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The EV Transition challenges: societal impacts, unintended consequences, scaling

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tornadron
·2 years ago·discuss
reading all of these comments, reminded me of the old "Microsoft iPod" video, had to dig it up and still kinda relevant---it's 18 years old (!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
tornadron
·3 years ago·discuss
agreed, as a person getting a bit older...I'm now having to (somewhat painfully) admit that physical screen size is more important to me than pixel density...

...don't get me started with text using tiny fonts on low contrast backgrounds
tornadron
·3 years ago·discuss
Ah missed that part my bad.
tornadron
·3 years ago·discuss
It will be made out of Tritan -- a type of plastic, not glass.
tornadron
·3 years ago·discuss
Speaking of garbage pickup...there was that whole scandal about the public workds department taking bribes:

https://sfstandard.com/politics/scandal-ridden-sf-garbage-co...
tornadron
·3 years ago·discuss
Agreed, my beats solo pros always worked fine, until the final firmware update which was conveniently right before they were no longer supported. Upgrade with caution.

https://www.reddit.com/r/beatsbydre/comments/vqw0k5/solo_pro...
tornadron
·3 years ago·discuss
Some of this was covered in the book Connectography by Parag Khanna https://www.paragkhanna.com/book/connectography-mapping-the-...

I found the book maybe a bit overly optimistic/idealistic about how he thought infrastructure dependencies would impact the world, but a lot of the information was fascinating nonetheless.

Nice Maps of different layers of infrastructure on the globe: https://atlas.developmentseed.org