I hope you're able to make enough Lithium batteries for 2 billion cars a year.
Nonsense. There aren't 2 billion cars on earth, and even if there were they would not all need to be replaced in one year.
There are about 60 million cars made per year. With the expected shift to on-demand SDC taxis, that could decline dramatically.
Known lithium reserves are about 15 million tonnes. A car with a 300 km range uses about 10kg of lithium. So we have enough for 1.5 billion cars, or about enough to replace every gas car on earth.
Of course, new lithium reserves will be found, and as a fallback we can extract lithium from geologic brine, or even the oceans which contain about 230 billion tonnes (enough for 30 trillion cars).
So what could possibly go wrong with having the key to unlock dozens of upper-middle class homes in a delivery van whilst the driver grabs lunch?
Anyone with a screwdriver can break into a house. The reason home burglaries are relatively rare is not that getting in is difficult, but that the risk/reward ratio is unfavorable. Modern homes just don't have that much worth stealing. Used TVs and computers are not worth much. Since everyone has CCs, there is little need to cache cash. Nobody uses real silverware anymore. Meanwhile, cameras, sensors, and alarms are far more common.
Well a shed would be a LOT more money than a doorbell.
You don't need a shed. Just a metal box on your porch, maybe 50cm cubed. Drill a few holes in the bottom and bolt it to the slab. This is enough to handle 90% of my deliveries. Currently, it has a close-to-lock lid, so it is only good for one delivery per day, A smart-lock that could handle multiple deliveries would be nice.
I have a motion triggered camera on my porch that records anyone coming or going. I suppose I could still be robbed, but it would be far easier for a thief to go to my neighbor's house instead.
Question: What possible motivation would Apple have in making FaceID mandatory? Answer: Absolutely none.
Question: What possible motivation would dairy famers have in feeding nuclear waste to their cows? Answer: Absolutely none, but you should boycott milk just in case.
That kind of skips the whole 'own my own damn car' option
The average American household owns 1.9 cars. My family has 3 drivers and 3 cars. With on-demand SDCs, we will likely go to 2, and perhaps 1. Car ownership will not disappear, but it will decline.
Renting an SDC should be much cheaper than owning, since most cars sit idle 95% of the time. So the cost of the car can be spread across far more people. Even if an SDC is idle 50% of the time, that is still only a tenth of the capital cost per passenger-mile.
Factors similar to those resulting in not much price competition between cable providers
Totally dissimilar markets. Cable is infrastructure intensive, and has huge barriers to entry. Rides have near zero barriers to entry. All you need is an app. When Uber and Lyft pulled out of Austin, local companies filled the void within days.
They also seem fine with car automation so far. Tesla Autopilot has already killed a few people, but it is still safer per mile than the average human, so people accept the risk and continue to use it.
Will everyone trust SDCs? Of course not, there are still people that don't trust elevators and always take the stairs. But there is no good reason to believe that most people won't trust SDCs once they have a solid track record of safe driving, even if there is an occasional accident.
Imagine a self-driving car doing exactly the speed limit in the passing lane
Or look at reality. Tesla's Autopilot and other driving assisting software will exceed the speed limit if the human requests it, and they can do so safely. Why would Waymo do it differently?
duplicate it with a thin plastic coat over the palm of their hand
Wrong. The reason my description said TWO cameras, is that it takes stereoscopic 3D images. It also takes multiple images a few milliseconds apart, to detect the pulse in the arteries/veins.
It also means that I have to deal with dozens of emails at once that accumulated over the day rather than addressing them as they come in.
Obvious solution: Bring your laptop to the meetings, and answer your email while they are discussing things that don't pertain to you.
When your boss is speaking, periodically say something like "That is a good point", and then type quickly while nodding your head. Everyone will assume you are taking notes.
What's the big advantage with RISC over ARM or x86?
ARM is a RISC chip. Originally, ARM stood for Acorn RISC Machine.
The news here is not that it is RISC, but that it is open source.
So as long as you have your own fab, or a few million $ to rent one, you can make your own chips... but the real advantage is that you can look at the design files and see for yourself that there are no backdoors.
