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Comment Re: Hertz jumped the gun (Score 2) 214

As others said, it depends on if you have home charging or not.
If you can charge at home, EVs are great for commuting, it does require some additional planning for long trips, but it's getting much better.
Also cost to charge at home is 1/3rd or less than cost for gas. Cost to supercharge is often very similar to the cost for gas, sometime even more than gas.

Rentals are generally for people away from home, so EVs for the rental market mostly doesn't make sense right now.

Driving a rental EV right now as main EV is in the body shop. coincidentally. But I'm not away from home.

Comment Re:The longer you leave it, the worse it will be (Score 1) 320

They are only charging for real world IPv4 addresses. Internal non routable IPv4 addresses will still be free.
  Honestly, that's fine, I don't need many real internet addressable addresses anyways.
Private IPv4 addresses 192.168.x.x, etc, will be free, likely forever.
Even for these cloud database type systems, I'm not sure why you need a routeable address..

Comment Re:Productivity is so subjective (Score 1) 185

If there was an excess of labor I'd say a national program to encourage 32 hour work weeks with a livable wage. :Less would get done per worker, yes, but that worker wouldn't be so burned out and they may have less sick days and less mistakes. It wouldn't compensate fully, no, but the government could arrange taxes to encourage 30 hours instead of 40 in order to keep the population itself more healthy. That said, there is a labor shortage, so I'm not sure it would work, maybe it would.

Comment Re:In Opposite news (Score 1) 44

Lol, well it stopped calling anyways. I did just find this. https://www.reddit.com/r/Googl... sounds like the same issue. Oh well, they phone is long gone now. We wern't sure what to do as we couldn't pull the battery and it kept turning itself on if we shut it down (likely the power button issue).

Comment In Opposite news (Score 1) 44

One of my friends Pixel 3s was crashing and dialing 911 itself the other day. It did it 3 times until we finally pulled the sim card because we got tired of telling 911 there wasn't an emergency. Traded it in for a Pixel 6 the next day. Wondering if it was all Teams fault??? I don't think they had Teams installed??..

Comment Re:So military votes are fraud? (Score 1) 355

Nope, mail is ballots are not fraudulent and and of themselves. But the mail in system is more ripe for potential fraud. Its fairly easy to catch fraud when mail-in ballots are a small percentage, but when mail in ballots become 90% of the vote, it becomes much more difficult to detect fraud. We also have issues of anonymity. Someone could pay or threaten you to vote a certain way. With mail in ballots you can prove you voted that way. With in person voting someone can't prove how they voted. We take this small risk for military because we aren't willing to not allow the military to vote. I absolutely think we should have mostly mail in ballots this election due to the pandemic, but it doesn't mean its a great solution long term until we can develop additional security measures.

Comment Re:Harvard "experts" - magical thinking is reality (Score 1) 185

Its really not impossible, just very difficult.

A few q-tip factory wouldn't have much issue retooling to make that many swabs, the problem comes in the analysis. If you are doing RNA testing its possible to finish the test by dunking the swab in a chemical bath, something that "can" be mass produced, but not yet. Retooling factories to make these test are the real issue, and few factories would be willing to spend a billion dollars to retool for a job that will only exist for a few months. This is where government "could" surge money into, but I haven't heard of such, maybe it is. I doubt it.

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