Over here in Victoria, people have been complaining non stop since the start of putting in protected bike lanes. We have a really good connected network now, but at the start when the first lane went in, there was such an uproar about this useless short lane that went nowhere before the network had even been built. It was pretty amusing to watch the idiots speak out like that about the short lane.

Starlink and low-orbit sats for internet coverage are a similar leap ahead in cost and speed to deploy. Elon and his goons saw it coming long before anyone else did, and the fact they also have Space X was a pretty key part of their speed to deploy.

Starlink was SpaceXs solution to having a reusable first stage rocket and not enough demand for all the flights they could now do.

They basically poured billions into perfecting reuse, and had to find a way to make money on the new but upfront costly capabilities so they came up with starlink.

Edit: it also gave them a safer way to more easily test flight proven rockets with what was at the time more weary customers of the tech. For awhile NASA still wanted new rockets, but then became fine with flight proven as all the extra flights showed it was okay.

Had the feds hinted they’d interfere in the railway one?

Kinda defeats the purpose of doing it private and local.

I wouldn’t trust any claims a 3rd party service makes with regards to being private.

The conversation was concerns about what China can do to the cars, but China is also concerned about what other manufactures can do with their cars. The concern goes both ways, it’s not just the west afraid of china. The concern about these highly connected cars is legitimate for everyone on both sides.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tesla-cars-barred-some-china-government-compounds-sources-2021-05-21/

I believe now that Tesla stores the data in China that some of that has been relaxed.

I looked it up once and the average Canadian/USA commute (at least in non winter weather) can be done on a 120v 5-15 outlet.

Harsher winters would probably need the 5-20 outlets (or indoor parking) to maintain that level though.

Edit: and ya having charging at work would make the winters better as it adds an extra 8 hours of charging you’d lose otherwise.

The safety systems require the cars to be what you don’t want and the requirements just keep increasing.

I don’t know about other manufactures, but on a LR Tesla you’ll get 7km/h. I think 10 would probably be pushing it for others, but that’s where the NEMA 5-20 with 20amp wiring (which is common practice now) would make the big difference.

The boat has sailed on that one unfortunately.

Safety requirements outright demand these things nowadays, and these safety things do save lives, of the occupants, pedestrians, and the other vehicles involved in the crash.

Even the Chinese government is wary of US based manufactures having their cars near sensitive areas because of all the cameras. Tesla had to ensure that all the data was stored in and didn’t leave a facility based in China before they allowed the cars to be in those areas.

It’s a legit problem for every country. It’s possible other countries might require the same.

I don’t know what the current laws are in each province, but we if we don’t have them yet, we really need new laws that require

1. Apartments/Condo’s to install chargers if paid for by the renter/owner. This is obviously less ideal for apartments, and more about condo’s, but it becomes a start for apartments as well. You could install a plug (not a charger) at an apartment and use your own charger which would at least reduce costs if you were going to stay a long time and weren’t worried about being evicted for some reason.

2. New builds must have at least X amount of 120v outlets available for parking spots at a bare minimum. Make them NEMA 5-20 outlets which give a few more amps and can charger the cars a little bit faster (10-12km/h vs 6-8km/h), but will also work with regular 5-15 plugs. Ideally, also require some 30amp or 50amp plugs, but we gotta start somewhere at least.

400k here won’t even buy you a tear down SFH here on the west coast.

At least online where these people conflate being able to spew hate speech as free speech, the vast majority don’t even understand its only about protection from the government.

They think they’re able to say anything they want and be free of consequences from everyone else in society, but that’s not what it is, and then cry afoul when they face it.

And then when he gets voted out some years later, blame the next party for all the fallout.

Rinse repeat.

I watched the first one, it was really well done.

There’s some really interesting options in there if we can change the rules a bit.

Ah yes, in that case that’s why they should be supplying window ladders you can keep under the bed or nearby

These are usually meant for shorter buildings, and I imagine the staircases are all concrete and can’t catch fire.

That being said, if you’re in a multi level building and it’s only a handful of levels, you should have a window escape ladder as the fire could be just outside your apartment, or in your apartment blocking the door

Maybe they should even be included, a 4 story, 4 units a level building would only be 16 ladders to provide.

This would mean more 3 bedroom apartments as well correct?

and he 100% broke it and didn’t even try

He actually did try. He wanted Ranked Choice but when feedback came for proportional, he ran away.

I feel like something like https://www.storj.io/ is on the path to what we would want/need?

There might be some additional requirements for a true CDN to ensure data is closer to where it’s needed and in as many regions as needed though with the right amount of bandwidth. The data gets stored all over the place, but that doesn’t mean its optimal. But they do seem to claim it’s faster on their website…

Edit: For those not wanting to click, TLDR is they use excess storage around the world and make it accessible anywhere, and safe from failures. People with excess storage can join the network if they have enough storage/bandwidth and pass some tests. Their API is S3 compatible.

Not the 2nd?

$30/h today and still $30/h 20 years from now and they’ll wonder why people are upset again.

Ford is literally begging for this to “revitalize” downtowns.

Like, maybe, we should readjust what downtown looks like, so we can avoid this wear and tear, save the environment, and save people (and cities) money?

Maybe we should be making the downtowns more livable places so there are people there at all hours of the day to support whatever services are there?

Of all the used EVs you can get, old leafs are probably the riskiest due to their lack of active battery cooling. Lots of problems due to that decision.

Your best bet will be when the LFP based cars start getting older and hit the used market.

Thanks for straightening that up, my bad.

Value village is Walmart.

They don’t come any shittier than that company wise.

Free drugs if you work in the oil industry.

That includes things like cocaine to ensure proper 24/7 operation of all gear!

I mean yes, but thats not what i meant. It must be standard that Dr’s check if it worked on young kids to see if levels are low. Part of early childhood checkups

Ah okay, so it is probably just a standard thing for kids that kids never remember.

How did you know the vaccines weren’t taking?

I don’t remember ever being checked with a follow up blood test?

Is that something that just happens when your really young and I’d never remember?

They’re gonna spend the money on a 3rd party logistics company that doesn’t provide as good a service and ends up costing them 10x what they sold this for in yearly fees, delays, excess fuel usage etc. over a decade

The 90k limit also helps keep the conservatives off their back vs 150k or everyone.

It’ll give the program some time to show it actually saves money long term and then they can slowly expand it further with better data to back it up

Reporters will be able to write a story about how the media execs are getting 100 million in new bonuses next year.

That earns them a few pennies!

Hey guys, we’ve sold 4 million copies of our game in this country I’d never heard of!!!

Goes to wiki for country

Population: 1.2 million

Fuck.

Some game developer - oh, our shitty update process requires the whole game to be downloaded again and not just the patch? Too bad so sad!

Correct

Ya, this game in question wasn’t a port.

They said something about how it was written couldn’t be ported over and they’d essentially need to redo the whole game so it’ll never be brought over.

Costco has seemingly done it as well.

At the very least they are night and day compared to the vast majority of scummy employers out there.

I always find it fascinating that almost all their profit is simply membership fees.

I can’t even remember the last time I pirated a game. Probably over a decade?

I might have to pirate a game from the Wii U though they they won’t remake for the switch:(

Government passes shitty law that causes boycott and threats of boycott.

Government caves to altering their shitty bill to end threat of boycott

Government declares their shitty bill a win

News flash- the bill was shit. You fucked up. Everyone told you you fucked up. You should have negotiated this before passing the shitty bill.