People were walking around in the 70s with AM/FM radios that fit in their pockets. This is not complex or expensive technology to support, so the excuses wheeled out that it affects range or costs too much etc are just laughable. That isn't to say I agree with the idea that all cars should have to support AM, or that the US shouldn't modernize it's emergency broadcasting tech to render the need for AM moot. But the automotive industry isn't exactly convincing in its opposition.

More likely it got dropped because someone in Tesla figured out it represented a 30c cost to the vehicle. Same reason they constantly iterate and cheap out on other things including things they should not be touching like indicator stalks.

I have no idea if ZETA is a genuine group or some astroturfing bullshit, but claiming it affects EV range, or cost is a pretty ballsy lie. Radios powered by watch & AAA batteries can receive AM radio so it would have neglible impact on EV range, or cost. And besides, if that's the demented logic path they want to go down then ban satellite radio and 4/5G data since surely both of those would have way more impact on range and cost.

95% of the population got their water from aqueducts, if the PFASs make it that far I think it's safe to assume a fairly uniform distribution within the affected municipalities.

Of course they couldn't because they don't know the full mechanism. Suppose PFAS exposure causes hypertension and hypertension causes heart disease. Well you adjust for hypertension and the heart disease effect goes away and you falsely conclude that the PFAS didn't cause heart disease.

Again, if you don't know the pre-exposure rate of mortality then what exactly are you supposed to calculate?

They're saying the PFAS exposure doesn't perfectly follow the boundaries of the regions.... but it's good enough.

Because a natural experiment is never going to be completely clean and flawless data. But if you find a strong effect in a natural experiment, even with the limitations, it's still damn valuable data.

If I searched my posting history, I'm sure I could find a /. post saying exactly the same thing... except mine would have been from around 2005, and would have mentioned native games instead of Lutris/Steam, and specified Debian Linux and KDE. And GIMP. I was really into photography back then and used the hell out of GIMP. I still use it regularly, though not as much because my camera doesn't get so much use.

My point? I don't really have one, except that these sorts of predictions have a long history of proving to be wrong. Hence the forever meme "Next year is the year of desktop Linux!".

That said, I dumped Windows in early 2002 and I've never looked back and never regretted it, so Linux is and has been a completely viable platform for a long time.

Google pays the foreigners the same as it pays Americans. Maybe a little bit more, if you count the free immigration attorney work.

If just anyone could be trained up, that might make sense, but there's a big element of native talent and intelligence needed, and the US only has about 4% of the world's population. It makes a lot of business sense to look into the other 96% to see what you can find there. And its the moral thing to do, too. Kids in the US are already massively advantaged by their lucky break of being born here. Why not give others a chance?

Google actually does that except they start a little bit later, with college freshmen and sophomores.

Google pays its H1-B workers the same as US citizens, or green card holders, etc. There's no cost savings to be had there.

ArsTechnica has more on this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/aws-s3-storage-bucket-with-unlucky-name-nearly-cost-developer-1300/
Amazon waived the bill, and agrees that it shouldn't be this way.

In response to Pocwierz's story, Jeff Barr, chief evangelist for AWS at Amazon, tweeted that "We agree that customers should not have to pay for unauthorized requests that they did not initiate." Barr added that Amazon would have more to share on how the company could prevent them "shortly." AWS has a brief explainer and contact page on unexpected AWS charges.

Non-sequitor

No, Non-seatbeltitor!

Decwriter II printing terminal, mark-sense card reader, an acoustic coupler modem, and a Western Electric rotary dial telephone talking to a DECsystem-10 run by the county-wide educational consortium was my first experience with computers. My first program would calculate how old you would be in the year 2000. More syntax errors than lines in that one, but I wrote it just guessing, with no instruction in BASIC. Later on it was the pair of Apple ][s in school. In College it was a DECsystem-20, and my dad bought an Apple ][ for home. I bought a //e when they were brand new. 80 columns! Upper and Lower Case!

They'll mock it because this is absolutely terrible advice.

Bet you don't wear seatbelts or buy insurance either. What a waste of money!

Good luck!

The key is to really lean into what you enjoy.

For me, reading slashdot regularly has helped me to fully embrace misanthropy.

Wait, what?

If the operator of the windmills and the peaker plants are competitors, why would the windmill operator give up revenue to benefit the peaker plants?

If they're not competitors (e.g. in the same company), shutting down cheap power generation in favor of more expensive power generation would decrease profit, not maximize it.

I can't think of any reasonable structure in which your theory could work. What am I missing?

Gold has an artificially inflated price

As per usual everything you say is exactly backwards of the truth - the value in relation to the USD of gold should be much higher by historical measurements, but the price of gold has been controlled for decades.

What is happening now is the rest of the world knows the real value of gold and governments, banks and people in many other countries are hovering up gold as the current massively discounted price.

The really fun point comes when governments realize they will never be able to pay off debts and the gold revaluation occurs (as the U.S. already did once in history, but you would;dn't know about that).

Gold is insurance against government financial malfeasance, I leave it as an exercise to the reader to what degree they feel like the government they live under is fiscally sound.