Exactly.
You expect me to believe the thing that provided some income disparity relief for a large percentage of remote workers (same pay, lower costs from relocating) is at fault for others not having jobs? I've worked (remotely) with young people. They seem eager and capable, far more so than most other age demographics.
This is just companies finding excuses, looking to claw back more control.
It sounds like you don't understand how the court system works. The SCOTUS only hears cases which are brought before it, and then selectively.
Which cases specifically do you feel indicate corruption on the part of the SCOTUS? There are definitely some dissenting decisions which don't adhere to the US constitution, and there is definitely a long running theme in the courts of activist judges re-interpreting well defined language, and perhaps (probably) even a couple judges who are compromised, but I'm not aware of any evidence of corruption.
user-replaceable batteries should be much simpler to replace, not advance phone surgery
I for one, do not want my iPhone to become as thick as my old time Motorola flip phone that had replaceable battery....
I run my phones for at least 6 years it seems....before I upgrade and toss the old one, or keep it as a camera for some use....but no, with they way phones are and how long battery life currently is, etc....I don't need user replaceable with all the negatives that brings with it...
apple laptops will they do it or just pay the fine?
Given the ambiguity in the rules, it’s possible many Apple laptops already comply in that an end use can open the device and swap the battery, although it is not easy. The commercially available tools could be interpreted as long as the manufacturer offers for sale to anyone tools need to do the repair, they are commercially available and meet the letter of the law. I suspect, for most end users, the cost and difficulty will mean they forgo the DIY repair. A 3rd party shop might be able to afford investing in tools since the cost would be amortized over multiple uses.
This is the usual way the EU does this stuff. They don't get too specific, they let courts figure that out and update their rules if necessary.
It is disappointing that waterproof devices are not included, like IP68 phones. Then again I wonder if IP68 rating is enough to claim that, because typically if they say IP68 and you submerge the phone, they don't want to fix it under warranty. IP68 means a water jet, so I suppose it's not actually submersion, but I think a manufacturer might have a hard time arguing it with a court that is likely to side with the consumer's understanding of words like "waterproof".
Which is why water resistant is term of choice, since it does not imply 100% impervious to water intrusion and damage.
Those stories/researches must be hundreds of years old.
A few were from 2020 - 24 or so from MIT and DOE. While they do state considerable progress has been made, they also point out a number of questions still remain about the long term effects and solution viability. For example, ultra pure salt seems to have very little corrosive effect, but then the challenge is obtaining and maintaining the purity at scale. Type of salt used also has an impact, and some have more data than others so more studies are needed to determine impacts. Having been in the industry, when someone claims a new tech will result in a nuclear renaissance and previous problems are solved, I am skeptical based on my experience. Been there, got the t-shirt.
Meanwhile, X.AI has asked the EPA for permission to release up to 100 million hyperfecund pesticide-resistant male mosquitoes in California and New York over two years to own the libs.
And about that you are wrong.
Sorry
Not really complicated.
And get some common sense, if corrosion would be an issue, no one would talk about building them. Oooops.
Perhaps you should google some studies. While the impact of purity is has been identified as a means to limit corrosion, most agree more work needs to be done to understand the impact of radiation and salt purity. One study found minimal corrosion with high purity salts after 3000 hours or about 1/3 of a year; so long term impact over a reactor life is not known. As for common sense, that has never stopped someone selling an idea. As I have said, thorium reactors do not appear to be a viable near term solution, which seems to be the goal of the administration’s policy. Whether they can achieve the scale needed to meet growing energy needs is an open question.
If you are upset about LGBT+, well, do you feel that men should be able to have their own preference in women who are blondes, brunettes, redheads, shorter, taller, different body types? How about women having the right to prefer men with a different build, skin tone, etc, are you against THAT? So, people should also have their own preference when it comes to sexuality, like it or not, it's the same exact thing, personal preference in who they are attracted to. Or, do you feel that everyone should have the exact same preferences?
I don't care what your preferred form of sexual friction is....
I just don't want it being flaunted and taught to grade schoolers...they aren't sexual, they don't need to know about boys sucking cocks...
I may not agree with it, but it is a free country and fuck who you want to fuck as an adult, plain and simple.
I don't, however, need to feel forced to play someone else's "games" with pronouns. You can pretend to be a woman or man or poodle, fine with me, but don't expect me to learn or respect the rules of what your pronoun are.....if you are going to be at the fringes of society, it's up to YOU to deal with it, not me.
A big part of "woke" is having to deal with stupid shit like I mentioned above.
Especially exposing kids to it....keep them out of it and allow innocence to survive as long as it can with them.
It's S&S, not Subscribe and get the lowest possible price on every shipment. Amazon offers a slight break in price if you subscribe, and even don't require a second purchase. It is a convenient way to regularly get items that need replenishment, and Amazon lets you know before the next shipment so you can cancel or skip as needed. If you don't like the new price, you're free to cancel and use another option to get your item.
Amazon has a number of practises I think are shady, but this isn't one of them.
so some coders are becoming modern day Luddites
True but too simplified. The Luddites had an entirely different motivation: The fact that factories now employed women and children at very low rates meant that the men lost their status in the family as bread winners and head of household. That was a major social disruption, which we don't have with AI.
I'd compare it more to teamsters or wagoners when cars became common. Your job is threatened by a different way of doing the same thing, a way to which your skills don't cleanly transition. Some choose to pick up the new tech, some want the old ways to persist.
In the end, coachmen became chauffeurs, because rich people prefer to be driven around oder driving themselves, no matter if it's a horse or an engine doing the pulling. But much fewer teamsters and wagoners became truck drivers.
Good points and analogy. It will be interesting to see the social disruption caused by AI; ad it may disproportionately impact lower skill/wage employees. One of my clients provided medical reviews of physicals and had a number of data entry clerks who processed the incoming paperwork and several doctors who reviewed it. AI should be bl to greatly speed up the process, flagging missing information and informing the sender of it, entering data from either the electronic or secure fax copy, flag any anomalies and send the electronic record to the doctor for review. An office full of data entry clerks can be replaced by a few people to monitor teh system to ensure it is working properly and respond to customer inquiries. Data entry may be one of the skills that simply is not transferable and thus lower wage or off shored job opportunities will disappear. My client's jobs were actually pretty good if low wage, since they included benefits such as healthcare, PTO and a matching 401K in addition to a living wage.
*head bangs in approval*
Oh, forgot to link the dry density for you: here you go. 341kcal/100g. Aka 3,41kcal/g.
Which, like I said, should be obvious, since they're almost entirely carbs (~4kcal/g) and protein (~4kcal/g), and they're, as noted, dry (12-16% moisture). It would be quite the trick indeed to get something that is dry and and is almost entirely comprised of things that are 4kcal/g to be 1,38kcal/g!
Just in case you need help:
Your calculation: 195g (dry weight) × 1.38 kcal/g = 269 calories per pound of cooked beans.
Correction: Because you used 1.38 kcal/g (the cooked density) as if it were the dry density, you essentially diluted the calories twice.
The Actual Math: 195g of dry beans * 3.4 kcal/g (actual dry density) = 663 kcal.
When those 195g of dry beans absorb water to weigh 454g (1 pound), they still contain those same 663 calories (since water has zero calories).
I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
