in favor of Hydrogen. 200x the energy density of our best lithium battery. That's 200x less weight. Yes we lose a little carbon cracking H2O into Hydrogen, but you just can't get around the economy savings of not having to drag around an extra 2000 lbs of battery when you only need 10lbs of Hydrogen. Not counting the tanks, but those are hollow until filled and return to a hollow state as fuel is used. Not to mention there are lots of lightweight composite tanks these days.

Finally this firmly gets us out of China's and Saudi Arabia's pocket. Anywhere we can run water and electricity, we can crack H2O and compress it.

Someone told me this is routine for Cisco, that they've been laying off folks this time of year since 2008. I don't want to believe them, does anyone know if there's a table showing the number of layoffs per year?

So let's say humans end up depleting oil, and the only way to get diesel is these machines connected to unlimited power supplies (say... fusion) to start sucking all the carbon out of the atmosphere. Will we get giant bugs as a result? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Apples to oranges.

Extensive training is for the systems unique to the F-35. I can be trained to drive a car, step into any car and drive it since the interface is fairly universal.

We don't need military grade for driving. It's unlikely anyone driving will experience over 1g unless they're in an accident or trying to avoid one. They're not dropping bombs. I do think though that there will need to be some regulation on these devices when driving, a driving mode like most google phones have. I wouldn't want someone binge watching Netflix while behind the wheel for instance. I do see a lot of good potential though for enhancing safety.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

The F-35 helmet utilizes cameras mounted around the aircraft to create a virtual invisible jet for the pilot. The pilot can look down at the floor of the aircraft, and see the ground below. They can look behind themselves, and not see a headrest.

I think there is some room for headsets to make driving safer. Glass cockpit, virtual instruments and rear view mirrors, augmented reality for night vision and things we don't have at all, like cues to switch lanes to avoid potholes or other obstructions in the road.

I think the real reason this is happening is nobody wants more China.

No more Chinese Solar Panels
No more Chinese batteries

Especially our ally Japan. Japan REALLY doesn't want anyone supporting China anymore. To the point where Japan is hedging bets for Hydrogen. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl... .

All you need to make Hydrogen is electricity and water. Saltwater is even better.

Hydrogen also requires no change to our current production lines. Ford/GM can continue producing ICE engines, with just a simple fuel change.

All we need is an abundance of power, and Fission provides that.

> someone said that one company firing people does not make a meaningful statistic

There's a lot of young people that feel invincible and have never been through layoffs before, nor do they known the signs of a major economic downturn. I've been through several starting in 2000. Weird because 24 years ago doesn't feel like 24 years ago.

I think my generation weathered it because prior to the 90's, we did other work. Networks weren't common place in the 80's. Prior to getting into tech in 93 when I was 20, I spent the previous 2 years doing hard labor, roofing and landscaping. Prior to that, a lot of odd jobs like dishwashing/waiter/paperboy. Was thinking the other day how when I was a kid, kids had those options. These days they say, "Kids don't want to work" but my kids desperately want to work.

I'm not sure how this generation is going to weather it. Not saying they're not capable, just those jobs are GONE. People make careers out of what used to be temp/summer jobs.

Anyone else get the feeling a lot of these layoffs are holdouts still refusing to come back to the office? Most corporations cut 1-2% from the bottom every year so they can hire fresh grads, but a lot of these numbers are way higher than the norm.

You're absolutely correct, and proof of that is the 1000's of migrants that come into the country with nothing and are more than happy to get with whatever program will feed, educate, house, and get them a job.

Which means whatever money does trickle down to the homeless is being pissed away too.

Look at the homeless industrial complex and tell me there's no entitlements. BILLIONS being pissed away to "non-profits" creating a maze of paperwork the public has to sift through to do any real auditing. The C level execs of these nonprofits take home salaries that would make most tech workers blush, while people still languish on the streets. All from our tax dollars.

I'm a part of the Bidet Master Race you insensitive clod!

I always see ads for stuff like, "Was not used in a crypto rig" or "Was never overclocked" This is great, it gives consumers buying these systems second hand a way to check if the CPU was overclocked. Now if they do the same for the graphics card, that'd be a win.

In California EV's are being pushed. DewDudes comment above is right on the money, but it's likely marked troll due to the inflammatory language being used. For those that don't know, California's energy is served by a single public utility, PG&E. PG&E has been doing a fairly bad job of maintenance and upgrades of their existing infrastructure. I think this first came to light decades ago when there was a natural gas explosion that leveled an entire cul-de-sac in San Bruno, and more recently Paradise Ca, an entire small town was levelled from a fire that could have been prevented had PG&E maintained their lines. That's really just the first issue, which happens to be a root issue.

Next up we have a lack of nuclear options. California is probably the most nimby state in the union, and was always very vocal against nuclear power. There was a time Berkeley proudly put out street signs, "A Nuclear free city" I think Palo Alto might have done the same in the 70's and 80's. Even with Nuclear, we're still decades behind in transmission lines (see first point above) We likely have the most amount of wind and solar of any other state, but these are not "set it and forget it" Solar panels have an efficiency lifespan of about 25 years, and wind turbines fare even worse with blades wearing out every 20 years. Anyone familiar with the manufacture and disposal of either of these "Green" options knows they're both chock full of nasty chemistry that can leech into and poison groundwater.

The third issue we have though is the efficiency of batteries. Our best batteries are 27x less energy dense than diesel. Granted with a diesel engine there is some thermal loss of energy along with having to carry along the weight of the engine, but batteries are pretty heavy and have some energy lost as heat too. If you take all the CO2 each vehicle generates from the time the metal is dug out of the ground, until its end of life, EV's are almost as equivalently damaging to the environment as ICE engine based vehicles. While the majority of an ICE engine can be re-smelted and recycled, processes for lithium/cobalt reclamation aren't yet at a stage where they're as efficient. It's not an easy process anyone can spin up, as it requires a lot of caustic chemistry for extraction. The batteries themselves have a short shelf life, while ICE engines with proper care can run for decades.

California has always lead the charge in emissions standards, but our current leadership is the result of cronyism, and nepotism. These are not the bright, intelligent leaders we had 50-60 years ago who could come up with realistic goals the entire country could emulate. Before you respond with "But!" just take a look at how badly managed everything is now. Our roads, our cities, our High Speed Rail, the homeless. We're the last state to be setting an example right now.

Other GenX's are welcome to chime in here, but seeing this sort of dredges up a whole other era. Activision has come a looong way from its roots with David Crane, and I still remember being barely tall enough to see over the counter, watching a bunch of kids crowded around an atari 2600 playing PitFall! From a time when games and computers were REALLY considered to be the domain of guys with black rimmed glasses, pocket protectors and slide rules to an everyman form of media, as the Dead say; what a long strange trip it's been.

John Legere was a good guy. For a tech CEO he was extremely approachable. I wanted to buy 2 new phones for my kids (their old ones were pretty beat up) The T-Mobile store I went to kept wanting to charge me a $25 "Sim Fee" to transfer the sim from the old phone to the new. I keep a sim popping tool on my keychain, and kept arguing with them I'm not letting them charge me $25 for something I could do myself. They would not relent, and I ended up getting new phones at best buy.

John keeps a pretty solid presence on facebook. When I told him what had happened he responded with, "This is not how we do business, I am so sorry" A week later I noticed the store was shuttered. A month later the store was reopened with new employees. John seemed to actually care that customers were treated fairly by his company. I don't even know who's running TMO now.