Isn't that mantle taken up by Google?

I mean, we used to have a world like that once upon a time...

It took me a bit, but I eventually got what you meant. For those of you puzzling over it, fakedang is referring to chattel slavery.

Software industry, because the construction industry still requires a human to sign off and approve the computer-aided design.

There are companies which are involved with building and marketing their own software for the construction industry, but they are also actively involved in the construction process in a consultative capacity. Only then could they even be classified as construction industry companies.

Everything is too expensive for European bureaucrats. Funny how the Europeans used to call the fledgling US in the 1700s a nation of shopkeepers, when right now, they are an entire continent's worth of lawyers and accountants (except for France and the UK, obv).

Who aimed the "nation of shopkeepers" epithet at the US?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_shopkeepers

It starts in Wealth of Nations, was picked up by a French revolutionary (still aimed at England, but in a more negative way), and Ben Franklin said something similar about Holland.

The only draw of Airbnbs was the idea of either really dirt cheap temp accommodation, or exotic stays at fancy locations. Airbnb exited the former market, and incumbent hotels have entered and do a much better job in the latter market.

Is it falling really? Would love to see some evidence.

AI centipede

string theory Ouroburos

I wonder how much of that is because of the impact of methane farts alone.

Maybe we ought to try out what the Australians did and collect cow farts in bags.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1ic99ql/...

And then there's Brazil cutting down the Amazon forest to make beef cattle ranches. Have these been taken into account?

I would never take the opinion of someone who says that Tesla's infotainment is best seriously. They're the pioneers of putting every essential car function on that damn screen, which is not only inconvenient but also a driving risk.

Regardless of the "everything on one screen" concerns, the one thing that Tesla indisputably does well is their infotainment screen is snappy. It's so incredible to me that cars produced this year still have choppy, laggy, or high latency displays. Even if the actual system is useful/thoughtful/well laid out, it makes the usability experience feel absolutely terrible. You don't want to use it if every tap/click/selection has a 1 second delay...

It’s not perfect but it’s still the best available. What’s better?

Perhaps he was trying to get line of sight into the desert by building the line...

Fun fact, MBS is a big fan of Age of Empires 2 and plays it in the mornings. Also funny story, I once saw a match being played, around US night time, where one player built a line of houses into the enemy territory so that the opponent was forced to micro their soldiers manually. Think of that what you may.