The difference is that a gas station requires a massive capital investment to build. An EV charging stand just needs the same electricity as any other business. In the long term it might be efficient for the market to produce an excess of charging stations.

She'd laugh and ask for a copy herself.

Maybe they just bought into the idea the TCP/IP routes around damage flawlessly - without understanding that's only true if multiple routes exist.

Even when data centers have multiple redundant connections, how many of those physical wires aren't bundled together? And even if you did route one set of cables north of your building to utility poles, and another set south of your building to different utility poles, who knows if the utility company ends up merging those two sets of cables together at some point?

The models have errors and uncertainties, including about when we might hit various tipping points.

The fear is that the "alarmists" were wrong, and the climate is warming faster than they thought.

Atmospheric CO2 takes a very long time to drop (and we're still adding more) and when pollution dropped more sunlight got through and raised temps slightly.

Sorry if that's too complicated for you.

Don't worry, the average intelligence jumped way up after you dropped.

The prof was assuming you were smart enough to understand that everyone would know the sun warms the earth.

He was saying that sun's output was constant enough to have no effect.

I hope you can take some solace in the fact that the average person is still apparently much smarter than you.

The world is full of folks with impressive credentials, it's inevitable a few of them will dive headfirst into crackpot theories for a variety of reasons.

Not to say this guy is a crackpot, but what he's claiming should be pretty easy to demonstrate to credible outside experts. That he hasn't done that rings many alarm bells.

I'm baffled by people who insist on taking statements completely literally when it's obvious that's not what the speaker meant. Especially when the person in question actually explains what the statement means!

"What if the statistical connections that we are basing our predictions on are no longer valid?"

ie, the scientist who obviously understands that nature changes, is worried because this current change isn't really predicted by current models. If the warming keeps up that means the models are wrong in the way we really don't want them to be wrong and that's bad news.

California has level 4 taxis (which have had problems) but few (if any) level 3 consumer cars. So I'm not sure what data you think BC should be using.

You really need folks to spell out the concerns with untested level 3 cars?

For someone complaining about data it seems to have eluded you that level 3 vehicles are so new that they haven't even made it to the Canadian market.

It means common sense. Before deploying level 3 cars on public roads they want more data.

When reasonable people have a reasonable expectation that the new product may be more dangerous and they don't want to wait for a bunch of fatalities to occur to stop it.

I'm not sure your intuition is correct. Sure the supply of work isn't infinite but it does increase when productivity goes up.

Look at a website designer, in the early 90s you were writing HTML and CSS by hand, drawing icons with crappy editors, etc, etc.

Now, you've got crazy libraries and full-fledged website builders, I'm guessing a modern web designer is MUCH more productive.

The result? There's waaay more website designer jobs out there, that's partially because the Internet is bigger, but also because you get way more value for your cash buying a website designer now.

Some of the same will be happening with software dev. Sure, some companies that doesn't see any need to do more than they're currently doing may cut staff, but a lot of other companies will realize that the software project/product they were thinking of is now viable.