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The problem is that in order to emigrate from where they are (third-world / developing) to another country (likely first-world / developed), they would need to move on one of these visas: (a) student (b) worker (c) family member of someone already in said country.

(a) requires a substantial financial outlay, (b) requires a job offer AND visa sponsorship from a hiring company and (c) is probably easiest but requires a family member to be already present in the country with a solid visa status.
Wasn't Zenni Optical years ahead of Warby Parker in the reasonably priced mail-order prescription eyewear game?
You wrote: "Every technology the OP mentioned exists in nascent form today and didn't 10 years ago."

That is not true. Here's the list: "cheap electric scooters and bikes or other electric devices and airbag helmets. Few, if any, combustion engine cars are left on the streets. Truly self driving cars are likely too. Drones that fly you across town? Boring tunnels in multiple levels? Shuttles to Mars?"

How cheap does a cheap electric scooter need to be? Because we had electric scooters 10 years ago. Definitely so if you include "nascent" forms. More specifically, the electric scooter dates from around 1920 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoped . The Segway PT came out in 2001.

Bikes of course are 19th century technology.

Airbag helmets are new.

Electric cars were popular in the early 1900s.

CMU was working on self-driving cars in the 1980s; the Navlab drove across the US in the 1995, and was autonomous 98% of the time. Surely that counts as "nascent", yes?

Drone taxis sound like the proposed helicopter taxis of the 1950s, or flying cars, or jet packs, though without a driver. Drones have been around for more than 10 year. Passenger-carrying drones? That is indeed new.

"Boring tunnels in multiple levels"; many subway systems have multiple levels. What has been new about that in the last 10 years which wasn't deployed earlier, not even in nascent form?

"Shuttles to Mars". I don't know how to judge that one. In 1989 when Bush Sr. announced the Space Exploration Initiative, would you have said that it was a nascent project? You didn't know that that it wouldn't pan out, just like we don't know now if SpaceX's plans will pan out.

The world 20-40 years ago was far more sophisticated than you seem to think.
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Gonna split the difference. What you describe is absolutely a thing, but there's a strong 'no work, no food' tradition in Zen Buddhism that is firmly rooted in the history of subsistence agriculture under moderately difficult weather conditions (only one growing season, tough winters).
Wait, how would a roomba seriously damage your home? Just curious because I’ve never thought mine could but maybe it could.
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> I need an explanation how these implementations are not "cross-platform" yet his Go implementation is.

OP here. I agree the wording is a bit unfortunate here, as all languages mentioned were designed to be cross-platform. I was referring rather to the practical complexity of using the code in different environments - native desktop, mobile (Android/iOS) and Web (JS/WASM).

With Go you can take normal Go code and build it for iOS/Android/Web in a few seconds with a minimal effort. I personally don't know if this even possible for Java/Python/JS, let alone with such an ease.
I never said "all security software has flaws," since that has a substantially different meaning than my comment.

While I'm not arguing with your statement regarding ease of misuse, you should also consider the trade-offs. It's also significantly easier to misuse a pocket knife than a butter knife for the same reason. Butter knives are designed for a small set of problems and deliberately have duller edges to avoid some of the potential downsides of pocket knives. That doesn't make pocket knives useless, it just means that you might need to be trained on safely using a pocket knife, whereas I'm totally comfortable handing a butter knife to my four-year-old. If you're going to be trusted with security, you're really going to need either a) a sharper knife, or b) to understand which knives you're okay handing to your coworkers, or c) to be able to train your coworkers on proper knife safety so they can also use the more flexible tools, but still safely.
Software engineers would have extreme (maybe unprecedented?) striking power. It's an industry where the workers are needed for both interviewing and training, so hiring scabs would be extremely hard.

Management knows that already, so they'll do whatever they can to stop unionization. Retaliating against attempts to unionize are illegal, but internal anti-union propaganda campaigns are common in other industries, and I think you can expect not just what already exists, but better-funded campaigns and targeted to people more like you.

Management would also try other methods to get around the union. More outsourcing, contracting entire projects out and requesting documentation or support contracts. These don't work well - they always cost more than expected, take longer than expected, and are a pain to maintain - but they do work some, so with unions raising wages that'd move the bar towards a little more outsourcing. I'd also expect it to take management a while to relearn that outsourcing doesn't work very well, since it's been a while. Many companies will be willing to pay more for outsourced labor than union labor, because strong unions are a long-term threat to the investor class. If the union covers multiple companies it'll be more resistant to all of this and generally more effective.

