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Comment Re:AI (Score 2) 37

One would think that it is impossible to find people in their 50s or 60s who still don't understand how budget initiatives can last longer than one budget cycle or how "government-corporate initiatives" where everyone but the government is eyeing a payout eventually work out, but you're the living proof that they exist.

But at least you're so very smart.

Comment Re:It's a desperate attempt (Score 1) 141

No, the Trump administration just rolled back CAFE standards assuring the automakers will continue to be able to sell large, expensive SUVs and trucks into the future. Why Trump commented on kei cars is anyone's guess. Regardless people in the US will mostly reject them should any auto manufacture attempt to push them on the public.

Submission + - Idaho Lab Produces World's First Molten Salt Fuel For Nuclear Reactors (cowboystatedaily.com)

schwit1 writes: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy announced this week that researchers at INL have successfully created the first batch of fuel salt.

Fuel salt is a molten salt mixture used as both a carrier for nuclear fuel and coolant in a molten salt reactor, a type of advanced nuclear reactor.

The fuel salt is critical for conducting the world’s first fast-spectrum, salt-fueled reactor test, known as the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE).

The test will help inform the future commercial deployment of a new class of advanced nuclear reactors, something a number of Wyoming-connected companies are proposing to build.

“There is a lot of push for this,” said James King, project lead for the Molten Chloride Experiment at INL. “We need to have a lot of different options so we can move away from less safe power generations methods.

“This is one of those technologies that can move us to better safety.”

The liquid form of the salt fuel means the fuel can’t melt. The technology would also offer another low-carbon alternative to generating power.

Comment Still flogging the dead "AI" horse? (Score 3, Insightful) 37

Quite obvious now that neither will the "AI" deliver on the absurd promises of "replacing humanitay", nor will the enormous and absurd investment in training LLMs ever bring returns, nor that an "AGI" will happen while trodding this course, nor that any kind of "moat" exist in this business.

But let's continue the failing attempt to keep the hype and the fleecing of "investor money" up.

Submission + - USA will bar visa applicants who combat disinformation (npr.org)

ClickOnThis writes: The Trump administration wants to bar visa applicants who combat disinformation and hate speech from entering the USA on work visas, on the grounds that they practice 'censorship.' From the article:

The directive, sent in an internal memo on Tuesday, is focused on applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, which are frequently used by tech companies, among other sectors. The memo was first reported by Reuters; NPR also obtained a copy.

"If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible" for a visa, the memo says. It refers to a policy announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in May restricting visas from being issued to "foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans."


Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 87

Nonsense. But you nicely show the stupidity of the average person here.

First, obviously a self-driving car comes with accountability. It just sits in a different place. And second, most humans cannot adapt to unusual situations either.

The bottom line is that self-driving cars already kill less people per distance driven than regular cars or are close to it. But I guess people like you are fine with people dying just so long you have not adjust to anything new.

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