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Comment Re: functionality (Score 1) 57

the world will reward the first person to make an automatic closet: Throw your clothes at it when going to bed, and they're washed, dried, and stored by morning, quietly.

It can happen already today if your home could have some hotel-like services
The robotic part of the work is the washing and drying. Not sure I'd pick a robot over a human to move the clothes to and from the closet to the laundry room.

Comment Re: Let the market decide (Score 1) 428

After you've replaced every vehicle on the road with an EV and converted our electrical grid to 100% carbon neutral

This way of thinking can be really unhelpful. There are multiple changes and multiple options to be made if we collectively wish to mitigate or avert the worst from CC. If everyone says "I'll do x that affects me only after everyone has made their move", then the lack of results seems inevitable.

As others pointed out, the scale of animal farming is such that it matters. It certainly should be targeted for emissions reduction, and that men's perpetual growth is not a possibility. The farmers' lobbying power will of course push in the exact opposite direction.

As for the market deciding what's right, I will not be any little bit surprised if dairy and other animal farming is heavily subsidised in the US as it is here in Europe.

Comment Re: Really? (Score 1) 315

As you know most new passenger cars in the UK are sold with a finance deal rather than cash upfront. People committing to such a big purchase should be comparing the monthly price + cost of the fuel/electricity over 24 or 36 months before reaching any conclusions about the best and worst rivals for that VW Golf.

Comment Re: I'm convinced return-to-office has another pur (Score 1) 165

Third, there are people who cannot realistically set up an office at home. Think of people living in small apartments in expensive cities. Unless they move, they may simply not have the space for a home office. Moving may not be an option, for any number of reasons. If a company wants them as employees, they will need a place to work provided by the company.

This is IMHO a very significant group. They may have everything in their lives set up to live at home and work at the work place. IMHO they don't need a RTO mandate and they are not the people who are upset at all this.

If this group is as large as I imagine, then I wonder what is the target and the advantage of RTO. Sadly, I'll side with the cynical people who posted here already to say it's a power struggle like any other.

Comment Define "assets" (Score 1) 196

In his book he defined "asset" as something that brings cash in. Liability as something that causes cash to be spent.

The main route to financial freedom he proposed was to become a landlord or otherwise find "assets" on the cheap to get passive income.

That's how the Rolls Royce becomes an example of "liability".

Comment Re: We need fusion bad. The alternatives are weak. (Score 1) 124

H owever, imagine if we could produce so much free power in a nuclear reactor we could simply convert the excess carbon in the atmosphere to common liquid fuels

Who will be paying for all that capacity? Would we expect those companies with now-obsolete fission, gas and oil power plants to spend money for generating more electricity than what the grid currently demands?

Comment Re: Murph yâ(TM)s Law (Score 1) 172

Not yet, at least from mainstream manufacturers.
For Next year, check out CitroÃn and Dacia (Renault)
https://www.citroen.co.uk/mode...
https://www.dacia.co.uk/dacia-...

Chinese manufacturers have lots of "kei car" type of machines that are free from apps and are built from ev platforms.

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