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New comment by redbeard0x0a in "What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour"

redbeard0x0a — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:55:50 +0000

It wont be banned, it will just cost much more to insure (since it will be directly tied to risk, computers already drive better than humans). If you drive manually, you will need to pay for the privilege.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Texas was minutes away from months-long power outages, officials say"

redbeard0x0a — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:02:41 +0000

Just want to say that I am a griddy customer, I don't do it for the absolute lowest cost, but the ability to see and respond to pricing via home automation. A way to hack my electric bill. This week has definitely sucked in terms of cost. Griddy is also introducing contract rates next month, so some amount of power can be purchased at a predicted rate and you get that power at that rate, not the spot price until you run out of that contracted amount of power. (I only know the vague details of the program, just fyi).

Also, this is a regulation failure because the PUCT (or whatever it is called), which is under the purview of the Railroad Commissioner (an elected position), didn't make recommended winterization guidelines mandatory. Without this, the market favors the biggest corner cutting.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says"

redbeard0x0a — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:02:05 +0000

COVID19 is also decimating budgets

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "A worker owned (co-op) store for sustainable products"

redbeard0x0a — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:03:59 +0000

There is a $0 registration option

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models"

redbeard0x0a — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:02:47 +0000

For some vehicles, yes.

Such as:

* Toyota Tacoma - yes * Subaru WRX STI - yes

But getting into the honda accord, toyota camry, these are the ICE vehicles that are going to be crazy cheap.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products"

redbeard0x0a — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:42:52 +0000

a little interdiction while that new airgapped laptop is shipped to you and they got you, even though you never connected to a network

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators"

redbeard0x0a — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:24:52 +0000

Working with ACH is NACHA a good day, the day you realize all of banking is built on falling dominos.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped"

redbeard0x0a — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:26:05 +0000

Its not just overall grid usage, substations have capacities as well. So the business park is going to be underutilized, but the residential ones are probably seeing more demand as people are at home and not turning up the thermostat during the day to save energy (since they are at home and want a comfortable environment, vs. letting the house sit at 80 when nobody is home).

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool"

redbeard0x0a — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:13:03 +0000

> due to a software limitation

This _is_ a cost cutting measure. They decided not to pay for their software to support red eyes.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”"

redbeard0x0a — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:37:25 +0000

it has to be coming soon, apple is going to be making arm macs and aws has m6a instance types running 64bit arm right now.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore"

redbeard0x0a — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:32:40 +0000

Similarly, grocery shopping isn't quite the same doing it through an app. Thrill vs. getting new ideas by seeing what fruits and veggies that look good and fresh, etc...

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses"

redbeard0x0a — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:09:51 +0000

> So are you absolutely sure that I can buy Nintendo stuff today and get games from anywhere in the world?

Yes, I have a UK switch that I got (it was the diablo bundle), I have a uk switch account and a us switch account. Diablo works fine. All my us purchased switch games (physical) and downloaded games from the us store on this uk switch.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data"

redbeard0x0a — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:16:47 +0000

Please don't discount other other groups experiencing systemic racism. This is another example of systemic racism, but it's not any more or less real than systemic racism against people of color.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize” in workplace chat"

redbeard0x0a — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:54:51 +0000

Where did the closed shop restrictions come from, did it come from anti-union lobbying or some think tank somewhere? This smells completely like "the government is useless", then going in and defunding things that the government is responsible for.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors"

redbeard0x0a — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:48:35 +0000

there have been Cessnas flying over Dallas too

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Zoom Acquires Keybase"

redbeard0x0a — Thu, 07 May 2020 15:32:51 +0000

They are fundamentally untrustworthy. They haven't taken security issues in the past very seriously, they also have ties to China.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Judge Orders FCC To Hand Over IP Addresses Linked To Net Neutrality Comments"

redbeard0x0a — Sat, 02 May 2020 23:14:58 +0000

my grandmother too, asked her and she had no idea what I was talking about

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought"

redbeard0x0a — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:00:49 +0000

$130k if its for "medical use"

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought"

redbeard0x0a — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:57:45 +0000

something is going to give somewhere, either we get something like temp/perm UBI, contact tracing, pervasive testing. Each of these things has their pros/cons and the last 2 have "slippery slope" implications with privacy and/or bodily autonomy. The first has the "slippery slope" implications the right complains about, but I don't believe a UBI would lead to a massive outbreak of lazy. It _would_ lead to a massive outbreak of people leaving BS jobs - especially if we get healthcare fixed.

New comment by redbeard0x0a in "Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t"

redbeard0x0a — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:37:55 +0000

So, would you be ok with corporations selling things that are slightly radioactive? The average consumer isn't going to understand the implications and risks of such products. What makes a smoke detector safe vs. glowing paint that killed a lot of people painting watch hands/marks with it?