GM figured this out 25 years ago with OnStar. System detects crash, an Apple operator (I mean, hell, even bot) calls the phone. If Apple is even remotely confident in this technology, they’d make it so that the ring was at full volume and using some kind of clearly “emergency” ringtone, and the user would have to…

There’ve been a number of books written about Typhoid Mary; some better than others, but there are a lot of similarities: A person refused to believe that they could be dangerous while asymptomatic. 

I’d argue the opposite could be argued equally; that COVID is in some ways a worst-case scenario. If it was actually “flu level deadly” (which, I mean, does kill a lot of people - but could kill fewer if people just stayed home when ill and got vaccinated annually), not nearly as many people would have died.

That cuts both ways, though: A company that doubled in size but has office space made for their old footprint has to figure out.... something. And expanding office size is complicated for a variety of reasons.

My goodness, false dichotomy much? Feels like somebody sent you home and you took it personally. A lot of people, including many with disabilities, prefer remote work because it allows them to better work instead of fighting their environment, but that isn’t the point:

I mean, point taken but the average US household is something like 900kwh/month.  Obviously, mileage varies - someone living in Maine with a no AC, propane or gas appliances and a boiler for heat will use a fraction the electricity of someone in the middle of the country with a heat pump, electric oven/induction…

Not even questioning any of the dumb assumptions being made. “Deadhead” miles to travel to an EV charger? The vast majority of people just plug in when they get home and have a fully charged EV when they head out again, and that is true pretty much every day unless you’re doing a road trip.

Does your home feature windows and doors that close? Was your home a black box made of metal with no insulation?

Many people want to have children someday. It’s also a feminist issue - though fertility declines with age in everyone, in women, the decline starts sooner and is much steeper - a fair number of women can have trouble conceiving as early as their mid-30s; the prime age to have kids also the time when people are…

To be fair, every feature not included on a base model costs a tiny fraction what you get charged for it, so to some extent, the point of a base model is to cut features that cost $100, hoping to get consumers to spend 10% more for a car that's 99% the same, push come to shove. 

Honestly? A lot of their models have long had decent infotainment systems considering their price points.

45,000 cards, $99 each. That’s $4,455,000 of revenue, minus credit card fees, cost of creation, whatever actual expenses they have for the prizes, marketing, etc.

CEO Tim Cook has argued that’s expensive to maintain, and a 30% cut is a reasonable fee because the money is necessary to protect consumers

Other possible translation: We decided we couldn’t keep them around when they distracted others by laughing at the introduction videos where a virtual Mark Zuckerberg talked with a straight face about how great the metaverse will be.... someday.

“G” is now “A”lphabet, and Netflix ain’t doin’ so hot either.

In the 2010s, most resupply missions happened using single use vehicles that’d burn up in the atmosphere, including Russia’s Progress spacecraft, Orbital Science’s Cygnus craft, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle, and the European Automated Transfer Vehicle, with only SpaceX’s Dragon being reusable (that is, enters…

Came here to say that; it SIMPLY isn’t true. A base cabinet is usually 24" deep. 24" wide solid wood boards, for all intents and purposes, don’t exist. Do high end kitchens have lowers made of multiple boards? No.

In the lead photo, at right: The hole where crap comes out of a dog.
At left: The hole where crap comes out of Jim Justice.

Honestly it’s one of those cultural things where no company wants to post about pay because they’re afraid it’s not competitive (despite promising “competitive wages & benefits”) but if they ALL did it, it wouldn’t be an issue.

I mean the obvious way around this is that employers will just start listing positions as being tied to certain projects or initiatives. You won’t hire Programmer II, you’ll hire New Initiative with Long Name Programmer II.