In my experience at my last three jobs (in the midwestern USA), small businesses that don't have enough employees in an area have to print and mail paper payroll checks instead of paying their employees through direct deposit.

TFA doesn't mention this; but if PN junctions in this new material have the same 300mV forward voltage drop that regular germanium diodes and transistors have, then that will contribute a bit to the speed. I think it should also reduce power consumption by a non-trivial amount - perhaps by a factor of two when compared with regular silicon junctions.

To inject a bit of perspective here, if you're worried about crashes, the solution is to take a train, not engage in an arms race of increasing vehicle masses and prices.

75 mph would be considered slow for a train in Japan.

You must be thinking of last year. The US no longer has standards.

You could say the same thing about the 1998-2008 Ranger.

Still worried about trannies, then?

Checked again today, the kit is at $520.

I saw it more as him realizing he's been taken for a ride with these $800 phones. Whether the low-end phone is $150 or $180, it still makes sense to get that instead.

It should also be pointed out there's a good chance your price-gouging "flagship phone" manufacturer is also a price-gouging DRAM manufacturer (Samsung).

"Software gimmicks" is the logical result of an endless quest for the new shiny ("original shit").

What would be nice is selling the phones at a lower cost, as manufacturing costs decrease on mature technology. But it works much better for them to pretend they have the new shiny, and charge accordingly.

The amount of Trump dick sucking surprises me, too. It certainly felt more intelligent 20 years ago.

Speaking of Trump dick sucking, did you figure out yet if he sucked off a CEO, a president, or a horse yet?

He's just being a typical American MORE BIGGER FASTER tool. I drive an 08 Versa with a 1.8l with 122hp and I have absolutely no problem being one of the fastest people on the road, because even a slow ass car by modern standards can do all the things. I never have trouble getting up to speed on a ramp or whatever.

Putin is so smart he outsourced his destroy America plan to Trump

Of course, users have no assurance that an LLM is "confessing" to every lie or hallucination. But it will 'fess up often enough to foster habitual and reflexive trust. That misplaced trust is already a big problem for society, and having more of it is a very bad idea.

I predict that increased trust will make users even less critical of AI than they are of social media content. AI will become a bigger, more effective propaganda generator. It will be used to shape public opinion, convincing citizens to vote against their own best interests.

"You really think the region ruled by Hamas would end up being better for both the Jews and the other residents? After all their acts from Oct 7th on?"

You don't seem to be paying attention to the actions of Israel from October 7 on. Or before it for that matter. Why is that?

By stay away do you mean stop funding it? If so, how do I subscribe to your newsletter?