Comment Re:Screw the American auto industry (Score 1) 289
since they won't be able to get jobs.
The workforce participation rate of immigrants is significantly higher than for the native born.
since they won't be able to get jobs.
The workforce participation rate of immigrants is significantly higher than for the native born.
If you look at how poor more than half the country has become
Real median incomes have increased significantly since 1970.
food wasn't as expensive.
The best measure of food cost is the hours of earnings needed to afford it. The price of food has declined since 1970.
Mitigating climate change is for human civilization defense.
How does this mitigate climate change?
The major input is electricity from the grid.
Singapore generates 92% of its electricity from natural gas and 4% from diesel.
Nothing in TFA indicates this scheme is breakeven or better on CO2 emissions.
Microsoft donates mostly to Democrats.
The big exception (and biggest single recipient) is Republican Doug Burgum for governor of North Dakota.
Chinese EV won't meet safety standards
Thousands of Chinese EVs have been sold in the EU, where they meet safety standards that are just as rigorous as American standards.
The red tape was why.
Indeed. American rare earth mining was killed by silly environmental regulations.
The result was that it shifted to China where the mining and processing is far dirtier.
The automakers won't be caught off guard this time.
They were caught off guard again by Tesla.
Watch for lobbying and smear campaigns.
Those are not a substitute for quality products.
So you would be happy driving a car that is, to an extent, built using slave labour ?
"Slavery" means forced labor. It does not mean "paid market wages".
Can Chinese autoworkers quit their jobs? Yes, they can, and every factory in Shenzhen is hiring, so they can find a new job by walking across the street.
Are Chinese factory workers underpaid? That depends on your perspective, but their wages are above the median wage in China and are enough to afford an apartment and a scooter.
Someone blows off an EMP above North America. It fries everything imaginable, including our electrical grid.
Many knowledgeable people will tell you that's a wildly exaggerated scenario.
The grid is built to withstand lightning strikes, which are obviously more localized but otherwise stronger than an EMP.
Cell phones have bypass diodes. TVs have surge protection. Many critical systems have shielding. Etc.
Solar flares have a similar effect. There was a big one two months ago. The biggest ever recorded was in 2001. Do you remember it? Neither do I.
Brought to you by Joe " I Own A Coal Company " Manchin -US Senator of West Virginia.
Joe Manchin's job is to represent the people of West Virginia, so his votes on coal reflect that.
The critical vote that Manchin casts is not for coal but for Chuck Schumer to be the Majority Leader. Joe is retiring this year and won't be casting that vote in January. He is 99.99% likely to be replaced by a Republican, making it likely that a Republican will also replace Chuck as Majority Leader.
Democrats see a fellow Democrat who supports them on 80% of the issues and think, "Hey, let's demonize and destroy this guy and replace him with a Republican who supports us on 0% of the issues!"
without data, how do you know that level 3 autonomy cars won't make streets safer?
There's no reason the data needs to come from BC. Plenty of data from other jurisdictions shows that autonomous cars are safer than human drivers.
That is, you may either be preventing harm or you may be lowering accident rates.
The goal is not to prevent harm but to get reelected.
Nobody will lose an election because human drivers kill people. That happens every day. Voters aren't demanding that politicians "do something".
But voters might blame politicians for high-profile accidents involving autonomous vehicles. It is a political risk, even if it saves lives.
People aren't rational about this issue. Look at TFA. The very first sentence calls this ban "a rare display of sanity", and the sole specific justification was the pedestrian fatality in Phoenix that occurred when autonomous braking was turned off, and a human was in control (and looking at her cellphone).
Maybe they don't want to be the test bed for the technology before it becomes super safe?
Why does it need to be "super safe" rather than just safer than human drivers?
Not "someone".
Everyone.
PFAS (poly-fluoroalkyl substances) are in thousands of everyday products: food packaging, water/stain resistant clothing, carpets, firefighting foam, cleaning products, non-stick cookware (Teflon is a PFAS), gaskets, lubricants, shampoo, cosmetics, etc.
The Chinese beg to differ with Ms. Thatcher. I would contrast their performance to Great Britain's.
Are you implying that China is more "socialist" than Britain?
we make money with dumb users
Dumb people are more likely to click on ads, so they are more profitable than smart people.
As more of the Internet is monetized with advertising, tech companies have more incentive to cater to the stupid.
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
