It does widen the gap for insider information and trading on it -- which does screw the little guy (or at least little guy traders). If you're a long term investor this really should not make a difference.

Worth noting: Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant wasn’t offline because it was unsafe to operate, but because Japan rewrote its nuclear rulebook after Fukushima. The post-2011 requirements are much stricter (earthquakes, tsunamis, backup power, security), and it’s taken years to get approvals. Reactor 6 got through first since it’s newer and already had upgrades.

The restart push is mostly about energy reality: Japan imports most of its fuel, LNG got expensive, and cutting emissions without nuclear is hard. Local opposition is still a factor though, especially given the seismic risks, which is why the rest of the plant is still years away from full operation — if it ever gets there.

SRV3 has been disabled while Google works on a simpler, more reliable caption system where every sentence is replaced with “ upbeat music ”.

Exactly. This isn’t a technology problem, it’s a management impulse-control problem.

We figured out decades ago that not every role needs a workstation that can land the space shuttle. Yet somehow with AI, we’ve collectively decided that the solution is to duct-tape it onto every workflow and hope “synergy” happens.

Tools only create leverage when there’s already something to leverage. Giving AI licenses to people whose jobs are already bounded by policy, approvals, or human judgment doesn’t create productivity—it just creates meetings about why productivity didn’t magically increase.

But targeted deployment requires understanding the work, trusting technical leadership, and saying “no” to vendors. Much easier to buy licenses in bulk, declare victory, and blame employees when the ROI slide stays blank.

The plan is to take the tariffs off in time for the economy to bounce back around election time. There is no rush to appease the masses until it is time for them to vote.

Awwww. These non-Americans are sooooo cute. Where were millimeters and kilograms when the Reich Fuhrer and Emperor were on your doorstep?

Granted, that sort of save likely wouldn't happen today, but we are like your uncle who lives off their championship playoff run in high school 50 years ago. Except we have nukes. So don't be Bill Hader at Conan's party and start something you can't finish. Oh and good luck with the new German military build-up!!

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Xpeng claimed to have had around 3,000 orders for the vehicle

The current AI state of the art is that AI needs more human verification than humans do. :-)

1. pretty sure the list meant that, in the future, these jobs will be at risk. Not currently. But I'm to lazy to check
2. other aspect of this is if AI can produce something 100x faster than a human, and the human can review it faster than they could do it then it will take less humans

Seems like a human problem too. If AI could do a chunk of the work, and you had humans verifying, you would need fewer humans - hence vulnerability

Another interesting part of this, for sure. Zone training as well as personal performance and recovery tracking has been another big change.

They also do blood testing every hour on some of their training rides for tracking and performance monitoring - some riders have their own testers and test themselves in the off season.

Agree, the easy way will always be taken (at least by some). Look I've been fooled enough on this front to be anything but skeptical, however it is interesting to see some of the things these people do to improve performance that you or I can easily (and safely) do to improve our personal performances. Look at the last 5 years - sauna, ice baths, compression pants, sleep technology, nutrition information - hard to believe that all of that is not at least a part of the performance gains. But, as you said, throw in some EPO on top of that and you'll look like Floyd Landis in the 2006 Tour de France Stage 17

Barring doping, they are human and represent the extremes that a human can reach naturally. Isn't that what sports (highlights for sure) are for, people in awe over what another human can do?

"Hey! That's the same species as me" (as I sit on the couch stuffing bon-bons down my throat)

Interesting videos out there discussing this. Some interesting points:
1. Athletes train year round now and are able to achieve higher gains - they used to take months off and lose conditioning
2. Nutrition: cyclists use to take much less nutrition during these long races, they now ingest double the nutrients from 5-10 years ago. This is due to altering the nutrient mix to help aid and speed ingestion.
3. Sleep: there are cycling teams that literally clear out hotel rooms and replace mattresses, add lighting, A/C and air filtration systems to improve sleep quality.

So are they better, or just better prepared? I would say that the selection of people who fit the design of a professional cyclist just keeps getting smaller -- enduring years of constant training, having a digestive system that can handle the high/concentrated nutrient intake levels -- but also have all the physical attributes that make for great cyclists already (VO2 max, size, body type, etc) is getting smaller.

So my answer is that they are getting better in comparison to athletes from before, we are just finding people that better fit the requirements for each sport. It's like when all the sports teams were whites only, people didn't necessarily get better but the people in those sports were better than before.

Yes, we are all appalled and shocked.

Who are the people that heard this idea and did not immediately strike it as an option. There is nothing ambiguous about the idea of using foreign workers to maintain state security apparatus. I don't care what country you live in, that is a horrible idea.

So here is the real question: Is this treasonous?