Renewables being cheaper has moved a lot of stuff over already. The reality is that a lot of the cost of burning fossil fuels is outsourced or hidden, and efforts to make the people burning it pay are also proving to be effective.
The Chinese government has been pushing that narrative for years. They are the stable partner. World's second largest economy with much higher growth than all the other big ones. They don't force their ideology on you either.
It sucks because they aren't wrong about those things, and the stuff we compete with (lucrative markets, less exploitative, democracy) are not quite so tangible, not such big concerns for countries trying to deal with big economic problems or lift millions out of poverty. We need to be more competitive, but in a way that doesn't compromise our core values.
"They have absolutely exceeded our estimated market demand, and for that we apologise."
*turns to marketing guy and whispers* "Fire whomever only produced 8 of these, and make sure we make 8 more."
Smells like Apple have Slashdot in their advertising pocket.
Huh? Or maybe a follow up story on one we mocked only 2 days ago is the perfect Slashdot interest story. I mean even if Slashdot were 100% non-profit and took no advertising dollars I would have expected to read about this here.
Doubt it. These "socks" are ultimately a knitted loop which will be during use looped around all sorts of things, shoulders, handbags, etc. It is far easier to snatch a phone from someone's hand than it is to snatch a bag that is has a strap connected to something. Also being fabric they aren't stiff they would be harder to pickpocket than say an open handbag.
That said I see a rise of knife assisted theft in the future. Going up behind someone and quickly using a knife to cut through straps. It's already a very common action in many parts of the world.
This isn't luxury. It's guilt indoctrination. The invocation of God saying you should be miserable because there are other people worse off than you.
A one true Christian, vote her into government quick, that'll soon beat it out of her
How? If she's a true Christian no one would vote for her. Too religious crazy for a Democrat and not racist piece of shit enough for MAGA (Republicans don't exist anymore, no point calling them that).
using chatgpt to generate random numbers is the same as rolling dice (probably less random actually.)
Much less random. LLMs by their nature can't generate random numbers because their output is based on trained data. Actually given the number of numbers in a powerball draw I guarantee you one of those numbers was 42. Asked to generate a random number between 0 and 100 the number 42 comes up 10% of the time. That's 10x more frequently than truly random.
It never ceases to amaze how religion makes billions of people feel incredible guilt for getting wealth while inherently hording wealth itself.
"God to test me" - sorry if it's not intended this way but it sounds very much like you believe your life is only worthy if it is spent in a continuous struggle. If so that is fucked up.
This is why I dismiss any smart features in a TV. The industry is notorious for orphaning their products.
So very much this. We have a TV with a Netflix app that can't watch Netflix. We have another TV with a SteamLink app that I can't play games with because a firmware update was rolled out that bound left stick up and down to the volume control on the TV making it impossible to play games using SteamLink. That was incidentally the last firmware update released.
For companies which largely have no problem supporting mobile phones for years on end they fucking suck at this TV thing.
There are multiple reasons, but I think the biggest is that a different interactive screen ate TV's lunch.
Not so much ate the lunch, but invited people over for brunch beforehand leaving them full and uninterested for a second meal. We're talking about a feature being pushed only in the last 10ish years. The interesting part about that is that by this time everyone already had a phone.
And to whomever said this comment is overrated I suggest you do a bit of research into human failure analysis. You'll find the 1 in 10 year mistake of any given repetitive task to be widely used not just in science literature, but in industry hazard analysis as well. You may think this doesn't apply to you but all you're really trying to convince us of is that you're not a normal human being.
Yeah, for once the complaining about the decline of Slashdot isn't just a bunch of old man shouting at clouds. It's actually by design. The site is dying.
It was sane, post Brexit anything is possible.
I did test drive it, but that's the dealer, not the manufacturer. Due to GDPR they wouldn't be able to share it with the manufacturer, or retain it for longer than a few months (for speeding tickets etc to come in).
They could break the rules, but if it then leaked or I found out somehow, they would be in it pretty deep.
Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't. -- Robert Orben
