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Yes - I misread the parent comment. Didn’t realize they were referring to subsidized installation of home chargers.

Why wouldn’t fast home charging scale? Presumably, homeowners are doing their own installations.

Is NYC hybrid a hard requirement, or are you open to US remote?

Tripwiring (and thus fatally wounding) horses was quite a thing back in the day.

“If she committed a felony…”

This has been asserted but not proven to be true.

“…she shouldn't be in charge of anything.“

Even if sensible, this is clearly not a heuristic that is being applied universally.

The dystopian downside is significant. It is not difficult to come up with half a dozen horrific outcomes of this technology.

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Functionally, it probably amounts to two restrictions: a chatbot cannot formally diagnose & a chatbot cannot bill insurance companies for services rendered.

Read “The Island” for a different flavor of Huxley.

If you’re talking about POTS, that does not appear to be true (at least not in my area).

I know a few retired teachers in the Chicago area, and it’s uniquely generous*.

This is very region dependent. When I left education for consulting after 10 years as a HS teacher, I was making 55k. I started at 38k.

“ Right now they’re expensive because they’re essentially just sitting around.”

Why do you think that’s the reason for these high prices rather than, say, lack of competition?

Yes, but not at 90’-20’s laptop improvements cycles.

I’ve been eyeing the CPO P2s. Sub-30k is tempting depending on the year.

Are they rapidly improving though?

Sure, other companies are making an effort to catch up with Tesla on autonomous driving, but range/speed/price are largely stagnant.

Mostly, it looks like every company (in the US/EU)is in shambles releasing half baked EVs hoping no one will notice that their hardware company is terrible at software.

The Polestar 2/EX40 probably have the most mature software of that lineup. Not without issues (and certainly underpowered pre-‘24), but relatively stable by comparison.

I don’t understand the logic of having each Polestar model running a unique software stack rather than progressively improving one system across all models - but must be a downstream impact of the fractured Geely badges.

The VW Group is putting billions into their partnership with Rivian specifically to improve the software experience (and enabling hardware). It may be the only thing that keeps Rivian alive until (if) the R2 successfully launches to the mass market.

Carbon Origins.

There’s a startup not far from me working on remotely operated construction machines. They explicitly are targeting terrestrial as well as space operations, but I would be curious if the communication latency to any reasonably close celestial object would require autonomous operation.

At this point, Solarpunk has barely - if at all - escaped the aesthetic stage to produce any meaningful narrative works. Feels relevant that its origin story is tightly associated with a Chobani advertisement.

I was a HS teacher for about a decade. The demands on kids and families around youth sports (especially private/club leagues) is out of control. I had students, 14/15-years-old, going to their school team practice then club team practice, not getting home until past 9 pm every night. Families from three states away would enroll their kids in my school half of the year to play on the hockey team (staying with local sponsor family). Tournaments across the Midwest most weekends. These weren’t even future D1 athletes.

I was a multi-sport athlete. My sibling played D1 soccer. It didn’t used to be like this.

Can’t find it now - but might have been!

I’ve heard it said by a very science oriented chef that ‘all cooking is moisture management’.

Telepathy, or maybe memory and experience sharing media machine, or maybe humanity id unification device, or maybe flesh robot actualizer, or maybe a looping torture horror show mask. The possibilities are endless!

I know that in recent years Target has announced that they were investigating, in partnership with local and federal law enforcement, organized theft rings. It was publicly reported on here in Minneapolis.

That US private company was significantly enabled by a (apparently temporary) government policy of direct and indirect financial support. That company does not exist without the direct and intentional support by the US government.

Maybe I am misunderstanding your comment, but I dont see plasma gasification as waste reduction. We are reusing the waste for energy production. We could be making efforts to reduce the overall amount of plastic waste (perhaps through legislation), but if we become reliant on the energy generated, we would be incentivized to avoid waste reduction because we want the energy. FWIW, “recycling theater” is also not waste reduction and is a separate, but related, problem that increases plastic waste.

Is there any (realistic) concern that plasma gasification causes an adverse incentive to generate additional waste vs waste reduction efforts because now localities are, to some degree, dependent on feeding the machine to generate electricity? Do localities with plasma gasifiers end up purchasing waste from elsewhere to maintain waste input stocks? I am not familiar with the economics here.

They return energy (like a spring) providing mechanical assistance to the runner.