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The Netflix show Stranger Things was loosely based on this. It was originally going to be called "Montauk" and take place on Long Island, as there were conspiracies of mind control, time travel, and other experiments going on at Montauk Air Force base.

The next evolution will be foldable phones that can unfold into tablets. Smartphones in their current form have essentially peaked, I agree.

The least they could do is have a V1 of their smart glasses ready by this event. Several startups have managed to create ones, why hasn't Apple?

The incredibly dull pace of innovation coming out of Apple lately is the logical result of a supply chain expert becoming the CEO.

Interestingly, from a technological standpoint, container ships could switch to nuclear propulsion tomorrow if they wanted to. The 2 main reasons they haven't is the large up front cost, and the fact that very few nations like the idea of a ship with a nuclear reactor being highjacked by pirates.

Most versions of the Green New Deal that I've seen heavily incorporate resilience into the plan, it's not solely focused on trying to reverse climate change.

1. Even if we can't completely prevent it, we can stop it from being much worse.

2. Regardless of the climate changer factor, polluting the air causes cancer, damages ecosystems, harms our food supply, etc.

The mentality of "we can't prevent it, so why bother trying" is like accidentally shooting yourself in the foot, and when finding out it'll have to be amputated, proceeding to shoot your other foot because "what's the point?".

Same goes for solar panel/roof installation, backup battery installation, burying power lines to improve storm resilience, etc. There's no shortage of infrastructure that needs to be built to modernize our system.

Trying to artificially protect jobs in one industry while there's a huge labor shortage in much more productive things like infrastructure modernization or housing construction seems like the antithesis of an efficient market.

"Genius" is a very generous way to describe the slimy crap he does.

If it's this easy to hack Trump's Twitter account and say things that could trigger war, maybe we need to reconsider allowing elected officials to use social media as their official communications channel. Instead, they should have a government run portal where they relay whatever info they need to.

If it's this easy to hack Trump's Twitter account and say things that could trigger war, maybe we need to reconsider allowing elected officials to use social media as their official communications channel. Instead, they should have a government run portal where they relay whatever info they need to.

and yet when clicking the link, the headline says "Canada’s household debt levels higher than any other country, report says"

Here's a thought experiment I like to use whenever this comes up.

If someone were to approach you on the street and ask you to do something for them that will take an hour of your time, what amount of money do you think would be a fair compensation for just the time expense? Now add to that the fact that it's not just an hour of someones time, it's also an hour of use of an expensive machine they own and maintain.

I've found that when minimum wage is thought of in this way, anything less than $20-25/hour sounds absurd.

Road traffic is caused by two main things: congestion and bottlenecks.

Congestion is solved by properly designing cities and their transit systems so that there's an optimal ratio of car/bus/train/bike use.

Bottlenecks are solved by properly designing the road network itself so that you don't have situations where 5 lanes become 2, or highway onramps/off-ramps that are too short and cause an entire lane to be backed up by people entering and leaving.

Yes adding more lanes by itself doesn't solve the problem due to induced demand, but refusing to expand highways while simultaneously neglecting to have transit keep up with growth is even worse.

I personally think that all new housing should have a state "transit expansion" tax per unit of housing it introduces, to allow the system to keep up with growth.

Good luck proving that political differences were why you were fired.

My point is that as long as donations of any kind are legal, politicians will continue to optimize for fundraising, rather than optimizing for policies that benefit the largest number of people. Who is most equipped to donate large sums to politicians? The wealthy.

and it will continue to be, so long as political donations of any size are legal.

In the case of an article that lists 82 startups, their comment is essentially saying "Here's a startup I think is notable". Hence their opinion.

What's your meditation routine? As in, how do you actually meditate, do you use something like Headspace?

Right after their sleezeball CEO and all their VCs cash out, leaving small time investors holding the garbage at the end.

If anything, the biggest inadvertent feature is that its resemblance to Slack means you can browse those things at work and look like you're being productive.

Maybe "quality of life" isn't the best way to describe it. I meant things that are more focused on entertainment or making life more convenient, as opposed to completely changing culture/life for people.

Nope, what I'm thinking of is a much more macro/long timeline focused phenomenon that looks at how innovation progresses over hundred year spans.

I can't remember the name of the phenomenon, but there's a theory that technological progress happens in cycles.

The first half of each cycle contains large spurts of innovation and change which result in big shifts to how the world works (internet, vaccines, the automobile, jets, nuclear power/weapons).

The second half contains incremental improvements on those big innovations and focus more on convenience/leisure (social media connecting the world, uber, netflix, airbnb, etc).

We're currently in the second incremental half, but things like Space X (mars colonization, cheap rockets), CRISPR (gene therapy curing numerous ailments), and the like, tell me that we're not far away from the beginning of another paradigm shift innovation phase.

For new infrastructure specifically, it costs a ton in the US because of a combination of non-transparent bidding system from contractors (politicians give their buddies bloated contracts) and construction unions overstaffing construction sites.

In other words, taxpayer money is being taken for a ride. For a good example of the latter situation, look up the rampant overtime abuse that's been discovered at the LIRR. There's little incentive to keep costs down and use funds efficiently, because it's tax payer money.

A) Why would they be in an adversarial relationship with Google? B) What benefit do they get from doing something like this?

Based on what I'm seeing in this comment section, I'll be doing as much of my online shopping with Costco as possible. They have just as much, if not more of an emphasis on customer service, and they actually treat their employees very well.

"Over the decades, as versions of this housewife’s setup have eliminated dining rooms, pass-throughs, and farmhouse tables, the open-concept kitchen, centered around an island visible from all sides, has become not a labor-saving device but a stage on which (mostly) women are forced to perform."

Or...it's a convenient place to assemble ingredients away from the stove/oven area.

This is such an incredibly absurd reach I don't know where to begin. Yet another example of trying to garner clicks and views with provocative journalism.

It's interesting that two of the largest automakers in the world need to work together to compete with a company the size of Tesla in this arena.

They're playing the (somewhat) long game. While the portion of the world that doesn't internet access right now is generally poor, adding an internet connection to that populace will drastically speed up their development. This then gives Amazon new customers.

Their options are either wait around for 3rd world governments to build the infrastructure to get them those customers, or do it themselves faster.