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That is the lawsuit that caused these documents to be released (there’s actually a cluster of such lawsuits; the Massachusetts one released these documents which they got in discovery)

If I drive a car and run someone over, I am arrested, not the car.

A limited liability company is just a machine, as is a car. Yet somehow when you drive one you shift your responsibility to the vehicle.

This needs to be fixed.

Do you mean from the mains to the water meter or from the water meter to the house? We used copper all the way to the street.

I can’t believe the mains themselves could use PEX: if nothing else the pressure would be too high.

This is a great question to ask. If you look at the GRAS list, some molecular weights of PEG are GRAS while others are not. There’s no reason to think other polymers should be different.

GRAS is “Generally Recognized As Safe”: so for example you don’t need to do a study on its safety when using it in a drug formulation.

Good question. We built a house 25 years ago and insisted on copper throughout all the way to the street. Cost more, but was probably a good idea on multiple fronts.

It’s an epistemic difference. In one case you have empirical evidence that A -> B even though the whole thing is a black box and really it only works sometimes. In the other, theory-based case, you have a model of how things work and that model has been predictive in some cases.

In medicine sometimes (more in the “old days”) someone would see that compound X caused Y and then they’d try to make a therapy that helped the patient without killing them. Other times, someone has a theory that pathway P seems to cause indication I, and so tries to develop a compound that relatively safely disrupts P in vitro, then tries it in vivo. Sometimes even after the drug works and is approved we later find the pathway P hypothesis was wrong, yet it somehow works anyway. And then people try to figure out what’s really going on.

And then, especially in psych and oncolo drugs, the meds mysteriously work on some people but not others. Teasing that out is tough.

Otherwise suddenly MS is excluded from government contracts (even ones awarded or in progress), justice department will start attacking it etc.

Get around paywall: https://archive.li/VGOaH

There’s a difference between making a low-cognition effort (buying a toothbrush or holding a door open) and a complex choice like buying a car, typically a household’s largest or second-largest investment. I’m sure you know this too.

In this case though it appears to be a desire to promote the name as part of committing moral crime.

(Most ppl have forgotten that X was the name of one of the two failing companies forcibly merged by their respective investors to form PayPal. I remember musk being a dick back then too)

The sensor she likely uses is only good in the hundreds of ppm. Fortunately the LFL for methane is roughly 50,000 ppm so there’s no need to give up smoking when a bout of methane-heavy flatulence occurs.

Thanks!

Lovely. Mark Weiser would have loved this.

There’s an enormous amount of data on this topic. So much I’ll just tell you to do a web search rather than pointing to some papers in is response: it’s just so pervasive and going back for decades.

Use a conventional search not an ai-generated summary as that will have influencer slop mixed in. Though oddly, I’ve never seen an anti-fibre influencer, but have seen lots of pro-fibre influencer posts!

Now I have to go to the lab and check (we have a ringdown sensor tuned to CH4/CO2/H2O precise into single digit ppb).

Some humans have methanogens in their gut and these people exhale methane (gut->bloodstream->lungs) and they can emit quite a lot, at least enough to completely fuck up our lab work. Our lead scientist is such a person, and the effect is so bad that he exhales into a bin liner when setting up an experiment.

Or he did: this was so inconvenient that we automated all our instruments, valves, etc so we could run experiments from the kitchen or even at home (lots of RPis which I wouldn’t normally use for anything important). Fortunately this also automated all the data collection.

But now I have to run a trial to see if my diet modulates anal CH4 emissions. Thanks HN!

To get through paywall: https://archive.li/lIBu0

It’s hardly casual, but also hardly complex: if someone is a Nazi in both word and action, that’s pretty clear. It’s duck typing in the real world: the actual origin of the term.

But your defense of racist speech, acts, and the propagation of same sends a clear message too.

I’m a bit older than that: I have lived the swing from centralized remote computing (long lines and/or dial in, both to the mainframe) to distributed local computing, back to centralized computing.

I remember datacenters being close to the humans and then migrating to be close to the power supply (check out The Dallas, OR, for example) to now locating where they can and scrambling for power, which has become the bottleneck.

At this point I think there’s a diseconomy of scale with the need for all these ad hoc power systems.

I’m not suggesting a return to the captive “machine room”. I’m saying that instead of a mega-plant, smaller, distributed ones might actually be a local optimum.

(Oh, and I have had a rack full of hardware in a data center for my personal compute for more than a quarter century. So yes, I have some experience in history)

It was several years ago. I brought it home to my wife (the soy milk drinker in the household) and though I had a laugh, she was not amused.

BTW:

> And financial institutions can do settlement between each other using stablecoins.

Why would they bother though? How would they gain over the status quo?

As I mentioned, I’m sorry for the misguided and nitwits who lose their money too. Not the grifters though.

And I’m from a small country and I have no illusion that many people would care much if Australia were leveled and all the people killed by a series of bad earthquakes. There would be sad headlines for a few weeks and then something else would get everyone’s attention. That’s why I was asking about anything at the global scale. Someone replied with the Hormuz Strait, and while small, it does have an enormous global impact. But that was the only such answer I got.

(BTW geologically that’s pretty much impossible to happen to Australia - -it’s just an example).

You could renovate existing warehouses

What’s your “wow”?

You somehow managed not to know the extent of his racism and cruelty?

Or you don’t think that anyone who provides material support to Nazis/Communists/Hamas/the IDF/MAGA is is basically one of them?

Or?

Trans people typically whose a new name, referring to their old name as their “deadname”. People who insist on using the deadname when they know the person has a new name are deliberately mocking, and even being cruel to, the person who has changed their name.

Musk continues to refer to his trans child by their birth name and gender. I can’t understand how someone would do that to their own child (much less anyone at all).

After purchasing twitter he chose for it a new name and wants everyone to use it, but by not bothering to I’m simply following his example.

This happened in Canada

I remember looking at a carton of Whole Foods soy milk that prominently said “no added sugar”.

I looked on the back and after water the second ingredient was “dehydrated cane juice”.

The food system has been gamed forever.

Since he deadnames his own child, I’m happy to deadname his business.

People at the time thought it would prevent war but it was irrelevant (neither hurt nor helped)

> It is possible to loathe Elmo but also conclude that given all the various factors driving your decision making, a Tesla ends up being the best fit.

Musk is unambiguously an unashamedly a Nazi, and not just for the triviality of his arm gestures. He calls people like my parents traitors for not sticking with their respective races and says people like me should “remigrate” because the west should be white only. He says people like my wife express “hatred against whites” and routinely retweets antisemitic posts. He called his ai system the “mechahitler” and it routinely returns racist responses when asked.

And when people patronize his businesses it amplifies his own wealth, which he then spends to spread his vitriol in multiple countries.

So yes, if you support Nazis financially or otherwise it makes you one too.

The Internet is almost 100% packet switching, a technique that someone brilliant in ARPA came up with the idea of claiming it was intended for nuclear warfare survival, in order to ensure funding.

“Data centers” need not be hyper-centralized. There’s an economy of scale of course, both in the building itself and in very local transmission. But all scale curves have knees, and one is survivability.

It’s possible a bunch of smaller 10 MW DCs might be faster to build, more survivable, and easier to get approved while being perfectly acceptable for most workloads.