"If you took a Tesla or a Waymo and dropped into into a tier 2 city in India, it will stop moving." Lol. If you dropped the average westerner into Chennai, they would either: a) st…

I think it will be more like: "Pixie, reply to that email for me" "Pixie, book that car service for me and remind them they promised a free brake fluid replacement" "Pixie order al…

Similar. Waited ages in Australia for the Y to arrive, then Elon went nuts, then real competition started to arrive. Everything from Audi to BYD here now, some even have buttons wh…

Found this thought provoking.

I randomly chose a Spotify playlist recently called "Programming music". Was a few hours in, and was like, "hmmmm, this music sounds weirdly familiar", checked the playlist, it was…

I don't think they expect to do they? They are just using an unlimited bankroll to punish people they perceive as their enemies with hugely expensive and stressful litigation.

Wondering if anyone knows if LastPass deletes customer data when you leave the service? I deleted my account a few years ago and moved to 1Password, but copied the data over, didn'…

Worldwide? Definitely. Enough that also have the resources to pay? Not 100% sure, but I would imagine so. I think I read 500,000 Australians alone live in places with very little i…

Similar story with my Mum. I bought her a Chromebook, and haven't had an IT support call from her since.

My $20k Mazda won't allow me to rear-end somebody even if cruise control is switched off. Neither will my wife Subaru.

Why would we not tax the source of the problem. ie dirty energy generation via a carbon tax? That would then incentivize all energy use to become greener, rather than ad-hoc singli…

The problem with that approach is that nobody agrees on what is frivolous. So it ends up being counter-productive as everyone squabbles about why their most hated thing is frivolou…

People have been hyping up small modular reactors for as long as I have been alive. They make total sense. And yet, there is not a single one is operation? I don't really care what…

Tether should be making money though right? You give Tether $1b USD, they issue some tethers you can redeem later, and in the meantime, they invest those tethers, in say treasuries…

With enough energy we can pull CO2 out of the air, and turn into a myriad of useful things[1], not just making $$ off the things produced, but also lowering CO2 concentrations. The…

If the energy is clean, what difference does it make how much we use? Should a break through happen in fusion tonight, and clean limitless green energy became available cheaply, wo…

Are you making the argument that we should be striving for a decrease in consumption? Because I can see no compelling argument that that should be so. In fact, we should be using w…

I hope you quit your job after that? No way I could keep working for someone after they did that.

It's not quite so simple though is it? Electic cars require a lot more resource intensive mining to make, and I believe you are looking at around 50,000 miles before a Tesla is bet…

Do you think SciHub has a reason or right to exist? Financial censorship is real and growing.

"He is free to leave Russia any time he likes." That's not true is it? I thought the state department cancelled his passport?

The most famous must be the Skype story right? Have a bunch of language in the employment contract, which gives the employer the right to take back all the vested shares you have b…

I'm sure Trump could have come up with reason BLM protesters were doing something illegal, and needed to shut down their bank accounts.

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