This will happen.  Also at the same time, it won’t.  Probably.

also why landing planes is both easy and hard. Get close to the ground and lift spikes. Easier to land slowly, but plenty of planes end up in the ditch because they float 1/2 the runway in ground effect and then don’t have enough stopping distance. 

 It’s widely used actually.

I hate [these auto manufacturers] more than anybody I know for clogging the streets and turning a blind eye to the behavior of their drivers [who directly kill 37,000 and injure 1.2 million people per year in crashes and contribute to global warming to boot].  

“What are we gonna call our next console?”

Exactly. The article is written as if this is a stupid product to even release unless you can guarantee 4k 60 fps for coal miners living in small villages in northern Montana. A) Those folks aren’t playing video games, and B) if you can’t reach them so what? Does Alex really think Google spent the money developing…

“The good news is that ISP have a long history of adjusting to the growing demands from users.”

yeah now people just use thousand dollar phones.   same status symbol bullshit.  my 35$ timex works just as well. 

I would disagree, on some level. I have a lot of watches, and I’ve loved wearing watches since I was a kid. I love the look, and I love the mechanics. I would seek out a high priced watch, if I were so inclined, not so I could impress you, but so I could impress myself.

Thought 1: Sure looks effective when it’s against an inflatable car.

Yeah, this is what I reacted to as well. Outside of scientific equipment, which won't be a Rolex watch, there is nothing in my life that needs a watch to be so accurate that it makes sense to spend $1000-10000 on it. Even if I have to set my watch monthly to keep it within a minute of accuracy, that won't be worth…

That is very much what nearly killed the swiss watch industry post WWII. A decent cheap quartz movement with a battery will keep far more accurate time. And digital watches even more so. Once Japan started shipping cheaply made but high quality quartz movements after the war. The justification for expensive hand made…

These would have been invaluable for the railroad before block signaling came into existence...

If knockoff watches are that good, then what’s the point of having a Rolex at all?

I mean, what’s the other kind of status symbol?

That’s a NOPE-lot of RPMs for me.

You wanna know what the best thing about tweels will actually be?

I like to point out to people that “computer” was literally a job. People sat all day at desks with slide rules, doing calculations, and passing those calculations on to the next poor bastard with a slide-rule.

Nobody bemoans this job going anywhere. Few if any of those guys (who were mostly privileged white dudes)…

The concern is that this shift will be different, and allow me to explain. Every previous advance in technology has indeed made work more efficient, by allowing a given worker to do more, whether it’s operating a large piece of machinery that does hundreds of times more work than the operator could have done by hand,…

And 5 years ago AI was still sci-fi.

Welcome to the world of technological progress.  It moves faster than you realize.