Aaaand striking seems quite doable regardless of union members being remote. Both stop-work and gathering in protest shift in nature but are eminently doable.

If only there were enough people to be able to do (work toward) **both** of these goalsâ¦

lol, if you think a language for manipulating matrices is 1-2-3â(TM)s âoesecret sauceâ, thereâ(TM)s not much hope.

No way ;)

Herr TrumpenFührer and spawn wouldn't *lie* about their commitment to manufacturing the TrumpenFührer 1 (T1) phone in the United States.

*Clutching at my pearls.* In any other company, I'd say the principals made the decision to announce manufacturing in Los Estados Unidos de Norte America, completely failed to listen to their experts that it's impossible to manufacture mobile phones in the United States of North America without losing money on every handset.

You agree to an audit, as part of the license agreement.

Or are in a different city and don't want to take a chance on a random restaurant. McDonald's doesn't stand on quality; they stand on consistency -- with precious few exceptions, what you're getting served at one McDonald's is being served at thousands of others, starting from the same corp-delivered food bases. There are some exceptions -- the lobster rolls I saw advertised when I was in Boston, for example -- but you're going to be getting the same Big Mac no matter where you order it.

No, no; it's "Where do we want to allow you to go today?"

China's start to the construction of 94.5 gigawatts of new coal-powered capacity and resuming construction on 3.3GW of suspended projects in 2024, all fueled by investment from the coal-mining sector, would suggest otherwise. Analysts may expect that China's expansion of its clean-energy capacity will slowly squeeze out coal's share of its electricity generation, but their rapid coal-power expansion is posing a "challenge" (it's amazing how "challenge" sounds so much better than "major stumbling block") to their high-level climate commitments, including commitments on reducing coal use.

Counterpoint: look at how computers ended up being ubiquitous. And cars. And TVs. And flatware. And glass dishware. And aluminum materials. And microwaves. And home refrigeration. And internet.

Let's look at your example, 3d printers? They're down to a couple hundred bucks for the basics. The electronics of these printers continue to plunge in cost. And let's face it, neither resin nor filament printing really solves home manufacturing. The barrier to 3DPrint ubiquity for these seems function, not cost.

I think UBI will help in general:

It'll mitigate unemployment, let folks work on useful but nonprofit things, and (seldom mentioned) will create a cycle: Competition for those UBI sheckels will motivate innovation.

Will Rogers said it a century ago: let the money spend some brief bit of time in a poor man's pocket; it'll end up back in the wealthy's hands swiftly enough.

And Robot Jox .

It's a particularly niche webcomic, but the 'your job has been replaced by software' thing appeared in the 'Sabrina On-Line' webcomic twenty-five years ago, albeit with a somewhat different focus. The same 'pointy-haired boss' syndrome, though.

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

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I have been an EV driver for about 10 years (Nissan Leaf and Tesla M3). What Brembo is not commenting on is how the usage pattern of brake discs of EVs (including hybrids with enough battery) is radically different from ICE vehicles.

ICE vehicles use their brakes continually, every time they slow down. EVs regenerate the energy instead to refill the battery, that's why several models can be driven with a single pedal (raising the foot will slow down the car). Brakes in EVs tend to be used mostly for stationing (which does not wear the pads) and emergency braking or other special cases (very steep downhill, battery 100% full and few others). This means that particulate emission from EV brakes is already negligible.

This also means that, while ICE brakes wear regularly, EV brakes wear so slowly that they sometime rust instead, resulting in lower performance when an emergency occurs and they are suddenly needed. Here in Norway, automobile clubs and insurance companies actually recommend EV drivers to speed and brake hard once in a while to maintain brake pads efficiency.

So I would be more impressed if Brembo had produced a more rust-resistant brake pad that maintains performance even after being subject to salt and other corrosive conditions for weeks, because I never remember to do that hard brake thing (which implies finding a place where you can do it safely). That would be a brake pad that lasts a lot longer, possibly the entire life of the vehicle.