1. Bullshit. Power companies here are given massive liberty to make vegetation safe for transmission, even that outside of their property. They cut holes out of trees to pass through all the time.
2. This hardware was *way* past its useful life.
3. And they detected a fault but chose not to cut power.
4. See Colorado (which has massively dry areas and high winds) and their wildfire rates with insulated lines (which cost more money).
5. PG&E rakes in billions of dollars in net profit per year, but leaves their infrastructure to rot.

PG&E will start cutting power and playing the black-out game to get more concessions from the CA PUC for infrastructure repair.

If they don't, they're idiots. It's what the incentive structure dictates right now.

It seems legal here, at least on a divided highway (and a bunch of other circumstances).

California Vehicle Code:
    The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass to the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:
(a) When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn.
(b) Upon a highway within a business or residence district with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width for two or more lines of moving vehicles in the direction of travel.
(c) Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width and clearly marked for two or more lines of moving traffic in the direction of travel.
(d) Upon a one-way street.
(e) Upon a highway divided into two roadways where traffic is restricted to one direction upon each of such roadways.
The provisions of this section shall not relieve the driver of a slow moving vehicle from the duty to drive as closely as practicable to the right hand edge of the roadway.
(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 491, Sec. 39. (SB 1318) Effective January 1, 2011.)

1. OLED.
2. Dynamic backlight control.
3. Just stop.
4. Seriously.

1) That sounds like public private indentured servitude.
2) Hacking without actual harm to others being criminalized was a huge mistake, and it has led to weaker systems.
3) These kids are learning how the man works, and getting underpaid, so they have plenty of incentive to go out and put on a black hat...

I recently had a rental car with lane-keeping suddenly jerk the wheel towards a barrier at an off ramp.

And, yes, it was completely unacceptable. I disabled that stuff ASAP.

Amazing. Now we can finally start working on this AI thing. I was getting worried.

This looks like the micro/nano version of making a pseudo-foam metal by casting in salts and later dissolving the salts.

Laminated between sheets of metal, I'd expect this to kick ass.

Bingo. It's not a binary (never is), but the key legal phrase here is "proximate cause". Allegedly, PG&E knowingly has equipment over 100 years old and knew about arcing on that line but failed to shut off power to it.

All of those add up to bankruptcy protection so they can restructure everything out of the previous shell and into TNPG&EWW (Totally Not Pacific Gas & Electric, Wink Wink) and continue operating the same way. So, while it's PG&E's fault, it's high time to look at the PUC.

Nonetheless, "proximate cause" in legal terms means "cause" in layperson's terms. It looks like PG&E caused this one, not climate change, and they spent strikes one and two on blowing up a San Bruno neighborhood and historic wildfires *just last year* (that we ratepayers are making up for with added fees).

Yeah... I don't get where that guy was coming from. 40% of water is diverted to wetlands restoration and over 80% of the remainder is used for farming...

Cities in California are already *really* strict with water, and you can't water your way out of fuel build-up (since water helps make more fuel). The Camp fire wasn't a climate change fire. It was a poorly maintained infrastructure fire.

And iOS users...

Zero-emissions generation facilities (e.g. solar, hydro, wind) are slow to start up and slow down, making them poorly suited for peak/transient loads. Coal, natural gas, and diesel are far more responsive.

If residential batteries allow for smoothing of the demand side and buffer against unexpected peaking, generation can largely stay with zero-emissions sourcing.

Thatâ(TM)s the idea, at least.

For me, Sears hit a threshold when they began to think of the short term rather than long term relationship with the customer.

We purchased a mattress from Sears, and the wrong item showed up (different firmness). The retail side of Sears said that we would have to contact the shipping and logistics part of Sears to return the mattress, and the shipping and logistics part said that we would have to wait six weeks for them to pick it up (when they answered the phone, which was rare), and we could schedule then.

When six weeks had passed, both parts of Sears finally got on the same page: they wouldn't take a return because six weeks had passed.

I realized then and there that I'd be played by a company that just wanted my ~$1k and was willing to lose me as a customer to get it. I never went back to Sears. Never set foot in there, never bought a Craftsman tool, nothing.

It is far easier to lose a customer's trust than to gain it, and Sears has lost me forever.

Sears dying is a lesson in the value of customer service. Act like a shitty fly-by-night scam shop, disappear like one.

That's right! I can get dozens of different craft IPAs anywhere in the country.

Oh, to have mod points....

There is no other correct take but this. Solid-state does not mean "immune to wear", and anyone in a CS program should be aware of it. Anyone *teaching* a CS program should be embarrassed about this.

Yeah. This author has missed, well, everything.

UBI isn't the cause of people being unable to create marketable value... It's the result of that occuring and those people not being left entirely for dead. Let's say it's all one rich guy and everyone else on UBI. Where is the money for the UBI coming from? From the people on UBI exclusively? It just doesn't hold up.

UBI does not somehow magically turn people into valueless non-creators. This is classic tin-foil-hat "wake up sheeple" nonsense that doesn't hold up to five seconds of scrutiny.