I would add: high efficiency heating and cooling units - insulation requirements in building codes, plus the fact that the McMansion trend has topped out and we're not adding 100 sq ft per year to the average home size lately.
That's o.k. - wait for rechargeable electric vehicles to get some adoption in the marketplace, electricity usage will rise again.
$500 drones generally don't weigh enough to cause a major airline accident, not on the first few tries at least.
What you are gonna have is a rash of "near miss" reports and potentially a few drone strikes, maybe even an expensive engine intake of one - but the engine intake scenario is probably 1:100 for the near miss reports. The population center is at even less risk of the engine intake causing a failure to land at an airport situation, but when it eventually does happen it will likely be over a major population center, because that's where the idiots flying $500 drones recklessly all live, and they're too damn lazy to drive out to open airspace to play with their toys.
Now I can operate my Telemaster (big, cheap RC plane) anywhere and any way I want, and nobody can tell me that I can't because they can't make any rules about model aircraft operations. It was in the news, it must be true.
IBM, a giant corporation with big financial challenges, is addressing their labor cost issues by issuing a blanket proclamation that will remove mostly older, higher salaried employees from their workforce while simultaneously retaining and hiring in more younger, cheaper employees in the urban tech centers where their few remaining offices are located.
Expect the policy to continue until they start to hurt from the lack of experienced people to execute the little actual work that gets done in the corporation.
Many pickups and SUVs around here look to be less than 3 years old, for the price of one of those, you could buy all 4 of our family vehicles. We have an 18 year old pickup truck (functionally equivalent to a new one, just not as shiny), a 15 year old large luxury sedan for toting the whole family around in comfort, and two small sports cars that are 20-25 years old. Maintaining the older cars is both cheaper, and less damaging to the environment than buying a new shiny bus every 5 years. With the extra vehicle redundancy, they also work out to be more dependable than a new car - when one needs service, you've got spares. Roadside breakdowns are virtually unheard of in well maintained cars anymore, I think we've had maybe 4 in the last 30 years / 450K miles, and one of those was in a new vehicle with less than 10,000 miles.
What USA do you live in? Between hopped up pickup trucks and luxury SUVs, the "cars" on the road around here are bigger than ever. And how many people do these private buses carry? Usually one.
Government of the people by the people for the people will rarely prohibit things the people want. At best, you might hope for "behavior shaping" taxes, but the price of gasoline has been a sacred cow in the United States forever - the last market price drop from $4 per gallon back to $2 was an opportunity for new fuel taxes to help "shape" behavior toward more efficient vehicles without putting an active chill on the economy, but, instead, our legislators just let the prices fall and continue to tax us other ways.
Um.... not really. The "improvements" used to make an 808 horsepower car have little to nothing to do with making a car more fuel efficient.
Also, the long term results of a 15mpg fleet are no different than the long term results from a 45mpg fleet - sure, the fuel is consumed 3x as fast, but in the long term, it always runs out.
Even if we pump up "automotive" efficiency to where it's 100% solar powered, the long term results of continued population growth are going to tank the planet regardless of how "green" our lifestyle is.
Don't hate the gas guzzlers, hate the procreators - they're the real problem.
For the last 70+ years, people come with cars semi-attached. People are no longer satisfied to simply walk from home to store to work and back, they like to move around more and more freely than buses and trains will permit.
Now, have mistakes been made about how to accommodate people's cars in urban environments? Absolutely, and freeways bisecting urban areas is one of the biggest ones, especially when built on-ground with limited access from one side to the other, that serves neither people nor cars of the neighborhood, it simply makes it easier for thru traffic.
When battery energy density reaches about 3-5x of current commercially deployed tech, we can finally have our VTOL flying cars, then we'll have a whole new set of problems, but the urban freeways can be torn down and walkable neighborhoods regrown in their absence.
This isn't NIMBY, this is "traditional neighborhood preservation" - which can be as rabid and overblown as NIMBY, but it's a different thing, really. NIMBY sends the problem off to somebody else. Neighborhood preservation embraces the problems of the past rather than rushing into the problems of the present or near future.
