I always considered EV to be an iterative tech. We should always have been aiming for hydrogen. As it so happens, Hyundai has what to me is the most interesting hydrogen/fuel cell car, the Nexo. I'm considering getting it in the very near future, in fact, though if you had asked me any point in the past whether I'd ever own a Hyundai I would given you a resounding no.

"repair" and "upgrade" are not in fact the same words...

Step1: state a mission and design goals for the software.

Some number of steps after.

StepN: completely implement the mission and design goals for the software.

It has been decades since Microsoft has finished an OS, unless consider the real secret goal to just make a marketing platform...which win10 did well for them.

I didn't know the name, and even in context didn't recognize that name as the third member, until the story specifically stated such. Guess I'm not a member of the "everyone" crowd.

In your mind, what you're describing *isn't* an asshole? Really?

when the Soviet Union started collapsing, it was the largest producer of energy in the world. Even now they are at the top of the list, as just Russia. I mean heat, electricity, and gasoline aren't as important as getting the latest plastic widget daily, and you can live without those things much longer than you can live without buying a new barbie doll or whatnot in a pinch, but still - they aren't completely irrelevant to daily life and aren't meaningless as an aggressive negotiating tool.

trying to reduce costs as much as possible is more or less the point. What is it that you think regulation has as an intended purpose? You could say the same thing about building construction - a building design that only collapses 1% of the time every 10 years is very substantially different than a building design that will only collapse if a large bomb takes it down. A food processing plant that only kills 0.5% of the people that eat the food via preventable contaminations is going to be dramatically cheaper to make than one that has sufficient checks to prevent any contamination. A cattle processing plant where only 0.5% of the cattle that go through has mad cow disease, is going to have a dramatically cheaper operations than one that has 0 mad cow get put into the food chain. This is a problem that has happened twice in the last couple decades in Texas. It is 100.00000000% about deregulation, and people thinking "big government" is "bad." The leaders of the GOP are 100.00000000% to blame for this, but the voters will just blame the libs again.

in my opinion, trying to argue against the extreme environmental disaster and pyramid scheme that is bitcoin is very constructive. What /isn't/ constructive, or useful in any way, is the exceptional amount of damage the ridiculously pointless currency does, under the auspice of meaningless benefits that can be had elsewhere at a millionth of the environmental damage.

sod off, musk isn't going to let you give him a blow job. We made substantial progress on electric before musk, and substantial progress on reusable rockets before musk (we had a reusable space vehicle in flight when he was 10). Stop thinking the guy is going to save you. He's not a messiah, he's a cliche' evil bond villain. As a person for whom deep brain stimulation has been considered in the past for a movement disorder I have, no - there is no excuse for this.

you didn't even have to RTFA, you could have just read the slash post. In 2017, the account Obama used was archived and had its followers copied to a new @potus account that didn't have any posts. The new @potus account had no access to the old posts from Obama. They could have done the same thing here, but chose not to because...well, reasons I guess.

I don't want to belabour this analogy too much because it's already creaking... but even large landowners have to deal with rights-to-roam / access rights / public footpaths, etc.

When a corporation becomes too big, we regulate it. That's the only wan capitalism can work is by continually breaking up monopolies, at some point the control becomes too much and is harmful.

Your alternative for Epic is... what? Just sit and take it? Epic is the littleguy here, they have to act from a position of weakness. Apply are the $2tn behemoth and I would have hoped that they would have a bit more restraint. Tim Cook was sitting in congressional hearings just a few weeks ago - way to justify the invite.

30% is a big cut, maybe it can be justified but the point is Apple don't have to justify it because they control the whole thing. It's textbook monopoly. The "you can buy another phone" is not a realistic alternative.

That they have the power to do so much damage to third parties should be worrying to anybody, third party developers and end users.

Fairly clear that the banning of Unreal Engine from iOS was a pure pressure move that had nothing to do with the actual issue they're arguing about. Unreal Engine just happens to be made by the same company, but is completely distinct from the sales commission on Fortnite. If Apple are going to be the sole arbiter of the entire App Store, they are asking for regulation by acting like this.

Yes it's their walled garden, but eventually a garden can become so big and well used, that it's a public park.

I feel this is a statement that needs to be justified.

[Citation needed]