I knew several people in ruraltania who bought into the 3rd generation of raising Vietnamese potbellied pigs. First and second generations made a fair amount of money selling into a rising novelty market; the second generation also made money selling to third generation hopefuls. Third generation breeders lost their shirts of course. Before that it was small farmers in central Ontario who discovered that ginseng grows very well in that climate and soil and that was large, nay HUGE, demand for that root in the PRC. This is perhaps even more germane to the tech example because it takes the first crop of ginseng 7 years to mature, so many many Lake Erie-area farmers saw their early-in neighbors harvesting the crop and the cash - only to see the market flooded and prices crash the year before they were due to harvest.

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> "Tesla accomplished this by building a tiny two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel, no pedals, and a sub-50 kWh battery pack."
> "That’s a legitimate engineering strategy for a robotaxi fleet vehicle. It’s not a fair comparison to a car you’d actually buy."

You do not have to pedal most ebikes. Class 2 ebike and class 3 ebikes can be operated by throttle. Built in speed limits are usually easy to bypass.

Yes, it is really problem. On the Golden Gate Bridge it has been a problem for years. E-bikes going down the sidewalks much to fast to respond to pedestrians and so on.

You cannot just put pedals on a Harley and call it a bicycle. There are some so-called ebikes that can go highway speeds.

Often, there is no other place for cyclists to ride. Often, to get to one bike path to another, you have to ride on sidewalks. Often, sidewalks are considered bike paths.
Bicycles have enormous potential to reduce greenhouse gases, and solve many other problems - as has been proved in the Netherlands. But a certain amount of urban planning is needed.

Someone funny in a dark way that this story is posted right above the FEC's attempt to control mass surveillance via hardware. This kind of thing makes it absolute clear that one of the core goals of these self-described "AI" systems it to finalize the capture of all PII on everyone and transmit it to centralized storehouses controlled by... who exactly?

The fuels are not made from fossils. Maybe "carbon" fuels would make more sense?

"Way to go outing yourself as someone who lives locally to Cupertino. For anyone else who actually used it was fucking terrible."

Way to make assumptions. I lived in the US Midwest then; I have never lived in California much less the bay area.

Personally I haven't used a single mapping app, whether MapQuest, Garmin, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Open Street Map, or other that hasn't had some errors. There are how many mappable points and curves on the Earth? 1 trillion? 10 trillion? 100 trillion? No one has them all. And all the commercial services give bad directions from time to time; my spouse had to flag down a Forest Service ranger and send them after a couple that was blindly following Google Maps down a road they weren't going to make even in their big honkin pickup truck.

I never got the hate for Apple Maps, even in the first year or two after release. Apple clearly could not let themselves become captive to Google/Google Maps to a degree they would never be able to overcome, so they had to move forward with something. And even outside SoCal it was OK if not great in the US (I understand international maps took a long time to catch up, but that was true of Google Maps too). I think I used it 2/3 of the time after the first year of stabilization and it worked well enough.

Now one can criticize Apple for not using a tiny bit of their store of cash to speed up the process of expanding their own geomapping database, and I so criticized them at the time. But that didn't mean the product was some sort of failure because it wasn't.

Untold billions in outright fraud were uncovered. Want to try again?

The US sent Ukraine about $100 billion, what does it take to be properly armed?

That is not exactly correct. There is a reason they are called "tariffs" not "taxes."
Tariffs can bring in revenue, but they can also be used for public policy, and trade policy.
For example, let's suppose a country imposes on tariff of some US goods, and the president immediately turns around and imposes tariffs on some of that countries goods. The tariff is not for revenue, it can be to tell the other country to back off.
There are a million reasons a president might want to impose tariffs. It is a tool that can be used for all sorts of negotiations.

Gas prices were still on average lower under Biden?
Gas prices are temporarily up because of a war with Iran, that has gone on all of 7 weeks.
Not long ago, gas prices here in Colorado, were as low as $2.12 a gallon.
I am certain that if you averaged it out, fuel prices under Biden were much higher.

Obviously illegal?
Other US presidents have imposed tariffs, why is Trump treated differently?
But, speaking of "obviously illegal" Joe Biden, in brazen defiance of the US constitution, forgave student loans. The case went to the Supreme Court twice, and both times SCOTUS upheld that Biden did not have that authority. But Biden did it anyway, and bragged about.
Makes me wonder who is the dickhead doing things "obviously illegal."