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I do wonder about the economics of CCS vs. investing more aggressively in wind and solar. This is a big deal here in Alberta where the Oil companies are complaining about footing t…

I'm not so sure. It seems those with capital will accumulate it even faster. Without some kind of income redistribution we are sailing into dark waters.

To be fair, that's a one time process. You do not need to do that for every app you want to sideload. The malware issue that the flow is designed to mitigate is a very real problem…

That seems disingenuous. Crypto made ransomware much easier.

Insurance money doesn't grow on trees. The economy is highly connected, so increased costs impact most consumers. Ransomware is a scourge enabled by crypto. We should do whatever w…

A bunch of people here are conflating low stakes amateur sports with elite sports. Mixed league works fine for your company softball team. Not so much for professional sports.

If we are talking about amateur sports where the stakes are low, the concept of slotting athletes into divisions makes sense. In elite sports, no one wants to see "best in division…

UBI will require a more progressive tax system. The Oligarchs are having none of that.

Clearly they have not reached parity, as evidenced by the crash rate of Tesla. It's far from clear that the current HW4 + sensor suite will ever be sufficient for L4.

I have HW4, and have tried FSD with every major release. It works brilliantly, 99.5% of the time. The issue is that the failure mode is catastrophic. Like getting confused with the…

For the back seats you can order webbing strips from Temu for five bucks. They are easy to spot (bright yellow). I point them out to any passengers in the back seat. If you have ki…

Reading the comments on that Fox site is depressing. A lot of hate for Apple, but for the wrong reasons (as in, completely missing the danger of centralized app stores..).

Well, you have Larry Ellison and Elon doing their best to corner social media - so I think the right wing has it's bases covered.

Or a more likely scenario is that Apple picks up even more market share, and we go from a duopoly to a monopoly.

This is what Tesla should have built instead of the Cybertruck. With their distribution and service centers, this would sell like hot cakes.

It should be obvious that the thing doing the interpretation and navigation is a human, not an automated system.

> Clients can be almost automatic with a HATEOS implementation, because it is a self describing protocol. That was the theory, but it was never true in practice. The oft comparison…

Looking at the demo I can see project managers going wild with this. And not in a good way.

It all went to shit when they removed the floppy drive.

Consider me skeptical. A mainframe has to be the least cost effective "crypto-style" math machine you could imagine.

Tesla's insane valuation based on future hypothetical robots is hard to justify given announcements like these. It seems unlikely that any company (Google included) will have a rob…