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Nice puff piece, wonder how much money did businessinsider get for that one

Or, you know, finally unfuck your riddiculous system where paid vacations is a luxury, minimum wage is pathetic and health insurance is not the standard...

Seconded

Then watch Only The Dead (see the end of a war) by an australian bloke

Good luck sleeping afterwards

Well, wasn't Rogue One exactly that treatment? It was a visceral and brutal experience (especially when one compares it to fable tales of SW). I left the cinema quite unsettled by how gray everything was, the sacrifices and commitment to the cause.

I'd really love SW movies to be more like that, less bland and mentally lazy (AND NO MORE DEATHSTARS FFS)

How about we fix IoT before it blows up the goddamn internet before we come up with solutions to non-problems? /rant

There will be no purely wireless ever. Wired interfaces have too many advantages coming directly from physics and their reliability is unparalelled.

Personally I dont use anything wireless apart from WiFi, and even then only on my laptop

With more and more negative interest rates, or attempts to lock down on how money is used (total removal of cash for example) on the horizon I think governments are quite right to fear bitcoins or any other currency that would let people get out of the attempts to "walled garden" finances

>"Safety is our top priority"

Do they want me to die from laughing?

If you actually manage to go off grid then yes, maybe you are able to save. Good luck doing it without either massive lifestyle change or tons of capital for storage in most of the world.

Once you take the feed-in away the benefit is not so clear cut. Also, many people dump the externalities of home solar on everyone else (the negative spot electricity price) and then use cheap power from the grid for most of the 24h cycle

Where do you think going off grid is so viable?

The problem is smog.

>They could transition to a combined cycle plant if they wanted to increase efficiency.

And who is going to pay for that? How do they fuel them? They already have to import a sizable part of their natural gas consumption. Do they spend even more and add coal gassification?

India is building out nuclear, obviously after Fukushima retards made sure to obstruct as much as they could

Again, the issue is smog, that is killing right fucking now. Should they just ignore the problem and develop a massive program so you feel better?

Do you even know just how much it costs to run a power plant?

You need a few hundred (400-600) tons of coal per hour per one decently sized BLOCK (few hundred MW), usually power plants have several of those, sometimes a dozen or more, a few jet engines running at full blast its a big deal compared with a FUCKING POWER PLANT /rant

Also, none of the renewable energy sources are cheaper than coal, especially when you look at the bigger picture (mostly unutilised capacity, grid overbuild requirements, volatility)

"Ecology" extremists are becoming crazy as of late.

Sure, let's let them suffocate, starve or have their society collapse, as long as they are not burning coal!

Is it now? Because lack of regulation will not hurt adoption when youll get a completely retarded accident caused by lets say...half blind Tesla lane assist "autopilot" plowing into something at full speed because the obstructiom doesnt take full lane It will take one fucking viral video of something like that

Fun fact: Louis Rossman tested that and he showed that they don't really throttle back. They just run balls-to-the-wall at 90C or 99C depending on what was tested. Dont be surprised when heavily used machines (in terms of actual power used, not standing around for 10 hours/day with text editor open) will start failing quickly

Seriously,EV drivetrains last forever? What about battery packs that will be fucking dead after a few years of driving?

Have you ever worked with actual machinery? Electric motors can fail just as well, the windings might break or burn out, the bearings wear out, there is still some gearing in the car as well

Solar and wind is ruinously expensive (just look at german energy prices before and afrer start of their retarded experiment - and remember they pretty much drove out a lot of energy intensive heavy industry to China)

Do you really think its a good thing energy prices go negative because of generators that provide miniscule amounts od total required energy?

The point is to try and look for yourself too, instead of expecting to be given everything instantly with no effort - especially if it takes ONE FUCKING GOOGLE SEARCH /rant

To me it became clear that current global finaces are completely unhinged from reality at least 5 years ago, if not 10. I also am becoming more and more sure it was all fucking Thatcher and fucking Reagan who are at the heart of it all

Not to make a massive dissertation: just look at the debts everywhere, how nicely exponential they are...

So I'mm sitting here, waiting for the inevitable collapse, hoping it comes sooner than later (so there might be a slight chance that SOMETHING survives)

Nope, the only reliable way to block it (that i know of) is to break reboot service by taking away permissions to run or edit it from your own OS

Possibly it will get overturned by autoupdate after a while anyway

My car's sensor will trigger on a semi-decent sized watermelon. Drives me fucking insane - it's a Volvo so it really explodes when it triggers when going fast...

It's like somebody just fired a missile at you -.-

I don't think it's a good stop-gap for me. I wan't to be able to use my own gps app (OSMand), not retarded Google Maps that has less features than bottomfeeeder gps unit you buy at wallmart

But I can concede that people are sure as fuck going to use facebook on those screens if there was a way to do so -.-

Man, I'm so tired of the whole self-driving meme

It's years off in most of the world, while more and more sophisticated infotaiment screens that can distract the drivers are ALREADY on the market

Not the parent, but you could literally get off your high horse and google "laptop gtx 1060"

I did that and had several options within 10 sec

New 15" MBPs run at 100C under load. Similar with older ones. Apple runs those too hot and they die, easy as that.

For starters we could do without total lack of responsibility.

