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@harmmonica I do. we prefer to use Waymos in SF but Uber has been a lot cheaper in the last six months or so regardless of time of day... Also saw some Zoox self driving boxes on t…

Waymo ride costs are getting really expensive in SF.

LI batteries would burn regardless

Would be good to have a formal notification on glass stating 'this window/screen/etc contains a camera that may broadcast your image'

I think anyone with an ounce of common sense is aware that EVs are analogous to the steam era with similar dangers. Coal power is used to create and force tremendous amounts of tra…

Automakers blast US plan to hike fuel efficiency rules The US is on track to completely destroy the western world's automotive industries, with a huge knock on effect in Europe. Mi…

I gave up my subscription to the New Yorker years ago due in large part to this 'sophisticates' problem

There is actually no way to 'put out' thermal runaway Li-ion batteries chemical fires. They have to be left to burn out which can take days and produces immense heat and toxic chem…

Reminds me of the Theranos scam crash - discredit the figure heads when it all goes wrong with increasingly bizarre 'they were nuts' stories. Meanwhile the board members and backer…

https://mishtalk.com/economics/ford-to-layoff-at-least-1000-...

Ford is bleeding to death on purpose so they can get more tax payer EV subsidies https://youtu.be/5MZeTeqdsTw

>Catastrophe as in many possible earthquakes, if the hypothesis is correct? No, wiping out the entire electrical grid and all electronics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_E…

Why is 'sunspot activity driving changes in the Earth's dynamo that then kick off earthquakes' a loopy idea? We are hours away from coronal mass ejection catastrophe right now as s…

@hef19898 Not 'better' just different culturally. The US installs ivy league types at well funded startups just as the french install their ENA/Ecole Polytechnique elites in their …

I think my point is that ENA / Ecole Polytechnique people are arguably harming French innovative abilities. Many US entrepreneurs are grass roots college dropout types...

French innovation is quirky but brilliant IMO - minitel was years ahead pre internet. For some reason French innovation doesn't spread much beyond France. Concorde (I love that pla…

I read this by Dana Blankenhorn this morning which I think a few people in France need to read. This AI Boom Will Bust | The Slope of Enlightenment is Coming https://danafblankenho…

I know quite a bit about Anchor, who used to be an SF institution. After the new Giants baseball park was built in 2000 Anchor as an independent local company were going to build a…

'Phytoplankton are responsible for most of the transfer of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to the ocean. Carbon dioxide is consumed during photosynthesis, and the carbon is inco…

I know people in the Sierra foothills who used to work in the logging industry until the bureaucrats made it impossible. I also know people in the same area who are fire fighters. …