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Money well spent eh

I do not that that will be true for teens growing up today. They seem to be weened on a sort of cyborg I traction model rather than any actual direct human contact.

The only thing I would add is that I find the only people using whatsapp are grandparents talking to children, not groups with any level of tech savvy...

This isnt capitalism. It's more corporatism.

Capitalism responded to market forces and the needs of the customer.

Lol. This is complete nonsense. Numbers that don't hold up, assertions which don't pass the smell test.

Linux excels in invironments where people don't ever lnow they're using Linux. Servers, embedded and highly customized environments. For average users Linux is still too much of a disjointed mess with poor hardware support.

I use multiple Linux distros daily and none of them would pass for a primetime ready desktop environment in any of my personal or professional environments. As much as I hate windows and Macos Linux just isn't up to the job of replacing them on the desktop. Luckily for them that is becoming less and and less relevant outside of the business environment.

In the end Linux is still little more than a random collection of software loosely connected through an administrator centric framework.

I haven't needed a bash script to customize anything but I have had ti spend countless hours in the terminal making seemingly mundane software and hardware work.

Just because you've used Linux-training wheels edition and don't remember having problems isn't grounds to dismiss the large number of people who do have issues with Linux.

I also find Linux exhausting. I use it daily in servers and containers. It excels from an administrative perspective. I avoid using it as a client desktop pc at all cost because that is not where it excels.

Absolutely. The risk of putting load on the engine before the moving parts and oil have reached operating temps is far greater than the threat of tiny amounts of gasoline washing residual oil from the cylinder walls or thinning the oil.

The only risk described here applies to prolonged idling only and is a long term risk mitigated by reasonable elwarmuo and oil changes. The short term risk is the rotating assembly and value train is far more immediate.

Fuel injection has convinced people that they can just jump in a cold car, fire it up and be fine. Doing so, especially in extreme cold is just incredibly damaging.

Well. There is some pretty big context issues here.

Texas hasn't been shutting down power plants while subsidizing less capable replacements and outlawing non-electric alternatives.

Texas governor also hasnt warned people not to charge their state subsidized electric cars...

Note: Not a Texan so I reserve the right to hold both states in contempt.

This is textbook unintended consequences of government action.

If there were a market for this then the products would already exist.

By moving beyond an ingredient disclosure to the elimination of all possible sources of contamination the incentives are changed and this is the result. Rather than incurring the cost required by the law businesses found a different solution.

As a result the people the law tried to help are now harmed. The blame here doesn't rest with the businesses but with the lawmakes who drafted this unnecessary nonsense.

The change in the law makes that insufficient to eliminate the liability. It isn't a matter of labeling but the cost of eliminating any possibility of cross contamination.

This is it. The labeling isn't the problem it's the extra processes and cost required to eliminate the potential for any cross contamination. This problem, cost and liability goes away by just adding the ingredient.

I think this perspective is born of ignorance. A mature company doesn't rely on interactions of the ceo in day to day operations. If the right people are in place those will take care of themselves. The ceo value comes in from the strategic and big picture elements.

Twitter will eventually get to this place too. The risk to both Tesla a d SpaceX is where Musk as as much as lead engineer as CEO. Distracting him from that side is where there is likely to be an impact.

This is full of misdirection and half truths.

It is true that transit policy is a choice but it is one largely driven by economics. There is also an element of personal preference. Public transit is not pleasant or flexible.

Believing that the US would become eurplope or Asia if not for transportation policy is simply untrue. There are some regions that could adapt but the ones most likely to benefit from and use mass transit already have it and barely use it. The simple truth is our cities and geographies are different.

The tradeoffs you gloss over are likely to be much lore significant. They start with the tremendous investment required to add these where they don't exist and end with the mix of economic and quality or life impacts inherent in this type of travel.

EV do not drop total emissions out of the gate. Most start with a higher carbon footprint (and environmental impact) than ice vehicles and do not break even until more than half way through the expected life cycle. You do get some gains after break even but those benefits are mostly on relocation rather than reduction and are reset when the car hits battery replacement. I like EV's but they aren't the panacea they're presented as and come with their own problems.

The bottom line is that the automobile for all of its flaws represents complete freedom of movement not offered by any other means available to the average citizen. And you want to do away with it.

That is not universally true. Health conditions aside age has a big impact here on everything from distance to duration, frequency and speed.

Some parts of the world do require licensing.

You 'could' take it cross country but that depends on your health and financial status...which means you won't because it's incredibly impractical for the vast majority of people.

How do you equate some people's denial of death with a cost of millions to society rather than as costs to the indovidual?

There is a lot of subjectivity in your conclusion.

Healthy diet for example is not a singularly defined term and depending on specifics can be argued to lower quality of life even if they improve health.

This trend of spending millions on sinple projects is not a US problem so much as a California, New York etc problem.

Given the multitude of problems facing California this is an asinine thing to focus on. Rather than hoping for a celebrity mountain lion in your neighborhood you should probably focus on the problems endangering humans in your state.

"There are straight up inaccuracies in this article which makes the know-it-all tone even more insufferable."

They call that "the internet".

To be fair politics are a factor in the economics. Looking at the US the politics. Especially in California, make building or expanding nuclear power much lore expe since than it really should be.

"people have other problems"

You certainly seem to have some.

I have a large digital library but that does not mean that they approach the value of an actual bound book. Especially one with fond memories attached.

I am not a boomer but i found your remark teeming with ignorance and misplaced emotion.

You'll see this same attachment in people who keep drawers full of old phones or just keepsakes from old trips and adventures that an outsider would only see as garbage.

Really, it just seems ironic to come on here being bitter and hateful while complaining about boomers...

well, the answers tend to embrace a few fallacies so maybes thats what they meant.

So, what you're saying is that you no idea what's involved in actually manufacturing these chips?

While I welcome this advancement it still seems like a solution to the wrong solution for another problem.

Both of those can be bad at once you know...

A lithium mine is much more devastating to the environment than an oil well or franking. That doesn't mean either of these are really good options despite what either side wants to pretend.

That's not an argument for putting these in front of people before they're ready.

I'd disagree that this is the ultimate result of the internet, or even a desirable result. We already live in a state that results in an inflated sense of intellect while simultanesoulty hobbling peoples ability to think critically.

I don't really have a take on the specifics here but there have been many similar threads where the intent wasn't to cause harm but the steps taken to 'help' inevitably led to harm instead. It's easy for people to get their through a mixture of hubris and short sightedness.

What I'm getting at here is to not be too hard on the conspiracy types. Just because they can't articulate these things in ways we take seriously doesn't mean there isn't something to watch for.

For years I've only used them for OS installs on personal machines.

At work pluggiing one into a machine would get you fired and questioned by authorities. If we have to sneakernet files it means burning them to a CD or DVD...

This is the big failing of BTC. It's nearly useless as a daily currency and precieved as something only criminals use.

That just seems like an absurd statement to me.

It ignores so many use cases and financial realities.