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Most people are going to assume this article is bad news because they don't understand this fact, that makes this article pretty suspicious (without having read it) in my mind. Industry propaganda "science" isn't uncommon, a few years ago a big set of papers were published that were basically made up evidence that were completely bogus that was written by a pro-industry lobby, the reason was because of a pro plant based diet health related documentary that came out at the same time. It's a tactic of sewing doubt in peoples minds, if people have doubt they wont change their behavior or oppinion for the better.
I'm gonna read this article later and I hope it's not propaganda..
Old gear is less efficient but today's computers have so much more computational power that we use a lot more power today per machine.
Tesla's vehicles are in the consumers hands and have many many thousands of drivers using their system every day. Also the VERY first comment here mentions a misleading article "Tesla to recall vehicles". This is misleading since Tesla probably didn't recall even a single vehicle, they probably all got an over the air update within a couple days of the problem being spotted. When a problem comes up Tesla is quick to send out an update and the news loves to write misleading articles every damn time because bad news about Tesla sells, there are so many wrong articles out there it's insane.
So disappointing that even the people I assumed would be smarter (Hacker News), are falling for this shit. Also this debate of cameras vs lidar is so old and outdated because LIDAR IS NOT GOD DAMN MAGICAL it has it's problems too. Tesla has also dropped radar because they don't see it being beneficial enough.
In reality talking about lidar vs cameras is not too important especially in the long ron, how far the tech is underneath is the most important thing currently and over time the amount of compute power you have in each car will be the most important factor.
I mean read the text "dislike attacks", this reads deeply like some disgruntled femminist who's community keeps getting dislikes because they have extremely controversial opinions. The femminist/SJW community really dislikes democracy and want more censorship it's no joke they are called "Feminazis".
I deeply dislike this decision and I feel like there is some hidden money or power or intent behind this decision to undermine democracy, this is deeply concerning.
Also it's still likely that if you get covid a third time that you will get a worse outcome.
If they cared so much about people not wasting their time maybe they shouldn't have forced thousands of people to become athletes solely for the Olympics and when they inevitably fail to become pro and they don't have any education because they spent their entire life sheltered training so they now have to beg on the street for handouts, that seems like a waste of time.
China is just North Korea in different clothes and with the long term aspirations of Nazi Germany during WWII. China will be the next catalyst for the next major war, they are pretty much that aggressive.
Better productivity is nice, but putting an abstracting in the way could be worse because it hides stuff from you you would otherwise learn or even make better yourself, this is also how we get slow apps which web based applications are infamous for. We need more native apps and new areas to explore not more of the same billion JavaScript libraries etc. JavaScript is brain rot for programmers and places creative people in tiny bloated slow sandboxes where they create carbon copies of each other. I hope someone finds it useful, i don't mean to rag on about this particular project.
This seems like something that could only come out of tone deaf and climate denying America. The rest of the industry is trying to improve their climate targets and innovate, this is going straight in the opposite direction. I would sign a petition to ban these planes in a heartbeat.
We shape the future through investments, an investment in one thing takes potential away from another. Over a hundred years of fossil fuel investments have starved investments into for example batteries and the electrical grid, not to mention the whole thing was subsidized by the hidden cost of climate change. We as societies have failed hard to provide subsidizes and funding for these technologies, and a carbon tax at least at last reflects the real cost of fossil fuels, and creates innovation that is going to at least be useful in the future.
If I have a problem I don't want to admit to myself I just blame it on you, that way I don't have to deal with the problem. This is exactly how cognitive dissonance works and how our minds "solve" it.
Also why would anyone care about "militant vegans" at all if they didn't feel some kind of inner discomfort about it.
The choice for a vegan diet isn't necessarily just a moral one.
Half of people say that animals/morals is their main reason, health takes the other half. Today there are even more reasons as we learn more, like climate (one of the biggest things any individual can do) and fitness.
Also a vegan diet isn't sub-optimal to a normal diet or vegetarian diet, quite the opposite, there's literally years difference in life expectancy.
I don't care what anybody eats, that's their own business, but I like to be factual.
With this I can also more easily sync my files across machines.