I think you might be right. A caltrop on the ground will tend to get picked up and stuck to the tires, so they will only impede one vehicle. One attached to a board will pull back out and remain in place.

That and it also makes the caltrops removable if you need to pass through it.

Scale has always been a problem with nuclear.

Fission is far from dead. It still the most compact power source with the lowest environmental impact.

The problems come in is that they all seem to be treated as one-off projects, which is costly and less safe than an approach at scale.

The cost of a reactor on a nuclear submarine is actually cheaper than a terrestrial one, despite being more complex, because when they build them, they build 20 at a time.

Also, if you look at recent construction of fossil fuel power plants, they are also largely overbudget and late. For the same reasons as with nuclear.

The best solution has always been a mix of renewables and nuclear due to their different strengths.

I think untill we see something like Intel’s reverse hyperthreading tech (where a single thread can be run across multiple cores), gains will be linked mainly to semiconductor improvements.

Like the Intel Quad core years and the 6th to 11th gen stagnation.

Much of that has to do with the age of the nuclear fleet.

China is building reactors with significantly lower costs than the ones built in the west 40-60 years ago.

Nuclear is excellent for base loan and high power density requirements, like industrial electrification, where the cost of transmission and storage would quickly become too expensive.

Exactly. Much like crypto, the productivity and capability gains are there, but the toxic shareholder value culture hijacked it for its own purposes.

What I have observed in busienss is that smart people do smart things with AI. Just Like a well skilled person can do great things with a spreadsheet.

Stupid and lazy people do stupid and lazy things with AI, while looking smart. Just like that guy who build crap spreadsheets, but knows how to make them look pretty.

Most of the labour destroying practices come from market capitalism and shareholder culture. AI is just the excuse.

The IP theft is part of the business model in my mind, but I take your point. Its similar to the early days of the internet and the dot com boom and bust.

Its not AI that is the problem. Its the current investment and business model around the AI tech industry that is the problem.

And it manifests in way more places than just AI.

GOLD, thanks for sharing.

That probably means he is funded by China.

And its getting better more modern implementations. Not code from the mid 2000s that has been run though dozens of code translations and compatibility layers.

Came here to add this.

Exactly. All forms of supremism, nationalism and tribalism are toxic. There is no supreme religion, belief, race or gender.

People are people, no one is better than any other. Diversity is the best thing about mankind.

Why are the streets so empty on the top image? Its obvious why on the bottom, but only a handful of cars and no people at all.

Is it a render image from mapping software or something?

I think in rural areas you are dealing with a small minority. Suburbs should not need 2-3 cars per household. Cities certainly should not.

I think even Rural infrastructure should be setup for a 0-1 car per household. 90% of personal transport can be handled by two wheels and ride hailing services.

Using the unsafe argument for two wheels just points out the car problem more. Also the truck problem, which is due to mismanagement of train and rail resources.

You don’t, you bite the bad guy in the ass.

Amen, Driving is dependance.

Reality

Geese have always been deadly.

Yeah, fuck the us vs them narrative.

Its all an us, except the ones who are not for an us, they can be a them.

You get to have a bicycle and some backyard grown potatoes for fuel.