Has anybody even remotely considered the effect of this on living BREATHING organisms. This is just stucking fuipid.

FTC Every workplace misery you ever thought was stereotyped hyperbole right out of a Dilbert strip? In defense contracting it's a reality. I've been out of the game for a long time now, but my experience was very different. But here is a simple question to ask oneself. If someone came up to you and asked if you would help stop the next 9/11 with your computer skills, would you do it? If the answer is no, you should ask yourself why.

Intermittent renewable energy and BEVs don't have to strain the grid, they can reduce the requirement. Just add Vehicle to Grid (V2G) or Vehicle to Load (V2L) with Distributed Energy Resources (DER). Instead of centralizing energy production and storage, why not distribute it. If every home had a solar array sized for not only home use but also BEV use then the grid doesn't have to be expanded. On prolonged days of low output, just drive the BEV to a grid tied charging station and then back home. You've now delivered tens of KWHs to the home without using the grid. This is particularly important for CA, since they will be shutting down their grid from time to time, when fire risk is high. The sad thing about centralized power is, consumers power for, but they don't get any of the advantages of owning it.

Actually, there are still lots of easy problems to solve, they just aren't wildly profitable with a giant mote around them, which is why they never even get looked at. My favorite example is hot water and honey. Much more effective than expensive meds for a sore throat, but where's the profit in that? There isn't any, at least not until big honey gets going.

Recently, my most productive time has been spent bouncing ideas off an AI. 99% of what I come up with is nonsense, but with an AI I'm no long afraid to let my thoughts wonder. Between that and the goofy responses that can send one in an entirely different direction, it will become crucial for the future. Now that for LLMs, if one looks at GAs, then they just need someone to kick them off. Not sure what the fuss is about. In person meetings are never very productive. Better to have people review the proposals at their own rate and respond accordingly. This whole back to the office gambit seems more important to commercial real estate investors then to innovators. Just look at open source, it seems to do just fine. As always, just my $0.02 worth.

Just imagine where we would be today if we hadn't been able to use innovations like leaded gas and asbestos. If a little more time was spent making the Internet safer and more secure, we might not be having multiple announcements every week about companies getting hacked. Imagine being the test engineer that discovers a critical and systemic security risk which will prevent an AI from going live and making billions if not trillions of dollars. What do you think will happen next?

Does google also favor sites with it's advertising rather than competitors and a proven track record of longer engagement? This would make sense from a business perspective, as long as other search companies do the same.

It seems that most Plug In Hybrids are parallel not series hybrids. These are a lot more expensive to produce. Toyota with it's infinity drive and GM with it's parallel for the Volt. Series hybrids are cheaper and effective. You can run the ICE at one of 2 speeds, max fuel efficiency or max power. There are some areas of the country where the time need to accelerate is measured in minutes not seconds. Outside Denver there are some hill that go on for a while. I think they call them the Rocky Mountains. Anyway, hill climbing there (acceleration) can go on for miles.Which is why you will need to have max power from time to time on the ICE. Otherwise it should be designed to have max fuel efficiency be able to run the vehicle and charge. BTW the point is conceded, parallel hybrids would be too expensive, so you can stop bringing them up.

Today batteries are a major cost so reducing the the battery range from 500 miles to 50 should significantly reduce vehicle cost. The range extender will add cost back in. A Free Piston Linear Generator (FPLG) will greatly reduce that cost. An Israeli company is testing an FPLG out that produces 15KW weights 10Kg and cost a few hundred dollars. at 5 miles per KWH that would be 75mph. Two of them should be more than enough for a small vehicle while offering some redundancy and added power during acceleration. Of course the battery will really be the key to acceleration. This would be much simpler than an normal ICE with a generator tacked on, which is the current thinking. Simple series hybrid rather than a parallel hybrid will greatly reduce the cost.

Batteries continue to improve so it's not hard to image them doubling in range by 2035. Also things like Free Piston Linear Generators FPLG make the gas part small, affordable and easy. In fact this should have been done decades ago, oh well. The engineers on GM's EV1 tried it out (series hybrid) but with a gas turbine.

Did any of the cops see the Imitation Game? The first thing that happened after breaking the enigma machine was to come up with ways to get the info from other sources. The cops got a small win now, but it could have been so much more.

After the economy craters and Yang becomes president, all of the ledger base money is destroyed. This includes cypto, stocks and banks. The country bootstraps itself with the help of 3d printing, permaculture and open source.

Profits can also be thought of as Return On Investment (ROI). Which, for some at least, is money that you did work for and are now having it work for you. It does matter how that money is made. If it's made from rent seeking, free riding, and moral hazard then it should be taxed at a much high rate than money earn from honest labor.

Capitalism without everyone having capital, is like democracy without everyone having the vote, it's in name only. Our tax policy should encourage entrepreneurship and employee ownership and stop giving tax breaks to wealthy investors. Their wealth comes from rent seeking, free riding and moral hazard. Everyone owning capital rather than Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the answer for displacement from automation. If the workers own the robots that replaces them, they need to be engaged and responsible. UBI is a terrible idea which will increase the disparity in wealth, not decrease it.

The virus originally being part of the cell actually seems more realistic then a cell incorporating a virus. The gene people haven't quite gotten it yet. It seems this will end up being just like the so called junk DNA which turned out not to be junk after all.