You know that it's not true! They're extremely understaffed in their legal department, they don't have enough lawyers to sue their customers for license violations.

Technically, but I think it's still an important point to make, you don't actually need approval from the authorities to drive a car, you just need it to drive a car on public streets. If you want to take your car to a private raceway, or if you have a large enough property where you could drive a car on it, you don't need any sort of approval for that.

So that's meaningfully different from this kind of rule, where you can't even fly a drone on your own private property.

??? This is pretty common terminology. Enhancers ("performance enhancing drugs") are designed to _enhance_ something above the baseline, not just to merely correct a pathology.

If you don't know this, perhaps you should go back and do some more study?

Sigh. Can you cut out the "prescribed drugs are bad because they must be bad" bullshit?

ADHD stimulants absolutely do not work as _enhancers_, as your article explains. But they are not used as enhancers, they are used as medicine to fix problems. As another example: vitamin C does pretty much nothing normally, but if you have scurvy, it's life-saving. Here's an important quote from your article:

Which basically says: "ADHD drugs are not needed if you can fix all the symptoms of ADHD without drugs". Well, duh.

(Disclaimer: I'm an Israeli, though rather opposed to the genocidal attempt at ethnic cleansing currently being conducted by my country. That said, keep that in mind in terms of potential bias in this post).

It's not precisely correct to say that the US has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to Israel. it's a bit more of a 'closed ecosystem' than that -- the vast majority of financial support the US has provided Israel has been in the form of weapons and munitions, which Israel has then purchased from US companies. In other words, while in some respects this absolutely is financial and military support of Israel, in addition to that it's also a vast transfer of tax revenues from us (I'm a tax-paying US citizen these days) to the military-industrial complex and more specifically American companies.

So most of this money has stayed in the US, it's just been transferred from the people and their representative government to commercial entities.

At 1500kW it won't be spending _extended_ periods of time charging. If you want to charge a battery for 75kWh, then 5% of that is just around 4kWh.

Assuming the thermal mass of the battery 300kg, and specific heat capacity of 2000J per 1 kg per 1 C, that's a delta of 24C. So just simply using the battery's thermal mass completely passively without any cooling is probably going to work.

Modern batteries are about 95% efficient at charging. So at 1500kW you're looking at dissipating about 75kW (100hp).

A 100hp gasoline engine needs to dissipate around 250hp of heat energy. In other words, cooling an EV is completely trivial compared to cooling an ICE car.

Ah yes, the "I'm going to take my toys and go home" threat, uttered by children and oligarchs everywhere.

Companies unwilling to abide by a country's laws are welcomed to not operate in that country. These threats happen all the time and so far what it takes to get a company to not operate in a given country is pretty much a legal order (see: Russian and Iranian sanction laws).

Pretty much all stations now accept credit cards. I think you can pay physical cash on some chargers that are attached to actual gas stations.

There is no motivation to do anything in Russia. The war is most definitely not perceived as "defending the motherland" internally, so the only remaining real motivation is monetary.

And Putin managed to build a system where regular engineers are treated as scum, while the real money gets siphoned off into the right people's wallets. This was recently demonstrated by the leak of the internal emails and source code of the system designed to send mobilization notices. It's supposed to be a part of the "digital GULAG" so that the government can send mobilization notices to the people whose disappearance is not going to be highly visible. With centralized tracking and all the related good stuff.

Its leading developer was paid around $700 a month. And was battling to get reimbursement for an extra $100 spent on a hotel in Moscow during a business trip to present their system to the chief of staff of the Ministry of Defense.

And of course, a lot of good engineers left the country in 2022 or soon thereafter.

This is easy to fix! Pentagon should just publish the list of the assets that they want satellite companies to avoid taking pictures of. To make it easier, they can provide bounding boxes and maybe tag them to make sure companies blur the images enough to not be recognizable.

Totally!!!

It reminded me this classic ad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

It's dead, Jim.

It's not coming back.

Spicy autocomplete indeed.

Chuckle.

AI is real. The implications of this are not priced in.