Our current business model is losing it's massively overvalued hype machine aura, stock holders are starting to ask questions about "finances" and "profits", pivot to the newest hype bullshit before we have to answer for anything!

In a fit of irony I'm finishing up a podcast on an old scam of a bullshit box that did nothing, and was sold for millions up and up and up until it wound up in Iraq in the latter half of the 00's as a "bomb detector". And somehow people kept buying them despite all the proof it was made up, it was an empty box of functionally nothing. But it got in the news. And people read about it being bought in the news, or being promoted in the news, by bribed assholes. And they bought it.

And while mini nuclear reactors are a real thing, they are a fantastically dumb real thing. Nuclear reactors aren't super safe, they're never going to be safe, the Chernobyl reactor was a very smart and safe design and humans still fucked that up and turned into easily and by far the deadliest industrial accident in human history once you take into account long term cancer rates of affected areas even hundreds of kilometers away. And yet the nuclear industry puts out a tiny bit of crap about safety and how "coal kills people too so really if you think about it..."

And "small" nuclear reactors still create nuclear waste, stuff that can corrode through containers holding it quite easily and leech into groundwater you might be drinking next to it. A problem so costly if it gets out of hand that the US's original major nuclear research and production site in of Hanford, Washington has a cleanup cost that's risen to over half a trillion dollars decades after being shut down and efforts have been ongoing. And these companies want to put this sort of thing everywhere, near where you live, and have it managed by the cheapest labor the company can find. On top of that nuclear reactors are expensive compared to renewables, and if you make them smaller and they get more expensive.

Just build some fucking windmills and stick them to batteries and you'll be fine. Renewables beat out coal in the US this year despite the dying orange drooler literally bribing company not to build more, and there's no blackouts or anything in the US. These timelines of "X decades" into the future for baseload power "if we start now!" are not needed, not when cheap nigh infinite lifespan batteries have a likely similar or shorter timeline and fucking fusion of all things is promising a similar timeline to these stupid mini nuclear reactor companies.

The "innovation" of China "being able to launch new models in 18 months" is f*ing embarrassing. Not for them, but for all the stupid, blindingly obvious shit other auto manufacturers just weren't doing at all like "model it in a f*ing computer before going to all the trouble of building a prototype you tenth wits".

And when people tell you it's fine and other car manufacturers "can't compete" just remember that while this is outlawed in China itself, the Chinese Yuan is deliberately undervalued so it's even cheaper as an export and so is even more undercut!

That's not the question and you know it, deflection to make yourself sound smart instead and end up like some gobshite goblin shill, which you probably are. I don't see em dashes so what are you personally paid by Google somehow to do this in person or is your head so far up your own ass you get high off your farts?

A bunch of crappy scientists wringing their hands and implying the question of why no one's taken toddlers and strapped them to chairs for years on end in a double blind experiment where they're forced to watch an Ipad or not depending on their group. It took 30 seconds to find a study with an N of hundreds linking screen time to BMI and sleep troubles in children. Review, excess screentime may be associated with impaired executive function."A total of 46 studies met the inclusion criteria. Overall, the evidence points to a link between higher levels of screen use and negative outcomes such as reduced physical activity, poorer sleep, attention difficulties, and challenges in emotional and social functioning."

AKA for fuck's sake do your fucking job

I'm pretty sure I don't like Flock, but I'm equally certain this self congratulatory back patter will be suggesting bringing back Latin as an entrance requirement for college next.

Since ChatGPT3 we've left behind the financial reality of stocks being worth what their expected returns are over time, so either the company pays dividends or gets bought and people that own the stock get actual money back for the money they paid in, and we've now reaching the stage of orbit where everything is just a complete fantasy designed to goose more money out of people that somehow haven't run out spare cash to throw at stocks yet.

AI hasn't replaced coders, despite it being declared so. AI has temporarily displaced some journalism by simply ignoring copyright because Google is too big to feel it cares about laws. AI has eaten up billions in drug discovery and yet to see any of that debt paid off. But nevermind all that because some geriatric narcissist just told everyone they're replacing oxygen with 'AIxygen'.

The next 3 years will see the biggest Wallstreet crash since 1929 and we should feel sorry for 0 of these suckers.

Just waiting for the first hacks to manipulate the market. Why steal directly when you can buy a call option (you get the % above the "call" price you turn the option in at) on margin (debt) and then use a bunch hacked accounts to buy whatever you bought a call on, pushing the price above your call point and chaining together a bunch of finance bro stuff to push your earnings way above what you'd even be stealing directly. Plus none of that money went into your account, your shell company just got lucky buying the right option at the right time officer.

-after panicked phone calls from "friends" to the Oval Office.

Paying interest on unsecured and uninsured financial assets bought through debt is what caused the 1929 crash; ushering in the first major banking laws and institutions like the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to ensure the entire economy wouldn't be destroyed by too many morons believing grifters again. Now the grifters are back and saying "hey I've got this great idea..."

Nuclear Engineers "Nuclear power scales really well, bigger reactors are cheaper per watt hour"
Headlines "Small nuclear reactors are new, better scream about them constantly cause they get clicks, if this helps sucker people into useless money holes because hearing about something provably improves the perception of that thing in people's brains regardless of whether the information is good or bad, well that's their problem. Yay ad money!"
Venture Capitalists and the US and Chinese Governments "I keep hearing about these small nuclear reactor things, they're hot, they're new, better put money into them."

I am reminded of a description of the 2001 .COM bust. One day the stock market began falling, and it just refused to get back up again. No single "black day", no one flinging themselves to their deaths on Wallstreet, just a steady drumbeat of failing companies finally collapsing into insolvency and then shuttering.

The old market hypothesis used to be called the "efficient market hypothesis", positing that somehow the collective wisdom of the crowds would create the perfect market. The new market hypothesis carried by economists is the "inelastic market hypothesis", that the stock/bond/crypto/etc. market is just a supply and demand of how much money people have that they're willing to currently bet on making even more future money. When people run out of extra money they're willing to put in, the market can start going down without stopping until large portions become worthless and shutter.

So, probably same price as an M5 Max Macbook Pro with 128GB, except not a laptop, and far behind on benchmarks. Nvidia is somehow so smug they're making a Macbook Pro with high ram look like a good deal.

There's a lot of papers, many which appear here on /., talking up alternative non lithium battery chemistries because "they're cheaper". The assumption often is that lithium is somehow rare. It's really not, there's already lithium reserves for decade after decade of battery production at much larger scales than now. The thing is that's it's just not lithium cheaply accessible via today's mining and processing technologies, at least by those already in well established use. And we want lithium, lithium is inherently a very good battery material, being the lightest atomic weight metal there is. In theory it could be stretched to the same energy density as rocket and jet fuel (yes this means EV planes). But all that lithium stuck bound up to rocks needs to be cheap, and so that's why we research like in this article.