They are going to have a hard time expanding into scotland https://www.urbandictionary.co...

Also this is pretty rational government behavior. You've got a country that produces copious green energy (and has the potential for much more) and where oil is expensive. It's exactly the right thing to do.

There are lots of them in Colorado. Here's a report from Kremmling, CO which is one of the coldest places in the state which has been running electric buses for years.

From the story "A lot of the winter days will start off 20 or 30 below zero and bus drivers say at those temperatures, it's hard to get diesel buses running, but their electric buses are ready to roll right out the door." also they note that they have a significantly lower operating cost than diesel.

Certainly you have to design EVs to work well in the cold, and they definitely have reduced range which you have to plan for. But this sounds more like a case of in-ept government choosing the wrong vehicles and not any particular issue with EVs.

> Now would I want to do this for salary and long term, no....but often that old saying "make hay while the sun is shining " is apt advice!!

Yeah I'd have jumped at that when i was younger. If there was a chance to pull in several times my then-salary (+stock options i presume) by working double the hours then I'd totally do it. Honestly at 45 I'd probably still do it for a year for triple my current salary - that'd be enough to pay off my mortgage.

I have my doubts about the efficiency of it all - in the rare instances where I've put in a 70 hour week I notice the precipitous drop in my productivity much about 50, but as the employee that wouldn't be my problem.

It also means that government bureaucrats are effectively only ever negotiating with giant corporations like Oracle and PwC. While I don't buy into the notion that everyone that works in government is inept, you effectively have someone who has little experience negotiating a technical deliverable up against a corporate who has decades of experience of protecting themselves and profiting from scope creep.

Mathematical work is a outlier in that virtually all of it can be tested and rigorously proved using other mechanisms. There really isn't much need to "trust" the LLM

I suppose it's challenged by defining a dishwasher cycle (maybe an average power draw over 100W for 30 minutes on that circuit) and then figuring out when i last bought them and the size of that pack. Then it's one thing it work on Amazon, but it should really scrape everywhere that can deliver. It's totally something I could build since i'm tech savvy, but it's not worth me investing a day of my time to save on dishwasher tabs. But being able to describe an agent in plaintext and have it figure out all the pieces - that could be really useful. Though yeah, why would visa have to be involved - that part makes no sense. I think they recognize how putting this in the hands of end users will be massively lucrative for OpenAI and don't want their own shareholders to feel left out.

If i can control it, then i think it'd be great. Like I'll sometimes buy dishwasher tablets on Amazon - the price has to be less per tablet than costco, and we need to be most of the way through the current box. An AI could in theory be on top of that - and I'd be totally happy to offload that labor. In theory that was kind of the dream of "subscribe and save" but it's so unpredictable and I miss so many of the "your subscription went up by $19 but you're still getting the best price!" emails that I pretty much gave up on it.

Ok but that means some of the time that you are getting the sale price, you can be assured that other people are getting a lower personalized price. It's effectively exactly what's being discussed, but they've spun it in a way that you think you are the one getting the good deal.

It all comes down to the definition of what the "ends" are in the process. You are arguing that the end is kohler's servers - but I honestly thing many consumers would genuinely consider the "end" of the process to be the smartphone app where your gamified shit appears. That fits with how Signal uses "end-to-end" encryption, it travels from one device to the other without the servers being able to decrypt the data. You could absolutely keep the encrypted images on the server and do the turd analysis on the users smartphone so there wouldn't be any way for another device to access them. However (unless it's changed today) the kohler website makes no mention of end-to-end encryption. Only "encryption at every step" which is some fine marketing-speak

Still i think it'd be more in their interests to just keep lowering the merchant fees and then the rewards card issuers would have to keep whittling down their offerings Creating a bunch of different visa card types is going to be a mess

Seems like this could be a win for amex and discover really. I'm not going to want to carry a visa that risk being rejected because its the wrong type

I also suspect he won't be happy with doing it underground

Tritium is usually the bigger issue - it's got a pretty short halflife at 12 years and is used in a lot of weapon designs.

Look up Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions - there's a well defined language for talking about this.