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Carbon offsets do make sense but only after low hanging fruits have been picked. In other words, only when we are over 50% renewables - carbon offsets would make a difference. The reason being is that the next 50% would need extra investment and effort.

21 days seems like a delay tactics since it took Iraqi troops just two days to invade.

Would you not accept that African-Americans might be victims of circumstances? As shown in the article it matters where you live. Also, criminal who's house FBI forcefully entered was not 'white'.

Dismissing others hardship or injustice because theirs is worse seems very counter productive. What is the intention of pointing out that African-Americans have it worse? Should we have special laws only for that group? Or, should more non African-Americans die due to bad laws to balance the scales.

On 4/9 Musk twitted that he would be in favor of $2/month fee for verified account, paid annually to deter bots.

If you read what Musk says now or years ago he actually is very much for moderation, but not censorship or banning people of the platform. In a way Musk is for something similar to HN point system.

That, and also he would have been partly responsible for Twitters decisions and it was obvious that he would not get his way w/o a fight.

What you said might have been true when Trump was first elected, in 2016. Claiming that Trump is for smaller government or anti corruption is ignoring what happened 2016 - 2022.

MTT S60 has a 6-pin power connector so it's safe to assume that power consumption is under 150W (75W PCI + 75W connector). That would be on par with GTX 1070 but hopefully it's lower due to 12nm vs 16nm process.

I learned more about coal plant than the ThorCon itself. Was this published on April 1st :)

I still think he has great intuition, better than anyone I am aware of, and his actions have been rooted in first principles. Unfortunately, he deviates from his ideals when he is threatened (justly or unjustly) and we, normal people, get to deal with consequences because he has billions of dollars and thus he matters more than others.

What today is undeniable is that 2014 Euromaidan was a step in the right direction for Ukrainians - no matter how it started. Seriously, why would anyone (except oligarchs) want to be under Putin's control?

Great write-up and drawings. I've heard of fuses in processors, MCUs, etc but not of anti-fuses. Are anti-fuses a feature of older designs, based on large process size?

"The second type of fuse is an "antifuse", which has the opposite behavior: it does not conduct until a high current is applied"

This list should be expanded with brands so consumers can help the companies make the right decision.

For example, Koch Industries (not a complete list):

Georgia-Pacific

Lycra

Stainmaster

Molex Incorporated

Brawny

Dixie

Angel Soft

Sparkle

Quilted Northern

I lived car free for couple years, until had a first kid. Carrying child car seat with you gets old very quickly. And, in winter time, biking is not only unpleasant but dangerous (or rather more dangerous than in summer). Even if it's only for 3000km a year, our lives, kids lives (and their activities) and business we bring would be negatively affected if we had no car.

Many Americans have noisy and inconsiderate neighbors.

Precisely, if we cannot find parking near-by we go to find another restaurant.

Carter's administration supplied US arms to Indonesia fighting East Timor:

"I saw intelligence that came from hard, firm sources in East Timor. There were people being herded into school buildings and set on fire. There were people herded into fields and machine-gunned. ... We knew the place was a free-fire zone and that Suharto was given the green light by the United States to do what he did. We sent the Indonesian generals everything that you need to fight a major war against somebody who doesn't have any guns. We sent them rifles, ammunition, mortars, grenades, food, helicopters. You name it; they got it. ... None of that got out in the media. No one gave a damn. It is something that I will be forever ashamed of. The only justification I ever heard for what we were doing was the concern that East Timor was on the verge of being accepted as a new member of the United Nations and there was a chance that the country was going to be either leftist or neutralist and not likely to vote [with the United States] at the UN."[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_invasion_of_East_Ti...

From what I have seen Munro is quite objective in his views and has impressive team of experts. As to the claim, Herbert Diess, CEO of VG group had said it himself: Tesla needs 10 hours while VW 30[1]. Diess is planning on improving VW efficacy to 20 hours per vehicle next year:

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-04/vw-ceo-te...

Munro Live, who's video was linked to earlier in the thread, commented that Tesla line is shorter and more efficient as it takes only 12 hours to make one Model Y vs over 30 for VW EV.

High assembly efficacy is mainly due to large front and read aluminum castings, new battery format 4680, and unique structural battery pack onto which, floor, seats and console are mounted and later integrated, in one go, into the chassis through the bottom of the vehicle.[0]

[0]https://twitter.com/live_munro/status/1512215223268216833

I wonder how 3D printers factor in. For example, Bowden tube, feeding the plastic filament, is made entirely of PTFE. There's often PTFE liner in the print head itself.

Am I supposed to treat it like toxic waste?

Notably this opinion was published in entertainment and arts section.

Also it's worth noting that 3D printing with ABS produces microparticles that can embed in your lungs.

Now that there are cleaner alternatives we don't need new nuclear anymore to save lives.

Midlife crisis is when you realize that 'midlife crisis' was a lie and there's nothing 'mid' about it, and that you have only 10-20 more years left of denying that you are mortal.

His point is right at the top:

I was spending time optimising the 'bid' in automated advertising system, trying to get the best bang for buck.

Why was I doing it? Everyone else seemed to be doing it.

This was a terrible reason to do it.

Once I learn how to write numbers - I'll be a mathematician?

He might be making different sounds but the meaning is the same, with some culture specific exceptions.

Programming is very little like communicating and it's a lot more like engineering.

Brings to mind this TED talk: Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvBlSFVmoaw

Counting on one's crime not being discovered by keeping odds of detection low is a loosing battle. I think it's better to work towards laws, enforcement and punishment that make sense.

Before it gets that far, or until (if allowed) AI learns morality, AI will be a force multiplier for good and evil, it's output very much dependent on teaching material and who the 'teacher' is. To think that in the future we will have to argue with humans and machines.

AI does not have to be perfect and it's likely that businesses will settle for almost as good as human if it's 'cost effective'.