Real engineers can be sued and loose if they signed off on something

In software? Almost every EULA comes with "We assume no responsbility for anything, anywhere, ever"

There are no viable alternatives to oil apart from coal and nuclear, sorry

Not until we have an order-of-magnitude breakthrough in battery tech or some new form of storage

Germany raised it's electricity price almost 3 times since it started it's riddiculous renewable energy bs and they still are only ~25% renewables (And they offshored their heavy, energy intensive industry that just packed up and moved to China, to happily pollute even more than before)

Pro tip:

stop cuddling everybody

If you have poor infrastructure, no crosswalks with lights, no separated bike lanes, cars that run red lights then sure, go ahead, go fix that

If some idiot jaywalks on a main road with proper safety infrastructure and gets himself killed, it's his problem

Bullshit. If your cars are unable to stop from 50 or 60 mph with a red light then there are 3 possibilities:

1)People driving them should not be allowed to drive them because they are either fucking blind, unable to pay attention, drunk or too stupid

2)Those cars should not have passed the yearly technical evaluation and their registration is not valid

3)The lights themselves are not set up properly or are obscured by something

If you fix all those 3 issues there is no reason not to have higher speed limits on main roads that have only intersections/crossings with lights on them

It shouldn't be DNC's choice who wins the nomination...why even bother with voting if apparently it doesn't matter?

And my point is the left is so pathetic right now that it lost to Trump and looks like it will loose to similar unhinged people in entirety of Europe

Go on youtube and look for "trump voters getting attacked"

There are genuine scandals with Clinton, yet all we hear is just the retarded flat-earth grade ones

My point is, when you loose to somebody like Trump, did the DNC, the media, the establishment go "hold on a sec, wth just happened?"

Nope, they just doubled down on their nonsense

You've got people burning the US flag now, immigrants being called racists, thugs attacking people in the street

Go watch Hyperreality by Adam Curtis. Then watch "Only the dead know the end of war"

You know, a tiny part of me died during those movies. (however kitsch and melodramatic it sounds) People lived in good times, during the cold war. All they had to worry about was thermonuclear death.

I grew up watching people getting beheaded, murdered, blown to fucking shreds, watched entire middle east murderfuck itself into some sick and twisted kind of hell (all thanks to west's glorious incompetence).

And it's slowly happening in the west too. The west created a monster, and now the monster is past our door, living among us.

I suggest you go to France, to regions where the islamists ("refugees") are concentrating, before you come out with all the "racist" and other "ists" and "isms"

>if Trump is really the best answer they can come up with to address their grievances then as far as I'm concerned they deserve to be marginalized

As that stupid prick Milo said "social justice is dead". The left is learning it cannot shut down discourse with "-ism" spam anymore, but they managed to build up a tide.

You know who made fucking Faux News? It was CNN and ABC and the like, with their horrible propaganda - for a LOOOOONG time their coverage was biased and one had to cross-reference it against a lot of other sources. Now you've got two completely biased bs news (make no mistake, as an European US CNN is fucking disgusting Goebbels-level shit)

Now one had to look through dozen of fringe news sources, having a court proceeding in ones head to try to decide which one is the least bs

And now thanks to lack of credibility you've got fucking cretins rioting (and screaming "peaceful protest" and assauting people in the day. Fuck it all

If it looks like I'm cheering for that, it is somewhat nihilistic

Maybe the non-reality will come crashing down before it's too late.

Judging from the left's reaction, there is no fucking hope

What is there beautiful about a poorly proportional hunk of aluminum with disfigured fugly touchpad?

I mean, back ages ago the Macbook was kinda surprising and nice. There wasn't many alubody laptops back then.

But now? They look goofy as hell with oversized keyboard, no keypad, featurelessness...

AND THEY DON'T EVEN COME IN BLACK

You see, I'm actually proper leftist.

I'm from Europe and I laugh my ass off watching your failing healthcare, your nuclear student debt, your crime, the like

I'm a proper leftist - I want taxes for the rich, singlepayer healthcare, free education, worker rights, real environment protection, etc etc

I'm just outraged at what the fuck is happening. The "left" is so laughable that in Poland we have an upcoming dictator that just took over supreme court, is building a second, volounteer "defence army" that the ruling party just struck down regulation prohibiting it from being used against polish citizens and is on the record saying "we must hold onto power no matter what"

You've got brexit, you've got Trump. In Sweden you got SD, France is looking more and more that Le Pen will win.

And you know why? It's your own fault. The "left" is not able to deal in reality no more and it was busy alienating and radicalising the right

The "clinton email" scandal you put into sweet quotation marks has emails that nicely explain it all as it was happening.

She is THE "devil". She is the epitome of what's wrong with your politics. She is a sellout, she fucked Bernie with a giant cactus (A man who I was so rooting for). She is so despicable that she was unable to beat Trump, who you could tell after 15 minutes of the debate has no fucking clue.

At least he looked genuine, he was uncomfortable and pissed during the debate I watched. She just pandered and pandered and slinged shit at him.

Yes, my jimmies are rustled.

Not because Trump won, I'm not happy Clinton lost, as it was pyrrhic victory.

I'm pissed because the response (from the media) to the "end times" (as I see it) is more bullshit and idiocy, more "ZOMG RACISM, ZOMG WHITELASH"

What the fuck?!