You said you didn’t see the point about “what the point” of him saying China is large... the point is that like the US, it is large enough that it is useful to have a large national highway system.

I agree that China shouldn’t repeat America’s mistake in become completely reliant on cars for transportation... but for…

According to Wikipedia the continuous-48 is 2,959,064 square miles (Alaska being 660,000 sq miles for a total of 3.7M or a 3% larger total compared to China). China overall 3,624,807.... Gobi desert is ~500,000 sq miles. Taiwan is a paltry 13,000 sq miles... so China minus Gobi desert and Taiwan is still ~3,1000,000…

I agree that China has overbuilt their infrastructure... but for better or worse... for now they deem their heavy industry/construction as “too big” to fail... so just like we dumped billions of dollars in the SLS rocket to keep the space-industrio complex running... for the near future China is happy to dump money…

What are you talking about... China is pretty close in size and if you exclude Alaska and other non-contiguous territories, is actually large in area. I always feel sad about how my fellow Americans have poorly geography language skills (we are basically the only develop country that is not at least conversational in…

It isn’t actually necessary to drive to get around. In a series of random events, my parents ended up with an apartment in Beijing over a decade ago near that 6th ring road... since then, they visit China twice a year for like 2 months at a time. Using Beijing at their home base and traveling to various other cities.

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That might actually be a feature, not a bug in a state-planned economy like China’s. For better or worse... a huge part of China’s economy is heavy industry and construction and it needs projects to keep those workers employed.

Sure, I agree... if you never misplace things, and you never worry about misplacing things... than you probably don’t want a tracker like AirTags. But you didn’t originally say “it’s not a value proposition for me.” Unintentionally or not, your original post effectively said you didn’t see the the value proposition…

I don’t personally like her music, but I don’t see why you believe yourself to be some kind of Dr. Luke/Simon Cowell sole arbiter of talent in believing just because you don’t like her... she must be talentless.

I mean she apparently came to fame due to a self-produced song she and her brother made for a local Dance…

The 100 (at least the first two seasons) are way better than the books. You can see in the pilot how the showrunner kind of tricked the CW execs into thinking it was like a teeny-bopper sci-fi campy horror film... then the first season “gets real” after like the second or third episode and the second season was…

Not to be morbid, but I’m pretty sure there have been train crash victims that have suffered that type of injury over the history of train travel. Although technically it’s more the sudden de-celeration from 50 mph to 0 mph that caused it.

That’s how insurance works... you pay a premium to protect against an event that you hope never actually happens. Just because no one have every hit your car in the last 30 years, doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the next year.

Think of it this way... if you did manage to lose your wallet/keys while on a road trip.…

As with all things related to insurance... you pay a “premium” for piece of mind on a service that you hopefully never have to use. Say 5 years from now, you misplace your keys while on a trip... would you pay $30 to get exactly last time it was within 50m of you, as well as a 90% change of it’s current exact…

Only if you explicitly set the AirTag to be in “lost mode,” otherwise it doesn’t share you contact info (which I think is already obfuscated via an anonymous email/phone number).

His point is that it is difficult to change the existing behavior to alleviate the author’s stalking-worries without messing up this use case that they current behavior already handles correctly.

While not non-zero, I think the worries about stalking with Airtags is a little overblown since people already could do it with pet/kid trackers with built-in cellular mode for not much more money. A Jiobit is only a little bit larger, but would be basically equally easy to sneak into a purse, bag or car - and unlike…

As a Tesla owner ... I also find Tesla zealots really insufferable and cringey as TSLAQ people... I don’t even need to listen to the interview because I experience it all the time when taking to other Tesla owners... there is always one (probably more than one) in the group.

With that being said, I think it’s part of…

While GPS signals are passively received from satellites, this device does have a cellular modem to transmit its location to the cloud. So technically there is EMF radiation emanating from it, one strong enough for a cell tower to receive a mile away (up to 1000 times strong then your bluetooth earbuds), although…

Thanks for the info about solar.

While I can sort of see your point about dirt reducing any benefit of super white paint. It would be interesting to test though... especially if the building is already being power-washed to clean the windows.

I remember reading that rain washes off most dust/dirt on roof-mounted solar panels. Two separate studies in Tucson and San Diego, found dirt reduced solar panel efficiency by 1% or less and that’s in places where there is little rain and more dust.

As other people said... instead of relatively pricey high speed “supercharging” that will give you 200+ mile range in 30 mins... it might make more sense to to use the same money to put several more “slow” L2-L3 charger (offering 40-90 mile of range per hour... versus the 200+ range in 30 mins) stalls at location…