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Submission + - Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working (businessinsider.com) 1

Amiga Trombone writes: With signs of growing inventory and slowing sales, auto industry executives admitted this week that their ambitious electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy, at least in the near term.

Several C-Suite leaders at some of the biggest carmakers voiced fresh unease about the electric car market's growth as concerns over the viability of these vehicles put their multi-billion-dollar electrification strategies at risk.

Among those hand-wringing is GM's Mary Barra, historically one of the automotive industry's most bullish CEOs on the future of electric vehicles.

But this week on GM's third-quarter earnings call, Barra and GM struck a more sober tone. The company announced with its quarterly results that it's abandoning its targets to build 100,000 EVs in the second half of this year and another 400,000 by the first six months of 2024

Comment Left and Right are relative (Score 1) 26

When you consider that communists were their opposition, yes, National Socialists were definitely the right wing party. In fact, they were arguably the only real right wing party in Europe at the time.

The Socialism part of National Socialism was necessary to counter the communist offer of a cradle to grave welfare state. Remember, the Weimer Republic was suffering massive inflation at the time, and if the National Socialists didn't offer some kind of relief to the citizenry, their electoral prospects would have been dismal.

The National Socialists never identified as anything other than a party of the right, and while they weren't a conservative party, they had the backing of the conservatives. While there are a few scholars who place the National Socialists/fascists on the left, that is decidedly a minority view. Almost nobody in their time would have considered the National Socialists as anything but a party of the right.

Comment Re:Stupid name for a distro... (Score 1) 27

The problem is, not all enterprises are for profit corporations. Laboratories, schools and non-profits never really used RedHat, they usually used something like CentOS or Scientific Linux, etc. Now that those distros are defunct, those institutions have been left high and dry. Believe me, there are plenty of enterprises that will be more than happy to run a Rocky linux!

Comment Re:Rotorwash vs Dust on Panels? (Score 1) 61

Why aren't the solar panels effectively self-cleaning via rotorwash?

They are. That isn't the problem. They problem is dust in the atmosphere due to seasonal sandstorms. There isn't enough sunlight getting through to allow quick enough charging during daylight hours to sustain it through the night.

Comment Re:More corruption (Score 4, Insightful) 102

I've never been one to advocate for more government spending, but this seems like a pretty run of the mill corporate perk. If they were handing out free vacations to Hawaii, that might be worth getting pissed off about, but fitness programs for employees are pretty routine benefits, and in context, not even very expensive to provide.

Not worth getting excited about.

Comment Re:Translation: (Score 1) 52

Ok, but the question remains - what would have to occur for you to accept the results as unbiased? Surely, if the AI is considered biased, there must be some method of quantifying bias, no? What are the characteristics of an unbiased AI?

If you can't design a test to establish an AI is unbiased, then I fail to see how you can determine it is biased, either.

Comment Translation: (Score -1, Troll) 52

An AI given a body of facts will come to the same conclusion as a human with the same body of facts, just more efficiently. And we can't have that!

Question to anyone claiming the AI is "biased": what test would you recommend to establish a lack of bias? Other than kludging the AI until it coughs up your preferred result, that is?

Submission + - Twitter deal 'on hold' after spam/fake account report (theverge.com)

Third Position writes: Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is “temporarily on hold” after the social network reported that false or spam accounts comprised less than 5 percent of its 226 million monetizable daily active users. The Tesla CEO, who offered to buy twitter for $44 billion, tweeted a link to a May 2nd Reuters report on Twitter’s filing, saying he wants to see the company’s calculations.

“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Musk tweeted.

Comment Re:He's not trying to reel anything in (Score 1) 406

They aren't flipping out because abortion was never a major issue for more than about 20% of the voters, and those voters likely chose their party affiliation decades ago.

Right now, the other 80% of us are a lot more worried about rampant inflation shriveling our paychecks and 401k's into dried prunes, and the possibility of getting into a nuclear war with Russia. Abortion is the least of our worries.

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