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Alibaba, maybe


I think what this "smart tank" does is mix the super-hot with cold.

If the automatic mixing feature malfunctions to super-hot, then it could be risky...


This would never be implemented I realize but here is a possible solution:

New law: driver's phone must be in semi-disabled mode

The phone can already infer it is inside moving vehicle. The bigger challenge is, how to determine the phone belongs to the driver?

Say N passengers in car (including driver), each with cell phone.

When phone infers moving vehicle, it attempts to mesh with other phones in the vehicle.

If N=1, driver is solo, phone semi-disables

If N>1, phones ask users to vote on who is the driver.

Result: 1 phone disabled (Voting tie disables both/all)

The only inconvenience here is to a passenger with a phone-less driver.


I would imagine this is how it works for the President and Cabinet


Clever to have the folded laptop make the Roman numeral "V"


Minus the last line, there was a great article in the WSJ last summer about why "doom prepping" is actually impossible: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/sorry-billionairestheres-no-esca...


Watch how the movie "When Worlds Collide" demonstrates the problem.


"Don't look up" 2021. Look it up, a lot more up to date and the satire is top notch.


The total profit of Google would probably drop if the company was radically "re-organized" like that.


Is "ant" antiquated? Zoning is a good thing. If you abolished all zoning, construction would be completely disorganized as it was in the California Gold Rush.


Agreed, the meme of private equity buying up enough houses to make houses scarce is overblown. However, PE is an easy target for populist politics.


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