A loot box is a known commodity with unknown content. Also, it was a joke because the concept of loot boxes is seen as gambling in many jurisdictions which is why EA tried to call them surprise mechanics to avoid gambling laws.

The whole thing with wagering on intangible commodities is the same type of evasion but with a lot more money, and with the right people involved laws will be adjusted to make sure it isn't gambling.

Do loot boxes with surprise mechanics also count as intangible commodities? Asking for a friend.

Anyway, it was quite easy to see where these cases where headed when you factor in this: President Donald Trump's eldest son is an adviser for both Kalshi and Polymarket and an investor in the latter. Trump's social media platform Truth Social is also launching its own cryptocurrency-based prediction market called Truth Predict.

Do someone need to explain the difference between laws, regulations and what is considered civil and criminal offenses so you can get up to speed how federal agencies have operated for 200+ years? It's amazing what isn't taught in schools anymore, like basic civics and how federal agencies actually work. Civil cases don't have juries because the norm is that there are no monetary damages awarded, just remedies that the defendant has to implement so they are in compliance with laws and regulations.

If you get what you want, you'll have to accept that you can have a chemical factory as a neighbor that spews out toxic fumes because, you know, regulations can't be readily enforced. Or as with Intuit, that companies straight up lie to people and proceeding to rip them off any way they can.

You asked "Why is that right" without actually understanding how things work, I'll instead ask "Why are we allowing companies to lie and evade federal regulations?"

So why did congress invest that power in them, something they have been doing it for a very long time now?

Are you also aware that breaking federal regulations usually fall under federal civil law, right? In federal civil cases juries are rare and only when there are monetary damages on the table. An administrative judge telling companies to "follow the regulations and don't fuck over the public" doesn't seem to involve monetary damages what so ever from what I can see, which is why the 5th circuit shoehorned in SEC v. Jarkesy as a precedent which did include monetary damages as a way to give Intuit free reign to keep lying while neutering the FTC even more.

Anyone cheering for this outcome is saying "Yes please, I'm bending over!", unless you are rich and couldn't care less about the public good.

This is just another outcome that makes federal agencies more powerless to do what they were created to do. Funny how the established precedent in Atlas Roofing Co. v. OSHRC that has held for over 40 years that congress can delegate enforcement to agencies without the need for a jury became burdensome lately when it started interfering with the bottom-line for duplicitous companies.

No, it isn't. All generation has ramp-up times, battery is instant, and that saves a lot of money in ancillary costs. Waiting for a gas-plant to spin up to handle a load-spike costs money plus wear and tear, and it may well be that when it is finally producing power it isn't needed anymore. Stable energy production saves a lot of money, and even more so when there's grid energy storage like batteries available, and such storage usually pay for themselves in less than 10 years if correctly sized.

You are misinformed, you can install and run many virtualization software in user-space, for example QEMU, Firecracker, UML and others. There are even VM-solutions you can run in a browser.

Regardless, this law is like setting up a door that you pinky swear you'll use. The problem is that it is freestanding and you can simply walk around it. The only thing this law does, is to penalize operating system/software vendors for something that is clearly the parents responsibility.

Your argument that "derp parents need to parent harder derp" is bullshit implies that parents have no responsibility. Bad parenting should have consequences but it seems many people think we should just let 3rd parties and the government shoulder the consequences of that, which to me seem ass-backwards. And parents need to parent harder, which includes actually educating their offspring of all the shit they can run into, both in the real world and on the internet.

A law that it is functionally worthless doesn't solve anything but it does add a ton of complications, liabilities and costs, and those will only increase every time they try to patch or fix the law in the future.

There's a big difference with AI compared to other technological shifts, prior shifts displaced specific type of jobs but currently they are trying to cram AI into every type of job - mostly white collar jobs, ie that's the middle class taking a hit which in turn will affect blue collar jobs. Some projections suggest that in the US 50% of all entry-level positions will be gone in 5 years but other projections say 10-20%, which means between 9 to 46 million workers will be displaced or unable to get a job. I doubt a fraction of those will find jobs in content curation.

Plus, it doesn't take into account how wages/income are actually spent on services, food, goods, rent, insurance and other stuff that props up a myriad of other industries which in turn props up other industries. Unemployed people tend to only spend money on the most critical necessities.

Anyone with a modicum of knowledge about economics can see how replacing people with AI will affect local, national and eventually the global economy negatively. It will be a race to the bottom when companies starts feeling the squeeze and think the solution is to replace more people with AI to placate investors and shareholders.

Unless steps are taken to mitigate this, expect some interesting times ahead.

I am sure you believe that, but beliefs aren't facts. And if the BMS happens to fail, the start/stop functionality is disabled which some people think is win in this instance.

Type of battery for example. I do hope you know that there are different types of battery technologies used in cars with start/stop.

And you know this how? It seems you are basing your argument on what you think would happen and not actual facts.

The lifespan of batteries in cars with start/stop functionality (ie AGM/EFB batteries) is the same as cars without it (ie regular led-acid), the major factor that affects the lifespan is how the car is used.

If you want a bit more facts you can find them here: https://publications.anl.gov/a...

The cars have a BMS which turns off the start/stop function if the battery gets low, there are other criteria that affects this too like engine/transmission temp, other electrical draw (heaters/defrosters etc) plus a bunch of others.

In practice, the car will never turn the engine off if you got a bad battery. And regarding batteries, it is a wear item that will go bad eventually regardless of what you do. Will the start/stop shorten the lifespan, absolutely, but compared to what?

Yes you can if latency isn't an issue which it isn't if you are crunching data to train models.

As I understood it, they are basing the satellites on the coming Starlink Gen 3 and they are adding a large radiator sticking out on the back of it for added cooling and thermal management is a solved problem. Your reasoning here seems to be based on the idea that the satellites are running full tilt the whole time which isn't necessary how they will be operated.

Yes, which I actually talked about in my closing paragraph.

It's not about the power advantage, it's about the cost of the power which is 0 in space (disregarding initial fixed cost). The gen 3 satellites PV's are supposed to generate ~25 kW which needs a total radiator area of ~40 sqm if the temperature being radiated is in the ~80C range (assuming a low emissivity of 0.8, a 10% efficiency loss in the cooling system and that I calculated P=sigma*epsilon*A×T^4 right).

Regardless of the technical details and feasibility, we can both agree on that it comes down to economics in the end. Musk certainly have money to burn which may be the deciding factor for this to actually work in the end.

The waste heat problem has been solved for a very long time, but not if the satellites are always facing the sun and are used all the time which means you shut them down when they reach a certain temperature so they can cool down before being used again. Starlink satellites do this today except they aren't always in the sun which provides an increased efficiency in cooling. Shutting down a satellite to expediate cooling only works if you don't need 24/7 operation or if you have a constellation of satellites (like Starlink, Iridium etc) were other satellites provides redundancy.

In short, the engineering challenges are known and solved but this boondoggle hinges on building out production and launch capabilities at scale based on the idea that AI will make sense and function like the evangelists proclaim it will all the while attracting paying customers that can provide a ROI anchored in reality.

They plan to put the satellites in a polar orbit that are slowly rotates around the Earth-axis about 1 degree/day to track the sun.

The no 1 problem is the amount of satellites in the same orbit and if there's a collision we will likely see a Kessler syndrome.
The no 2 problem is the service life of the satellites which mean tens of thousands of them will be de-orbited to burn up in the atmosphere each year when it runs out, each one weighing about 2 tonnes, but perhaps all that material burning up and spreading particles in the upper atmosphere will be an unintended solution to global warming.