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Comment Re:Not the only problem... (Score 1) 376

This is standard FUD. The issue has been studied many times and everyone comes to the same conclusion. Since most EVs are charged at night when the load on the electric grid is low, there isn't a problem in charging lots of electric cars. My electric car uses only about 5% of my total electric demand... and all of that is at night. I can schedule charging to take place when utilities offer cheap night time electricity.

Night time electricity will not be so cheap when EVERYONE is charging their cars at night.

Comment Re:Let time be its own thing (Score 1) 105

P.S. If you don't like it, you are not forced to use DST either. Set up a clock as "Farm Time" and milk your cows every morning at 7am Farm Time if that's easier for you than transitioning from 7am regular time to 7am DST.

"Farm Time" is when the sun comes up and goes down. It does not care about things like "7 AM", etc.

Comment Re:We should probably work on figuring out (Score 1) 165

what we're gonna do with the approximately 1-1.5 million people who are going to get put out of work soon. It's pretty clear shipping is 10-20 years from automation. Yeah, there's time, but it's gonna happen in our life times.

The same thing that the horse and buggy sector did... Get over it and move on.

Comment Re:That proves nothing because... (Score 2) 148

if the assignment had been to write an essay on how AI must kill all humans then it would have just as well done that.

And that's the real danger of AI, it has no built-in limits established by morality. If we are going to have advanced Artificial Intelligence, we need Artificial Morality to go along with it.

I feel like maybe we needs some laws... perhaps 3.

Comment Re:Some so-called skeptics cannot be convinced (Score 1) 89

doesn't look like that is his goal; rather, he would like to tap into voluntary efforts by the qualified public by providing them with data. let's if it works out. personally I am skeptical mostly because I'm kind of skeptical of the ways this data is being collected. but I would like to be wrong here

Indeed, bad data equals invalid results.

Comment Re:So almost everyone in New York City had Covid-1 (Score 1) 334

There have been at least 20,000 Covid deaths in NYC. A 0.4% death rate means 5 million symptomatic cases, A one third asymptomatic rate means 7.5 million total cases

The population of NYC is just over 8 million.

The 0.4% ESTIMATE is an AVERAGE based on a larger SCOPE.

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