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China though has the resources to create lithium batteries. They're the only superpower that seems to be making headway with Afghanistan (who supposedly has crazy amounts of the stuff) and they've already indebted Africa for cobolt.

Japan and China HATE each other big time. So maybe Japan's push here has more to do with energy independence from China more than anything else.

in favor of Hydrogen. 200x the energy density of our best lithium battery. That's 200x less weight. Yes we lose a little carbon cracking H2O into Hydrogen, but you just can't get around the economy savings of not having to drag around an extra 2000 lbs of battery when you only need 10lbs of Hydrogen. Not counting the tanks, but those are hollow until filled and return to a hollow state as fuel is used. Not to mention there are lots of lightweight composite tanks these days.

Finally this firmly gets us out of China's and Saudi Arabia's pocket. Anywhere we can run water and electricity, we can crack H2O and compress it.

Someone told me this is routine for Cisco, that they've been laying off folks this time of year since 2008. I don't want to believe them, does anyone know if there's a table showing the number of layoffs per year?

So let's say humans end up depleting oil, and the only way to get diesel is these machines connected to unlimited power supplies (say... fusion) to start sucking all the carbon out of the atmosphere. Will we get giant bugs as a result? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Apples to oranges.

Extensive training is for the systems unique to the F-35. I can be trained to drive a car, step into any car and drive it since the interface is fairly universal.

We don't need military grade for driving. It's unlikely anyone driving will experience over 1g unless they're in an accident or trying to avoid one. They're not dropping bombs. I do think though that there will need to be some regulation on these devices when driving, a driving mode like most google phones have. I wouldn't want someone binge watching Netflix while behind the wheel for instance. I do see a lot of good potential though for enhancing safety.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

The F-35 helmet utilizes cameras mounted around the aircraft to create a virtual invisible jet for the pilot. The pilot can look down at the floor of the aircraft, and see the ground below. They can look behind themselves, and not see a headrest.

I think there is some room for headsets to make driving safer. Glass cockpit, virtual instruments and rear view mirrors, augmented reality for night vision and things we don't have at all, like cues to switch lanes to avoid potholes or other obstructions in the road.

I think the real reason this is happening is nobody wants more China.

No more Chinese Solar Panels
No more Chinese batteries

Especially our ally Japan. Japan REALLY doesn't want anyone supporting China anymore. To the point where Japan is hedging bets for Hydrogen. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl... .

All you need to make Hydrogen is electricity and water. Saltwater is even better.

Hydrogen also requires no change to our current production lines. Ford/GM can continue producing ICE engines, with just a simple fuel change.

All we need is an abundance of power, and Fission provides that.

> someone said that one company firing people does not make a meaningful statistic

There's a lot of young people that feel invincible and have never been through layoffs before, nor do they known the signs of a major economic downturn. I've been through several starting in 2000. Weird because 24 years ago doesn't feel like 24 years ago.

I think my generation weathered it because prior to the 90's, we did other work. Networks weren't common place in the 80's. Prior to getting into tech in 93 when I was 20, I spent the previous 2 years doing hard labor, roofing and landscaping. Prior to that, a lot of odd jobs like dishwashing/waiter/paperboy. Was thinking the other day how when I was a kid, kids had those options. These days they say, "Kids don't want to work" but my kids desperately want to work.

I'm not sure how this generation is going to weather it. Not saying they're not capable, just those jobs are GONE. People make careers out of what used to be temp/summer jobs.

Anyone else get the feeling a lot of these layoffs are holdouts still refusing to come back to the office? Most corporations cut 1-2% from the bottom every year so they can hire fresh grads, but a lot of these numbers are way higher than the norm.

I also wonder how much it would cost to have the flight deck track location based on gps _and_ location based on an inertial reference system; then perhaps warnings could be provided if those locations diverge, and the pilot could opt to use one, the other, or neither as appropriate.

A super high-end inertial reference unit is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I'd wager that something good enough to get you to the other side of a war-zone should be feasible for low five figures; maybe less if it could reuse components from cars or mobile phones.

This article was sourced from these two comments on the Leeham News website. I found the original comments more informative than the Seattle Times version, and while I can't be certain, the author seems credible.

I'm half tempted to apply for a job over at Boeing, just so I can understand if they're learning the right lessons from this (about fixing their culture and processes), or if they're doubling down on the post-McD merger nonsense.