There are some things though that this doesn’t necessarily mention. Firstly, Finland is a small country. That makes it a bit easier for the government to foot the bill or deal with the programs. Secondly, the taxes in Finland are quite high. I work for a Finnish company and have talked to plenty of them. The…

Another fair point that could be made is that our cities aren’t necessarily built for public transit all the time.  I don’t know that China is any better as I’ve never really seen that first hand, but State-side you can run into issues with it.  When you try to cram bus routes into cities that don’t have separate…

I suppose that’s a fair assessment.  Will be interesting to watch for sure.

I suppose, though the back end of that is then what happens when all the houses have been updated in 30 years?  Seems like you’d have the opposite problem of an awful lot of skilled labor with no jobs to use it on, at least with they scale they seem to be talking about with the GND.  Could just be I’m interpreting the…

• The Stadia data center PCs where games will actually be running will use Linux.

I guess I question the whole jobs thing. Taking the initial idea of reconstructing every house in America to be energy efficient and building all sorts of new wind farms etc, a huge majority of that work would be trade skill labor of stuff like carpenters, electricians, plumbers, etc. Those are specialized jobs that…

The social justice things kind of caught my eye too the more I read about it.  It just doesn’t feel like they really belong in there, at least not with what the name of the plan is.  Feels like they should be an entirely different plan of their own.

There’s also a chance that there were many more tire options for 18" wheels at the time. I know when I was looking at rims for my 67 Dart that 16" let me get all sorts of fun rubber, including good street strip tires. My Viper with the 18/19 stagger has exactly one weather capable (rain) option available at TireRack. …

So your seat is basically supposed to be bigger than you is what I gather from that image.  Kinda looks like a kid driving.  I’m reasonably thin, but tallish at 6' even.  Not a lot of seats out there with shoulder supports that high.

I thought the modem speed has been mentioned elsewhere, maybe in the article about the old laptops used to service them.  I had thought it was only a 26.6K.

They already make those cans, they’re called SlimFast.  Seriously, those things are like steel or something.  They are more like a vegetable can than a soda can.

I mean, I’m not really sure that even counts as a car at this point.  Maybe a “rolling” chassis at best.  I’m still not sure I see an actual body anywhere in there.

Connecting the controller “to the servers directly over wifi” doesn’t really make sense to me.  I’m guessing that really means your controller connects to your router directly, which then connects to the server vs it connecting to your tv and then getting packaged up in the data stream. Regardless, there is going to…

It’s always tough to figure out how you can separate someone’s “output” from them as a person.  If a doctor found the cure to some form of cancer but was a total weasel who stole from people while doing it, does it make the fact that there is now a cure for cancer any less important?  I don’t honestly know that I can…

I get that some people just want a car to serve a purpose as transportation, but it’s soul sucking to me to drive something that is so numb and boring on a daily basis. I daily drove my 04 Viper for years as it was the most capably car in my fleet for all weather use (aside from snow on roads) and enjoyed every minute.…

I like idle and a few quick revs to get an idea, but after like, 2-3 revs I’m ready to hear it under load.

All of my cars, though for different reasons on each. The 71 Vette was my first car and it’s been 16+ years now that it’s been in the family. Stripped it naked and painted it in the garage, redid most of the interior, finally fixed the A/C, rebuilt the brakes far too many times, but otherwise pretty mechanically…

I dig the copper accents.  Gives it a bit of a modern JPS vibe.

Wow, I never really thought about that.  That is one of the reasons I like a manual so much.  The direct connection of engine and wheels is hard to give up.  Any auto, no matter how “good” or quick shifting or whatever, feels disconnected to me.  I guess an old “Clutchflite” hybrid transmission from back in the day…

I was amazed at the detail in my 04 Viper service manual.  Each section starts off with a fairly detailed explanation of how the system in question works, which is great for troubleshooting.  It also gives a lot of detail like dimensions for suspension hard points, which I would have imagined would be much harder to…