It can, unfortunately.

We might celebrate Steve Jobs as an entrepreneur who started building computers in a garage and grew it into one of the world’s largest companies but that’s not common.

For me the scamminess is pure internet “entrepreneurs”. We’ve all seen those who have no real product or service except self-promotion, and it seems sketchy that part of that is calling themselves an entrepreneur. We’ve all seen mlm’s where victims are sold on being “entrepreneurs”. Basically word inflation: using a more important sounding word to seem more on the level

But you can’t opt out. It scams the vendors but also the people who don’t take part.

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

A big part of it was the rise of credit card perks like cash back, supported by higher credit card fees. I gotta admit, why should the vendor be paying for our cash back?

Tesla always had “light show” as a fun gimmick. It’s one of the first things you show friends and family.

There’s a few canned versions but apparently you can create your own on usb stick. Supposedly it was an outgrowth of qa, so it includes things like windows and trunk opening and closing, side mirrors folding and unfolding, all timed to music, etc. Even before the active matrix headlights were approved for regular use, one of the canned light shows used them to spell out “Tesla” on whatever is in front of you.

A recent update mentioned new light shows and a way to synchronize. I can certainly imagine a Tesla club having great fun with this

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

It was well before that. French were saddled with the white flag, from results in wwii, whether deserved or not

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”

Y’all laugh but I spent a lot of years not gaming such that this is very recent. I grew up playing pong and Atari, then grew away. When I had kids, the Wii was perfect. Then my kids became teens and it wasn’t enough. Suddenly everything was Xbox, then pc gaming.

Suddenly if I wanted to interact with them I had to figure out this alien contraption with too many buttons and joysticks. After about five years (playing every 2-4 weeks because who has time), I’m ok technically. But there’s no way I can do fighting or any twitch moves, and I still sometimes blank on which button does what - it’s not engrained enough to just do it and I’ll never play frequently enough for that to become true

And Microsoft’s terminology doesn’t help - wtf do “bumper” and “trigger” mean? I still remember those buttons as “opposite of bottom”and “opposite of top”

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

Wow, 12! You’re right

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes

And sure enough, searching for Rivian returns that they are only allowed to sell in 25 US states. It probably hasn’t mattered much with the R1 generation being relatively few sales but now that they’re coming out with R2 and R3, and expecting a lot more sales, they need a way around this

It’s ridiculous that any state would create a law for a single manufacturer: that needs to be fixed

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