Freeways are truly evil and destructive to urban development, they need to be underground, or outside the urban area. The summary delves into social justice themes with the planner wanting to use the freeway as an excuse to raze the housing for the undesirables, but, really, the freeway itself breaks up a community when it's built in a traditional above ground (affordable) manner, regardless of who lives there.
If you want to talk about NIMBY - the "heroine" of the piece was actually the opposite, striving to keep the "problem people" where they are, rather than displacing them off to somebody else's neighborhood.
Unless this quack has access to serious amounts of unpublished tech, there's no way he will succeed within the next 10 years, much less the next 3 to 5.
The cryobank mentioned actually denies involvement with him, flat-out. I get a feeling we're being trolled and this is a viral marketing campaign for a crappy movie.
There are ways, Dude - You don't wanna know about it, believe me
I heard a story about a rich, sick old dude from India, got himself a team of the best western doctors available (using absurd piles of money to buy their time), they told him his case was basically hopeless - he needed multiple organ transplants and he would be dead long before donors could be found. They were retained for another 2 days, and within 24 hours of the transplant diagnosis compatible organs were delivered by private courier for implantation.
Cryobanks are privately funded, it's a whole (weird) world onto itself - barely clear of the murder statutes, most "residents" marginally funded while a few pump in impressive amounts of capital. It's a good example of capitalism - it exists because there is sufficient demand to support it, not because IRBs approve.
On the reality front, he tried a head, didn't work, so he figures a brain only might be easier...
The optic and auditory nerves alone worry me, not to mention therapy to regain tongue and vocal cord control, etc. Imagine if the brain transplant works and the consciousness reawakens in a completely sensory deprived state. Probably not what the transplantee had in mind.
This, in Miami I could drive 35 minutes pre-rush, or 55 minutes for the same commute during rush hour in a car. Or, I could drive 20 minutes in the car, park at the rail station, take a train for 20 minutes, transfer to the people mover for another 10 minutes, then walk exposed to sun and rain for 1/4 mile to work, paying $4 per day for the privilege of riding the trains.
The single best solution to traffic in Cities Skylines is tunnels, lots of tunnels, put those freeways underground. I put my tunnel on-off ramps on the inside of big roundabouts, then the surface traffic is tremendously diminished, the freeway traffic has ready access to most areas, and the freeways don't add noise to neighborhoods or bisect and separate them.
Bitcoin was always destined to become highly centralized and dependent on trusted intermediaries. The only way it wouldn't go there is if everyone who used bitcoin actually participated in the mining and understood what they were doing. As soon as non-miner, non-savvy people got in the game (day 2, I would assume) the devolution began.
Funny thing about life: perception is all there is.
You may "know the truth" as you perceive it. Your "truth" may be independently verifiable, repeatable, reliable, consistent with other known "truths," etc. and yet, if your "truth" is only believed by a small minority of society, then it has small - and potentially even negative - social value.
Truths like: "watering and fertilizing my garden will get me better yield" have self-fulfilling value. But, if you want to sell your produce to society, and society has placed some negative value on fertilized or irrigated crops, then you could be better off ignoring the "truth" of the yield and growing the crops that society wants.
In the case of imaginary constructs, perception is truly all there is. Harsh truths like loss of money through theft, digital copying, etc. will impose themselves, but these kinds of problems exist for all forms of money. As long as a sufficient society of people "believe" in the value, and they aren't interfered with by regulation, taxation, etc., Bitcoin will continue to trade for value. Just like pet rocks did in the 1970s - though Bitcoin seems to be a much more durable fad.
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I would add: high efficiency heating and cooling units - insulation requirements in building codes, plus the fact that the McMansion trend has topped out and we're not adding 100 sq ft per year to the average home size lately.
That's o.k. - wait for rechargeable electric vehicles to get some adoption in the marketplace, electricity usage will rise again.
