Comment Post-Pandemic (Score 4, Informative) 179
People have been driving worse after the pandemic. They were trending down until 2019, and have spiked over the last few years.
People have been driving worse after the pandemic. They were trending down until 2019, and have spiked over the last few years.
You can't buy one, so why would you care? They are going to use them in their own datacenters.
I forgot who pointed this out, but every time you hear a journalist get something incredibly wrong, keep in mind they are also covering politics, legal cases, business, education, health issues, etc...
I noticed it in the 1990s when computers became a thing, and found that most reporters barely had a rudimentary grasp on what they were or how they worked. You could make an argument that they needed some time to get up to speed on new technology, but nowadays, when you do some basic research on Google or Wikipedia in a few minutes, getting basic facts wrong is inexcusable.
The later full seasons of Seinfeld had around 22 episodes.
A full season of 24 was, obviously, 24 episodes. The first season of Person of Interest had 23 episodes.
A full "season" of Stranger Things is 9 episodes. So was Severance. The Rings of Power, which is probably the most expensive TV show ever made, had a paltry 8 episodes.
So yeah, there is a *lot* more old TV to watch.
Air New Zealand is often rated as the safest airline in the world. They are 51% owned by the New Zealand government.
Are they flying planes produced by the New Zealand government? Aeroflot only flew Soviet produced planes.
I'm a little surprised that even back in the 1950s they didn't make the electric, given that they run on a track.
Most of the track-powered rides are indoors, so the live rails don't get wet. They solved it on Test Track by mounting buss bars underneath the track surface. I'd imagine this is what they'll probably do with Autopia, so it's going to involve digging down and building a platform for the whole ride.
People will die and it is because capitalism does not reward people who go above the call of duty to prevent loss of life.
And neither does socialism. Whilst under Soviet control, Aeroflot had five times more fatal crashes per mile flown than any other airline in the world.
I consider modern BSD to be closer to the traditional commercial UNIX releases than Linux, as they consider the base OS as a single release instead of a bunch of independent packages (kernel, glibc, coreutils, svsvinit, e2fsprogs, sed/gawk/grep/patch/make/etc....)
My friend put AirTags in his bags and stroller when he flew to Europe last summer, which came in handy when they shipped all his kid's stuff to the other side of the country. He pulled up to the lost luggage counter knowing which storage room his stroller and luggage were in before they were even scanned in by the airport's tracking system. They were put on the next plane to Europe and caught up with him later that evening.
Also comic books, radio, television, video games, and social media. They should only read poetry and play with unsharpened sticks.
Daniel Galouye published Simulacron-3 in 1964, before PKD ever explored the subject (Ubik, 1969). Let's give credit where credit is due.
Galouye explored his simulation as implemented entirely in hardware and software, and gave lots of details on the implementation. Many things in the Matrix come from Simulacron-3, like breaking out of the simulation, glitches when the simulation is being changed, agents, even the use of telephone booths as portals to the level above. The tech is from the 1960s, but everything about it is recognizable to us today.
PKD's Ubik instead depicted it as some kind of chemically-induced group hallucination, happening inside people's heads, in a world where telepaths and precogs were common, with all details handwaved away or attributed to psychics, eventually devolving into a typical PKD surrealistic fantasy.
I thought Simulacron-3 was by far the better book. It was directly adapted into the Thirteenth Floor, and inspired The Matrix. PKD's ideas got turned into movies like Minority Report instead.
The studies I've seen show that whatever Havana Syndrome is, it doesn't cause physical damage. They've done MRIs of affected individuals can can find nothing.
The government rolled it, built a new city 85% of the way and let private companies do the easy part (throwing up the frame and spackle) and get fat profits from it.
LOL, no. Read about Levittown. Housing became more affordable because Levitt figured out how to mass produce homes, and did so in an area with no zoning restrictions. The only subsidies were a few hundred dollars from the GI bill.
If you wanna have some *real* fun go look into how our food supply works. It's more centrally planned than anything the soviets ever did, we just don't talk about it because we're worried dumb Americans will dismantle the system, which is working quite well thank you.
You mean all the subsidies going to US farmers, and protectionist tariffs, so we have some of the highest grocery prices in the world? Yes, I agree with that. California and the federal government subsidizes almond growing, because California has little extra water laying around, and almond growing uses a lot of it so it gets expensive. Which, to me, means almonds are a poor crop to grow in California.
I am for free markets. That crap is anti-free-market.
You have a lemonade stand. At your stand, you sell lemonade for $1 a glass. The government announces that they are giving everybody a $0.50 coupon you can turn in to a lemonade stand, and the lemonade stand can hand it in to the government to get $0.50.
If you were a lemonade stand operator, you could keep prices the same, or raise prices $0.50, as you know everyone will have an extra $0.50 to spend on lemonade.
This happens with subsidized housing. This happens with the mortgage tax exemption. This happens with government contracts in general. This happens with student loans. If you want something to be cheaper, you make it easier to make more of it and you don't dump gobs of money into the market.
From what I've read, when they laid the original fiber optic cables, they were bundles of hundreds of individual fibers. They are using a fraction of those. If they need more bandwidth they can rig up more parallel fibers, but they haven't had to as newer gear keeps getting faster and faster. More efficient use of existing fiber infrastructure is nice, but there is plenty of fiber capacity available if it's needed.
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.
