Indeed. Forcing somebody to work more than 10h/day and 50h/week counts as assault and can land you in prison in some countries in Europe.

Funny...that's not something I've ever run into my whole career.

There have been a very FEW long nighters here and there when we had to get something out the door, or maybe servers/database went off line....

But those were extremely rare occasions...which I could likely count on both hands all my life and still have fingers left.

No one holds a gun to your head to work outrageous hours in the US.

He is right that the gap between the US and Europe gets larger though: The US is losing its middle-class and everybody is getting poorer and poorer (excluding the rich).

But in the US, with so much opportunity...and sometimes a little luck, you CAN create your own business and do very well.

And like the article says, in America, you can try, fail, and try again....till you make it.

Just takes mostly determination.

Yeah this is definitely a "I'll know it when I see it" type of judgement but to be fair most of their customer base if presented with the question of "how would you feel about someone using an AI app to perfectly map your face onto a nude body and distribute them and most people will not know the difference or see it labelled as fake in any way" would have a negative reaction to that.

Well....if the resultant images made me much less fat, and a bit more ripped....I dunno...maybe?

;)

jk

"Pictures. Or it didn't happen!"

AI has ruined the joke.

it is called inflation - expansion of the money supply that accumulated over the years (bail outs, social payouts, covid.. ) In terms of gold HDD prices fell.

I'm not against them removing the apps, I'm against the headline trying to make me feel a certain way. Present the facts, I'll decide how I feel about them.

When you put a bunch of cylinders in a box you by definition have wasted space.

When you put boxes in a box you can have no wasted space.

How does using cylindrical cells improve density?

Using cylindrical cells also means having to have more parallelism to achieve a specific capacity, which means more connections, which means less reliability. This is a big part of the reason why post-collision Tesla model S batteries are unsafe for RV power storage. You can't reasonably detect bonding faults.

More to the point, it's unsustainable to just let anyone do anything just because they want to. There's a broad range of behaviors which fall into that non-category, and some of them are fine because they're not hurting anyone and some of them aren't because they are. Right to swing fist, end of my nose, etc etc.

I enjoy vroom vroom noises myself but I also appreciate that there are more important issues at hand than my own selfish gratification.

You literally cannot prevent that in an app which can make consensual nude images. Therefore the word nonconsensual is being used in order to trigger people into having a specific opinion. A better description is "an app which can be used to create fake nude images" since it can't literally show you what someone would look like unclothed.

The interesting thing about that statement is that it's the fascists that have brought us to this point where we have all these highly polluting coal plants.

Most companies wont touch anything in production without corporate support and support contracts. The words "Community Support" fills them with dread. They want a phone number they can dial if things go sideways.

ps, FTFS: "New limits on greenhouse gas emissions..."

If you were installing it to a hard drive. Back in the day, some people still ran everything on their floppy drives. There's a link somewhere below showing the install menu, giving you the option to install a floppy-only option across multiple floppy drives. Which meant that when you wanted to run different built-in DOS programs, you had to swap to a different floppy on the fly.

Steve Jobs apparently liked this way of doing things all the way into his early NeXT products, where everything ran from the optical drive, OS and applications included. It fit his idea of "elegant".

Daylight crypto mining isn't very useful, it reduces the work by 40-60%. Buying land in a catbox state to build use-specific solar would face the same level of opposition I think, but why buy land when you have the existing plants? Economics.

It does seem, though, the rule imposes a somewhat grreater restriction on coal plant emissions, responding to the illegal emissions with a total ban. Hey, it's rule, and can be changed again if they do not achieve their desired outcome.

Why is it that the propaganda outlets will only show crimes on black people committed by other black people lately, and they won't report at all on the much higher amount of crimes committed on black people by white people?

Because statistics and raw numbers show that this is simply not the case, by a long shot.

Check your numbers again on black/black crime, especially violent crime.

It obviously is targeting coal. A fair policy would simply tax carbon and let the various industries compete after accounting for their carbon imprint. But that wouldn't leave infinite opportunity for bureaucracy to pull the puppet strings for eternity, and might also prove them unnecessary.