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tablespoon commented on U.S. proposes 56% vehicle emissions cut by 2032, requiring big EV jump reuters.com/business/envi... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

ambicapter · 2 years ago

chicken and egg problem, there won't be a need for increased charging infrastructure until there are more EVs on the road.

tablespoon · 2 years ago

> chicken and egg problem, there won't be a need for increased charging infrastructure until there are more EVs on the road.

Which we don't have the electricity infrastructure for.

The solution is to get rid of cars, period. Ownership should require a permit like gun ownership requires in some cities (i.e you should only be able to buy one of the DMV agrees you have good reason to need a car).

tablespoon commented on U.S. proposes 56% vehicle emissions cut by 2032, requiring big EV jump reuters.com/business/envi... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

panick21_ · 2 years ago

If they really wanted to cut, emissions bycicles and trains are the way to do it.

tablespoon · 2 years ago

> If they really wanted to cut, emissions bycicles and trains are the way to do it.

Exactly, what we really need to do is have a restrictive permitting system for cars like some cities have for guns. If you can't show good cause for needing a car, you shouldn't be able to get permit to buy one. Just use public transit or bike.

tablespoon commented on U.S. proposes 56% vehicle emissions cut by 2032, requiring big EV jump reuters.com/business/envi... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

hardtke · 2 years ago

My brother is a contractor in the Bay Area and he told me that PG&E will not allow the installation of 220 volt EV charging infrastructure in new construction or a home remodel unless the homeowner can prove they already own an EV. Add to that the issue of people who live in apartment buildings and condos and I don't see how we can scale up consumer demand quickly enough.

tablespoon · 2 years ago

> My brother is a contractor in the Bay Area and he told me that PG&E will not allow the installation of 220 volt EV charging infrastructure in new construction or a home remodel unless the homeowner can prove they already own an EV.

How can they do that? Could you just say you want to install an electric dryer in your garage (or even buy a used one off of CraigsList and literally do it for a week)?

tablespoon commented on FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations schneier.com/blog/archive... · Posted by u/mikece

ghaff · 2 years ago

Many people, including many people on this site (and, yes, including myself) wouldn't think twice about plugging into an available port if they need a charge. Maybe I don't plug into an unlabeled port in some random location where it doesn't look like it belongs, but honestly I wouldn't think twice about charging at a designated area at a conference.

(Though, yeah, I'd avoid a lot of "normal" activities if I ever attended BlackHat.)

tablespoon · 2 years ago

> Many people, including many people on this site (and, yes, including myself) wouldn't think twice about plugging into an available port if they need a charge. Maybe I don't plug into an unlabeled port in some random location where it doesn't look like it belongs, but honestly I wouldn't think twice about charging at a designated area at a conference.

This is the solution to that problem:

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-3rd-Data-Blocker-Pack/dp/B00...

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-NA-USB-C-Data-Blocker/dp/B08...

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-Data-Blocker-USB-C-Converter...

tablespoon commented on Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta nytimes.com/2023/04/12/te... · Posted by u/pretext

gspencley · 2 years ago

Personally I predict that generative AI is going to be the next Metaverse and crypto.

It's not about whether or not there is value there to be provided. VR and cyrpto provide value too, it's just that the markets for that tech are way more "niche" than companies were hoping for.

And I don't think VR is going away. If it wasn't dead in the water in the 90s, then it's not going to die because the Metaverse failed. But its applicability is currently limited to a few niche applications like video games and possibly CAD type software.

The thing that generative AI has going for it is that it is extremely broad in so far as its applicability. In other words, good luck selling my next door neighbour on generative AI. What is it? What is it good for? What problems does it solve in the here and now?

Generative AI is like electricity, only I don't think quite as useful. The point is that, on its own, it has no value what-so-ever. The value lies in what it is used for.

Right now what I am observing is a phenomenon that is way too common in our industry. Companies are rushing to go to market with some AI "thing." 99.9999% of those "things" will end up being more versions of the Metaverse and crypto. Because most of these companies aren't really sure what problem they are solving for actual people. It's all so novel and abstract and people are seeing dollar signs with very little understanding of how they are going to put it to use.

Where it finds its uses, I predict will be limited to the same applications that we're already using ML for. Chat bots, entertainment, generating document outlines etc. Just because we made a big breakthrough with the technology doesn't mean that we've actually created a solution to real world problems that real world people are having here and now in the real world. No one, other than maybe Open AI, is going to get rich on "generative AI." If they get rich and change the industry, it will be finding a use for it that many people want.

tablespoon · 2 years ago

> Personally I predict that generative AI is going to be the next Metaverse and crypto.

A common thread tying those three things together is that, in large part, they're all impressive technologies in search of problems to solve.

Technologies like that are pretty much always overhyped and oversold.

tablespoon commented on Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco noahpinion.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jdkee

bryans · 2 years ago

Except for the fact that what is happening in San Francisco is completely normal. All violent crime stats in SF are still trending downward. The only increase in crime is non-violent theft, and the current rates are just a return to pre-pandemic levels, which makes sense given that there were far fewer opportunities for people to interact during the pandemic. And all of these crime rates are relatively the same or even better than the rest of the country.

What you're experiencing is confirmation bias. You read about one crime, then started noticing all of the stories about crime, formed a theory based on this hyper focusing, and now you believe it's worse than ever despite the stats clearly showing otherwise.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...

https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat...

tablespoon · 2 years ago

> What you're experiencing is confirmation bias. You read about one crime, then started noticing all of the stories about crime, formed a theory based on this hyper focusing, and now you believe it's worse than ever despite the stats clearly showing otherwise.

Exactly. The whole "crime is terrible in SF" is just a Republican propaganda narrative that people who should know better are buying into.

tablespoon commented on Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco noahpinion.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jdkee

0xB31B1B · 2 years ago

So much of the problem in SF comes down to the progressive politician types who only want to things that "impact the root causes of crime" and its extremely frustrating and frequently just plain wrong. Yes, you do not solve the "root problem of why people choose to commit crime" by putting repeat offenders in jail, but you do make the world way better for everyone else who is not a criminal. Poor people, immigrants, the downtrodden all disproportionately benefit from tough on crime policies because they are the people for whom have the least resources to isolate themselves from the chaos and antisocial behaviors of the worst among us. Its not a white kids in the marina that need to walk past piles of shit and needles to get to school, its the poor immigrant kids in the tenderloin who need to deal with this.

tablespoon · 2 years ago

> So much of the problem in SF comes down to the progressive politician types who only want to things that "impact the root causes of crime" and its extremely frustrating and frequently just plain wrong. Yes, you do not solve the "root problem of why people choose to commit crime" by putting repeat offenders in jail, but you do make the world way better for everyone else who is not a criminal.

AND by doing that you do harm, by perpetuating racist systems of of injustice and oppression. The only way to solve that more important problem is by addressing the root causes and allow longer term healing to happen.

Yes, that means some people will be inconvenienced, but that's acceptable and a necessary part of the solution. The only way to speed that phase up is to implement comprehensive reparations quickly.