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There’s an SF-based startup working on an electric truck for urban audiences, called Telo. Might be interesting to those who find kei trucks appealing but want a proper fully street legal alternative.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/telo-electric-mini-truck-fir...
Please spend a few minutes reading more on this topic, as you may change your view after learning where Bitcoin’s electricity usage fits into the broader picture. Some good starting points may be:
https://www.newsweek.com/bitcoin-mining-americas-most-misund...
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/03/05/the-frustrating...
Chia is on mainnet but transactions will not go live until May 3rd. Currently farmers are earning XCH without a means of sending it to one another or other wallets, and there is no price or market for XCH at this time.
I wish that Apple had better support for PWAs and allowed alternative rendering engines. The issue is that they are the only major player in mobile that cares about user privacy, and this allows them to maintain their monopoly for many users.
If the option is Android + first-class support for PWAs vs. Apple with limited support for PWAs, I’ll go for the latter every time.
HVDC (high voltage direct current) networks can actually move electricity on an order of hundreds of miles with single digit % losses. There are further losses though during the switch from solar DC to AC, where voltage is then stepped up, and again back to DC for the transmission.
Apple will keep developing Safari, luckily, so there's still a 3-way race in many ways.
Safari is only ~4% of desktop/laptop browsing but over 20% of mobile and with mainstream users slowly moving to tablets over laptops this presents an important and large user base.
There's definitely a big problem with short termism and focus on quarterly performance over long-term value. Luckily there are a variety of solutions to this.
One is to have dual class share structures where minority owners have majority of the voting shares (e.g. Facebook, Google). Another is to create a new type of stock exchange that incentivizes long-term ownership (e.g. LTSE long-term stock exchange).
This is definitely true for a lot of the major consumer facing software companies.
"Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to unite us, but to distract us. “The thought process was: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’” he said at an event in Philadelphia in November. To achieve this goal, Facebook’s architects exploited a “vulnerability in human psychology”, explained Parker, who resigned from the company in 2005. Whenever someone likes or comments on a post or photograph, he said, “we… give you a little dopamine hit”. Facebook is an empire of empires, then, built upon a molecule."
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/has-dopam...