Landfill space - Single use plastic takes up negligible space in a land file
Fossil fuel consumption - again a 0.7g fork consume an insignificant amount of fossil fuel compared to my trip to the restaurant
CO2 emissions - I'm not really sure if their are any and they would be dwarfed by the emissions from my burger.
Litter and micro plastics - That's a culture problem that could be solved by other means. Where I live the main sources of plastic in the environment are tire wear, washing machine waste water and litter from my city garbage collection.

These laws seem like pure virtue signaling. If you want to prevent some negative externality tax it directly, don't tell people what they can or can't do.

I would have no problem booking a hotel directly with the property but most of the time expedia or one of its clones is cheaper. Do they really expect me to be loyal and pay more?

If AI worked, companies would be hiring more people. AI makes your existing employees more efficient so you would want more of them. It's called the Jevons paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

We are actually seeing this with radiologists. A job where AI is better than humans but the AI requires a knowledgeable human. Demand for radiologist has increased not decreased.

Companies have seen that if they post jobs it helps their stock price. Many publicly traded companies now post jobs on places like indeed for jobs they have no intention of filling.

It's not real abstraction. It is project managers (PMs) treating engineers as interchangeable cogs. I've worked on many projects with no documentation about what the project even does but had PMs manage the project through Jira tickets in an Agile way. They throw a random engineer at a specific bug ticket. The engineer is never given time to learn the project, likely they can barely run the test case in real life only the automated test. They then bang at the code till the test passes. Maybe they put a huge piece of asynchronous code in an interrupt, disable and enable interrupts without checking if they were already disabled. A common theme I've seen is creating global variables and then adding a function in the main while(true) loop that constantly checks said globals for a specific condition and then does something and then (possibly incorrectly) clearing the globals. This is a great way to fix off by one errors (face palm). These coders tend to import huge amounts of code just to do a tiny thing, have buffers 20x larger than needed, use malloc() in embedded code when all buffer sizes are known at compile time and no buffer is passed outside of the call stack.

Good code is planned out, it is documented first and is owned by a competent engineer.

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And it is still legal in most US states.

Most people in apartments don't work 9-5. They eat dinner between 4 and 8. They use an 6-8 amp microwave or frying pan for 5 to 20 minutes in that time period.

Your apartment building only has so much power coming in. It might be as little as 10amps per unit. This works because most people don't run their stoves at the same time. Window AC units really put your building close to the max. In Canada we brought in rent controls in 1976. In the first part of the 70s purpose built rental units made up 1/3rd of new dwellings. It went to zero by 1978. The same thing played out in the rest of the English world. So your rental appartment building is likely over 40 years old. It isn't designed for even one AC per unit let alone a bunch of car chargers. Oh, and you can't upgrade your building because the street it is on is also maxed out.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/...
The remaining UV radiation that makes it down to 50km can easily be stopped by the structure of your habitat or the solar panels on the roof. The ionized particle from the sun would be comparable to high altitude cities on Earth.

You might even end up with algae problem on the outside of your colony, since bacteria will like find a way to do photosynthisis there.

Acid is easy to take care of. We use stronger acids everyday and most of them washoff with water or are harmless if diluted enough. Martian dust is toxic. I will choose corrosive acid over poison.
Where are you going to live on Mars? You need meters of concrete above you if you don't want to die from the radiation.
You need an insulated, radiation proof pressure suit to do anything outside on Mars. An acid resistant suit is all you need in my cloud city on Venus. Temperature is perfect, pressure is fine and no radiation.
How will you generate electricity or get power on Mars? Solar is plenitiful on Venus.
Mining for carbon, water and all the elements of life sucks. Percipitating it out of the atmosphere is easier.

A big balloon is a relatively easy thing to transport to Venus compared to what you need to take to Mars to set yourself up. Especially when you don't even need your balloon to be perfectly sealed. There will be no pressure difference with this floating colony. So holes will smell awful and make your eyes water if you don't fix them fast but a large hole on Mars is going to literally suck.

A floating ship in the Venusian atmosphere is far more habitable than Mars will ever be. An airship filled with breathable air will float in Venus's atmosphere at 50km above the surface where the temperature is 23C and the air pressure is one earth atmosphere. The atmosphere outside the balloon contains all the main chemicals for life and everything you need to make plastics. Solar panels would get 4 times the energy they do on earth and the Venetian atmosphere bellow your airship is so reflective you can put solar panels under your ship. The Venetian day is so long that a small amount of propulsion would allow you to always stay on the day side of the planet. Transit times between Venus and Earth are also faster and more plentiful. On Venus there is no need for radiation shielding. Holes in your balloon are not fatal. The gas on both sides is at the same pressure so there would only be diffusion through the holes. The Venetian atmosphere is corrosive to many materials but it isn't toxic like Martian dust so to leave the inside of the airship you don't need a pressure suite or anything much more fancy than an airtight hazmat suit and you can just be showered off on reentry. The two main issues with Venus are the difficulty of putting any robots on the surface for any length of time and the fact the delta V to orbit is almost as high as Earth's. Mars on the other hand is toxic, near zero pressure, radiated and cold. Venus is orders of magnitude easier to colonize.

But thread will then put your device on the internet and give it an end to end channel to its manufacturer. You never want your IoT device to have the option to talk to its manufacturer. All the money in the IoT space is in controlling the devices.

Selling you subscriptions to use your own devices or worse selling your information and putting ads on your stuff. I've been in standards meetings with almost 200 companies and only 5 of them were making physical devices. the others all wanted the standard to be easy for them to control and syphone information out of the devices.

I live in Californina and Ottawa, Canada. In Canada we have Dollaramma, which has lots of stuff between $5 and $1.25. For cleaning supplies they are amazing as well as anything where quality doesn't matter much. And to be fair they have some decent quality stuff. I've seen the exact same products for $4.50 CAN sold for $14.00 USD in the Dollar General. With the exchange rate thats 4x the price. That was maybe extreme but for everything else the price is 2.5x the Dollaramma store and often smaller sizes.

You want smart home devices that talk only to a hub you control. You don't want them able to connect to the manufactures network. You don't even want them on the internet at all. If they can only connect to your hub then that's, for most people, the only thing you need to worry about securing. You also don't want Over the Air Updates. Rarely are these to the benefit of consumer.

Z-Wave would also be an option, since it should work like Zigbee and once had a far better manufacturer association but every Z-Wave hub was created by morons

The third issue and the biggest one is how the grid is funded. We use a fascist model. Private money puts up the funds and daily management of the grid but the government controls how much is charged and when capital investments can be made. It made sense 100 years ago when the risks where high and governments ability to raise large amounts of money limitied. Today it leads to miss management, short sighted descisions and cronic underfunding of the most logical long term required capital expenditures.

I've worked with electric utility operators in North America and the UK. The mind blowing stupidity in California, Texas and Fukoshima are the norm. However the UK has an added level of cronyism and contempt for anyone not in their in group.