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  What if the new government also imply that you have to change our religion? What if the new government does not believe in "free enterprise" and will TELL you which company you will work for. What if the new government change the sports teams you like? What if the new government change the language you speak. 

  See for the example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace#Timeline  . Notice how the official language suddenly changes when a new "government" from a different nation take over. Are you so sure that the French Canadians will not have a problem with suddenly English potentially been the official language?

On the explanation for step 1, the author only removes "the" as redundant. But there are more byte ranges that can be removed The following can be removed as reduntant "the " (notice the space) "at"

The European new headlights are illegal in US. They are superior but still illegal.

$6.7bn!! WOW

IN https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-beats-the-heat/ , there is a very interesting quote. "The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has also been lauded for its growth in storage, but when put into perspective of load, the gap remains quite large. Comparing all-time peak load and peak storage discharge (non-coincident), ERCOT's battery fleet would have met less than 5% of demand, while CAISO's battery fleet would have met about 16%, more than triple the value in Texas."

Absolute numbers are not the right metric when one of the states doesn't care about efficiency and decides to generate more and more electricity. Then absolute number are huge but percentages of renewal are very low.

Ireland is in EU. UK is not in EU anymore

From the website "The FAA has discontinued use of this Behavioural Assessment since 2018."

That was 7 years ago.

And they are 1st in Japanese Skills !

This seems to be a joke. China has 70% of the world global research share on advanced aircraft engines Seriously? Maybe in writing papers . But that does not translate to actual product. China has 50% of electronic warfare and 45% of radar? In what planet? Any test to see if a lot of what is going on in other countries is not published?

The California failure is a good example What California failure? Take a look at record battery discharging for CAISO https://www.gridstatus.io/records/caiso?record=Maximum%20Bat...

Do you notice anything? The records keep falling ever summer. The battery discharge per day went up by 100% in the last year.

I do not see any bending of the curve. California is the perfect example of building enough batteries can solve the duck curve problem. Even in Texas, with the government actively against renewables and batteries, you see record been set for battery storage all the time https://www.gridstatus.io/records/ercot?record=Maximum%20Pow... Texas quadruple the battery storage in the last year. Difference between California and Texas. California is about 3 years ahead of Texas. When the economics are so much cheaper, battery power is build .

No. Let's say I have $100 million. Every year, for 50 years, I get a $2 million loan against only $2 million of my asset. The loans keep rotating and keep going. At the end of 50 years, I die. When I die, the assets go to my estate AND (and this is important) my assets base value is rebased to current values. My heirs sell some assets to pay off the loans. BUT the assets have been rebased to current value, so there is no tax due (since sell value is the same as base value). Let me repeat. My estate pays NO TAXES at all since the assets were rebased.

That's called tax efficiency ;-)

  I actually have to set up a car alert for when I go above 90, because the car is so quiet and powerful that I can easily go above 90 without realizing (obviously on the highway) . 
  New cars have improved tremendously.

See also https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html and scroll down to "Batteries trend" and compare today vs a year ago. A year ago, batteries were discharging max 3MW and were drained by 10-11 pm. Yesterday batteries were discarging at max 5.3MW and were fully drained around 11:30. So batteries handled twice as much power for longer period of time.

Take a look at https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/index.html Scroll down to "Net demand trend" which is "System demand minus wind and solar" and compare yesterday vs last summer and a year ago Yesterday (4/15) lowest net demand was 366 MW Last summer, July 4th , lowest net demand was 2350 MW Last year (4/15/23) lowest net demand was 2227 MW

You can see that last summer, with so much more "powerful" sun, the net demand never went below 2300 MW. Last year went down to 2227 MW. Today, we are down to 366 MW. We manage to produce so much more solar in the last year that the net demand minus renewables went down by ~1800 MW. That means a few more years of improvements like that and we will have excess power generation of solar/wind at least during the day for most days. So if we start storing that excess generated power, we will start making a dent on other times of max power (since we can discharge batteries when max demand is needed).

That's the plan on how to keep lowering the net demand more and more.

These laws already exist right now. Here is an example. You can't make a painting at the dimension of a dollar bill that's so authentic that looks exactly like a dollar bill. That's called counterfeiting and it's illegal on every country in the world I believe (for their own money of course).

But if you create a company that takes the NYT articles, scans the articles for extreme weather information in Dubai and emails your paying customers every time that happens, then you are doing copyright infringement.

Yes. All participants (parachute and control) jumped from vehicles with 0 speed and 0.6 meters altitude ;-) I'm not joking. This is the actual study. It shows how studies can be valid statistically and shows nothing usefull for the real world.

That's so funny.

Try Assume there are 100 people with 100 numbered hats on them. You are one of them and can see your hat. How can you figure out which number is on your hat?

Reply: If you can see the number on your own hat but not the numbers on the other people's hats, there is no way to determine the exact number on your hat with certainty.........

Try this on ChatGPT

Assume you are in a room with three switches and three light bulbs. How will you figure out which switch controls which light bulb?

It gives you the answer to the "popular" puzzle, not the simple answer of flipping a switch and see which light bulb turns on.

