Ahh yes, living in a $700,000 house, driving $100,000 cars; WHAT PEASANTS THESE ARE!

Seriously, what planet do you live on?

These guys are luddites up until the point where technology can make them have strength over other warlords in the region, then it's "Let's get an AI SAM system from China!"

Most people don't get educated in college. And most people don't need college to become a high earner. We should be investing heavily in trade schools for anyone who has an interest in becoming an electrician, plumber, mechanic, etc. We also need a massive number of additional nurses and nursing techs, and most IT jobs don't really require more than a decent trade school either (although there is a distinct lack of "decent" supply and a voluminous overstock of "garbage" IT trade schools). Handyman, landscaping, roofing; all lucrative careers which do not require college. The electrician down the street from me who owns his own business has his work truck parked out in front of his house and his Maserati parked in the driveway. Landscapers here won't take any job worth under $5,000-$10,000. They just say "no thanks". And if you do have a $20,000 backyard renovation to do, expect to wait 6-8 months for a start time.

None of these people require classes in 19th century Romanian poetry to perform their jobs well and make tons of money. And none of them needed to be saddled with $100,000 in debt when they got started. They went to trade schools or they started apprenticing and they put in their time learning the work, and then they started making bank.

China though has the resources to create lithium batteries. They're the only superpower that seems to be making headway with Afghanistan (who supposedly has crazy amounts of the stuff) and they've already indebted Africa for cobolt.

Japan and China HATE each other big time. So maybe Japan's push here has more to do with energy independence from China more than anything else.

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.

If someone's using 1,000 IPv4 addresses on AWS, they're already being ridiculous. But what they'll do instead is just NAT/proxy that traffic to one IPv4 address and save $4,000 a month. But nobody's going through recertifying all their applications, retraining their devs and others, and whatever else to work on IPv6 when 95% of the world is still primarily using IPv4 and 100% of the world still fully supports IPv4 just because Amazon decided to charge a few bucks a month for it.

IPv4 will still be the primary 10 years from now. Probably 20.

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.