All of this is held up by faith in the standard candle, which has recently been thrown into question. Type 1a supernovae might not be as consistent absolute brightness as previously believed. Without that? Shrug. We lack a yardstick to measure this.
If we knew how to deal with nuclear waste we would have done so. As of this moment effectively none of the US commercial nuclear spent fuel has ever been properly disposed of. In 77 years it adds up to a lot.
While China's CO2 output is the highest globally, per capita its output is just over half of the US. That's even without considering that much of China's output is as in this article, manufacturing pollution imported from other countries. The bill for this pollution should fall on the country that consumed the manufacturing output.
>the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014.
No mention that Microsoft sent executive Stephen Elop to dismantle Nokia as its CEO in 2010. Nor that in 2014 as part of the deal to acquire Nokia's phone business leaving the rest of the company to soldier on, Nokia insisted that Microsoft repossess him.
Of how much invested? Published numbers show plans for $80B ai splash. Anybody got to-date numbers? I see $14B on OpenAI and $20B for Nuance Communications. That's $34B sunk.
Also, is this crowing about as reliable as any other marketing babble? They mean to sell this service.
Don't Look Up
Watch it again.
The Slashdot discussion from crossing 400 ppm in 2013:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
This year's monthly average peak so far, and a new record, was 430.51 ppm in May.
AI ethics
Vibes and snake oil
Hmmmm
Unless, of course, you're giving $400,000,000 of airplane as a bribe to Trump.
But what if how the world really works differs from the intention of the policy?
Foxconn renames two factories in Zhengzhou to "Vietnam" and "India". Chinese government confirms by assigning territorial sovereignty of the loading docks to the respective countries.
It would only be a territory. hehe
Unfortunately its democratic loss would make the US even more fascist.
And it would confuse them about how the PM is elected, or more accurately not elected but more appointed-ish.
Which is why you use solar-powered mirrors for energy. Do take a look at the SPS designs, basically using solar sails to reflect the energy to a generator which can transmit the power to a smelting plant, or keep it focused for smelting, or transmit the energy to Earth as a low density microwave beam. The mining equipment is a bootstrap operation. The first loads of iron smelted from the satellite are used to build the next generation of mining equipment. There is an initial startup cost a "priming of the pump"., but as much as possible you use space based resources.
Energy is _outrageously_ available once the first solar power mirror based plants are working. NASA's last estimates guessed about 20 years to provide return-on-investment for the first few built. They don't have to be in close proximity to the smelting, they can in theory beam the energy as microwaves across empty space.
In practice, failures in system development, like unemployment in Russia, happens a lot despite official propaganda to the contrary. -- Paul Licker