  So I think that you can take popular puzzle, modify them to make the simple and see what the answer is. If it's the answer to the popular puzzle, then it's a bot.

The reply is funny. I told ChatGPT that it can do multiple trips and that it can see both switches and light bulbs at the same time. ChatGPT keeps insisting that you have to turn on a switch, wait a few minutes , flip switch to off, turn other switch to on, then go and look and feel the switches. The classic solution to the riddle.

  But if you can see both switches and light bulbs, you turn on one switch, you see which bulb turn on. You then turn on the 2nd switch and see which light turn on. You are done. No wait needs to happen ;-)

I have a lot of examples. I just tried it out. I asked Who killed JR? It correctly replied about JR in Dallas.

But then I said No, I'm talking about JR in babylon 5

  The response was 

  Sheridan was never refereed as JR in Babylon 5. There was no JR in Babylon 5. But because I asked, ChatGPT happily made up things.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65090888

  Because in general, how do you verify that the two PCs or Mac or Linux or iPhone or Android have the same fonts installed?

A lot of times the answers the ChatGPT gives are so wrong, it's not even funny.

-How many chairs I had the day before yesterday? -If you bought 10 chairs yesterday, and now you have 10 chairs, You must have had 19 chairs the day before yesterday.

Or another chat -Assume I have 10 chairs today and I bought 10 chairs yesterday, how many chairs I had the day before yesterday? -You would have had 0 chairs the day before yesterday, since you only bought 10 chairs yesterday.

-How many chairs I will have tomorrow? -You will have 20 chairs tomorrow if you don't sell or give away any of your chairs today and yesterday.

First answer, perfect. Second answer, completely wrong.

I tried it. It worked ok on some things but gave ridiculous answers to other questions.

https://galactica.org/?prompt=Who+won+WWII%3F Question: Who won WWII? Answer: Germany

https://galactica.org/?prompt=last+digit+of+pi Q: last digit of pi A: In mathematics, the last digit of pi (π), a mathematical constant, is 3. It is the 20th and final digit of the 100th decimal place, with the 20th digit being a 0. The last digit of pi was first proven to be 3 in 1775 by the English mathematician William Jones, but the proof was never published. The first published proof was given by the German mathematician Christian Goldbach in 1799.

https://galactica.org/?prompt=is+earth+flat%3F Q:is earth flat? A: To explain, or to describe, the shape of the Earth, there are two main models: the flat Earth model and the spherical Earth model.

Answer from the future!! https://galactica.org/?prompt=Which+waa+the+biggest+corporat... Question: Which was the biggest corporation in 2023? Answer: Walmart

https://galactica.org/?prompt=does+god+exist%3F Question: Does god exist? Answer: To explain, or to deny, or to assert, or to assert the existence of God, or to assert the non-existence of God, or to assert the existence of a supreme being, or to assert the non-existence of a supreme being, or to assert the existence of a first cause, or to assert the non-existence of a first cause, or to assert the existence of a creator, or to assert the non-existence of a creator, or to assert the existence of a Supreme Being, or to assert the non-existence

I tried it. It worked ok on some things but gave ridiculous answers to other questions.

https://galactica.org/?prompt=Who+won+WWII%3F Question: Who won WWII? Answer: Germany

https://galactica.org/?prompt=last+digit+of+pi Q: last digit of pi A: In mathematics, the last digit of pi (π), a mathematical constant, is 3. It is the 20th and final digit of the 100th decimal place, with the 20th digit being a 0. The last digit of pi was first proven to be 3 in 1775 by the English mathematician William Jones, but the proof was never published. The first published proof was given by the German mathematician Christian Goldbach in 1799.

https://galactica.org/?prompt=is+earth+flat%3F Q:is earth flat? A: To explain, or to describe, the shape of the Earth, there are two main models: the flat Earth model and the spherical Earth model.

Answer from the future!! https://galactica.org/?prompt=Which+waa+the+biggest+corporat... Question: Which waa the biggest corporation in 2023? Answer: Walmart

https://galactica.org/?prompt=does+god+exist%3F Question: Does god exist?

Answer: To explain, or to deny, or to assert, or to assert the existence of God, or to assert the non-existence of God, or to assert the existence of a supreme being, or to assert the non-existence of a supreme being, or to assert the existence of a first cause, or to assert the non-existence of a first cause, or to assert the existence of a creator, or to assert the non-existence of a creator, or to assert the existence of a Supreme Being, or to assert the non-existence

  Did you know that there is a band called

  I used to work in search engines. When you decide to implement stop words, one of the first you define for English is of course the word "the". And then you learn of the band "The The" and you have to design a completely different architecture in order to handle exceptions to the stop word list ;-)

  This has nothing to do with EV adoption

  The EV equivalent of "honda Civic" will still be lighter and lower to the ground then the f-250.

ok, he has 0 total revenue. No problem. Prove it and then everything is fine. How do you prove it? Fill an income tax return! His complain is that he was "required that my business file an income tax return" . Which is part of proving how much money his business made.

This reminded me of "Police Camera Action - The Liver Run" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTN5X4JZFjU

30 Minutes to travel 27 miles across London in the middle of the day ! Stansted Airport, Essex to Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, London