But it will change the cost to find and prosecute said idiots after damages have been done. Don't forget, scaring the public is very expensive.
$500 drones generally don't weigh enough to cause a major airline accident, not on the first few tries at least.
What you are gonna have is a rash of "near miss" reports and potentially a few drone strikes, maybe even an expensive engine intake of one - but the engine intake scenario is probably 1:100 for the near miss reports. The population center is at even less risk of the engine intake causing a failure to land at an airport situation, but when it eventually does happen it will likely be over a major population center, because that's where the idiots flying $500 drones recklessly all live, and they're too damn lazy to drive out to open airspace to play with their toys.
So, as long as nobody gets killed or hurt and no property is destroyed, I can fly in commercial airport airspace--- Yee haw!
Now I can operate my Telemaster (big, cheap RC plane) anywhere and any way I want, and nobody can tell me that I can't because they can't make any rules about model aircraft operations. It was in the news, it must be true.
IBM, a giant corporation with big financial challenges, is addressing their labor cost issues by issuing a blanket proclamation that will remove mostly older, higher salaried employees from their workforce while simultaneously retaining and hiring in more younger, cheaper employees in the urban tech centers where their few remaining offices are located.
Expect the policy to continue until they start to hurt from the lack of experienced people to execute the little actual work that gets done in the corporation.
Many pickups and SUVs around here look to be less than 3 years old, for the price of one of those, you could buy all 4 of our family vehicles. We have an 18 year old pickup truck (functionally equivalent to a new one, just not as shiny), a 15 year old large luxury sedan for toting the whole family around in comfort, and two small sports cars that are 20-25 years old. Maintaining the older cars is both cheaper, and less damaging to the environment than buying a new shiny bus every 5 years. With the extra vehicle redundancy, they also work out to be more dependable than a new car - when one needs service, you've got spares. Roadside breakdowns are virtually unheard of in well maintained cars anymore, I think we've had maybe 4 in the last 30 years / 450K miles, and one of those was in a new vehicle with less than 10,000 miles.
Or, you could drive like Hans Stuck and just anticipate the lag and put your foot down a fraction of a second earlier to compensate.
What USA do you live in? Between hopped up pickup trucks and luxury SUVs, the "cars" on the road around here are bigger than ever. And how many people do these private buses carry? Usually one.
Government of the people by the people for the people will rarely prohibit things the people want. At best, you might hope for "behavior shaping" taxes, but the price of gasoline has been a sacred cow in the United States forever - the last market price drop from $4 per gallon back to $2 was an opportunity for new fuel taxes to help "shape" behavior toward more efficient vehicles without putting an active chill on the economy, but, instead, our legislators just let the prices fall and continue to tax us other ways.
Um.... not really. The "improvements" used to make an 808 horsepower car have little to nothing to do with making a car more fuel efficient.
Also, the long term results of a 15mpg fleet are no different than the long term results from a 45mpg fleet - sure, the fuel is consumed 3x as fast, but in the long term, it always runs out.
Even if we pump up "automotive" efficiency to where it's 100% solar powered, the long term results of continued population growth are going to tank the planet regardless of how "green" our lifestyle is.
Don't hate the gas guzzlers, hate the procreators - they're the real problem.
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For the last 70+ years, people come with cars semi-attached. People are no longer satisfied to simply walk from home to store to work and back, they like to move around more and more freely than buses and trains will permit.
Now, have mistakes been made about how to accommodate people's cars in urban environments? Absolutely, and freeways bisecting urban areas is one of the biggest ones, especially when built on-ground with limited access from one side to the other, that serves neither people nor cars of the neighborhood, it simply makes it easier for thru traffic.
When battery energy density reaches about 3-5x of current commercially deployed tech, we can finally have our VTOL flying cars, then we'll have a whole new set of problems, but the urban freeways can be torn down and walkable neighborhoods regrown in their absence.
This isn't NIMBY, this is "traditional neighborhood preservation" - which can be as rabid and overblown as NIMBY, but it's a different thing, really. NIMBY sends the problem off to somebody else. Neighborhood preservation embraces the problems of the past rather than rushing into the problems of the present or near future.
