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This isn’t new or unique to AirTags. You can buy a GPS tracker on Amazon for a few dollars, and short of tearing your car apart you’d have absolutely no way of finding it. Frankly I think apple has put far more effort into safeguarding their product from malicious use than any of the readily available competitors.

I always wonder how these things would stand up to stones getting caught in between the rubber “spokes“.

I’ve experienced this in a Tesla. It slammed the brakes on without warning in the middle of a freeway and dropped our speed from 70 to 30 in seconds. Luckily there wasn’t a truck behind us otherwise we would have all died. Tesla fans tend to waive stories like that away with “yeah it happens sometimes” which I think is a pretty astonishing response to what really felt like attempted murder by a car.

The NYT is famous for having consistently hyperbolic negative coverage of things in the U.K.

Edit: sources for those who don’t believe me:

What’s the New York Times’s problem with Britain?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-s-the-new-york-time...

The New York Times’ bizarre campaign against Britain

https://unherd.com/2020/01/what-has-the-new-york-times-got-a...

The New York Times is junk.

I think Dacia addresses this market pretty well already. However many of the things you’ve listed (cameras, TPMS, telemetry) are mandated by law in most regions.

Twitter is just awful for so many reasons. I honestly think, of all the social media, the world would be most improved if Twitter disappeared.

Most modern cars have anti-siphon traps preventing this.

Search for “quietly” on HackerNews and you’ll get quite literally hundreds of examples

What is modern journalism’s obsession with putting “quietly“ in the headline of everything they weren’t explicitly informed of in advance? They seem to use it to imply some kind of deceitfulness, when usually it means they actually just had to do their job and investigate a little bit.

I love advice like this - it is clear, easy to remember, and simple to apply.

Is this really good advice? Most businesses fail.

There is housing available within commuting distance - I bought a 2 bedroom flat walking distance from a station with a 35 minute link to Kings Cross for under 200k. People seem to think they have some sort of God-given right to live in central London. If you want to buy a property you may need to make some sacrifices in that department. Yes the town I live in is pretty shite, and I have to train to work or to see friends on the weekend but I own my home.

This sounds like hell

This feels like an ideologically motivated article. Something along the lines of "boomers bad". They don't actually provide any evidence to support the assertion in the headline that "Gen Z members flock to climate careers".

Edit: “My goal is to use the lens of literature and philosophy to study and hopefully help repair humans’ relationship to our environments” Seriously?

I wouldn't want this at all. Just off the top of my head I can think of a ton of use cases this makes hard:

* I ask a seller on FB marketplace to send me some pictures of an item

* I need to send pictures of some documents to my solicitor

* A new friend I've just met in a bar tries to send me her contact card

* My mechanic tries to send me a PDF of the invoice for his work

Sure, there are ways around all of these, but it makes iMessage (or any messaging service) a lot less useful.

I think it actually did bring people together. In the UK at least there has been a noticeable change in the national atmosphere.

I guess I would then argue that your points one and two are the same, and therefore have a similar fix - that the lack of labour imports will impact standard of living (either through logistics, farming, or other unskilled work)

We need to pay more people to do these jobs, not rely on exploiting people from poorer nations to fill the gaps. I think the evidence suggests this is indeed happening. Wages are rising at their fastest rate on record.

I think your suggestion of applying the Australian model to filling those vacancies is also a good one, but most of the people filling those jobs are tourists on extended holidays, not people looking to build a life in Australia. Working holiday visas require that you must work in service or agriculture, and the will kick you out when your time is up (I'm Australian so I've seen it happen to a number of my friends).

I guess I can't disagree with your personal experiences at University, but I do suspect a lot of it comes down to the institution you attended. I studied at two universities in the UK and found them both academically rigourous.

A couple of counterpoints (offered in good faith):

> - the UK needs the import/export flow it was used to pre-brexit to keep their current life style.

That is about goods, which are totally separate to immigration.

> - the current british population doesn't seem very motivation to take back the job they delegated to immigration.

Motivation has nothing to do with it. The employers offering these shitty jobs have gotten used to being able to pay poor wages to cheap imported labour. They need to pay more, and the jobs will be filled. Look at the wage growth of truck drivers as an example.

> - the UK education system sucks.

Disagree here. The UK punches way above its weight in terms of high end education institutions per capita (trailing only the US) The UK also has more STEM grads per capita than any European country.

> all the joy, happiness and hope seems to have drained from this land.

That might have more to do with the 18 months of COIVD lockdown than Brexit.

> My impression is that another upside Silicon Valley has over the UK is that the US is genuinely a country of immigrants.

Have you ever tried applying for a US Visa? The process makes the complaints of the author in this article look like a joke.

Yes, but why are people buying online? My argument is that less free times makes the convenience aspect of online shopping more compelling.

I wonder how much of this comes down to people working longer and less social hours, and the decline in multigenerational households providing childcare to working age parents. Having the time to browse through a department store at your leisure is a massive luxury that I suspect many people simply can’t do.

What does memoryholing mean?

Sure: this is about a slightly different specific of taxation here, but its sums up the arguments the doctors have: https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-says-the-chancel...

Also to clarify - it isn't about overtime. Previously full time (40 hours a week)doctors have switched to part time (2-3 days a week), to avoid hitting the 60% rate.

Hah, I'm not from the US (I'm actually from one of those European nations you mention) and I see it from a different angle - the tax burden on higher income earners here is so enormous that people will find ways to work less to keep their earnings down, as the government just takes most of it. It has become a problem with doctors particularly - they will often opt to work fewer hours in order to earn less, as it simply isnt worth the extra time. This has made doctor access harder, which is a double disaster when you realise that the tax payer is the one who paid to train them in the first place. It is hard to argue that people paying tax in that bracket aren't doing enough already, and shouldn't be weary of any proposed increases in taxation.

Do you not think that "code red" fatigue is part of this? Ordinary people are bombarded with messages predicting doom at some distant point in the future for one reason or another on an almost daily basis, and yet life rolls on.

I disagree on the the thrust of the argument - that people (including comparatively wealthy individuals like doctors and lawyers) oppose changes to tackle wealth inequality because they don’t understand the gulf of wealth between them and the ultra rich. In my experience it has nothing to do with that - rather these people know that they will ultimately end up as the main target for any such law, not these billionaires. Time and time again the wealth of the middle classes ends up as collateral damage in attempts to tax the very top.

Well we don't really know that, because diagnosis is normally confirmed post-mortem. There could be many people walking around infected with prions that show no symptoms at all.

I did mention that I don’t have a problem with them altering the results as they see fit, I just think it would be ethical to mention that they have done so.

I wonder if it will show when Google has manually edited the ranking of results to suit their agenda (US election, COVID?). Another interesting example of this is the image result for “European art”. The image results have been modified to the increase diversity of the skin colours of people portrayed. I don’t have a problem with it, but they definitely surface specific results to fit their political/ideological leanings. It would be nice if they were at least transparent about it.