As it should be. She got paid for the work she actually did. She's not raking it in based on the work of others.

Much of that other creative work would not have happened if it was bogged down in a mess of royalties, so this is a net win for culture.

New users get some free credits, so it's possible to play with it for a while without making any payments.

That's what the national grid is for. You don't need the spare capacity on the same site. Losing 1GW is easily made up by transmission from a different region.

Batteries are used two ways: first is for grid stability in the scale of milliseconds to seconds. In an emergency trip they help regulate the brief transient until other generators throttle up. They can also provide bulk capacity when it's needed (including filling in for a failed plant), but they're just one of many available supplies to fill the gap.

Note that when a nuke reactor trips it goes offline for a couple of days at minimum due to xenon poisoning. Realistically it will be much longer than that to review what went wrong mechanically or operationally. This isn't a wifi router where you just shrug and power cycle it.

They let you build fewer nuke plants. Solar conveniently covers a big chunk of daily peak usage. Wind is great for pumping up that hydro. The TCO is lower than nuke. It would take a lot of batteries to run a grid only with renewables, but they're a useful part of a diverse generation plan.

These aren't the little things pumping a rural well. Large windmills of the sort you use on a wind farm are high performance precision machines. It's not rocket science, but mistakes can be expensive. They're pretty low-maintenance so it's easy enough to have a small group of specialist technicians who can cover a region.

Logitech is actually pretty good about this. You might have to pull the feet off your mouse to access the screw holes, but they're under there, and everything disassembles easily and goes back together cleanly.

The current system of welfare gives people something without earning it, but worse, it creates perverse incentives: attempting to earn their own way results in the loss of their handouts. Why would they even try?

Under UBI there is always an incentive to work. UBI only guarantees a bare-bones poverty lifestyle. People want to live better than that. They can get a job, and every dollar they earn improves their standard of living, and their income taxes reduce the net amount they receive from the government.

The neat thing is this eliminates a whole slew of poorly-conceived government programs: welfare housing, food stamps, minimum wage...

Eliminating minimum wage is a big deal. Every business owner knows there's a gap at the low end where they'd love to hire more workers, but they can't afford them. UBI eliminates that gap. Instead of mandating a salary sufficient for food and shelter, businesses can hire workers for a wage that matches the value they provide. Even at $4/hour, every dollar the workers earn helps pull them above the poverty line instead of trying to climb back up to it.

This is better for everyone than the current system: it eliminates bureaucratic welfare programs which are an inefficient use of taxpayer money. It helps businesses hire more workers. It's more humane for the poor.

The amount of wealth redistribution under UBI would be quite small compared to the overall economy. Keep in mind that average middle-class folks would still be net-taxpayers. Lower-middle class would get a modest tax break, and only the poor would be receiving net-positive from the government (as they are already do under current programs).

Waste and inefficiency creates more inflation than subsidizing labor. Paying people to not work (which we do currently) is far more wasteful than UBI.

I think it's less-bad because the controls and fonts are larger, and less overall interaction is required. For car controls you're just reading labels, not text, and poking a virtual button a few times. I still prefer not having to look at all, and just operate the controls by feel, or with a glance at most.

This announcement will make me more likely to buy a Hyundai for my next car.

That's true of most OSes. On Linux any app I run has free reign over my homedir. If Chrome pushes a patch that scrapes my .ssh directory, they can get my keys. There are ways to contain programs like SELinux and AppArmor, but how many people are going to build custom profiles for the software they install?

Android is quite a bit better in that regard. Every app has private storage. The shared/common SD storage isn't accessible unless you grant access, and you only have to do so for apps that need it. iOS is also pretty good in this regard.

What desktop OS is better? There are exotic ones like Qubes, but I don't know of any that my that I'd want to set up on a friend's computer.

That's a considerable improvement over business as usual: harming the greater masses to help the few.

I expect it'll be roughly the same as when the Amazon truck crashes into your car, the courier hits your dog when flinging the package onto your porch, etc. They file a claim with their insurance, you get paid for damages, and they keep doing business as usual.

Actually that's exactly the kind of thing Elon does.

The time you spend in an MRI is usually to get a series of different scans at the highest quality. By turning down the resolution and allowing more noise, they can go faster. The first machine they used in 1991 could do a poor scan in about a minute. The newer, better machines in 1996 could do good quality scans in about 15 seconds. Viagra became available there in 1998, and was used to improve the process as well. The subjects could also move in between the scans.

They recruited relatively small test subjects, and removed the table from the machine to make more room.

That's just setting the resolution. It doesn't affect the high-DPI scaling.

Can you give me a hint how? I'd love to have this if it's easy.