The shovel makers and shovel sellers always get rich in a gold rush

That’s fine, I’m over here eating popcorn, watching all the drama……

Luckily I’m not likely to need any laptop, phone, tablet. game console, car, tv, etc any time soon. All my higher end devices are good for a few years until the bubble bursts.

That being said, my hobbies tend to be in low end devices. We know raspberry pi’s are now expensive and likely to get worse, but I wonder how it will effect the tiny bit of old technology memory in things like “smart switches” and sensors

For sure the ridiculous us money for little benefit to us citizens at high us consumer cost is ridiculous. But that doesn’t change the fact that there’s been a lot of medical r&d benefitting all our lives. We want that to continue and the us should prefer that it be here

But the thing is it’s across all science and technology. US has benefitted from brain drain from other parts of the world, some of the best scientists coming here for the best rewards. That’s a good thing (for the US).

Reversing that brain drain is a bad thing (for the US) and this is a scenario where a very few individals can make a huge difference. If we don’t have a critical mass of researchers to become a desirable destination and we don’t have research opportunities, and yes if we don’t have opportunities for rewards, the brain drain flows the other way. That’s great for the countries retaining more of their top researchers, but bad for the US, bad for the researchers if there are less rewards and bad for everyone if it results in less opportunity. and this is a people thing so an individual staying away affects other individuals and new researchers see which way the brains are draining and a poor reputation for supporting science and research may not be overcome in these peoples lives

Out of all the things Trump continues doing to destroy our place in the world, undermine our values , this is one that may never come back

But will they fund upgrades to the electrical system?

Or …. The extra electricity needed for EVs is zero or maybe even negative. Except for batteries, power is not dispatchable. Power plants can’t react to the amount of power needed at any time and they get inefficient trying. If we had a way to charge when supply is greater than demand, we can not only make use of previously wasted power but even make power plants more efficient by giving them steadier demand

Yeah, they expected to be in jail long before this, so they couldn’t be corrupt

Of course, the problem is transit, not the criminals nor the society that increases desperation and gives desperate people nowhere to turn

Plus all the time loading and unloading. A few tens of seconds per stop over the length of the route adds up

The article seems needlessly negative. We see evidence of air pollution improvements: take the win.

It’s also good to know where things get worse: sure, next step is to try to improve tire particle pollution. However, even assuming it is worse than for ice cars, that in itself is not reason to worry. People are concerned about the extra weight, but there’s every possibility the weight comes down as technology improves. We may not have to worry about that aspect. We’d do better to worry about tire particle pollution as a whole, and do something about that

Thank you. Infinite pagers are such poor usability, just all around annoying. I really don’t understand why people want them unless it’s developers saying “this is cool”

This is really not inevitable, and policy is a huge part of it. I do believe Biden is a poor example here, because that approach to rebuilding manufacturing was to actually invest in it. Especially investing in forward looking technologies. Especially trying to establish longer term consistent policies, especially trying to connect with reality and science

Trying to force a return to “the good old days”, starting trade wars with every one, terrorizing large segments of workers, flip flopping policies for personal gain, isolationism, trying to protect old technologies/manufacturers from competition will never work. This is hugely more self-destructive than hands off

These do annoy me. Of course Newsom is not the best candidate but they are distracting everyone from how much better that would be than the current shitshow

And I have to ask y’all, are we really going to an insists on an ideal candidate regardless whether they are electable?

I have no idea whether Newsom is but he has name recognition, presidential presence, and a successful “populist” strategy. He has successfully positioned himself as a leading foil of Trump. All that stuff that seem necessary for getting elected even if they have no part in whether they would do well for their constituents. …. And they’re building a train!

I do always wonder if this is just republicans trying to astroturf “both sides the same”.

There’s an argument that most of the stuff done in trumps name would be “ok” if he did it legally and that’s what people wanted. It’s the abuse of authority, the personal enrichment, violating the constitution, holding people above the law, enforcing personal feelings, violating checks and balances that are the critical issues.

I wouldn’t want to live in such a society but it would at least be “legitimate”

A few years back the Boston globe did an expose on panhandlers and yeah, there are scammers and you need to recognize them but most people in need are truly people in need.

My take on it was that aggressive panhandlers in prime locations (major tourist spots, intersections with chronic backups) are most likely scammers. People sitting quietly looking defeated are in need. The hard part is deciding whether/how to help all those in between, but it’s good to remember that most people who look homeless are homeless

Then there’s that weird guy who approached to talk about his knife, probably to try to steal my dog while technically not threatening - I so regret not calling police

Not at all, that’s tons of time.

That was a nest and I don’t know about them, but for Ring they store snippets activated by motion or ringing the bell. Once you’re only saving snippets, 4-6 hours video could be weeks

Ring can also save snapshots, at regular intervals, but that’s a still photo taking much less storage.

They’re pointing out that HomeKit cameras are specifically end to end encrypted and claimed inaccessible. Apple has really been pushing online privacy as a feature

You can get a camera from anywhere and either use it locally only or implement your own encryption before saving to a cloud resource if you can get one with any expectation of privacy. But you have to do all the work and it is never end to end encrypted

Those are huge infrastructure projects that take many years. They won’t get finished until he’s out of office or finally transfers to the afterlife. “sure, we’ll put your name on it … when we’re done”

Good question, I may have to “investigate” too. I missed it live but maybe I’ll track down some videos

Gotta bring over his fan group, all those sofas he promised to travel the world