Lets say you are trying to save a near-extinct species. Say for example the Capitalist Republicanus. (These are pretty rare, because the current Republicanus King hates capitalism. He is a Mercantilist that likes tariffs, something Adam Smith hated so much, he created Capitalism.)

So there are only 150 C.Republicanus left, where there used to be millions of them. And of course, most of them are related to each other, as they all live in small communities. This has significantly reduced genetic diversity of the C. Republicanus. Many of them are susceptible to the same disease (Neverus Impeachus).

{Ending joke, real science to follow}

But lucky you, in museums there are several different taxidermy examples of the original specie left. They are old and not properly preserved, but it is possible to examine the skin cells of those stuffed animals. You can't get enough to clone them, but you CAN get about 30% of genetic code. Which you can compare to the living species.

Then you look for the genetic variants and see about 40-100 genes that used to exist in the species before the genetic bottle. You can create 50 different viri that inserts these old genes into the current species. You expose 50 different members of the current species, adding most of those old genes into the current members.

You are not cloning or creating new species, you are re-introducing real genetic diversity that used to exist but is no longer found.

This can make the species far more resilient and make the incestuous nature of the remaining species far less dangerous.

This is what the scientists want to do. They are adding diversity and preventing the problems of all the members currently being related to each other. It means one virus is less likely to kill the entire remaining species, and may fix other problems that come from inbreeding (see pure bred show dogs for the many, many problems that inbreeding causes).

The EU was pushing for micro-USB. Apple ignored them almost completely, doing the absolute minimum required to technically comply with the law. Apple is fond of malicious compliance, and has been for a long time.

For commercial buildings of any significant size, I think it's a much easier sell, because those go out of lease, and you might spend months searching for someone, and if you do it at the end of the lease, you can increase the lease price and make your money back pretty quickly, because you can be almost guaranteed that anyone who leases it will have some employees with EVs.

For apartments, it's potentially a harder sell, because you're dealing with a small number of units coming on the market at a time, and for each unit, you have a one in three chance that the next person will have an EV and will pay a premium for an EV space. So if it takes two or three years to pay for it and there's only a one in three chance that each of those years will have a tenant who wants it, it might statistically take almost a decade to pay for itself. And that's before factoring in the interest on the loan, which is to say it could actually take two or three decades, or almost the lifetime of the building, to pay for itself.

It's way easier to deal with when you're allocating a bunch of units at once (e.g. new construction), because you're not having to try to force people to change parking spaces mid-lease to get the benefit or figure out how to do just-in-time wiring if and only if the person pays an upcharge for an EV space. Possible, maybe, but not necessarily easy to justify the hassle.

Yes. They are using the Xe-100, tested in Germany.

Note, small, modular nuclear reactors have been thoroughly tested over the past 40 years. This is basically Nasa Readiness level 6/7 for quite a while. The technology has been delayed by fear, not engineering.

Diabetics have two different problems.
1) Too little sugar in their blood.
2) Too much sugar in their blood.

Too little sugar literally means you starve to death in minutes. It does not matter if you have 200 lbs of fat on your body, if the fat is not releasing the sugar into your blood, then your heart, lung, brains have nothing to eat and you die of starvation - even if you look over weight.

Solution is to monitor your blood sugar (either constantly with a Continuous Glucose Monitoring device inserted in your body all the time, or with a finger prick device). Then when the device says to, you eat something with sugar. Sugar pills are recommended, then high sugar liquids (Orange Juice is often recommended), but any source of sugar will save your life. If a diabetic suddenly falls unconscious you usually need to FEED them something just in case their sugar is low. Especially if they have not eaten recently. Unlike the tv shows usually giving them an insulin injection is not the save their life NOW thing to do.

Too much sugar is a longer term problem. It kills your kidneys. A large number of kidney transplants are caused by eating too much when you have diabetes. (Note, it can also work the other way around - the medication they give you for a kidney transplant can give you diabetes) So before a diabetic eats, you need to check your sugar. If it is high, you inject them with insulin and wait 15 minutes before you eat.

Note, this entire process is much harder because of four factors:

A) The symptoms you feel for having too much sugar in your body are almost identical for having too little sugar in your body. You really need to check it with a CGM or a finger prick device before treatment. But in an emergency unconcious giving sugar can save their life and will not kill them if they had too much.

