I think they're going to be especially challenged due to the extreme cold temperatures for 4-6 months of the year. Ranges will be reduced pretty significantly during low temperatures, making charger spacing and availability important.
mctoasterson
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Even assuming the OS-integrated AI is 100% non-nefarious in what it is doing at a given moment, the fact that its a proprietary blackbox is still a problem for me.
Mega corp using my electricity and CPU cycles to perform "???" computational task with no transparency to the actual owner of the hardware and the individual paying the power bill. Fuck that.
Microsoft, Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, etc. all inking new partnerships to generate a headline and valuation increase. Meanwhile AI companies PE ratios creep upward.
The top few companies can only helicopter cash at eachother for so long before the bubble eventually busts. That's not new income being generated, it's more akin to check-kiting in a public trading context.
I think we need some kind of limiting principle applied to restrict what individual jurisdictions can do to fuck up national or global systems.
Overzealous lawmakers in Michigan or Wisconsin shouldn't be able to force global companies to operate their websites differently.
California shouldn't be able to force Glock to discontinue and re-tool its entire product line, etc.
I have some aging hardware (approaching 10 year old desktop PC) and I switched to Linux. I have to still use Windows at work but none of my personal computers are Windows anymore.
Microsoft can go kick rocks.
I mean, the bug and the feature of an Apple Airtag is the ubiquity of their devices and their ability to backchannel BLE over cellular networks using millions of end user devices with their pseudoconsent.
Just by the nature of how that expansive network functions, there is no similar alternative that you can control the privacy of.
The alternative would be a GPS transponder intended for vehicles, such as LoJack, or something similar. They are going to have power and subscription requirements, usually cost $1000 for the hardware etc. And in that scenario you still have to "trust" the vendor to a degree.
The law of unintended consequences says that this will just result in more douchebags buying $3 mil houses because they can "afford the payments" and plan on dying before they ever fully pay it off.
He did convert Matthew from being a Publican (tax collector) which was widely seen as a vile or at least somewhat immoral profession at the time.
So... technically, partially true?
In the early 2000s there was seemingly infinite television studio budget to pick a random subculture or even individual sociopaths, and just give them a reality show. I just assumed as broadcast and cable viewership declined, these types of grifters also went away or were forced to get real jobs.
Sure, but in my view a bunch of dudes standing around with rifles is enough of a visual deterrent that it should never escalate to the point of "active robbery".
What's really odd is that France already pays Gendarmerie to stand around in public places, protect cultural assets etc.
If even one dude was standing in the corner of the gallery with a rifle slung up that day, that would likely have deterred the entire theft.
SG for the m'fn P90. Duh.