My dad returned to farming after retirement. If he grew lettuce, he would have made nothing you need to grow real cash crops. Another change is the disappearance of the local grocery store. He was able to negotiate a fair price for produce. The store received fresh picked produce delivered to them. The consumer recieved fresher product than they otherwise would have. Everyone won.

Big box stores needs to convert on location in each city to vertical farming they need to contract to firms like this who can deliver high profit crops year round. Berries, tomatoes, etc.

The leakers now leak innuendo, vague pieces from hard drives, stuff they find in random trash cans.

It depends what easy is. I would say the battery should be reparable by anyone who can safely remove a back cover and the battery should not be soldered in. In one small town where I go regularly there is this guy just sitting there all day repairing phones. He should be able once he has a battery to put it in in five minutes

A private investor is investing in a startup. So who is the startup composing they did not get the money?

This is the business cycle.

Been thinking about this. One big complaints is the short term rental market is moving to individuals renting their property through the apps. So, why not, have hotel pivot to small space long term rentals? In New York these would house tens of thousands of employed renters. I donâ(TM)t know what the situation is in San Francisco.

In business when the market changes considerable you try to stay with your core but cater to the new paying customer. And cutting costs. -refits will sink, so if this is just about a slight decrease in profits it is not a good idea. But if the Hotel really is not filling rooms, then this is a way to do do, and house paying customers.

Infrastructure is limited to available physical space. So yes, if we would tunnels underground or in air and change $100 for the use, that would be great. This is more of a luxury or sin tax, when you pay if want a cigar. The equitable solution is to only allow certain cars on the roads on certain days. However these turn in wealth schemes where people with money simply buy two cars

Schools mostly fail because parents do not see the benefit in making sacrifices and prioritizing useful skills over gambling their kids future on a sports contract or just trying to get them graduated so they start working full time.

Grading is tricky. Ideally it would be pass fail based on some reasonable level of demonstration of mastery for skills and knowledge by some date certain. But many parents and students just want task completion. Which is meaningless. Why should someone get a better grade just because they copied all the worksheets. Ultimately the pressure to get a certain promotion and graduation rate forces a compromise

There is a social and baby sitting component to in person school that will make it attractive to parents for a long time. In the US I do think we will see sports organizing set in schools in the high grades that re more rigorous than average. What I would not expect to see is school becoming nicer. School is a rite of passage. A geek and misfit just needs to be willing to do the work to get into the right one. Not blame others.

School is seen as the primary method of integrating a growing child emerging adult into the larger society around them. It is a rite of passage. Like the apocraphal story of the kid being sent into the woods tripping on cocoa beans only armed with a knife. Some did not survive. Although we have the resources to provide for most of population, it is useful to minimize the dependencies.

We see this with drug, cars, etc, the primary causes of death for the teen. Most of either abstain or survive. Social media, like cars and drugs, are not seen as a primary method to integrate adult, but the the others tends to be a skill useful to learn, how not to die or receive significant harm.

But as it is not a skill old people had to learn or manage, it is only seen as harmful. There is no calculation. If you are a teen in the US that dies and donâ(TM)t shoot yourself or get shot, you likely died in a car accident. Yet we drive cars.

Technology always requires new job skills and for those who are old or thought they would have last decades jobs get screwed

But we have increased productivity and pay which is why we do employ children so much. And we are at a point where people are acquiring real skills and are demanding money. So for semi skilled work we know want children, but it is dangerous for them

Right now employers are using threats, like they used the Pinkerton 100 years ago. At some point money will have to be negotiated for jobs that require in person presence.

Next up will be an investigation to whistle blower accusation the Biden cuts the heads off babies, fries the up, and eats them on avocado toast.

In the new congress, we will investigate the allegations the Trump keeps a harem, with Melanie as the head bych, all continuously impregnated by his sons. This so he will have stem cells to keep him young.

And in the not too distant future we will learn McConnel has been using Turtle DNA to become a turtle and stay young.

I have seen that United is promoting Bluetooth headphones this is a benefit as it costs to give away even cheap cord headphones.

But yes, this will at least be partially funded from ads. These ads appeared to be mostly supported by destinations and entertainment but the can be intrusive if it is hard to turn off. Like if the controls are on the armrest.

I remember talking about this with my father 40 years ago. It of course what we do all the time, but can we do it so it makes sense. Can we concentrate sunlight by a factor of two or three over a large area, where there are solar panels and minimal air traffic. More importantly, can we have a network of these satellites so that the solar panels are supplied 24/7. This after all is what nuclear in the running. The fear of not having electricity for a minute.

I am sure anyone here would be forgiving if google sold an old hard drive with your search history still accessible. No one here would take that opportunity to sue for millions

Then there is the cost wipe them cleaner than clean. That appears to be closer to $100 than the 10 to shred it? Can you sell a hard drive for a $100?

Then there is reliability. A hard drive that is left in rack and has been shown no sign of unusual wear for five years is likely not going to have any big issues crop up suddenly. A old hard drive that is removed, manhandled, wiped, shipped, sold, and reinstalled, I would not trust for an hour.

I would think so, but the updates on the PDP 11/34 just never seem to make the home page. We users are just ignored.