Apple and Tesla are/were making mad profits in China, so not sure what you mean. Apple's been minting money in China for 15 years.

Why hasn't Apple sued them for illegally copying? What specifically did they illegally copy? If you want to say smartphones then Samsung and Motorola are guilty too.

One hash per year, but hey a hash is a hash.

Yes old & experience has value (I'm old too btw, so might be self-preserving bias), but logically an organization should have both and consider the opinion objectively.

You claimed this "would only work in locations in perfect weather, with no nearby hazards". ..those examples show that drones can work in a variety of conditions.

It's always been this way ...things get reinvented, but also advanced. However, as you get older your brain is already filled with ideas of the way things ought to be and your brain's pattern recognition systems are set to the old ways. You're less likely to be excited by the [seemingly] incremental advances. When the Wright brothers flew their airplane in 1903 it actually took until around 1910 before airplanes started getting popular and the Wright brother's feat was even recognized as a big deal. Why? Because hot air balloons already existed, powered/steerable airships existed, gliders existed, even less controllable airplanes existed. Today we'd look back and say hot air balloons sucked and were unwieldy .. but so was a flight of a few hundred feet when powered dirigibles were flying hundreds of miles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . You know how a kid can get excited about a ham sandwich .. there's a reason the older you are the less excited you get about stuff like that. One thing I see how young people pull all-nighters working on some idea .. I used to do that .. still do but it's different. I'm not arguing for age discrimination, I feel like an organization needs both. Old people are less likely to explore and try a new things and more likely to cling to the past ways.

Quite often looks just like it though. Like, just like it. "From the river to the sea", "by all means necessary", etc. That's like the Hamas theme music. And if you're humming Hamas happy tunes, you're supporting Hamas and their methods. Further, support for Hamas remains widespread in all available polling in Gaza. So a lot of them are on board with the genocidal terrorists running their government and all their actions as well. Supporting them is also supporting Hamas.

False equivalence in the extreme. Israel attacks valid military targets, even when fighting terrorists who don't follow Geneva or any other convention on war. Israel goes above and beyond by broadcasting where and when they're going to strike so civilians can leave. Except Hamas often doesn't let them leave because as Hamas themselves have stated in television interviews: dead Palestinian women and children help their cause and they aim to maximize the dead civilians on their side. Meanwhile, you've got Hamas specifically targeting women and children for rape and murder and live-streaming the whole thing to the world.

So no, they aren't the same. And it would take one ignorant motherfucker to think they are.

Are we going to dock its pay? I mean, I've been expecting regular TPS reports and it hasn't delivered. It needs to be put on a performance review plan ASAP.

The issue isn't that solar isn't the solution to energy needs --if anything things issue shows that solar can generate enough power in a distributed manner to solve everyone's energy need. The problem is the way in which the transition is taking place and the need to pay fixed cost of the utility companies that are too big to fail. This "hostage crisis" is more reason to double down on solar, than have to keep paying the extortionist power companies.

False.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/1....

1. How could it deliver to anyplace that isn't a wide open yard?

* Mostly rural and suburban deliveries won't have this problem. If it can't deliver then it will swtich to some other delivery method.

2. What happens when it crashes? Especially if it damages property or injures someone.

* Uh, some sort of liability insurance payout. What happens when there's a car accident?

3. What happens when kids think its fun/funny to throw things at them?

* This hasn't happened in testing so far, so presumably it would be rare. Plus the drones have cameras, so it might be a free trip to the juvie.

4. How could it deliver to anyone beyond street level?

* Apartment complexes could have a drone delivery station.

5. This would have severe weight restrictions and not be useful for a large % of items.

* Yes. So? Presumably Amazon has the statistics on that.

6. This would have issues delivering in a variety of weather/wind conditions.

* False (unless it's a hurricane or something in which case the delivery can wait). https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

7. Thieves would eventually target these for what they carry as well as the drones themselves.

* Only if they want to make the list of dumbest thieves.

8. Customers don't want their good delivered to the middle of their yard. They want them discretely placed by a door.

* Umm, where a porch pirate can grab it?

9. Urban areas are too dense for these and most rural areas are too far apart.

* Maybe it's not suitable for urban (yet), But it would definitely work in suburbs and rural, especially the drones that delivery by reeling down the package on a tether from hundreds of feet thereby mitigating nay noice issues.

Try uploading the API spec to claude.ai (or other AI you like) and asking it to do that .. at worst I think it will give you detailed instructions or code to do that (if you ask for it).

What's an OS? A kernel and a set of utilities that ship with it, right? The kernel is only one piece of it, like the engine is to a car. You have a set of components in it that enable software to run.

For not calling them flying cars. 90% of eVTOL concepts are not flying cars, yet "journalists" insist on calling them that.

I do. People in Dubai live 15 to 25C higher than the global mean surface temperature (15C) and they're alive aren't they? Hm...

Of course it's accurate. It serves as a template so I don't miss things .. for example to include examples. To mention things I might normally forget to say. It writes out the sentences .. if I disagree I won't put it. Declining to write a letter because of my own schedule, or writing a shitty one because of my own forgetfulness or shortcomings is not an excuse to screw someone else out of something they've worked for and deserve.