"Get some land..."

LOL.

Yes, and PHEVs heavily exploit this. "Full cycle" means something objective in characterizing batteries but it doesn't translate well to what a driver does with his car. It is useful in making bad faith arguments on /. though.

"It's asking a *lot* for the industry to go back and declare '500 cycles is good enough'. It might be a slam dunk if a typical battery replacement job goes down to under $1,000 as a result, but I don't see if they'd expect it to be *that* much cheaper."

This is all complete nonsense. First, no one is "asking" for some garbage straw man. Second, what does "go back and declare" mean? Go back to what? Third, what does 500 cycles even mean? Do you know? What is the lifetime range of a vehicle? And how much range does a single cover? It varies all over the place and your argument relies on no one understanding any of that.

And neither NMC nor LFP "typically" get any such thing...or maybe they do...because you have no definition of a "cycle". 15% capacity loss, or whatever defines "500 cycles" doesn't mean the battery ceases to be useful, it only describes rate of degradation. If you want slower degradation, don't used chemistries optimized for density that degrade faster. If you want fewer cycles to last a lifetime, use a larger battery. You demonstrate NO understanding of any of this, either that or you argue in bad faith.

"If it's a PHEV, then every day would be a cycle in that average case."

False. The post you responded to claims daily driving of 50 miles/day. That is true. Given your naive, absurd argument, there is no PHEV sold, or ever sold, with a functional lifetime of even two years. Is there a person in the world that would believe you?

"500 cycles is 18-24 months in EV time."

Citation please.

"I promise your EV car loan is a hell of a lot longer than that..."

There has never in history been an EV car loan "longer" than 500 cycles.

Doesn't sound like a false choice at all.

Considering the wild monthly fluctuation of Windows market share, it isn't that Linux gained 1% in 8 months it's that the data is garbage.

Non-technical articles appealing to non-technical people.

"Yeah, even golf courses use more water per day than this data center uses per year."

An average golf course uses 200M gallons PER YEAR, so you are off by two orders of magnitude.

"Golf courses and growing alfalfa in a desert should be much higher on the chopping block for water use."

There's a whole lot of data missing to support this argument and what little you provided is grossly, even comically, in error.

Don't forget that Altman says society own him the doubling of electrical generation capacity so that he and the crypto bros that fund him can have plenty of free power to accelerate their wealth. Those trillions need to come from somewhere, society owes it to them for free.

Sure Donald. And the wind turbines are killing the whales.

But what does your imaginary Microsoft/HP diatribe have to do with Musk suing OpenAI? Or is it just about demonstrating what a douche you are?

Right, he's angry that the code he stole from OpenAI generates content that he doesn't like.

"And rooftop solar..."
On the backs of researchers, other businesses and decades of work.

"...and making internet access available worldwide..."
Copying existing ideas and business plans while leveraging government subsidies.

"...and giving Ukraine internet access for free..."
LOL, by free you mean by being paid by the US government, then selectively blocking the service when it harms Russia and then giving Russia access.

"...allowing disabled people to control their environment"
Stop embarrassing yourself.

"Yes, in addition to being responsible for EV revolution..."
By stealing Tesla from its founders? LOL. And we do not yet know if BEV is even the right answer, for all we know Musk may have set EV's back considerably.

"But suing OpenAI for violating its founding principles may be the thing that has a positive impact."
It may have a positive impact, especially from your point of view, but that doesn't mean Musk intends that result. Musk is doing it because he wants to own it, not because he wants to eliminate it. Musk felt entitled to be named CEO of OpenAI and has held a grudge since.

There is the old joke from The Onion about Bill Gates: https://www.theonion.com/bill-...

This is now Elon Musk (and a few others, of course). Elon Musk gets half. “Everyone must contribute to my half,” Musk said. “Any number, no matter how small, can be divided into two halves, one of which will be mine.”

What damages has Musk suffered as a result of these alleged violations? What standing does he have?

He's not doing anything positive, just something that pleases you. He's trying to damage a competitor (that's he's also stealing from), nothing more.