Per square foot, housing is about the same as it was in 1980 in comparison to median wages. The main reason why housing is more expensive is that houses today are bigger.
The reason you hear a lot about high housing prices is that most journalists live in NYC, DC, SF, or LA, and those are all expensive housing markets. But they are outliers, not the norm.
Amazon is nowhere close to a monopoly, and predatory pricing only works when there are high barriers to entry. Online retailing has very few barriers to entry. Anyone can slap together a website and start selling stuff. The barriers are going down rather than up, as we move toward more secure online payments.
Not really. Despite the PC, the number of AS/400 and other "mainframes" continued to grow for years, and are still common today, especially at financial institutions.
Go to any job site, and type in "AS400". There are still plenty of opportunities available.
This is all going to come down to the exact wording of his employment contract.
As it should. This is a contract dispute. The exact wording of the contract is the ONLY thing that matters. Since we don't know what it says, this entire discussion is silly.
Yeah. I'm gonna have to assume theres more to the patent than just that. Because a patent on that would be absurd.
Patents are actually very hard for laypeople to understand. Unless you are a patent attorney, or have read a lot of patents, it is often very difficult to figure out exactly what innovations are covered. 99% of news articles about patents badly mangle the facts, usually by reporting the patent to be far broader than the actual claims.
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Or will the technology just be hoarded by companies large enough to put it in a fleet?
You mean the way individuals were unable to own cars, washing machines, clothes dryers, dishwashers, Roombas, cell phones, laptops, etc?
Number of technologies that are available only to "the rich": 0.
I hope you're able to make enough Lithium batteries for 2 billion cars a year.
Nonsense. There aren't 2 billion cars on earth, and even if there were they would not all need to be replaced in one year.
There are about 60 million cars made per year. With the expected shift to on-demand SDC taxis, that could decline dramatically.
Known lithium reserves are about 15 million tonnes. A car with a 300 km range uses about 10kg of lithium. So we have enough for 1.5 billion cars, or about enough to replace every gas car on earth.
Of course, new lithium reserves will be found, and as a fallback we can extract lithium from geologic brine, or even the oceans which contain about 230 billion tonnes (enough for 30 trillion cars).
When there's not enough electric cars by 2030?
Who cares? By 2030, most of these politicians will be out of office, so dealing with the consequences will be someone else's problem.
So what could possibly go wrong with having the key to unlock dozens of upper-middle class homes in a delivery van whilst the driver grabs lunch?
Anyone with a screwdriver can break into a house. The reason home burglaries are relatively rare is not that getting in is difficult, but that the risk/reward ratio is unfavorable. Modern homes just don't have that much worth stealing. Used TVs and computers are not worth much. Since everyone has CCs, there is little need to cache cash. Nobody uses real silverware anymore. Meanwhile, cameras, sensors, and alarms are far more common.
Well a shed would be a LOT more money than a doorbell.
You don't need a shed. Just a metal box on your porch, maybe 50cm cubed. Drill a few holes in the bottom and bolt it to the slab. This is enough to handle 90% of my deliveries. Currently, it has a close-to-lock lid, so it is only good for one delivery per day, A smart-lock that could handle multiple deliveries would be nice.
I have a motion triggered camera on my porch that records anyone coming or going. I suppose I could still be robbed, but it would be far easier for a thief to go to my neighbor's house instead.
It's currently optional.
Question: What possible motivation would Apple have in making FaceID mandatory?
Answer: Absolutely none.
Question: What possible motivation would dairy famers have in feeding nuclear waste to their cows?
Answer: Absolutely none, but you should boycott milk just in case.
But you wont get the option of not to pay for it.
It uses a preexisting camera, and software with a marginal cost of $0. So it costs nothing.
That kind of skips the whole 'own my own damn car' option
The average American household owns 1.9 cars. My family has 3 drivers and 3 cars. With on-demand SDCs, we will likely go to 2, and perhaps 1. Car ownership will not disappear, but it will decline.
Renting an SDC should be much cheaper than owning, since most cars sit idle 95% of the time. So the cost of the car can be spread across far more people. Even if an SDC is idle 50% of the time, that is still only a tenth of the capital cost per passenger-mile.
