All the AI co's need to monetize. Those investors are not spending a trillion out of the goodness of their hearts. Expect many more free to paid and pay to pay more announcements.

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They might have launghed then, but they're not laughing now.

Driver response time doesn't increase at all. The rest of stopping distance is determined by physics and doesn't increase much, at least not in good conditions where any old tire and any sufficiently strong brake is going to perform about the same. It CAN decrease a lot in bad conditions, whcih is also where most of the technology is useful, but most speed limits are set for good conditions with a law that says you should decrease your speed appropriately. Driving around at the speed that's reasonable for the worst possible conditions would really drive people nuts.

Not murdering people isn't a law either. It's a general characteristic of a social species (with a legal basis, because people are dumb and cannot take advice).

It's easy enough to go the other way. Pickups and SUVs are the most popular vehicles among American boomers, generation X and millennials. The Zs seem to like smaller cars, but they're also 14-29 so we'll see if that commitment hangs on when most of them have been bending over to stick kids in car seats for a while.

boomers have all the power right now in the U.S.

You guys insist on forgetting you're a democracy, for a little longer anyway. You don't command 49% of the vote by only appealing to a single generation, particularly when it's the second smallest one.

Blaming dead people is completely unproductive.

Blaming people is unproductive. Almost as unproductive as just blaming people who aren't you. Human beings have an enormous capacity to ignore big remote problems in favour of their small proximate problems. When you were born doesn't have much to do with that. Solutions have to recognize and address that basic fact. "Oh woe is me, the boomers are awful, if only poor us who are 80% of the eligble voters weren't so dominated by them" doesn't do anything but piss off the old flower power hippies driving around in their Cadillacs.

If it works in both Pythons and mice then that suggests it's an awfully old mechanism that's got a good chance of being active in humans too. A much better chance than if it was only seen in mice.

Just switch to dark mode.

You know Biden and Trump are the same generation, right? So are Obama (although he's on the edge), Bush Jr and Clinton.

Solar panels are mostly made out of silicon and glass, which are in turn made out of stuff that's everywhere. It gets everywhere too. You also need a conductor, which isn't as common but you've got a few choices and between them they're pretty well distributed.

I'm not sure that's quite the argument you think it is.

Don't forget that Chewbacca, a wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk lives on Endor.

The funny thing about having your polity run by religious fanatics is that one of their top priorities is to make more religious fanatics.

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I think one of the problems for overweight people is the sheer availability of food, and bad food too. I've yet to go to any event like a fair, game, amusement park, ... that is serving steamed vege's for people to snack on. Nope, they come up with really crazy stuff like deep fat fried butter. Or hot dogs, or french fries, ... All high calorie. It would be like if we offered booze and drugs up at every opportunity. Granted booze if probably offered a bit more often then it should but I've yet to see a public event offering up opiates for sale with big signs.

I've seen people with dogs that you can just put food down and they eat until they are full. My dogs have been hounds and that does NOT work. My current hound can find bunnies in the back yard as have all my previous ones. You try to watch for it, but bunny moms must think it is a fenced yard so more secure from predators I guess. Mom forgets about the predator that comes out from the back door. Perhaps the overweight one has the better nose?

Slightly envious, the article is talking about UK/Australia insurers. Is it an extension of their healthcare, or is it special travel insurance. Prior to medicare, I was shelling out around 8-10K/year for premiums for a policy that paid zero until I was out 9500. So I guess my insurer would have paid something, but I sure wouldn't want to drop the first 9500 on this.