I wouldn't be surprised if the expense and bureaucracy of getting anything approved for use on airplanes is the reason for that. They'll just keep using what was approved at the dawn of time until they really need that space for something that's worth the cost.

Either that, or it's a requirement in some document that will probably take another few decades to be revised.

Thank you for providing this correction to GP's post.

Somewhat amusing that that's at +5, Informative though, whilst your post is languishing at +2 (including, I think, my default +1 user / karma bonus).

Interesting, in the sense that, between you and a previous post(er), I now have an idea of scale* and costs:

12m tokens / day @ $50 / m = $600 / day
~ $150,000 / year

This equates to (roughly: varies by location, etc.) the salaries of 2 to 3 junior developers. And I have been led to believe that most AI companies are currently losing money on their offerings, with quoted ratios of 3:2.

There's going to be some 'testing' times ahead...

*I still have no real idea what you're using 12m tokens per day on - though I presume some sort of coding assistance.

Commonly available estimates put the number of Iranians recently (last 5 years) killed by the Iranian state at ~40,000 (well, just under; I've rounded up to the nearest 10k, and make no distinction between demographics)

Similarly, available estimates put the number of recent (last 5 years) casualties in Gaza at ~80,000 (again, I've rounded up to the nearest 10k, and make no distinction between soldiers and civilians; adults or children)

It's also worth pointing out that Iran hasn't damaged or destroyed ~80% of all its infrastructure, including hospitals, power production facilities, sewage systems, desalination plants, etc. nor uprooted or burned all its orchards - unlike the IDF in Gaza...

You, sir, are full of shit!

I have no particular knowledge of global markets or which metrics are being used, but it's what I've heard repeated for a very long time. Perhaps it's wrong,or perhaps it changed when the UK left and everyone's just parroting the old reality. But either way, it's a huge market.

Let's imagine Ali Express has no local representation in the EU and thus a fine cannot be enforced. They can then choose to not pay. And the EU can choose to not allow any merchandise shipped from Ali Express into the EU. That's the largest single market on the planet they'd be kissing goodbye. Somehow, I figure they care.

For a particular definition of 'allowed', I guess the answer is: because they pay for it...

"Europe's top court has ruled Google must pay a €4.1bn (£3.5bn) fine handed down for using its Android mobile operating system to block rivals.

When the fine was first announced in 2018, it was alleged there were three ways in which Google had acted illegally:

[1] - requiring Android handset and tablet manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search app and its own web browser Chrome as a condition of allowing them to offer access to its Play app store

[2] - making payments to large manufacturers and mobile network operators that agreed to exclusively pre-install the Google Search app on their devices

[3] - preventing manufacturers from selling any smart devices powered by alternative "forked" versions of Android by threatening to refuse them permission to pre-install its apps"

Computer. Cure Cancer.

DONE!

I was about to post a glib hypothetical question about which millennium this story was from, but I think you got it just about covered right there.

Taking gasoline as pure octane, C8H18, i.e. ignoring all the additives that are generally added, and nat gas as pure methane, CH4, then:

By weight (1 kg):
gasoline contains ~0.84 kg of carbon
liq nat gas contains ~0.75 kg of carbon

By volume (1 L):
gasoline contains ~0.64 kg/L of carbon
liq nat gas contains ~0.35 kg/L of carbon

A lot of factories run on a 10% or less Net Profit. These guys have to raise prices or go under. Apple is going from an obscene profit to a profit that 99% of the world can only dream about.

Apple could easily eat the cost increase, but when pure greed drives every business decision....

> Also, remember that NATO pushed Ukraine to start having civilians manufacture drones in their homes.

Dude.. Take your meds.

That may be true, but I have seen no evidence this is a routine thing (or a thing at all) like it seems to be for Russia. So far no Ukrainians have been indicted for such war crimes, whereas multiple Russians have been.

There's also the optics of it. If it were to be discovered that Ukraine's e.g. intentionally leveling residential areas around Moscow, support would instantly dry out. It makes no sense for Ukraine to waste ammunition on targets that hold no military value. It would accomplish nothing _and_ they'd lose the support of the rest of Europe.

>> Collateral damage is sadly unavoidable.
>Remember that when you see the next Ukrainian news that Russia bombed a random civilian building ... maybe that were not the target, that surely is not disclosed to not help the other side, but simply a collateral damage

I have no doubt that some of Russia's damage to civilian structures is accidental. I also have no doubt that the majority of it is intentional. There are currently 6 officials wanted by the ICC for war crimes in the Russia-Ukraine war, all of them Russian.

>so who do you know that is "intentional bombardment"?

See above.

I have no idea what you're trying to comment on. Did you click reply on the wrong post?