Since communism is, by definition, classless, you cannot both be classist and communist.

Racism is, again by definition, incompatible with abstraction.

My conclusion is that you're pretty shaky on definitions.

Sounds good, let's see it IRL. How much usable energy per unit of battery weight?

Don't know about weight, but you can buy 18650 cells using Na-Ion right now. They have the power capacity and curves of LiFePO4 cells at the moment.

The key part is that we have tons of sodium, unlike lithium, and a lot of it is already in ion form. Earth's lithium supplies are limited, while sodium supplies are basically limitless, and thus, it's stupidly cheap and unlikely to rise due to its abundance.

Sodium batteries are very similar to lithium, since it's in the same group (one row down) so the properties are similar. Hopefully that means enhanced sodium cells are soon as they apply the advancements made to lithium batteries to sodium batteries.

But you can apparently play with them today. A video on a YouTuber playing with them - https://youtu.be/s6zcI1GrkK4

My point is that it is not a news story, it's an opinion piece. News stories generally inform the reader of the news in as neutral and balanced way as possible. This was a badly written opinion piece. Going to the sources is the job of the journalist. The fact that even you are suggesting that this is needed means that clearly the so-called journalist did not do their job.

The promise to only have nuclear weapons controlled by humans is worthless even if given in writing if those humans are going to end up being controlled by AI. We already have algorithms controlling a lot of what people see and hear online and if that trend continues AI will control a lot of \people's view of the world giving it, if not actual control, then at least incredible influence over humans....and good luck if you think we are going to be able to stop that from happening given the economic interests of huge companies like Meta, Google etc.

Florida while always being close will likely be red for a few more cycles at least. Shifting demographics should be in favor of making things closer but the Florida Democratic party is very ineffective in my opinion.

Not likely.

Florida is home to basically all of the US billionaires - there are very favorable tax laws in place and basically the centi-millionaires and billionaires are snapping up properties in Florida.

So no, they're not aging out, rather, that's where the concentration of wealth is happening.

Of course, one should also note this because when the proles start to rise on the rich, they would be concentrated in one state, making it rather easy.

Well I doubt whoever passed the law regard it that way so just because you might be unable to see another way to describe it does not mean that others can't. That's the great thing about talking to people you may strongly disagree with: you learn how others see things and have someone challenge your own thinking, helping to make your own opinions far more informed.

Good journalism requires that the jouirnalist report on the facts in an unbiased manner as possible. What would have been far more helpful here is a factual description of what Utah's bathroom bill actually says for all of us who do not follow the laws that Utah passes and so have never heard of it. That way I can form my own opinion instead of just hearing what the author's opinion is about something I have no knowledge of. Indeed, even if you insist on sharing your opinion you at least need to inform the reader what the opinion is about!

Anytime Spotify loses customers, it's the fault of Apple and Apple Music stealing customers away from Spotify.

Spotify can only be the #1 streaming music service. Any loss is due to Apple. There is nothing Spotify can do that causes it to lose customers without it being Apple's fault. Don't implement a feature user wants? Apple's fault.

Are they going to ban license plate reading/lookup too if it's run through Azure? Traffic cameras? This is outside Microsoft's decision making IMHO. They either accept money for services rendered or they don't. Discriminating against US law enforcement should not be an option and should actually be illegal (again IMHO). We're supposed to trust the government. If that's an issue, then fix the root of the problem. Disallowing police from using technologies is not the right fix.

That's probably it. First, using generative AI tools might add details to police reports that were not present, and this has very problematic issues regarding evidence and testimony. We know AI loves to hallucinate, and even worse, do it without telling you. If you're writing up a description of a person you don't want it to suddenly embellish the description with details that weren't there.

Likewise, using it to generate an image of a person from a description might add details that aren't there, and even worse, may falsely incriminate someone because the generated image looks like someone familiar who is totally innocent.

Same goes for image recognition - we've already had people false arrested over facial recognition failures - of which if only someone actually compared the photos from surveillance cameras against the person themselves, would've told you it's the wrong person.

Microsoft is basically saying AI is too unreliable to use it for anything that could affect someone's life. Whether it's because the training data set lacks diversity in its images, or other things, it's not in a position where you can seriously affect someone's life with it.

Having software accuse you of committing a crime is something Microsoft wants to avoid because the technology is not there yet. Giving it an image and asking an AI to identify a person is not something AI is ready for yet.

And honestly, the technology just isn't there yet. The output of AI should only be used in a fictional context, You can't trust AI right now in ways that could seriously affect someone's life.

Well, the DMA basically says Apple can't prevent people from installing apps outside the App Store. That's about it. You can choose to use the App Store or not, but Apple cannot control the content or distribution of apps to their devices.

Which is why Apple did comply - all apps still need to be signed by Apple, but those in the DMA area can use an alternate signing mechanism where you submit your binary to Apple, and Apple signs it. They do basic automated checks but otherwise do not review it for content. So if you wanted a porn app, you can - Apple will sign in.

