We don't need strategic reserves of Lithium. Once we have about 300TWh of batteries we'll have enough to decarbonize and production will need to only be slightly higher than steady state maintenance, and the vast majority of the lithium will come from recycling.

But only bringing to court cases that have a 100% chance of success is allowing the scope of law to shrink since you're only enforcing part of the law.

They price hasn't appreciably changed on the Falcon 9, it's basically the same price now as it was back in the days before reusability where they built a new rocket for every flight. They could and did replace all of the expensive components on every flight, and did so profitably.

This JD Power survey very consistently ranks Dodge or Chrysler as #1. It's not just this year, it's the same most years.

Any survey that ranks Dodge or Chrysler #1 in quality is either flawed or corrupt or both.

Live Traffic costs real money, Google doesn't provide it for free. Do you expect Tesla to pay for it out of their own pockets?

You don't have to pay Tesla $10 per month. Tether your phone to your car and Spotify etc will work without paying Tesla. You'll lose live traffic, but pretty much everything else will work.

Any small business with a couple of dozen employees will have more than $250K in whichever bank account it is doing payroll out of.

I would classify a company with a couple dozen employees as a "little guy".

Rust code from 2015 still compiles on a 2023 compiler and links and works with code using all the new features added since.

GAT's increase the simplicity of Rust in 3 different ways:

GAT's make Rust 1.65 a *simpler* language than 1.64 was. GAT's aren't new, Rust already had Generics and Associated Types, GAT just lets you use them together. Before the compiler would spit out an error saying "you can't do that" when you used them together, now it just works.

There are several libraries which will have much simpler interfaces with this change.

Also, GAT's are massively simpler and provide almost all of the complexity of Higher Kinded Types (HKT) like you find in Haskell et all.

Increased simplicity, more power.

on news ycombinator com, namelsow commented:

It varies through regions. It is completely the opposite in China because:

- No extra app. People scan the QR in WeChat (everybody has it) on the table, it will call a mini-app dynamically (somewhat similar to React Native but interpreted in WeChat).

- You are putting orders directly.

- You are paying within WeChat as well so it's seamless.

- The app is smooth because almost every restaurant is using the takeout giant Meituan's mini-app.

- Almost every single restaurants in China is tech savvy enough to use those systems because it's already a take-out centered society. Restaurants not leveraging these systems have virtually zero chance to survive the competition.

- You don't have to wait for anything or talk to anybody in the whole process.

The problems people mentioned in this thread:

- Minorities, people without smart phone or those are less tech savvy, are left behind.

- The walled garden and monopolies and such.

These problems are real, but it's probably not the QR menu to blame, because it's a far greater problem - in China, you are not allow to go anywhere without WeChat and scanning QR code due to those draconian regulations.

A good chunk of US dept is held by the treasury. If you loan money to yourself are you further in debt?

If you don't include transport costs, a 100% coal powered EV and a gasoline car have roughly the same CO2 emissions per kilometre. Which is better depends on which vehicles you choose as comparables.

But the transport of gasoline to filling stations adds ~40% to the gasoline emissions per kilometre. Transporting coal to the generating station is done using more efficient ships and train, so the coal powered EV wins.

Starlinks aren't "space junk" because they are under control and will actively adjust their orbits to get out of the way of anything else. They are intentionally deorbited at end of life so they never become space junk.

The Starlinks that fail before deorbiting are space junk, but they deorbit on their own relatively quickly, and failures of that type are quite rare. So no more than a handful at a time.

A handful of pieces of space junk in an area 550 million square kilometres in size. Kessel Syndrome it is not.

The California VPP pays 50c per kilowatt-hour. A kilowatt-hour is 2 cents of wear worst case, but in practice is 0.2 cents of wear as long as you tell it to take from the middle of the battery capacity rather than the top or bottom.

The Sonos patents are also bullshit. Sonos sued Google for a patent on controlling the volume on multiple devices simultaneously. If you sue about bullshit patents, expect to be counter-sued about bullshit patents.