When reading statements or listening to interviews, always keep the speaker's motivations in mind. What would the CEO of Ford be trying to accomplish by what they're saying? The typical motivations are to reassure investors. How does saying that half the white collar jobs are going to be gone in the coming years reassure investors? It says, "this new technology is going to allow Ford to cut half of a very large expense."

Is it realistic? No. But it supports his goal: you should invest in Ford because we can already see how to use this new technology to drastically decrease costs.

Another goal he has is to keep workers fearing for their jobs. This is an implied threat to a bunch of Ford workers... you're lucky to have a job, so keep your head down and don't make a fuss. Cuts are coming.

430 ppm? That seems high. We should do something about that. Has anyone considered getting all the countries in the world together to agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Other than graphic designers, is AI actually displacing workers anywhere, or are companies just cutting back on their workforce, making everyone who's left do more work, and using "replaced by AI" as an excuse to deflect the blame?

Just to give you some feedback: this post just comes off as completely crazy, conspiracy theory, drivel. Even if there is a bit of truth buried in there somewhere, nobody's going to see it because they just picture you standing beside a wall full of newspaper clippings, pins, and string trying to connect it all together.

Diminished maybe, but not all that much.

I think we can reasonably assume that if there's a huge blackout, it won't last forever. A lot of smart people will work hard on getting things up and running again. A few years ago in the USA it lasted for a bit longer, what was it, a week or two? Recently in Spain it lasted a few days. But all those power stations and power grid operators don't just shrug and go home. So getting through those days is probably all it takes for any reasonably realistic scenario.

And you can build things up piecewise. I've got my solar now. The next thing will be a battery. Once I have that, I can think about an electric car.

No disrespect to the Chinese engineers. There's some brilliant guys over there. But there are also very large geopolitical forces that shape our world, and engineering can only do so much and so fast. At the global scale, we're shaped by trends that are very, very difficult to change.

I watched that video. I found it kind of ridiculous. First of all, that low end manufacturing left the US a couple decades ago. Any low value item with a high labor content, or that is intrinsically dangerous, makes more sense to off-shore because Americans get paid more per hour than most other people, and American labor laws are more stringent than theirs. Making commodity bolts is, by it's nature, a low value job and you don't want to do it in America. What matters is, does the US have the expertise to make the machines to make those things, and the US is a major machinery exporter, so yes. And Destin didn't look very hard either. I work for a tool & die company and do a lot of work in manufacturing. The US is a big country and there are lots of people who still know how to do injection molding, machining, and tool & die. Destin just didn't know where to find them, probably because he's too young to have heard of the yellow pages.

Why? I get why anything accessible on the public internet should be IPv6, but it doesn't matter for anything behind a NAT box. Why can't my home setup use IPv4? Or the tiny little network on my mobile robot that isn't connected to the internet? There are tons of cases where an isolated IPv4 setup with static addresses is simpler to setup and troubleshoot than an IPv6 network.

Probably French literature or basket weaving. Seriously, though, the US is a major exporter of highly advanced manufactured products. One of the biggest categories is commercial aircraft components, followed by pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and machinery. The US is a highly technical nation. I wouldn't be worried.

There area also a lot of people who say that "nobody is eating cats" and that's not exactly true either. I'm personally sick of the partisan rhetoric. Talking heads blatantly ignore the half of the facts they don't like, and it's pathetic.

China is certainly investing in renewables big time, but mostly that's out of desperation so that they can reduce their dependence on imported oil from the middle east, which they know they can't provide effective security for.

There are a lot of headwinds for China. For starters they have poor geography. Their demographics are very bad. International investment is drying up. If anything they're over-investing in solar, with huge plants being built up in the northwest areas where they don't have industry, nor the infrastructure to get the power to where they do have industry. I'm not saying they're going to disappear, but the overall trend for China is downward. Don't buy into the hype machine.

Long distance power transmission using very high voltage DC lines is something that's still relatively new. It allows power transmission over significantly longer distances. Many of these projects that were unthinkable a couple decades ago are now being considered. But I agree that with the fall of globalized trade, we now need to take security aspects into account. This project is probably a bad idea. But you could power southern European regions from Morocco. That wouldn't be quite as crazy.

If they want traffic back, they should bring back the Google search from 10 years ago, the one that produced proper and relevant website results.

Except this wouldn't actually solve this. You'd be able to share the business logic, which would be a benefit. But you wouldn't be able to share any of the UI, system, or OS interaction code which is where all the incompatibilities come. If you just wanted to share business logic, there were already ways you could do that (write it in C would be one way).

Also, if they really wanted to do that, they should consider going the opposite way and bringing Kotlin to Swift. Kotlin also has a significant server side use that's growing (mainly by replacing Java), Swift is iOS and Mac only. They'll find a lot more people willing to learn Kotlin than Swift. Of course Apple won't consider that due to NIH and control issues.

LOL. Since I'm the one who actually implements the solution as well, we don't actually have the Jump to Conclusions guy in our company.