We'll go easy as long as you promise to refrain from making such idiotic comments in the future. With the anti-intellectual stance we see from at least half the county, I don't really believe you when you say you were joking.

Or, you know, use a lower frequency that gives you much further range with far less cost, and maybe, every 11 years or so, you may have to deal with a days disruption.

That just sounds like you forgot an R. "We need to upgrade our computer's resources"

Compute is a verb, not a noun.

Yep, most people who use the term TDS are super cowards. You just happen to be a homophobe as well.

If the US had 500 EV manufacturers, we could also let 80% of them fail. But we only have 3, so 80% would be all of them if you round up.

The problem is we could never manage to have 500 in the first place because our subsidies are not blindly given out, they are crafted to benefit specific well-connected people who contribute back through campaign funding.

China is of course also corrupt, but when every provincial and city government is backing their own EV companies, they circle back to some form of fair competition. And in a way, their form of corruption, which allows those manufacturers to bypass environmental and other legal hurdles, is beneficial if your main goal is to start a competitive EV industry.

We also subsidize our auto industry. We spent $80 billion bailing them out in 2008 and God knows how much on fossil fuels that keep the running costs of ICE cars low.

Because the car behind you won't expect it and bam.

Your safety move just caused you to get rear ended because you made a silly unexpected maneuver

For a cyclist and a car to get in an accident, it takes a car ... and a bike.

You made it clear your a cyclist who thinks he's above cars when you tried to make it one sided.

You ride your bike along side huge rolling chunks of metal, plastic and fuel ... then act surprised when it ends with you maimed or dead.

You weren't very bright when you put yourself in the situation to become nothing more then a red smear and bloody tire tracks - and when it does happen... it's always the cars fault?

If you think cyclists don't regularly flaunt traffic laws you don't drive a car. Passing on the right at a stop sign to get to the front of the line, only then to get in front of cars in traffic and slowing them down. Trading a turning lane as their own skip to front of the line. Ignoring signs and lights because it takes 'stopping and starting is hard'. It's not all cyclist, but every sane cyclist I know will be happy to tell you of the idiots they've rode with doing stupid illegal stuff.

When the driver of a car fucks up and makes a mistake, they have a metal cage around them designed to absorb impact. Your bike dents the car.

When a cyclist fucks up, that spandex and nylon day glow shirt just end up mixed into to the smear.

You really need to think about that. Doesn't matter if the car driver is right or wrong. You still end up dead. And your attitude makes me think your more likely part of problem cyclist group than someone that cycles safely.

The car always wins regardless of your logic. Physics don't car about your opinion.

Realistically, the key enabler of all this stuff is getting mass into orbit, and that can only be done with chemical rockets for the foreseeable future. That is what Starship is, and I'm sure Elon/SpaceX would have no problem if Starship being able to lob tonnes into orbit for cheap enables the development of new engines that make it redundant for interplanetary transport.

There is a long way to go on the journey into space though, and starship is the first necessary step.

I mean it likely uses code-division-multiple-access like GPS. The GPS signal is below the background thermal noise floor at a receiver on earth, yet you can receive it due to coding gain.

Your Air Tag could be modded to transmit to a satellite no problem. But it would likely have to transmit at something like 1 bit per minute, and it might not have enough battery life to transmit more than a few bits.

The best analogy I have is it's like if you're taking a measurement of a really noisy signal, you can improve the accuracy of your measurement by average over a longer time period. The longer the time period the less impact of the noise. You can just extend this forever to deal with any amount of noise (provided of course that the noise has the correct statistical properties). The trade off is that the longer you average for the lower your bit rate becomes. CDMA works a bit like this.

Apple is like the quintessential baby boomer company. It started out all hippie cool in the 70s, promising to change the world with peace and love, and now it's become the monster it used to rage against. Yet it remains absolutely adamant that it's not, and that it's values haven't changed at all.

I'm sure that fate awaits me as well (a millennial) but seriously, the amount of cognitive dissonance among the boomers I know about how fucked the world got on their watch is astonishing.

I can't see it being a healthy way to grieve but each to their own so long as it doesn't become some costly and invasive new "obligation" to foist onto mourners.

I know from being far from home on occasions that the tech to speak and video conference can sometimes make it seem farther.

They are shocked when the employer says that they'd get the same estimated hourly rate and feel the employer should be lucky to have them. Especially when it is taking time from more experienced staff to coach them. --rolls eyes--