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If you are interested in more about how mechanical watches work in general this is a pretty amazing set of animations: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Putting shifting controls on the screen was dumb for many reasons, but doesn't really cause a problem in this case - the cybertruck will disable the accelerator when you hit the brakes, accomplishing the same thing as putting it into neutral.

Instead of artificially boosting adoption, why not just price gas and electricity to match the negative externalities, and then people will just naturally choose the most efficient option. If heat pumps are cheaper, people will use them

How are those relevant to this discussion?

It's only been ~one year since input prices have fallen, according to the article - seems like thats not enough time for prices to stabilize. If margins stay higher than they have been historically, I'm sure some new competitors will enter the market and undercut the high margins - but it takes more than a year for that to happen. Could be a good thing in the long term though, more competition

Id imagine the marginal cost is a lot lower than that though

How is this related to the transit in any way? It's solving for speed of delivery, not congestion...

I also found it fun to ask it to write a python script to determine what car brand I should buy - it ended up telling me to buy a Chevrolet if my budget is between 25k and 30k, but not in any other case

It's also useful if you restrict it to only providing information verbatim (ex. A link to a cars specifications) vs actually trying to generatively answer questions. Then it becomes more of a search tool than actually generating information. The Chevrolet bot tries to do this, but doesn't have strict enough guardrails.

For me at least I do all of my development on the command line, so it's just much easier to use the git CLI instead of switching between applications. And regardless, basically all the commands I run (moving between commits and rebasing, mainly) can be done just as fast or faster with the CLI, with the added benefit of being able to see and retrieve your command history to easily redo actions.

I kind of have the opposite question - what benefit does a GUI have for git? If your tree gets super complex I get how a GUI makes it easier to navigate, but if you only have a couple branches it seems easy enough to just view in terminal.

Having a person in the plane does make shooting it down (or not shooting it down) much more meaningful, which can be important. For example in the South China sea, flying a manned aircraft around is a much stronger statement than flying a drone around.

And to me it still seems possible that someone could come up with some jamming technology that prevents drones from communicating with satellites or base stations - and if someone does, you don't want your entire air force to be disabled.

only low-carbon in a marginal sense

What's the issue with this? Cargo will always need to be shipped around so as long as the marginal impact is low that seems fine?

In a statement on Wednesday, the GM unit said that it did the recall even though it determined that a similar crash with a risk of serious injury could happen again every 10m to 100m miles without the update.

This kind of misses the point though (probably intentionally). Sure the odds of this exact same type of crash happening again are quite low. But the question is how many of these "one in 10 million mile" crashes are there? Fixing just this type of crash doesn't solve the broader problem.

If there is no limitation, why would anyone pay for the ebook though when they can just get it for free from the library indefinitely? I just don't get how this works from the authors side, are they supposed to just give away their book to everyone for free? Or is the idea that the library compensates them enough to cover the costs of them writing the book.

I don't really get how a DRM free library works. Based on the article at least it seems like being DRM-free means people can keep the book as long as they want? What's the difference between that, and just letting anyone download the book for free online?

DRM for books will of course always be easily bypassible - it's just text and images, not exactly hard to copy. But I don't see how a "library" can work without some limit on how long you can be using a piece of content.

I think the Internet is more like electricity vs vinyl. In the US at least, how we transmit electricity has been fairly consistent for around 100 years - a toaster from the 20s will still work today in the same outlets. I think the Internet, and html, will be the same - small changes over time but fundamentally the same.

But they still aren't anywhere close to level three self driving (let alone level 5, which Elon promised). What's the point of self driving if you have to constantly monitor it?

Seems like this would just be a ban on having it on government owned devices? I feel like they should just have a blanket policy of not allowing any software that isn't explicitly approved and required for your job, if government employees want to get a personal device they are free to do so. Seems so strange that that's not the case already.

I don't think he really had special talent for business, he had strong beliefs that happened to line up with what was profitable at the time. I don't think when he invested in Tesla or started SpaceX he was thinking about whether it made business sense - he just wanted to build futuristic technology, and he was one of the few people willing to spend a lot of money on a new company to actually make it happen.

That doesn't really mean he is a genius at business, just that he is really good at pitching his vision and getting people excited about it.

That wouldn't work because the system relies on having a pressure differential across the membrane in order to function.

Wouldn't pumping from 230 meters be exactly equivalent to just pumping through the membrane at sea level?

If you have a pump 230 meters below sea level trying to push water up a pipe, to get water to the surface that pump must be exerting the same amount of pressure as you'd be experiencing 230 meters below sea level (since otherwise it wouldn't be strong enough to push up the water column). So you might as well just take the pump up to sea level and have it pump water through the membrane, since it would be exerting the same amount of pressure.

Or alternatively, you could just find a hill that is 230 meters high, pump sea water to the top of it, and then have the sea water come down in a pipe and go through a membrane in the bottom. Should be totally equivalent without requiring anything underwater.

Obesity is a massive and growing health crisis, just ignoring the problem by pretending that it's somehow OK for the majority of people to be obese is absurd. The article seems to be claiming that the health issues from obesity are more due to how obese people are treated, not the actual obesity itself? Which I don't find particularly convincing, if you know extremely obese people the physical issues over time are obvious.

If we let kids eat whatever they want, a significant portion will live on a diet of sugary drinks and fast food - that's not a good outcome. Of course we shouldn't be shaming fat children, but we should be working on instilling habits around eating actual food, and avoiding excess sugar intake.

You don't fix obesity by telling obese people who are eating garbage food to eat less of it. And you don't fix obesity by telling obese people to eat whatever you want. You fix it by eating actual food (not fast food/deep fried food, and not drinks full of sugar), that actually makes you feel full with a reasonable amount of calories.

Sure, so similar to in the US, where if the company changes your contract you are eligible for unemployment if you refuse.

In the US this would probably be constructive dismissal, so similar to what would happen in Germany. And referring to slavery when talking about the current US laws seems somewhat irrelevant

So it sounds like in Germany, you can fire people to hire another 200 cheaper, you just have to compensate them for that firing. Just like in the US if you fire someone without cause, they get unemployment payments funded by their previous employers unemployment insurance (which goes up the more people they fire).

And this isn't even relevant to what is happening with Booking.com. No one is being explicitly fired, they are being moved to a new company with different job requirements. Which as far as I understand, is constrictive dismissal, so the right thing in this case is for Booking.com to give all their employees the option of being laid off instead.

There was pretty strong evidence she defrauded investors, lots of hard evidence of her making claims that we now know aren't true. I haven't heard much strong evidence that she intentionally defrauded patients though. I think it is totally possible that she lied to investors about Theranos's capabilities (ex. How many tests they could run), while still thinking that the tests they were running were accurate.

The form makes it very clear that signing it is totally optional, and still requires the hospital to provide a cost estimate.

This is what I don't really get about NFTs. Just because you own a token pointing to a particular object, doesn't mean you actually own that object unless someone in the real world enforces that link. And if someone in the real world has to enforce that link, what is the point of the NFT? The ownership is still being enforced by a single organization or individual. You might as well have that organization or individual track ownership themselves if they are also supposed to enforce it.

In this case it seems like the open seas marketplace is trying to become this organization that enforces the link. Which really defeats the point of a decentralized system.

The book that documentary is based on is one of my favorites, second only to the making of the atomic bomb.

I hate touch screens in cars, but this isn't a win for fans of physical controls, despite what a bunch of other commenters seem to think - they aren't adding any new physical buttons, just disabling the touch screen and only allowing you to use the dial.