B) Delay. Both eating and injecting insulin take time to affect your body. So it is quite possible to eat too much, resulting in you needing to then inject insulin an hour after you had emergence sugar. Similarly, 2 hours after injecting insulin you might have to eat if you injected too much.

C) Insulin needs to be kept refrigerated or it goes bad. So if you are going out, you should take an ice pack with the insulin.

D) American food system routinely provides way too much carbs. All carbs are the same as sugar, they rocket your blood sugar. If you are not diabetic your body can handle food fine. But the following is too many carbs: two slices of pizza. Hamburger (with bun) AND small french fries. One bagel. A Belgium waffle and hash browns. A stack of pancakes.

Making insulin cheap is very important because what it does is PREVENT KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS. If a diabetic does not use enough insulin, like I said earlier, it kills their kidneys. Then they ask for a transplant and we do not have enough.
So cheap insulin means fewer kidney transplants. And kidney transplants are FAR more expensive than paying for insulin - if only because the medication you need after one is more expensive than the insulin would be.

Cheap insulin = saves the state money.

and here I was feeling old...Thanks !!!

I stopped watching. With F1 it will be even easier, I don't watch now so I'll just bite the bullet and continue not watching. I am not sure how the NFL thinks it will be better for the brand by limiting access. I seem to remember watching it at some point when it was over the air...

Not very well. The requirement is that new construction have 10% of spots with EV charging, and 25% that could have charging if someone installed a charger. This is in a state where 29.1% of new car registrations are EVs. That means even if everyone rented only new apartments, the requirements would still barely meet *current* demand.

With apartment complexes not getting torn down until they are 50 years old or more, anything less than 100% EV ready is unconscionable, because within 20 to 30 years, every car still being driven in California will likely be an EV, to within the margin of error, and the cost of retrofitting is way higher than the cost to do it right to begin with.

Except it won't, for three reasons

• Using PHEVs on workplace charging is really wasteful, because they charge up in three hours, but you're there all day, and swapping cars around really doesn't work very well, so you typically end up with low charger utilization.
• If people don't install a charger at home when they get a car, they usually won't ever install one.
• Chargers in random locations can actually be more expensive than gasoline.

It's not an infrastructure problem. Hybrids are intrinsically a mistake. It's just too much easier to keep using them as ICE cars and not put in home chargers, and without home chargers, you're going to end up doing most of your miles on gasoline.

Apple made that change in March of 2015. The EU didn't even *start* talking about standardizing on USB-C until roughly January of 2020. So I can't say for sure what made them start using separate cables, but I can say with near absolute certainty that the reason was *not* regulatory pressure from the EU.

LOL, My first computer was a trash 80 color computer. I peeked and poked that piece of hardware for a long time.
A friends father was a physicist at LLL and he had a full blown CP/M machine we played Zork on.

When did Slashdot start accepting posts from subscription sites ?!?! Fsck the Verge...

Hybrids use generators rather than ICE. As such, they are more efficient burners of gasoline, reducing pollution per mile.

Here is an anysis of the Toyata RAV ICE vs Hybrid vs EV (done in 2023)

https://medium.com/the-new-cli...

There's a chance I might have accidentally caused that. Way back, when the original MagSafe chargers were around — probably about 2008 or 2009 — I filed a Radar asking for removable MagSafe cables, pointing out that I kept having to throw away $80 chargers over a $10 cable, and that this had been a problem with every Mac charger I had ever owned from the PowerBook 145 all the way up to the MagSafe stuff. And I pointed out that having removable MagSafe cables would also provide a permanent solution to the problem of external battery makers not being able to provide cables that hook up to the MacBook. I think I laid out a pretty solid case for why the charger cables should be detachable.

To be fair, the transition to USB-C might have been the only factor, and my bug might have just sat in some hardware team's queue and never gotten looked at, but other companies do build USB-C supplies with non-detachable cables, so I like to think that maybe at the very least seeing my bug might have gotten someone thinking about the possibility.

I wonder if somebody got to close that Radar as "Hardware Changed" a decade after I filed it. I wonder if somebody is looking for that bug now, trying to get credit for closing it. :-D

Then they'll find out the hard way that Steve was right.