It happened to me last week when I tossed my coat forgetting the phone was in the pocket. I was very confused when I came back 30s later and dispatch was on the speakerphone asking what the emergency was

> I don't really understand how false positives can be eliminated.

They can't, which basically means it's a poor feature and shouldn't have been implemented.

Since a false positive generally causes much less harm than missing a true positive making no false positives a requirement is generally a terrible idea.

As I mentioned in another post, Apple shouldn’t be farming out the determination to emergency services. They can provide an intermediary to determine the severity. The situation is such that a phone or watch does not have enough information to properly evaluate a situation as an emergency or not.

This really depends on how many of false calls happen. There is a point at which these start being detrimental.

Seems like naïveté and myopia are endemic to tech companies, large and small. Smart people who are confident yet clueless.

Your comment reminded me of a restaurant we frequented growing up https://www.waysiderestaurant.com/history/. Founded in 1918 and still operating today!

Love this idea! I’d love to be able to include one photo a day.

In Vermont there’s a very popular social network called Front Porch Forum that collects posts and only issues them once a day, it seems like adding time delays and eliminating fast replies is a good circuit breaker to defuse toxicity.

Well, we did invade Iraq, so sometimes it works.

Vermont as well. Really noticeable when you drive on the highway, much more relaxing and scenic.

Just realized that my current state (Kansas) doesn't really have much in the way of roadside billboards. Never thought about it before.

But it does help take in the views, a lot more so than, say, the highways of Florida.

From the outside this seems obvious and perplexing why it is being done anyway.

Biomass is a very small percentage of US electric generation.

Check out https://www.drawdown.org/ it’s an ordered list of the areas to tackle

My favorite piece on this topic is “What can a technologist do about climate change” http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

We started http://climateaction.tech/ to amplify and connect tech workers with just these types of questions, check out our guides there and join the Slack to connect with other folks wrestling with the same questions.

One thing that has been interesting to me owning an EV for about a year now is how charging and refueling create different needs.

With an EV I rarely need to charge when out and about, because I leave every morning at 100% charge. Those few times I do need to visit a charger it's generally for a full charge, so it'll take 20 minutes to an hour, so I'll much prefer charging stations at restaurants or grocery stores.

I think there will be a big market to reimagine the gas station concept into something more destination oriented, e.g. much more like truck stops, fewer in number but with more services.

Starbucks should be investing all our into chargers! They’d be the perfect place to hang out for an hour. Or Barnes and noble.