Ultimately net zero is a political decision, so a prediction of the trajectory has to predict politics ... and Trump just got elected.

Calcium silicate can make concrete. Hydrogen for ammonia and (e-)fuel can come from electrolysis and thus nuclear or renewable electricity.

Switching to non emitting processes, while letting emitting processes die a natural death, is far cheaper than sequestration.

That's not the problem, the problem is that it becomes really easy to find homes likely to have cash stored ... especially with an insider.

He won't take any cash, but some of his friends will make a visit later.

You're painting a target on your back.

The cars are cheap, but ironically still not cheap enough for Chinese workers. Xi would rather let the cars rot than more Chinese get a little more luxury.

Dunno about the rest of Europe, but here Kia sells more EVs than the Chinese brands put together. Also Skoda Elroq (VW group) will likely be the best selling EV of this year.

No, it was not because we wanted cheap stuff. No politician ran on cheap stuff, hell no politician ran on globalisation or mass immigration. That was all railroaded by the elite. The only politicians and media who were protesting it, were on the extreme fringe.

We the people are guilty of a lot of things, but we didn't vote for this.

Special relativity models constant lightspeed pretty well, general relativity models gravitational lensing pretty well and builds on the former. Those can be experimented with on earth or with observations near the sun in the sky, you don't need any three degrees of separation cosmology.

Exclusive Farm Use zoned land as far as the eye can see.

The profits from agricultural land are tiny. So without government intervention, it's as good as free. Plenty more where that came from.

The artificial inflation of land prices is one of the most significant increase in cost of living. In the middle of a huge city it's unavoidable, in some bumfuck community surrounded by agricultural land it's not.

Rising costs are a political decision. They could just build more suburbs instead of being strangled by urban growth boundaries.

He seems to be arguing that LLMs should not be able to roleplay. The problem is that roleplaying ability is not something trained into it, it's something inherent. So he wants to take it out ... but that will take a lot of finetuning and harm the capabilities of the model.

It's not good for their models to put someone in charge looking for more ways to cripple them.

XBox was never part of an ecosystem. The Apple TV is cheap enough to be part of an ecosystem, a console sits in an awkward place of being competition for higher end PCs. You can get the console and then switch to Macbook ... where is the advantage to Microsoft in that?

Having no coherent ecosystem is part of their problems, XBox very much a part of that. Something like Steamlink to use the gaming capabilities of a PC and fill the same niche as AppleTV would make much more sense at the moment. WiFi wasn't ready for that till recently, but there was also no pressing reason to even compete in living room gaming ... and there were pressing reasons not to do it.

All the effort which went into XBox should have gone into Windows Mobile, mobile is and was an essential part of consumer electronic ecosystems.

Nickel iron or more likely iron air batteries have poor energy density, they might compete for stationary storage but not EVs.

Silicon anode solid electrolyte batteries are not the holy grail.

Metal anode, Sulfur Cathode is the holy grail. Metal anode, metal air rechargeable batteries are the holier grail.