The effects on the workers depends on the union's goals and determination. The biggest test is its first strike; how many employees actually go through with it and how long can they last. That depends a lot on the strike fund; even though we're a wealthy industry that should be able to make a strong strike fund, I'd expect a lot of programmers to be suspicious about it (then again I've heard more union talk this year than I have in the rest of my career combined, so maybe they're coming around). I expect the union will achieve all of its goals, as software engineers will drastically underestimate how much striking power they have. Judging by conversations I've had, I'd expect priorities to be: major commitments to privacy/security/ethics/maintainability, improved working conditions (less dense open offices, maybe an end to open offices), and maybe more vacation time. Increased pay seems to be a low priority among workers I've talked to.
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The figure you are looking for is called MPGe or miles-per-gallon equivalent, and most battery ev’s get 100-120 mpge now.
Autonomous vehicles don't solve the problem of there not actually being enough space on the road (a bus takes up less space than a fleet of cars with the same number of passengers). See another article by the same author: https://humantransit.org/2016/07/elon-musk-doesnt-understand...
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YouTube is essentially "free file storage", just for a very specific file format.

Some software for the ZX Spectrum was distributed in a similar fashion, by being broadcast in audio format:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_software#Others

I suppose if you uploaded a recording of that to YouTube you could do a similar thing, although I can't seem to find any examples at the moment.
What? I've charged my Switch with a dozen different cables and 5+ different chargers and it was not damaged, altough it does not charge with 1 charger.

Was it a cheap USB A -> USB C Cable without a resistor? Those a well known to be dangerous [1]

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Feedback is not a reward. It's a way to improve processes, and if we as a group give feedback then we as a group benefit. That recruiter might move on to another company, and you might benefit when you interview there next. Or you might benefit from someone else having given feedback to a recruiter at the next place you interview. Or it could come back to you in myriad other ways.

The idea that it's only worth doing things with a direct and immediate benefit might appeal to some people's Randian insensibilities, but it's really quite broken.
The Motorola 68k was just as much of a dead end in practice... and it took the Amiga and Atari ST platforms down with it, plus possibly others (it was used in a LOT of places). It's only very recently that the Apollo core has been reviving it.
> with no established car maker able to match them yet.

The Hyundai Kona EV is cheaper, has good range, and outperforms new model Teslas in 24-hour efficiency (interestingly finishing second to the original Tesla Roadster):

https://insideevs.com/hyundai-kona-electric-gets-shockingly-...

https://electrek.co/2018/12/23/tesla-roadster-24-hour-electr...

Teslas are among the least reliable cars you can buy. If you want high reliability and low maintenance costs, you're best off with a sensible Toyota today:

https://www.consumerreports.org/media-room/press-releases/20...

Here are some currently available and soon to be available EVs from established car makers:

https://www.hyundai.co.uk/new-cars/kona-electric

https://www.kia.com/uk/new-cars/all-new-e-niro/

https://www.jaguarusa.com/all-models/i-pace/index.html

https://www.e-tron.audi/en

VW has to sell electrics to meet the new fleet emissions targets set by the EU and they're going to do it with their MEB platform:

http://fortune.com/2018/12/20/volkswagen-electric-cars-emiss...

https://electrek.co/2018/09/18/vw-meb-platform-electric-for-...

Right now the primary reason to buy a Tesla is the novelty of buying a battery electric. But when all manufacturers are producing battery electrics, why am I buying a Tesla?
Presumably you wouldn't see the answers until after you spent all night on the assignment.
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Well, as it pertains to power delivery, it seems to me that UL and friends could have their own keys, which they would delegate to manufacturers of certified devices.

I figure the authentication will happen largely in the host software as well, so if you're running a real operating system you'll be able to install your own keys.
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I find the monetization of consumption to be misleading. We can externalize costs and pretend that we're more sustainable. Or someone can invent a new technology that doesn't actually affect our core sustainability in terms of food and energy etc. but we value the new tech at billions or trillions of dollars and then we can pretend we're suddenly in the black in our accounting.

