Presumably, this is the whole point of these contracts, to hold the customers accountable for Micron making memory for them when the broader market is not necessarily looking for that particular memory.

Now I don't see how this can work out in one of the more well documented ones. OpenAI had at least a trillion dollars of these sorts of purchasing commitments, and even pretty bullish assessments don't support their ability to make that much purchase. So I do anticipate the market failing to make their minimum purchase commitments. I'm presuming there are penalties in these agreements and so they probably get money for nothing unless it gets so bad that OpenAI goes actually bankrupt.

It uses a screen as a gauge cluster, and puts the backup camera feed there.

They don't presume any speaker setup either, which would be a pretty key expectation of android auto in general.

They evidently will support a double-din mount of whatever you want, so you could add that without much issue.

Presuming reasonable access to channels to cable and mount speakers, I'm a huge fan of this facet of things.

I would like to see a couple of integration points, steering wheel controls and EV battery state/range estimates fed to the navigation like you get with other EVs and android auto, but no need to be as heavy handed as other platforms.

Unfortunately for my situation, it would lose out handily if a competitor had a midgate. I rarely need a substantial bed and usually need the seating, but it looks like it won't be easy to free up your bed if you have the seats in. Also subjecting the rear passengers to coming in by the front door.

If slate had a 4 door pickup with midgate to get longer bed, and maybe 20 inches or so longer to have that same bed even with rear seats available, I'd strongly consider it.

You do know that if the immune system got confused about virus versus cells hijacked to replicate viral material, we would have been dead pretty much the first second you got exposed to a virus? This is what a virus does. The difference is the virus produces material that will re-infect cells, while the mRNA resultant material is not self-replicating.

You also know that we had *billions* of people use mRNA vacinne and autoimmune problems weren't even vaguely a concern, and it was effective?

There are many people in the world who simply can't get high speed connectivity or at least not for an affordable price. Many connections are also metered, so you have to add the cost of data on top of the cost of the game.

No it's more like a ticket that allows you to return to the cinema as many times as you want to watch the same movie again. Once you get bored of watching the same movie multiple times, you sell the ticket to someone else.

Your analogy of seeing a movie with a one off ticket is closer to an arcade where you pay per play.

It's more like seeing your neighbor wearing jewelry, and then crafting your own piece that looks the same. Your neighbor still has their original jewelry.

People do this kind of thing all the time, they see their neighbors get something and then copy them - wether its a paint job or landscaping, or a new car etc.

From the summary:

IOW, they're sticking with their marketing pitch.

That's no longer the American Way (if it ever was).

I'm going to make a radical suggestion: how about we leave it all in the ground, and continue to enjoy living in a viable biosphere instead?

But by the time you get that, she'll be over 50, and not at all as appealing.

What you don't understand is the Python is often used as a method of invoking libraries that are written in more efficient languages. And for the layer that it handles it doesn't introduce unacceptable inefficiencies. E.g., you wouldn't want to do ray tracing in Python, but it's fine for calling a library that does that.

I'm quite sure quantum computers are valid. Whether they're useful is another question. I'll agree that it's not clear that general purpose quantum computers will ever be useful. (I won't agree that it's clear they never will be useful.)

OTOH, specialized quantum computers are already useful. DWave sells one design.

There really are good use cases for fission reactors. Solar can't handle everything, even combined with wind and the grid. (But close.)

E,g,, I think that the case for fission reactors on the moon is sound, though any particular implementation may be quite questionable.

Thanks, that article left a lot out.
Britain runs from approximately 50 degrees N to 59 degrees N with most of the population at the Southern end of that.
In N American terms, that is Winnipeg / Medicine Hat / Kelowna to Skagway / Uranium City / the southernmost tip of Greenland (yeah, but there's F-all else up there, and for a reason).

Wind is part of the cause, but the GS itself is an ocean current.