Likely that app signing will include an identifier because the app will be linked back to the developer - so if someone distributes malware it can be traced back to the developer that created it.

The DMA didn't say anything about developers remaining anonymous. All it said was developers have a right to have users install their apps without Apple preventing it. Likely the whole thing of Apple holding developers accountable keeps the platform clean and honest.

Of course, it does mean developers have had signing keys stolen because malware writers have had to exploit developers to get malicious apps signed. I mean, Realtek got their signing keys stolen and used by malware. There's also reports of an Apple developer getting their signing certificate deactivated because someone stole it from their Mac and released a bunch of malware with it.

Why? I mean he's already testified. What benefit does anyone get in assassinating him. Him having a poor judgement of risk or being a conspiracy theorist is quite irrelevant to his death.

It sends the message of "snitches get stitches". It's why the Witness Protection Program exists.

The guy may have testified already, but his death may make others who have corroborating testimony more reluctant to appear lest they get "disappeared".

Of course, if this was China, he would've been killed and no one would notice he was gone.

The alternator is not on AM frequency ...
Facepalm ...
Nor is the other stuff you mention ...

More bullcrap?

The alternator can be a sort of EMI - the slip rings from the rotor do make sparks and are a source of EMI. ICE vehicles have 4/6/8 or more spark gap transmitters, which have been banned for over a century now. AM works just fine.

Spark gap transmitters are banned because they are broadband sources of noise - that is, they produce EMI across a wide spectrum. Now, a car has a lot of shielding - the metal engine is one, plus the metal chassis helps cut down on emissions a lot. But a car radio has to also deal with conducted EMI - the power lines are full of noise and it just conducts from the engine into the passenger compartment.

But you know what? It's a solved problem - it's been a problem ever since we had radios in car. I'm sure Motorola (remember they used to make car radios? Hence the name!) dealt with this issue since the very beginning.

Even AM radio stations often installed car radios as their monitoring radios because they can better reject the interference.

And today's modern radio chipsets - especially automotive ones - handle AM, FM and DAB in the chipset. Modern SDR radio technology that allows for super narrow filters to really suppress interference. AM radio is effectively "free" as it's already built into the chip. If the infotainment system was a significant source of power drain, then maybe not fitting it with 100W of audio amplifiers might be a good place to start - rather than trying to save a few fractions of a watt eliminating AM radio.

It's likely a data broker thing - they don't pay that much because knowing what you listen to isn't valuable information - they'd get rid of all the radio so you'd be force to subscribe to streaming but that would generate a huge uproar.

And yes, my car radio is tuned to a local news station on AM. I'm going to have to make sure the EV I get will be able to pick it up.

Meh, I don't view internet connectivity as some kind of inalienable right.

Well, given these are low income people, how do you expect them to do things like get a job, get an education, or even just try to improve themselves?

Most minimum wage jobs cannot be applied to in person these days - you must go online to apply on their job portal. Heck, most jobs require online application. Oh, you can get a few stores still taking paper applications, but they're generally the smaller ones

If you want to apply for government services, you can do it online, or visit their offices which are open from say 10AM to 2PM. But you can't, because you need to apply for an appointment - online.

Heck, even education often requires going online to do research - a problem for kids when the library kicks them out at 5PM whilst they try to do their homework.

You may decry the fact that many pages are getting formatted for phones, but for a lot of people, homeless included, internet access is required, and often times the only way they get it is on their phones.

It may not be an inalienable right, but honestly, to do basically anything involved with basic survival seems to pretty much require it - getting a roof over your head, education, a job, even basic necessities like food (the cheap places to live often are food deserts, so if it's going to take an hour to get to the grocery store, you probably want to know if stuff is on sale or if they have it).

They'd disclosed it but the first one hadn't finished testifying under oath about it. And that matters. The latter has status as evidence in court.

Pretty difficult to find a worse choice, I'd say.

Zynga. A name that makes everyone who knows what it means turn around and run the other way. An exploitative evil empire.

If after Unity got extensive flak for trying to push through a hostile pricing model someone asked what kind of person to choose as the next CEO to remove that stain from your reputation - I think "CEO of Zynga" came dead last by a wide margin and then some intern sorted the list the wrong way around.

My confidence that Unity is going to do the right thing just dropped from zero to absolute zero.

Batteries are typically rated in units of energy i.e. joules or more typically MWh. While they do have a maximum power drain (and charge) raiting that's generally not a helpful number to quote since there is a huge difference in a battery that provides 500MW for 1s vs. 1 day whereas a 500MWh battery can easily be configured for multiple different power draws.

So either you mean 500MWh or else the company you quote are releasing meaningless numbers either because they do not know any better (and this is high school level physics) or are deliberately trying to mislead and neither option suggests anyone should have any confidence in the number.