Also because of coal. Honestly, more as a result of coal, though they certainly have built a lot of solar. But the reason they've been building coal plants like crazy, so much so that many of them are idled from the day they go into service, is because it was their insurance against problems with the oil supply.

I'm a fan of solar power and happy to see the world is building a lot of it, but intellectual integrity demands that we also acknowledge China's investment in coal generation capacity.

Anecdote to back this up, we have annual round of employee directed projects where people propose something they will do that no one asked for in hopes that they do something unexpected that's worthwhile. Generally it's a waste of time business wise, but at least people get to work on something they actually believe in.

Anyway, usually they at least usually manage to create a somewhat working demo of their concept, but this year most of them failed to do so, because most of the pitches were people that didn't know how to do the work, but GenAI was able to generate pitch material that convinced executives to approve them and largely drowned out the people with actionable proposals. So most of the final presentations were people just repeating their pitch and hoping people didn't notice they had no new material since their pitch a few months back.

There actually was a push in the UK a few years ago to outlaw pointy kitchen knives, but it met with great resistance and was dropped.

However, the point remains that stabbings in the UK are actually less common that stabbings in the US. This points out that while many think that guns are the cause of the US' violence problem, the real problem is deeper: US culture is just more violent.

That sounds nice and all, but there's really no legal way to do that. The money was collected illegally, so it has to be returned (with interest) to the people it was collected from -- the importers.

It's going to take years to find out just how corrupt, and we'll never get the full story. What we can see isn't even the tip of the iceberg.

Heh. The usual metric is "mission success". For a manned flight, that includes getting the people down safely. For a typical unmanned flight the mission is "get the payload to the right orbit". If you manage to land the rocket after that, that's gravy.

Quite frankly a huge amount of skepticism is absolutely warranted. The AI tech companies are broadly worrisome, but Palantir takes the cake for outright villainous efforts.

To the extent they have shown ambition for a future, they haven't shown they have a whiff of folk's best interests at heart.

Nope...

Note the intent to "retrain" labor.

The AI dividend in their scenarios wawould be a trivial gimmick. They still want the labor force toiling, but a dividend to mollify concerns about AI displacement.

If this happened, I would bet maybe 100 or 200 dollars a month of "dividend". You'd still be expect to toil away under the capitalist rules to actually have a credible living.

In terms of what to change to doing, some of these folks already said that people need to return to manual labor. They really hope AI will work as a strategy to make educational an impractical choice and people just kind of stay uneducated and desperate to provide manual labor for sustenance.

This is a path for them to patch what they see as a problem in capitalism: some modicum of class mobility. Other than that possibility, capitalism works great for them. For communism as a core principle, then they need to go full authoritarian, and the power struggle among them to get there is a more dangerous one than a modified capitalism.

Zipline is still around, still making deliveries in Africa and some other places, and also doing some in the US, for Wal-mart.

There isn't any launch platform with no failures, ever, that's not how you measure reliability. Reliability is measured on percentage of successful launches (payload reached target orbit), and Falcon 9 is, indeed, the most reliable orbital launch vehicle ever, by a wide margin. Here are the platforms with >= 100 launches (the 100-launch line is kind of arbitrary, but you have to draw a line somewhere and platforms with very few launches don't have meaningful statistics):

#1 Falcon 9 (including Falcon Heavy): 637 successes of 640 launches, 99.5% success rate. If you focus only on the block 5 variant (most-flown version, currently flying), it's 572 out of 573, 99.8%.
#2 Atlas V: 106 of 107, 99.1%
#3 Delta II: 153 of 155, 98.7%
#4 Space Shuttle: 133 of 135, 98.5%
#5 Long March 2/3/4: 503/521, 96.5%
#6 Ariane 5: 112 of 117, 95.7%
#7 Soyuz: 1889 of 2014, 93.8%
#8 Kosmos: 559 of 610, 91.6%
#9 Proton: 382 of 431, 88.6%

Soyuz has to get props for the sheer number of launches, of course, though that's probably mostly because the Russians couldn't afford to build another platform. Soyuz isn't a particularly great rocket in any way -- smallish payload, good but not great reliability -- but they kept using what they had. It's also worth noting that assuming Falcon 9 maintains its current launch cadence (which it won't; Starship will probably start taking its launches eventually, and if that doesn't happen, the cadence seems likely to increase), it will match Soyuz' launch count around 2033.

Ok, but how does it work in the scenario where it pushed another package into the street and then the package gets hit by a car? A package that may have nothing to do with Amazon aside from it being pushed into the street.

Also, from my experience with this, it's true that 90% of the time they are pretty agreeable, but coincidentally the 10% of the time where they are skeptical just happens to be the more expensive stuff.

I just don't order expensive stuff from amazon. Actually, Amazon is only if I can't get it anywhere else reasonable nowadays.

As does using Windows.

Of course, problem is the lack of availability of similar data for successful companies.

To the extent it *might* work, that's all the stronger case to keep your successful company's information confidential, to avoid helping future competition be a broadly more capable company.

So we are still stuck at training your model to be a crappy business.

Train models mostly on the communications of failed businesses... What could go wrong?

Really? I don't think I've ever used NTFS on any machine I've owned.

It's a good thing for you that most people do. Those ads your'e avoiding fund most of the content you consume. You can only freeride as long as enough others are paying the toll to subsidize you. I do the same, but I won't be surprised or angry if it becomes impossible.