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by beerlord 8y ago
Cynical analysis: This announcement of 'business paying for rides' is priming the customer to have their data sold to corporations. How else would it make sense for someone like Walmart to offer the free ride? Walmart (for example
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I think there is a legitimate role for Government or Not-For-Profit here: Rather than providing money handouts to the worst off citizens, why not just cut out the middleman and offer basic prefab housing and cheap nutritious meals instead?
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Market failure got us to 400PPM. The externalities of carbon and methane pollution have not been properly priced in. That can be resolved with a market mechanism - a carbon tax. The free market has also brought us widespread electric cars,
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I think there is an immense opportunity for open-source here. So many techies are yearning to get back in touch with nature, and contribute to the planet. Using your spare time and expertise to develop robofarmer software helps from both an
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Operating on the basis that one scooter rider is one less car driver, there is an immediate benefit. Scooters have an even smaller footprint than a bicycle.
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Interesting to note that whilst Saudi Arabia can technically extract oil for $9/barrel, they have a gigantic society to maintain on top of all that oil revenue - requiring $70/barrel to break even.
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Your location is already being tracked quite accurately by your smartphone. So that horse has already bolted. Vehicle tracking and charging not only allows for effective replacement of gas taxes (they can remain in place just to address the
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I'd highly recommend buying a CO2/PM2.5 measurer and seeing what the levels are in your house or workplace. CO2 over 1,000 PPM has been linked to reduced cognitive performance. As an aside they function as excellent temperate and
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Non-transport use of oil is only 32%. 9% is for heating and electricity generation, which presumably will also be replaced with batteries or some other improved technology in the long term. Falling oil demand is great for the planet, since
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Soon we'll see the beginnings of the death cycle for ICE vehicles. Lower sales means fewer: Gas Stations Car Dealers Advertisements Repair Shops Which in turn limits the appeal (or increase costs) of an ICE vehicle. Governments worldwi
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Any replacement visa needs to be like the diversity lottery (or the Olympics) by rewarding applicants from smaller countries. The migrant intake shouldn't be dominated completely by India and China - their sheer size gives them an adva
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And in all of the cases, they are Indians committing fraud to assist the immigration of other Indians. Perhaps the simplest solution is to disallow Indian nationals from applying for H1B completely? I think its generally problematic if one
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It will become a positive feedback loop. Autonomous private busses, with routes auto-calculated based on the start and end point that passengers enter via smartphone, will take cars off the road. Cars off the road will speed up those busses
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I think electric scooters and autonomous vehicles (which in a bus version can also double as privatised mass transport) will solve that problem. Public Tram, Bus and Rail systems are obsolete because they need a permanent human driver (expe
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The Indian population is growing by 1,920 people per hour- so they would have been quickly replaced.
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You havn't considered payroll taxes. The Scandinavians have smartly replaced payroll taxes with income taxes, whereas in Germany your employer pays 20% for every dollar they pay you. http://www.uhy.com/employers-now-pay
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You pay for all that. In most countries even the lowest wage-earners have an effective tax rate of 60%, once you consider social security taxes, income taxes, VAT. It encourages tax evasion and byzantine corporate and individual accounting
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China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited to Develop AI 'Killer Bots'(scmp.com)
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The value that Earth provides is the fact that it hosts millions of living species. Mere geological resources can be gathered from asteroids or other planets with lesser gravity wells. The Alien species would have to determine if Human tech
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump Do you mean that?
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It was enough for me to take my staff over to a Microsoft-hosted email account. Outlooks just sits in the background using a few dozen megabytes, and has a better UI than Gmail. You don't need to hunt through Chrome tabs to find your e
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Unfortunately a lot of product manager roles are hired based on how many new products/features that person launched, and not the actual impact to the company or customers (that information is usually confidential or impossible to tease
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Don't forget, these are the same automakers that faked their diesel results for years - poisoning (their own) cities with noxious fumes. Its fair to say that the environment is not high on their agenda. Instead, its simply that ICE car
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And keep in mind that sales are spread across that 2 year lifecycle - plenty of people buying the phone one year after its out, and then getting only another year of updates. This is what happened to me when I bought a Nexus 5, and it was t
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Why not start gender quotas with immigration - instead of wrangling it in at the workplace? Set quotas requiring that 60% of all H1B visas must be offered to women.
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Or you can just buy that same flagship model 24 months later, still working perfectly well and with many more years of iOS updates, for a fraction of the price. The second-hand market for iPhones and iPads is huge, and iPhone sales in marke
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Apple takes a 30% commission on any revenue passing through the store, and 15% on subscriptions. These fees are exorbitant - they are merely ringing a credit card, transmitting a few megabytes of data, and performing a basic examination of
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Amazon and Apple take all the cream, nothing is left for publishers and authors. Books were meant to free us from printing, shopping and logistics. Instead we replaced huge physical costs with huge digital costs. It’s unbelievable that digi
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If Steam are not going to subsidise hardware, then they are a parasite on VR gaming instead of an asset - charging 30% commissions for any VR games sold whilst developers take all the risks. The future of VR is with a PS5 console that can h
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The simplest solution to this problem is simply to buy a Nintendo Switch. You can control exactly which games are installed, and and rely on the fact that they are not exploitative. For web browsing you can then have a desktop hooked up to

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