As I understand it, this is very common across much of the developing world now. So the tracking of how much solar energy there is in the world is almost certainly a lower bound on the reality.

The incentive to place storage into your house would be so much better if this were possible. It feels like people have been writing papers about this for years but no one has made it happen. I think people would be willing to self fund new meters themselves to participate.

The payment for wrong prosecution would create a back pressure on the justice system which is currently only possible via media reporting, something generally only accessible to the powerful or otherwise sympathetic defendant. We'd need a category of dismissal which is "innocent", where a judge determines not only is the person "not guilty", but that actually, with proper investigation and application of thought, the prosecution could have determined innocence beforehand themselves. This should come with the payment and automatic complete expungement of all records, and an entry in the local newspaper of the declared innocence of the defendant.

Then the last piece of the puzzle would be outlawing police and prosecutor unions, and firing police and prosecutors who have poor records of sending "innocent" cases to trial. This would serve to create a pressure towards correct prosecution.

Generally you can't function here without Meta: businesses are either on FB or Instagram (with some on TikTok too), and some people exclusively communicate via Messenger on data only plans where FB data is subsidized by the telco.

It was quite sad when we moved here and had just executed a personal extraction from all Meta properties. When in Rome, I guess.

But at some point we won't have to care once we've decarbonized, that is the goal for sure. Just aren't there yet, and incentives work.

The hardest thing to adjust to is the product pipeline moving from "let's fix the issues the most users face" to "we need to fix these issues, for this important customer".

Product led organizations often have a _very_ hard time adjusting to this, I personally recommend you carve out specific product and engineering teams for your effort, as getting into the backlog of consumer oriented product teams is going to completely torpedo any chance you have of closing big deals that depend on product changes. And just about every big deal is going to require changes at first, you can't fool yourself into thinking you'll get to a point where that's not true any time soon. You really won't, and if you have goals that assume you will, you're already set to fail.

They seem to just want to be specialist suppliers of high end pickup trucks mainly. Most other forms of vehicle are already only well served by foreign companies, so the singling out of China here is definitely confused thinking.

All I can say is if you want in, you have to maximize your surface area for luck. There's a lot written about that concept but it's the basic underpinning of my success personally. I just rolled the dice way more times than most people.

But you're right that more complex solutions are still a bit elusive. I use a bot to plan my strength workouts based on my soreness level and what equipment I have available and it's decent, but not perfect.

I hope to do more, AI coding allowed me to do a lot of stuff I had been putting off for lack of energy.

This is what underpins the fear, I think.

You don't know how to farm but mentally you rest easy knowing a lot of other people do know. You also know there are books you could read to learn, if you needed to. Most things are like this, you could bootstrap your way to casting metals and probably even electric lights with only books and raw materials. Computer chips don't have this property.

Personally this is why I'd like to see libraries survive, even though I actually mostly read on my e-reader. I guess I took Anathem to heart.

Except no one would buy it, not even Carmax or any of the other "cash for cars" places! Turns out, the car was originally manufactured for Canada, and California doesn't recognize the Canadian smog regulations, even if the car was functionally identical down to the catalytic converter. No one would take the damn thing because they couldn't re-title it. I finally found one guy who would who seemed like he was taking a decent sized risk, but since I gave him a good price he decided he'd just give it his best shot. For all I know he may have had to (illegally) drive it to Nevada just to sell it.