As others have stated, there's fabs all over the world. They're insufficient in quality and quantity to satisfy current demand at current prices but they're there and can do a lot of it, especially as demand and requirements get reduced to meet what's available.

Don't get me wrong, it would suck, but probably suck less than when everything shut down for covid.

>Car manufacturing grinds to a halt.

>New appliances cannot be manufactured

Until they figure out how to repeal the laws that mandate the features/specs that require the semiconductors in the types and volumes that would be a non-starter.

Maybe your washer doesn't need to detect how much stuff you put in and second guess your water setting?

What are the statistical odds a $15k Nissan Kix being sold in the desert will ever benefit from ABS?

>no new iPhone for five years. No new electronic hardware at all

It's not absolute like that. It's more like move the decimal one place on everything and that makes whole classes of products non-viable.

>New appliances cannot be manufactured. What does the [severe reduction in proportion to their semiconductor and irreplaceable foreign part contents] absence of new durable goods do to the economy?

Fixed for realism.

Demand is elastic to some extent. Prices go up. Industries shrink, alternatives grow.

In any case, it's a relative transfer of wealth and power from most of HN to their plumber and landscaper and those otherwise less affected.

Good. Auto insurance suffers from the same cost spiraling principal-agent problems as healthcare.

I think states that nudge but don't completely require insurance have it right (I live near one of them). Even though most people have insurance the plausible threat of having to actually litigate against someone and attempt to collect seems to put huge downward pressure on everything saving even the insured people a ton of money more than offsetting the "risk" of sharing a state with uninsured people. Having laughably low minimums is the next best thing.

Most autonomous failures aren't failures in a way that make good video though. It's like your grandma or 16yo daughter that gets stuck at a yield for no good reason. Nobody is gonna watch that so nobody uploads it.

A robotaxi that has a "low enough to be acceptable" frequency of the above failure mode is likely to have enough occasional "full send" failure modes to make for Youtube fodder when deployed at scale even if they're comparatively rare compared to humans or the other failure type, or some other standard.

>Do they continue to drive that way if they have a passenger yelling, "we are on train tracks?"

On a non-separated rail like in the video where you can just turn off at any time I can see a lot of people continuing to do it just to spite their spouse for screeching about the obvious.

Or on the other side of the coin I can see a lot of people just say nothing because it's probably fine and they'd rather not have the argument.

GLP-1s are a fairly strong proxy for having enough discretionary income to justify luxury expenditures like eating out or whatever.

I grew up in a tourism economy. I have traveled to half a dozen countries.

I side with the author. Viewing consumer travel for entertainment only makes you more learned if you care to observe and think critically, which most do not do as that detracts from the indulgent entertainment aspect of it and even then it's very limited.

The nit picks of the offended peanut gallery here are technically perfectly valid, you won't learn everything from wikipedia and street view either, but they don't invalidate the broader point that galavanting about as a tourist doesn't really teach you squat. It's a luxury. The .03% "education" component doesn't really change that.

I think the responses to your comment speak volumes about how insular the office worker filter bubble of HN is.

There's dozens upon dozens of professions where things go wrong infinitely faster than they do in medical situations.

>I had a storage unit for a while until I realized that the monthly bill was more than the value of the contents.

For every one of you there's a few people using it as business storage and dozens of people who are dealing with living situation stuff (college housing vs apartment, house closing timing, job relocation, house renovation, etc, etc, etc) that trade in and out of units on like a 1-2mo timeline.

Source: Almost bought one.

>ICs tend to stick around and over run meetings, while managers tend to leave meetings on time.

That makes 200% sense. A couple or more ICs tend to want to stick around to go off topic or drill down on some thing if they don't have a conflict. People who aren't expressly relevant to that or have a conflict drop at that time.

You're basically seeing the post-meeting hall conversation of the ICs in your data.

Additionally, most meetings are worthless drivel from an IC perspective. The off-topic/drilldown is usually when ICs actually discuss topics relevant to them and get into a level of detail on issues that actually helps further the project.

Not to mention that managers are way more likely to have back-to-back meetings.

Having the capacity to do credibly threaten violence back acts as a check on abuse because nobody will stand for cops occasionally getting clapped over stuff they should never have been doing in the first place.

Look at how cops roll up on "is armed because you can't not be at his level" drug criminals. There's reconnaissance, preparation, checklists, etc, etc. Yes, there are exceptions, but it's generally orders of magnitude more professional than the sort of slapdash thuggery ICE is up to. And it's also much more expensive so they don't just target it at entire demographics, they prioritize.

While it's not a silver bullet. Being able to make credible threat of taking one or two of them with you really does force the government side to behave better, maybe not categorically, but enough to matter.

A nearly identical "force them to do better" argument applies to being able to film police, open records, and many other things.

I've had similar thoughts for a while now.

As it is between the guns, radios, helicopters, and digital surveillance crrupt members of law enforcement knows that reprisal against their corruption by the general public is difficult if not impossible.

The second someone uses a drone to take out a blatently corrupt cop who received a paid vacation as punishment for murder the dynamic will change completely.

I mean look at Bundy V1. Law enforcement did not want to die over a few cows, so they said fuck it. Bundy (senior) is still grazing his cattle on that land to this day.

Law enforcement is not any braver than you or I, if they don't have overwhelming firepower they fall back on their first commandment which is "the policeman goes home safe to his family at the cost of absolutely everyone else including defenseless children."

Look at the MOVE bombing, etc - if they wanted to glass the Bundys, they would have. Safety wasn't the reason they didn't.

I wouldn't describe 'safety' as the state of things after the last time feds glassed a right-wing adjacent group. When the feds 'glassed' Waco, a little known guy named Timothy McVeigh was there. He used it as inspiration to bomb a federal building at which there were 700+ casualties of which over 150 were deaths.

The feds were very much aware "Bundys" was not just the ranching family but a whole bunch of people and greater militia network. If they had glassed Bundy himself it would have been a total shit-show.

I probably agree with your position in general. I would note that from my position it's more about the politics of the right and how that's more tolerable for folks in power.

Consider Michael Reinoehl.