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Of course it should be done anyway as there will be a lot of used batteries in near future.

The necessity for recycling those batteries, without more, does not logically follow from their relative abundance in view of the purely economic perspective you posit. Why not just bury them?

It may be the scarcity of lithium that may drive us to take otherwise expensive steps to recycle such batteries.

The conclusory "of course" sets the argument up for a failure from the outset. Though it is not the only flaw.

Poison hemlock is a carrot. Socrates and I would consider it toxic.

There are other toxic substance like phosphorus in "lithium" batteries. Some "lithium" battery chemistries, though reportedly not LFP, contain cobalt, a very toxic heavy metal. Besides, there isn't a clear definition of what is a heavy metal. Even iron and copper, used in LFP, are considered heavy metals by some.

BTW, lithium itself is highly toxic too.

Still slop. This article appears to conflate battery recycling with lithium recovery, two distinct steps to achieve high lithium reuse.

Agreed. For example, what does the color of lithium hydroxide used instead of sodium hydroxide have to do with anything? They are both white.

Yes, poor comparison to what's now a relatively low end model.

"Newly walled towns are a sign of shrivelling state authority" was my thought when I saw the walled off Capitol.

It is sad when the government needs walls to protect itself from its own people, a sign of weakness. To add to the irony the Capitol used to be, quite literally, the "people's house."

How so? Please elaborate.

Children can buy their own devices. School issued devices are not under parent control. Parental controls and school controls are laughable. There is no incentive for OS vendors/retailers to provide robust solutions to this problem. PII industry is essentially pushing regulatory capture.

Sounds like presenting no patterns, apparently or otherwise, would be a pattern in itself.

What does 85% accurate even mean?

Archival optical media is likely much better than any kind of open groove technology.

Vinyl is not great for archiving. It degrades and is affected by dust.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization

You could just sell old vinyl with new labels and sleeves and they would be none the wiser.

Libraries, Google and YouTube were/are not nearly as efficient at conveying _targetted_ _actionable_ expertise as AI is.

"I'm finding LLMs also competent at explaining and giving advice on other domain stuff I'm totally new to, which I have cross-checked with Legal/Product Managers and is usually right."

"Usually" is the keyword. Until it becomes "always" (counterintuitive for heuristic systems) or "almost always" some human experts will (/may?) be needed to babysit.

P.S. "_are_ usually right" since they are "LLMs". Methinks running the response through an LLM could've made it more "right".

A font is not a typeface

Probably agentic gone wrong again.

Hubris much? I don't see a necessary contradiction in using someone's work to disprove another aspect of that same person's work.

What does it mean to be not expensive? How much do all the not very expensive endeavors as up to?

Evidence?

Let's just skip to quantum which models the "real" world in "real" terms.

Fuzzy logic may be one approximation. Analog processors may be another.

When "shifting from Newtonian to relativistic contexts [while] reality" does not stay the same. While the op has many shortcomings, this post itself falls into the binary trap. You conclude without proof and contrary to currently accepted models, e.g. Schrodinger's uncertainty principle, that objective/Platonic reality exists.

I agree with you that you can approximate continuous/analog systems with discrete/binary ones, but those approximations (almost) always have some loss of accuracy, assuming, arguendo, that accuracy even exists. For most purposes these "tolerances", if you will, are acceptable and even desirable. Thus the op also falls into the binary trap suggesting that the only right way to do things is the op's way.

The quasi-political rant at the end does feel misplaced. While I see the op's general point, e.g. political polarization, the introduction/switch into the topic feels at least jarring.

This may be the one of the differences between engineers and lawyers

At least some Apple ][ key caps from the 80's appear to have been brown.

Not sure why all the fire retardants are needed. Besides, steel probably retards fire more effectively than most fire retarded resins and is probably far more recyclable.

If it were about performance and not marketing, they'd try to optimize for resistance to dust adhesion and resource consumption: energy, cost, durability, etc.

You lead me to believe that they are targeting a niche "audiophile" market and probably not a commercial market. The concern in the commercial market would be energy savings vs. capital expenditure. Some commercial spaces actually introduce white noise into spaces to increase occupant density.