He’s more mRNA than man now.

Based Gemini.

It’s been omitted from previous statements before. Sure, the Taiwan issue is important, but there’s no need for hysteria over this kind of minutiae.

Ya never watched Veep?

From my understanding, Russia is making more use of aerial bombing, because they are trying to exploit Ukraine’s ammo shortage. Using aircraft more means more aircraft losses. Unfortunately, the bombing seems to have had some effect. It was a factor in their capture of Avdiivka last month.

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Isn’t the airspace under Israeli control?

There’s a tidal wave of “cheap and good enough” Chinese EVs starting to sweep the global market, fulfilling pretty much what you said. The new BYD Qin retails for $15,000.

If the US puts up protectionist trade barriers, the US auto market will turn into an enclave of gas guzzling SUVs, totally divorced from the rest of the world.

they would’ve never invested in moderation, so it probably would’ve turned into a shitheap.

i.e., basically Reddit!

The crazy thing is, they had a nascent social network going with Google Reader, populated by people who were engaged and interested in the content. And they threw it all away to chase a Facebook clone, which was doomed anyway.

Because it looks bad if your text is peppered with quotes joined by little strips of connecting material. It gives (rightly) the impression that you don’t know how to digest information and put things in your own words.

Some of the prior cases described in this article, as precedents that could spell trouble for OpenAI, frankly sound like miscarriages of justice. Using copyright to prevent organizations from photocopying articles for internal use? What the heck?

If anything, my take home message is that the reach of copyright law is too long and needs to be taken down a peg.

Here’s the story as I understand it. US automakers want to make expensive premium cars because those sell for high margins. The big breakthrough in the EV market over the past few years has been China EV makers figuring out how to make cheap and “good-enough” EVs, which are catching on in many places across the world. This is clearly the direction in which the market has to move (whether via Chinese or non-Chinese automakers) to spur mass EV adoption. In the US, however, the established automakers can rely on protectionism to block imports, this keeping the US market limited to big expensive cars that remain using ICEs.

These complaints about EVs being too expensive are way out of date, now that China is pumping out hordes of cheap EVs that consumers like.

Even if the US doesn’t want to let in Chinese auto imports, the question remains: why are Chinese automakers able to bring down prices, but not US automakers? You can point to Chinese government subsidies, but the US also does industrial policy these days. One of Biden’s favourite talking points is how much money his government is putting into supporting US green manufacturing through the IRA.

I’d be shocked if Netanyahu gave any other response. He gets to massacre more Palestinians, and make Joe Biden look weak and impotent. It’s all upside for him.

I would have thought that space debris is deadly no matter if it’s made of wood or metal. If something comes at you at a few kilometers a second, it doesn’t really matter what material it is.

Hardly the only two countries. In the US it’s only masked by immigrants. Fertility is even coming down in most parts of the third world.

It’s mainly attributable to women’s improved education, career prospects, and access to contraception, plus declining infant mortality. Every single one of these factors is a good thing, but the combination of them will lead to a global demographic crunch over the next century.

Big oil didn’t stop solar panels from becoming a working technology. Sometimes a technology is just hard, there’s no need for a conspiracy.

NIF was able to produce about 3MJ of energy with about 2MJ of input

Worth noting that the 2 MJ of input only counts the heat directly absorbed by the pellet. It ignores the part of the laser beam that doesn’t hit the pellet, the part that gets reflected, etc., not to mention the energy needed to power all the rest of the apparatus. The lasers alone consume over 300 MJ of energy to operate.

In this context, the “energy that they put in” only counts the heating of the plasma. It does not include the energy needed to run the rest of the reactor, like the magnets that trap the plasma. If you count those other energy needs, about an order of magnitude improvement is still required. Possibly more, if we have to extract the energy (an incredibly hard problem that’s barely been scratched so far).

So yeah, it’s nice to see the progress, but the road ahead is still a very long one.