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Unfortunately there's a lot of lag
"THIS IS THE PALLETDRONE" "WHAT?" <inaudible>
You just have to be a freelancer (and all that entails), and be able to live on a very low income.
Sell! Sell! Sell now before it's too late!
This is fine and "good actually"
Consider a traditional PHP forum. How much of the discussion is the "OP" post in a thread, and how much is all of the discussion afterwards? It's the same on twitter.
Since crypto is used for crime and pyramid schemes, zero value so infinite tax = ban
US has an irrational dislike for overhead wires, for both trains and trolley buses (ubiquitous enough they have Unicode)
This isn't a problem of technology, and we can't "innovate our way out". Our dispersed suburban land use pattern is simply a mistake, and impossible to make efficient.
Efficiency comes from:
* Electrified freight rail for cargo transport into and between cities and buildings
* High speed intercity electrified passenger rail
* Frequent, automated subway and heavy rail in cities and their peripheries
* Frequent, ubiquitous trolleybuses to bring people to rail stations
* Dense apartment buildings with good noise cancellation which share heated walls, and use heat pumps for heating and cooling
* Renewable electricity
* Flights for trips >500km, taking passengers from several nearby cities who take high speed rail to the airport
ALL OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES EXIST TODAY, we just need to be willing to adopt them. Because these technologies exist today, there is no sense in "waiting for technology to save us". We need to choose to adopt them, and abandon our inefficient policies now. These will always be the solutions, and we are just in denial that we need to adopt them.
I think we're hurt by our domestic oil and gas reserves here. We have powerful interests who want the US to use its domestic oil and gas reserves, so a large-scale shift TO nuclear and AWAY FROM gas seems quite difficult to execute.