1896

In 1896 calculations on the global warming effect of (man made) CO2 emissions in our atmosphere were published:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius

Next year we will have known about this for 130 years.

To separate AI generated content from actual content for training their own AI's.

Meta doesn't care about rights-management, or content made by others, or even deepfakes. The most pressing reason is that you do not want to train an AI on AI generated content. They need this watermark, to avoid this. That is the reason it is also open-sourced. Expect all AI businesses to come up with some sort of watermark in the near future.

I usually replace my phone when it has fallen to the floor one too many times and something critical no longer works properly. That usually is the screen, but can be any part really.

I wonder; during the COVID lockdowns, there was much less people movement. It believe it stands to reason that staying at home is safer for your phone than being outside.

Would the drop in new sales have anything to do with the possible drop (pun intended) in the number of broken phones? In that case; we can expect phone sales to rebound at least a bit in the next year.

You are partially right, but not for the reason I think you think you are.

Any body / interior parts are essentially the same in an EV as in a ICE vehicle. Suspension / brakes / tires should be purchased new in any case. That leaves any work on the engine (yes, the EV also has an engine) and transmission. There simply aren't that many parts you need to replace. There is no transmission, no exhaust system, no air intake system. The Chevy Bolt EV engine has a total of 18 moving parts, and that includes every ball in the bearings. (very in depth video about this amazing piece of engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )

Yes, you can still go to the junkyard to source a used door, interior panel or whatever. But the ICE maintenance you avoid by going there just isn't there in a EV. non-existant is better than cheaper, right?

Also; my Bolt is not online, and doesn't have to be. Any DRM/secret maintenance software companies will want to implement, they will also do for ICE vehicles. Why would you think there would be a difference here?

It is a facility that can store 20 million KWh and output at 900MW.

For our US readers; in proper imperial power units the battery stores 53104474375164 foot-pounds of energy and 663805934 7/20 foot pounds per second (ft-lb/sec)

To be fair, every other article in any paper is about someone stealing something from someone else.

I do not want or own any crypto, but it seems fair to mention this.

Also, is this not exactly the kind of freedom that made America? No government oversight, no safetynet. If the bank in your old-west town got robbed, you lost all your savings. Plain, simple, relatable. :)

Now this is interesting. I would argue that if Thomas Edison did not have the government granted means to fight tooth and nail any innovation close to what he 'invented' (https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Thomas-Edison-Inventor-or-Patent-Thief-P3W6WN9K6YZS) . We would have seen much much more innovation.

About your question; it seems terribly unfair that if you finish the race 1 day later, you do not get _any_ rewards in the current system. A system that was created back when there were 4 million US residents of which only 30% could read/write. There's 300x the amount of literate people in the US alone. How big is the chance you are the only one working on that particular innovation?

No, the current system of no-copy is not sustainable. I do not know what needs to come in it's place, but it really should be replaced.

I feel you miss the point of EVs. They represent total freedom, and I do not understand why freedom loving Americans are so opposed to freedom from mega-corps.

Get an EV and a few solar panels or a small wind generator and you can can drive the car, there will be literally no one who can stop you using it. Whereas with petrol cars, a small handful of companies have the power to decide you now need to pay more to drive, or perhaps not drive at all. You cannot make petrol in your backyard, no matter how hard you try.

EVs are freedom, anyone telling you otherwise is in the pocket of Big Oil or Big Government.

correct, but no thanks.

A carbon neutral cycle for wood burning keeps enormous amounts of carbon in the air. Let me explain:

Assuming a tree grows to an economically viable mass in 20 years (average birch), and growth is linear (it is exponential) and transport/logging is done in a carbon neutral way.
If you burn 1 tree every year, this means that at any one time there is 10 full grown trees of carbon in the atmosphere.

So, yes, it is a carbon neutral cycle, but only seen over a long enough timescale, if you grow the trees in your own garden and with lots of emissions buffered in our atmosphere.

"with long-time NFT investors shunning..."

WTF? There are already long-time NFT investors? Who knew.

Netflix has mostly been pushing crappy YA / teen series and films since forever. All the hits that remained are from external (european) producers.

They need to get their head out of their collective asses and realize that this show is a hit, not because it is so well made (because it isn't), but because it is less shit that all the rest.

This is one thing I've never understood. Freedom-loving people having so much hate for the EV.

No car is less reliant on government and big business than a low budget EV. No gasoline infrastructure needed, government cannot detect which outlet you used to charge the battery, so special 'fuel' taxes are impossible.

It may take a while, but with just a solar panel in the backyard you will eventually store enough power to drive your car.

There is no crisis in The Netherlands, yet on the motorways regular euro95 petrol costs €2,00 per liter. It has been above €1,50 per liter for years now.

As soon as fabs in the EU and USA are operational, the west has no more reason to protect Taiwan from the Chinese. It will be a very short war.

After that; no western company will order chips from TSMC again.

"Government, he believed, needed an upgrade, like a software update for a phone. “Let’s think of government as an industry, where countries are firms and citizens are customers!” he declared."

Who here wants to live in a country run on the same principles as the Purdue family had? or a payday-loan provider? For that matter; who wants to live in WalmartCountry?

By god, this guy should have been booed out of the room the moment he made this incredibly. stupid and dangerous statement.