So you don't know about conference calls and desktop sharing?

Where I live they can't even keep parking meters and tire air pumps working due to the weather. Never mind things that have to roll along the ground reliably. First snow that will be done.

That's fine. Most people will wait until those incentives kick in before buying an EV. I don't have confidence the incentives will keep to with demand, because the nature of capitalism is that companies drag their feet until people are screaming and begging and then they move in to profit.

Maybe if companies paid people more they wouldn't have to buy the cheapest crap they can find.

Robotic attendant. Lol. And full self driving by 2020.

Ok well I'm probably biased because I don't like crowds.

It's a glorified arena. Some people are so easily amused.

Isn't it just a glorified arena? I would think it is a fairly well known problem.

I came here to say that Trump/Putin owning the world is probably more devastating than aliens, so planning for aliens is probably a useful thought exercise.

I decided awhile ago that we are just at two opposite ends of the spectrum. I'm not paid to be a developer in my day job, for me it is just a value add to my company. I have to do my 8 hour job and then develop. Therefore it has to be done as quickly as possible. I can't spend my time saving microseconds, I'm happy for it to work smoothly. With reactive I can take an event from the server and chain it throughout my entire application without worrying about threading anything. In your job you are paid to obsess about saving tiny bits of cpu because presumably you work at a large scale and those bits of cpu end up adding up into wasted profits which makes it important. I wouldn't even want to work in rust because it would just slow me down. Just two different work environments.

That misses the point if the goal is to have EVs usable everywhere globally.

But it doesn't work that way here.

Well, remember this conversation when there are no charger spots because someone went into the mall for a day and left their car plugged in there also the thing that you don't realize is by going to a store with chargers you have lost your choice to go to any store you want. There is a good chance you will pay higher costs overall. Same with hotels.

Well I agree that the ironic thing about EVs is that it is best to just not use them. And yes I have been saying for dinner time that they are now popular in Europe because there are more travel options than here in North America. Not only are there trains, but renting a vehicle at your destination is half the cost than it is here.

You have to PAY to park at a grocery store and use the charger? Lol. As for demand, I was taking about when EVs are mainstream.