The real sustainability issues need to be measured in something other than money.
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This case sounds like a positive

But it’s a bit scary that the telecommute, which maybe hasn’t, I think, caught on - at least as a means to include in-demand, distributed “information” workers - might catch on at scale when purposed in a way that could physically exclude workers with “menial” jobs from the need to live locally.
I was always told to follow the rule that if you think of something that will make a ton of money, do some research, because someone has probably already thought of it and done it. If no one has, then your idea is probably flawed. It's the really small percentage of ideas that fit into neither category where you can make a lot of money, but that is incredibly small. Understand your probably of success before you start planning your dream of living on a beach for the rest of your life.
I don't believe that, if that's what you're implying. I think the people who should "own" the conversation so-to-speak are people who have spent the most time doing AI research. A lot of the cultural understanding of what AI is reflects the type of sci-fi hacking that's depicted on TV.
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You’ll be downvoted because you are wrong. Because battery life isn’t an issue with thermally managed batteries, Teslas are doing well over 100,000 miles and on average retaining 80%-90% of battery life. And because electric cars will provide a massive pool for demand shifting, barring four hours of peak, electric cars can be charged at any time of day, that means with price structures you can create almost any demand curve you want.
Over 99% of electricity in Norway comes from hydropower plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Norway
In which case a pickup truck is a superior solution over current EVs.
I don't have numbers, and it very much depends on which grid we are talking about.

It's likely that some of the electricity came from renewables and little from coal. Even if from oil, the big power plants are more efficient than your car's engine at converting oil to power. There are losses and I don't know how those compare.

Also the grid gets greener over time, whereas your car engine only gets less efficient over time.
I certainly did not expect a simple musing to evoke such an emotive response from multiple people.

This in itself is probably worthy of study (and I hope someone is already researching this area).

That people have different experiences is uncontroversial, but the depth of feeling that seems to come from a challenge to one's sense experience seems disproportionately severe.

Consider the Blue and Black/White and Gold dress and Laurel, Yanni. There were extremely heated arguments over these otherwise trivial curiosities.
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Something I’m genuinely curious about (and don’t know the answer to): how much better is the entire lifecycle of an EV on the environment versus an ICE, from raw materials to disposal of the parts? Do we have ways to dispose/recycle the enormous batteries used to power our EVs? Is the supply chain for the raw materials any more/less harmful than the supply chain for an ICE?
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> No they haven't. Those have existed for over five decades.

There is nothing in "started to garner more interest" that implies something is new. It's even the other way around.
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This is called the "Long tailpipe argument", if you want to look into it further.

My understanding is that EVs are still usually a net win because

1. Power plants can benefit from economies of scale that individual cars cannot, making a gas power plant powering EVs better than individual cars running on gas.

2. As others have said, it is easier to upgrade power plants than all cars on the road.
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I don't think all the MMTers are Neo-Keynesian. The alternate term applicable to MMT is neochartalist. It's more of a claim about money and systems, and less of a statement about what should or shouldn't be done once these facts are acknowledged.
I wish at one point in the future it will allow us to save a picture as JPEG. And then to be able to simply quit the program.

It's pretty basic, I know GIMP have a reason to make it more complicated and painful, but I don't agree with it.
He said take, which doesn’t change my argument in any way.
Here is the video that explain exactly what you are looking for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM
I've purchased three pairs of Warby Parker glasses, and a lifetime of "incumbent" glasses before and after that.

All of WP's glasses I've owned were somewhere on the scale between "garbage" and "fine as a backup pair". Cheap plastic. Very poor fit. Lenses that easily scratched. Messed up prescription multiple times (thankfully their CS is pretty good).

I'm thankful that my insurance allows me to own a "real" pair of glasses, which would normally cost ~$400, from my optometrist. Because the ~year that I experimented with WP was without a doubt coupled with the worst glasses I've ever worn in my life, and I've been wearing glasses since the first grade. I'll only ever be returning to them maybe for prescription sunglasses, and even then my optometrist often runs bundles with glasses (on insurance) + sunglasses for 50% off sticker.

I respect that they're opening the market up for people who aren't lucky enough to be able to consistently afford better glasses. But I don't believe this is what we should want as a society; everyone should have access to great vision, and shouldn't have to resort to rebranded chineese knock-offs just to live their life to their best potential.
What difference? Norway is a key contributor to global warming by being a key producer of oil.