We are a fundamentally breaking down the most basic consumer protection laws in existence. I can't see how this could possibly end poorly for anyone....

The difference is really simple. You cannot lie for money. False advertising is not free speech. Or didn't used to be. Since we've become a kleptocracy and kekistocracy all bets are off.

On the off chance that there is anyone out there who votes republican, and realistically this is being driven by the republicans, they are going to come for your property. It's not a bunch of blue haired college girls telling you to pay for school lunches for hungry kids that are going to take your property. It's the same ghouls and psychopaths we've been dealing with for thousands of years and that we now call the Epstein class.

And if you're still voting Republican in this day and age then you don't have any problem with child sex slaves and a few of you are probably just upset you didn't get an invite to the island. Which is why you need to wake up and realize that they're going to take your property. Because that's probably the only thing you care about.

You know, a really good conventional search engine may actually beat LLM search.

Does not need to be useful? I can write a Perl script that can do arbitrary much code in a few hours! May even compile...

the vehicles start looking more like a wingless airplane than a car.

And what does the company's name mean? ;) (Hint: it's Greek)

It adds up to 40 miles per day, not 5. 5 would be a cloudy day.

I used to be anti-solar-panels-on-cars back when solar panels were expensive, and ones of reasonable efficiency were even more expensive - the argument was, "put it on your roof where it belongs". But that's just not the case any more. Adding solar is just not that much of a cost to the car. It adds some complexities, but mainly in the design / early manufacturing phase.

Also:

The average American drives 37 miles per day.

1) So if you're in a sunny climate, it covers all of said average-driver's driving. Otherwise, said average-driver has to plug in occasionally, but not nearly as often.

2) Most people drive less than the average (the average is skewed by a long-tail - small numbers of people who drive very far every year). What you actually should be meaning is the median US driver; the median drives 23 miles per day. Most Europeans, even less.

3) Even for said "average american", their daily average is skewed by long drives (e.g. road trips and similar). Wheren of course you're plugging in, you'd be plugging in even if the car was adding 80 miles a day. But when not on road trips, their daily average is lower.

4) Surely you can see the appeal of the tangential benefits, such as being unstrandable - where even if you run out in the middle of the desert 20 miles from the nearest town, you're still going to get there, just delayed (remember that EV ranges, if you drive very slowly, increase like 2x, so 40 miles a day becomes 80, so a 20 mile shortfall is only a ~4h delay on a sunny day).

5) Nobody is saying, "One car for everybody". Of course appeal varies by person and by location. Here in Iceland for example we have three problems. One, very little sun at all for a good chunk of the year. Two, even in the summer, when the days are long, the sun is mainly low and circles around you. Solar power just kinda sucks here in general. And three, the three-wheel config would mean that the centre wheel wouldn't align with tracks in the snow from other cars (although there is a slight advantage, in that it also wouldn't align with road ruts from studded tyres, which often fill with water in the rain and become hazardous).

But somewhere in the southern US, it's a great option.

They would certainly like it to be acceptable to their customers. But I think the real danger to them is worse: When the hype collapses, they are screwed. But they cannot deny this happened. So they are signaling "we can and will do better", even when that is a complete lie. Reminds me of MS stating "security is out highest priority" when they found out in 2023 that all (!) of Exchange Online had been compromised in 2021. Of course, they continued their crappy ways and had some more severe cloud compromises. Many people seem to be satisfied with this type of empty promise, so they continue to be used.

Well, if you do not care about result quality, it is usually easy to get productive. Just that the productivity coming out of things will be zero or often negative in this case.

I think the stories indicate that these are just average people. If average means "complete retard" (and I am not sure I would disagree with that), then LLMs have to be safe to use for "complete retards".

The HVDC lines are already there. These installations are not dedicated data center power. And no, data centers in the dessert are a really bad idea, because that would mean you had to pump a lot of water to them. There is no economic alternative to water cooling data centers at this time.

I haven't had the energy to try out Linux and proton even though it gets better every day. Eventually Microsoft or valve will force me off it and when that happens I don't know what I'll do. I want to keep playing games and I don't play a lot of multiplayer games but holy Christ Windows 11 sucks.

I can't even ignore all the spying and other bad things like I can with Android. Windows 11 is incredibly slow and it's constantly pausing and breaking my concentration and line of thought. You can disable some of that but every time you get a patch it turns back on. And you get a lot of patches

There was a Sonnax fix for my ZF5HP42A valve body problems too. It didn't work.

Security is not a boolean.

It's to replace us so the Epstein class aren't dependent on our labor anymore for their wealth and power.

People keep asking, if nobody has any jobs who is going to buy their products.

Try flipping that on its head.

Imagine you're a billionaire or a trillionaire. Every single day of your life your fortune is completely dependent on these pathetic worms buying your products. If at any time they stop buying them and they stop listening to you sure you still got money but you are no longer a trillionaire. That dependency is infuriating someone is great as you.

You are being replaced by machines. Maybe they won't pull it off all at once but they are absolutely spending hundreds of billions of dollars to make it happen. And because you let them have all that money they can do it

Can we also hear from his father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate?

What about all the stamp collecting in model train building? Or those penny dreadfuls?

If it's one thing my time on this planet has taught me it's that human beings will do anything to avoid the difficult work of tackling complex underlining causes.