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Comment Re:Rebates obsolete, middle class aspires to own E (Score 1) 175

Do you actually own and drive an EV?

The Tesla Supercharger network is quite reliable, although coverage could be better.

However, I think that this isn't the main issue. The main issue is enabling charging for apartment dwellers and others who may find it difficult to charge at home. Rebates to install L2 chargers in apartment parking spaces will help. Rebates to install L2 chargers at offices and other work locations will help.

Comment Re:Eating the seed corn (Score 2) 218

That's the Science process. People make mistakes, and their results can't be reproduced. New papers are written to point out the errors. A study finds out why the results could not be repeated, and new knowledge has been gained.

Instead of improving the process of error correction, your idea seems to be to not do Science at all, because if no peer-reviewed papers are produced, there are no peer-reviewed papers which can't be reproduced, right?

Comment Re:In decades ... tax rebates will not have matter (Score 4, Informative) 175

EVs will win because they are better technology. Because they are lower cost. Want to accelerate EV adoption, build out a public charging infrastructure. An infrastructure that is actually maintained. That will do far far more than any rebate.

This bill eliminates subsidies for charging infrastructure at the end of 2025.

You were saying?

Comment Re:OMG! What are the chances...? (Score 1) 58

He still can't prove his claims. No need to debunk him. And just because he was able to point out errors in some of the papers that tried to correct him, he wasn't proven right in any way. Errare humanum est, and you can be wrong in so many ways that most of them contradict each other. This does not make any of them more right than the others.

Comment Re: Climate change is breaking the water cycle (Score 1) 60

You have a very naive way of looking at the world. First, Russia does not place its intercontinental rockets around Moscow. They are mainly around the Kola peninsula close to the Finish border, in the Ural mountains, on the peninsula Kamtchatka close to the Alaskian Shore and on the Kurilian Islands North of Japan. Second, the Stable Genius did not have any Strategic ideas. He just looked at a map, and in his imperial reflex, he saw places in North America, which werenât U.S. territory, which greatly bothered him. As annexing Mexico would mean 100 Million Mexicans suddenly becoming U.S. citizens, he dropped the idea of demanding Mexico, but Canada and Greenland? Oh yes!

Comment "Top talent" (Score 1) 56

It's not about top talent, it's about top level access to the training recipes and architectures. That's what Meta is buying. Even if you try to compartmentalise, a lot of people need a high level overview to do architecture exploration. Once the exploration is finished, their knowledge of the results is worth a lot more than their talent.

Due to OpenAI and Anthropic wanting to portray a goody two shoes image, their means to keep that knowledge locked up as trade secrets is very limited.

Comment Re: Air pollution from driving KILLS PEOPLE (Score 2) 27

Yep. They're a bit heavy handed with the enforcement but they really want to get the number of deaths down to a more reasonable amount. They're installing more solar and wind power each year than the rest of the planet combined. Not just for clean air, but also because they want to reduce oil and gas dependencies.

If you want to know why the Koch brothers don't like China, well, this is one reason.

Comment Re:Erm... (Score 2) 162

There is a reason all conquering civilizations try to completely erase the civilizations they have conquered.

The Hellenic Greeks (Alexander the Great and the Diadochs), the Romans and the Persians were famous for a) building really large empires and b) actually caring for the civilizations they conquered. After the Romans for instance conquered the last of the Greek Diadoch kingdoms, Greek became the language of choice for the Roman elite. Alexander the Great took over the Persian bureaucracy and even coopted the Persian court ceremonial for himself. Ptolemaios, despite being of Macedonian origin, became pharao of Egypt and started the longest lasting Egyptian dynasty of all, which existed for nearly 300 years. Persians took the cuneiform from the Assyrian and Babylonian cultures they conquered, and Babylon was the largest and most prosperous city of Ancient Persia.

So you are not exactly right with your assesment.

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