Yes, what an odd coincidence, with a completely unexpected side effect.

A real book may be readable 2000 years from now. Your Kindle book may not work tomorrow.

        I was originally skeptical about "digital rot", but after publishing maybe 150-200 technical papers and a similar number of "chart packages" over the last 40ish years, 100% of those I have on paper are still good, and the ones I published last week are about 50/50 on whether they are corrupted or unreadable. Similarly, my library of my predecessors' work dating back to 1956, 100% good on the paper documents.

Same thing with various supposedly "eternal" internet/web documents, those die even more quickly.

      People worried about this all becoming a "blank" generation leaving no permanent record are absolutely right.

The one pure EV that Toyota makes was co-developed with Subaru and is in fact a terrible EV by current standards. It would have been a mediocre EV 10 years ago.

Perhaps "disappointing" is more appropriate? For a company that has decades of electric drivetrain experience is is perplexing that Toyota could produce something so subpar. They rode their battery patent exclusivity for so long they forgot how to be competitive in an evolving market.
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But it's not like the leather is going to be thrown away and Apple is pulling cowskin out of dumps.

Wrong

The global leather industry creates four billion pounds of scrap leather waste every year. Currently, thatâ(TM)s mainly sent to landfills or incinerated

That's very glib. But it is clearly obvious that air conditioning could mitigate the effects of heat on the sensitive. I note that your "heat wave" is normal temperatures for most of the USA, we don't have people keeling over dead on New Orleans/Houston streets every July.

Having air conditioning would definitely reduce the death count and is a practical solution that can be implemented right now, for relatively cheap. But you apparently want to wait around for a perfect solution in the indefinite future (or more likely, never), damn the death count- instead of an implementable partial solution now,

There's a reason that there is a saying that goes "Wears like leather." Leather is an excellent material to make durable stuff out of if it can't be made out of metal or needs some give.

Even if you can't bring yourself to use real leather from any animal (a waste Native Americans would chide you for given how much leather is produced as a bi-product from raising cattle for food), there are plenty go fake leathers that feel great and wear really well!

The "fine woven" stuff was crazy bad. I upgraded my phone this year and waited to look at the cases in person, and wanted no part of what I could tell was a terrible material just by touching it. You could tell just from sample cases in the store it would not wear well...

Generally though for me, third party cases have been simply better for a number of years now, and first party Apple cases have just not been as good. But they could at least get back to making soemthing that felt and looked premium.

> Please explain how it raises money with a tax rate that's below the existing corporate tax rate

15% minimum. You're a fool if you think a large corporation pays anywhere near the corporate tax rate. 15% is much more money than these businesses are paying now.

Some of them are so good at the game that they effectively "pay" a negative income tax. To pull the first example from that link; AT&T earned $29.6 and the Feds effectively paid them another $1.2B - effectively a -4% income tax. Under the IRA their tax bill goes from getting paid $1.2B to paying $4.4B

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All I see there is a reason to regulate crypto bullshit, if not ban it entirely. Can't afford to be wasting that much energy on fraud.

In any case; No, "it" can't happen... assuming by "it" you mean a return to coal as the dominant power source in the US. That ship has sailed.
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Which is strange because the "coal plant next door" is more than likely decommissioned. The share of electricity generated by coal in the US is about 16% right now annual average, down from roughly 44% just 15 years ago.

Guess it's time to get a new snarky comment!
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Well, people were paying attention to Al Gore for a while, so from his perspective, great success!

Because it costs trillions of dollars to retrofit a city?

Source? Billions at worst. Like I said, this is a solved problem, and places like Amsterdam have solved this for way less than "Trillions".

But the superfluity of occurrence is not an excuse to let them continue to grow. The noise increases as a function of grown of population, and technologies serving them.

Inter-disciplinary education helps. Examples:

Better 511/utility search services, disciplined procedure, careful installation site survey techniques might have helped.

Communications network infrastructure additions, including redundancy, faster outage detection through hearbeat fault sensing, rapid deployment for fiber fixes, all these could increase uptime and reliability.

Backup resources beyond in-circuit redundancy to alternate services can offset the down circuit(s). These mean a different IP transport, perhaps Starlink, backup copper, re-routed diffuse mesh architectures, etc.

We have more online media to cite such outages, and so these problems appear to occur with more visible frequency, but in reality, things have always been fucked up, and now that complexity is increasing, we need to try much harder, instead of just harder to think through the dependencies in emergency communication.

How much more inefficient is it? Because on my budget smartphone I can easily last two days with heavy use. So now I will only get 1.5 days?

If you play a long AV1 wide with CPU only decoding you are more than likely to get only two HOURS instead of days.

But, you, the little guys, are practically salivating on yourselves to stick it to "These Big Corporations". Economic activity doesn't take place in a vacuum, you add cost somewhere - anywhere - and it drags down the entire system. And you, the little guys, are the ones that are least able to cope.

      You are deluding yourselves, and you are doing it to yourselves. Pick only things that really matter because *you*, and me, and everyone else is going to wind up paying for it.

Vastly less useful than Teslas also driverless miles driven in MANY other states and conditions than Waymo drives in.

Tesla has a far broader range of conditions to train with.