Freeways are truly evil and destructive to urban development, they need to be underground, or outside the urban area. The summary delves into social justice themes with the planner wanting to use the freeway as an excuse to raze the housing for the undesirables, but, really, the freeway itself breaks up a community when it's built in a traditional above ground (affordable) manner, regardless of who lives there.
If you want to talk about NIMBY - the "heroine" of the piece was actually the opposite, striving to keep the "problem people" where they are, rather than displacing them off to somebody else's neighborhood.
Because kids don't know better and will share rent 4 ways in a 2 bedroom apartment.
Agreed, we cannot know the distant future.
Unless this quack has access to serious amounts of unpublished tech, there's no way he will succeed within the next 10 years, much less the next 3 to 5.
The body will die as soon as life support (artificial heart and lungs) are removed - even the basic brainstem functions won't work.
The cryobank mentioned actually denies involvement with him, flat-out. I get a feeling we're being trolled and this is a viral marketing campaign for a crappy movie.
There are ways, Dude - You don't wanna know about it, believe me
I heard a story about a rich, sick old dude from India, got himself a team of the best western doctors available (using absurd piles of money to buy their time), they told him his case was basically hopeless - he needed multiple organ transplants and he would be dead long before donors could be found. They were retained for another 2 days, and within 24 hours of the transplant diagnosis compatible organs were delivered by private courier for implantation.
Cryobanks are privately funded, it's a whole (weird) world onto itself - barely clear of the murder statutes, most "residents" marginally funded while a few pump in impressive amounts of capital. It's a good example of capitalism - it exists because there is sufficient demand to support it, not because IRBs approve.
On the reality front, he tried a head, didn't work, so he figures a brain only might be easier...
The optic and auditory nerves alone worry me, not to mention therapy to regain tongue and vocal cord control, etc. Imagine if the brain transplant works and the consciousness reawakens in a completely sensory deprived state. Probably not what the transplantee had in mind.
This, in Miami I could drive 35 minutes pre-rush, or 55 minutes for the same commute during rush hour in a car. Or, I could drive 20 minutes in the car, park at the rail station, take a train for 20 minutes, transfer to the people mover for another 10 minutes, then walk exposed to sun and rain for 1/4 mile to work, paying $4 per day for the privilege of riding the trains.
Gee, what would you do?
The single best solution to traffic in Cities Skylines is tunnels, lots of tunnels, put those freeways underground. I put my tunnel on-off ramps on the inside of big roundabouts, then the surface traffic is tremendously diminished, the freeway traffic has ready access to most areas, and the freeways don't add noise to neighborhoods or bisect and separate them.
Bitcoin has proven itself to be a very successful pyramid scheme.
Bitcoin was always destined to become highly centralized and dependent on trusted intermediaries. The only way it wouldn't go there is if everyone who used bitcoin actually participated in the mining and understood what they were doing. As soon as non-miner, non-savvy people got in the game (day 2, I would assume) the devolution began.
Funny thing about life: perception is all there is.
You may "know the truth" as you perceive it. Your "truth" may be independently verifiable, repeatable, reliable, consistent with other known "truths," etc. and yet, if your "truth" is only believed by a small minority of society, then it has small - and potentially even negative - social value.
Truths like: "watering and fertilizing my garden will get me better yield" have self-fulfilling value. But, if you want to sell your produce to society, and society has placed some negative value on fertilized or irrigated crops, then you could be better off ignoring the "truth" of the yield and growing the crops that society wants.
In the case of imaginary constructs, perception is truly all there is. Harsh truths like loss of money through theft, digital copying, etc. will impose themselves, but these kinds of problems exist for all forms of money. As long as a sufficient society of people "believe" in the value, and they aren't interfered with by regulation, taxation, etc., Bitcoin will continue to trade for value. Just like pet rocks did in the 1970s - though Bitcoin seems to be a much more durable fad.