Knowing which company, that your live depends on, know how to make things right is crucial knowledge - thus the popularity of those threads IMO.
When years of your life gets deleted in seconds, and the company starts ignoring you, that's the red flag that needs to be public.
I'm not advocating for separate section, but the public have spoken - the popularity of those threads means it's crucial part of this community.
That's not how HN works. If it did, then the front page would be filled with sensationalism and rage and the same few hot topics repeated over and over—because those tend to get the most upvotes.
As far as I am concerned, the US is not going to go after tech monopolies outside of maybe Facebook. They are quite literally taking over the world and that’s bringing a lot of money and benefits to US interests. The US is a commerce first country. They will never stand in the way.
If we were doing things right and wanted to really benefit from having these giants around, we'd go 1950s-Japan on them and harness them to drive a broader prosperity-increasing economic engine, while still letting them thrive and grow huge, while guiding them to advance broader economic-strategic goals.
Having them around and so globally dominant is a huge opportunity, and one that won't last forever. But I doubt we'll use it like we could before that time's over.
Not a solution, but still - check "Oxytree". It's a tree "farmed" in Europe, that was created in Spain. Within 6 years it grows to 16 meters. You can cut it almost completely, and it will regrow. You cut it then every 4 years. It will regrow multiple times.
The tree as far as I know cannot re-plant itself (so its not invasive), and it absorbs up to 10 times more CO2 than regular trees.
It's still young project, but more and more countries create plantations of it (also as a way of CO2 recapture).
Any solution that is applied to massively produced product (a car) will get massive funding, research grants and it will only improve over time. This way it can be distributed to other areas quicker and at lower cost.
So yes, implementing hydrogen in cars is a massive success to other industries.
Thank you, I appreciate your comment. It's definitely different. We (people with Shiny Object Syndrome) need to find a way to keep delivering complete product too. This is one of them.
