An interesting thought (to your point) is what people hope social media can actually become -- in the ideal scenario, is it just us being able to engage with people online in better ways? Is it us being able to consume content from others in the ways we want?
> The accusations could be valid or totally baseless
Read the listed report. All 11 accidents were confirmed to be:
1. Tesla vehicles
2. Confirmed to be on autopilot / full self driving.
3. Against a stopped emergency vehicle with flashing lights or road flares.
These facts are not in dispute. The accusations aren't "baseless", the only question remaining is "how widespread" is this phenomenon.
These 11 accidents have resulted in 1-fatality and 11 injuries.
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We are _WAY_ past "validity" of the claims. We're at "lets set up demos at CES to market ourselves using Tesla as a comparison point", because Tesla is provably that unreliable at stopping in these conditions.
Oh I meant specifically in power generation, i.e. using the spent as fuel in "next gen" plants, thereby reprocessing it. The idea of course being that if it produces energy then some of the cost can be offset and that the end result has a much shorter half life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
yes, nuclear reprocessing is actually a fairly old technology and it closes the nuclear fuel cycle, leaving only short lived byproducts.
It is currently illegal in America because reprocessing spent nuclear fuel produces weapons grade plutonium which is a proliferation risk. The economics are not great either since it's cheaper to just mine more uranium and pay to store the (5% used) fuel.
France and Russia have a few plants that do it though.
I can't believe you seriously just suggested Google is going to abandon Chrome.
Next up, Microsoft is going to abandon Word. Also, Facebook is going to abandon Facebook.
This is why no one takes these conversations seriously. All vitriol, no substance.
But chromium is opensource. Even if google stop devoting to chrome, we can develop it. In fact, I think Mozilla should turn to chromium too like Microsoft, just be aware of keeping the licence open.
A model 3 MSRP is $45k. A used one can be found for even less than that.
Check your local car prices, b/c that is not really that expensive and certainly nowhere close to "rich" territory.
A fully loaded F-150 is $78k. I would be shocked if you also said anyone driving an F-150 is by definition rich.
Also, a cheap used car may be drastically less expensive to buy for most people, but they will ultimately pay thousands of dollars of maintenance, part replacements, fluid changes and gas which a Tesla really never has to deal with, ever. No one seems to talk about this.
Yeah no, sorry, if you can afford a $45k car you must be pretty rich. I know there are places in the world where a $45k car is almost a toy, but that's an extremely narrow and very priviledged perspective.
Some people aren't rich but buy pretty expensive cars with a loan. Either because they really like cars, or they're financially irresponsible, or both.
The calls that I recall being reported on used telephones available to flight crew for communications unrelated to flight and possibly made available for crazy prices to passengers.
You generally can't receive cell phone signal at segment of airliner flight except immediately after takeoff and in final stages of landing, due to optimizations involved in providing said signal (directional segment antennas, with attempts to beam-form towards specific terminals in latest versions). In practice I had hard time and required special tricks to keep a call running above 500m AGL and it probably depended on BTS located on hill above my reference point.
Ha, I mean, that's not weird at all. Texans say that all the time.
Six flags theme parks are quite literally named after the six different flags that have flown over Texas as a nod to it being an independent entity regardless of which larger nation currently lays claim to it.