Factors similar to those resulting in not much price competition between cable providers
Totally dissimilar markets. Cable is infrastructure intensive, and has huge barriers to entry. Rides have near zero barriers to entry. All you need is an app. When Uber and Lyft pulled out of Austin, local companies filled the void within days.
People seem fine with airplane automation.
They also seem fine with car automation so far. Tesla Autopilot has already killed a few people, but it is still safer per mile than the average human, so people accept the risk and continue to use it.
Will everyone trust SDCs? Of course not, there are still people that don't trust elevators and always take the stairs. But there is no good reason to believe that most people won't trust SDCs once they have a solid track record of safe driving, even if there is an occasional accident.
How does it deal with five o'clock shadows, or faces that need to be shaved more often than others? Change your beard style? Makeup?
It is designed to tolerate these changes.
Worst case scenario: It doesn't recognize you, and you enter your passcode instead.
I will be buying no Apple products that have Face ID.
Or, since it is an optional feature, you could just not set it up on your device.
Imagine a self-driving car doing exactly the speed limit in the passing lane
Or look at reality. Tesla's Autopilot and other driving assisting software will exceed the speed limit if the human requests it, and they can do so safely. Why would Waymo do it differently?
How about offering a $100m dollar prize payout to each of the first 100 fatalities caused by thier faulty cars.
How about doing the same for the next 100 fatalities caused by human driven cars? It should all be paid out in about 24 hours.
BS. I've done the math more than once.
Maybe you need a new calculator.
The cost per sq area has increased versus the average wage.
No it hasn't..
duplicate it with a thin plastic coat over the palm of their hand
Wrong. The reason my description said TWO cameras, is that it takes stereoscopic 3D images. It also takes multiple images a few milliseconds apart, to detect the pulse in the arteries/veins.
It also means that I have to deal with dozens of emails at once that accumulated over the day rather than addressing them as they come in.
Obvious solution: Bring your laptop to the meetings, and answer your email while they are discussing things that don't pertain to you.
When your boss is speaking, periodically say something like "That is a good point", and then type quickly while nodding your head. Everyone will assume you are taking notes.
What's the big advantage with RISC over ARM or x86?
ARM is a RISC chip. Originally, ARM stood for Acorn RISC Machine.
The news here is not that it is RISC, but that it is open source.
So as long as you have your own fab, or a few million $ to rent one, you can make your own chips ... but the real advantage is that you can look at the design files and see for yourself that there are no backdoors.
Deep vein palm scan? What kind of expensive piece of equipment is that going to take
A box with an IR light and two $5 CMOS cameras.
Ignore the steadily rising cost of housing
Per square foot, housing is about the same as it was in 1980 in comparison to median wages. The main reason why housing is more expensive is that houses today are bigger.
The reason you hear a lot about high housing prices is that most journalists live in NYC, DC, SF, or LA, and those are all expensive housing markets. But they are outliers, not the norm.
Amazon is using the classic monopolist approach
Amazon is nowhere close to a monopoly, and predatory pricing only works when there are high barriers to entry. Online retailing has very few barriers to entry. Anyone can slap together a website and start selling stuff. The barriers are going down rather than up, as we move toward more secure online payments.
It's not really reduced inflation as much as it is removal of the parasitic layers between seller and end user.
It is reduced inflation BECAUSE OF the removal of the parasitic layers between seller and end user.
The PC put most mainframers out of work.
Not really. Despite the PC, the number of AS/400 and other "mainframes" continued to grow for years, and are still common today, especially at financial institutions.
Go to any job site, and type in "AS400". There are still plenty of opportunities available.
This is all going to come down to the exact wording of his employment contract.
As it should. This is a contract dispute. The exact wording of the contract is the ONLY thing that matters. Since we don't know what it says, this entire discussion is silly.
Yeah. I'm gonna have to assume theres more to the patent than just that. Because a patent on that would be absurd.
Patents are actually very hard for laypeople to understand. Unless you are a patent attorney, or have read a lot of patents, it is often very difficult to figure out exactly what innovations are covered. 99% of news articles about patents badly mangle the facts, usually by reporting the patent to be far broader than the actual claims.