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Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 47

Are those features any good though? Google's voice transcription is better than most humans, and it's all done locally on the phone. At least with my wife's iPhone 16... Max? it's makes frequent mistakes and seems to have a poor microphone.

Another good AI feature iPhone seem to be missing is call screening, call menus, and holding. You can have your phone answer for you and ask who is calling, and what they say appears in real-time on your screen. When you call some numbers it displays menu options as text too. If you get put on hold it can listen for you and beep when the agent is ready to speak to you. I think it tells them you are holding and about to pick up as well.

Comment Re:Unlikely. (Score 1) 25

The problem with cooling towers is that the basic cheap ones tend up evaporating off a lot of the water, instead of returning it to the source. For nuclear plants relying on inland water supplies, that if often an issue, especially when temperatures rise.

The more expensive types probably aren't worth building, even if the space is available, for the sake of a few weeks a year. While these events getting more frequent make the investment seem more worthwhile, renewables and storage are already much cheaper, and getting cheaper every year. The only way they build cooling towers and refit all the plumbing to accommodate them is if someone else is paying for it, i.e. consumers or taxpayers (but I repeat myself).

Comment Re: 100 KW nuclear ? (Score 1) 66

It's not really the practicality of it anyway, it's about staking a claim. As TFS notes, they have some dubious concerns about China landing one first and using its presence to declare an area off-limits to other countries. I think that's probably exaggerated for the sake of distracting from the Epstein Files, but obviously solar and battery storage would not have the same effect of working around existing treaties that forbid claiming ownership of parts of the moon.

Comment Re:why do we still need car dealerships that are n (Score 1) 41

And dealers want to maintain their monopoly on selling new cars. Dealers should be able to sell any brand of new cars they want and the competition law should prevent manufacturers under pricing a dealer. In a free market (which this is not), as a compromise, Rivian et al should be able to sell cars direct as long as they don't undercut any dealer who makes a deal with Rivian to sell Rivian products. Dealers should make their after market service a reason for customers to go to them instead.

Comment Re:Time to change the payment model. (Score 1) 73

Furthermore, you're not going to coerce those spending the power to move the packets to collect money by the stream, and further than that, you're not going to tell us that we, who move the fucking packets, are just a tax man on top of this commerce. They're engaging in this commerce over the medium we provide.

These aren't circuit-switched networks, they're packet-switched.
Our routers consume wattage per packet, not per constant bitrate circuit.

And could you imagine having to deal with routing through other transit providers?
This idea never existed on the internet, and was never going to.
A creator is free to charge a consumer a fee, but since when do they get to demand that a fucking taxi deliver you to the venue for free?

Comment Re:why do we still need car dealerships that are n (Score 1) 41

The issue there is that to be a dealer, you need to make a significant investment in resources, specifically those around servicing vehicles.

So?
Do you think Costco doesn't need to make a significant investment in resources?

No dealer is going to want to make that investment without a guarantee of exclusivity within certain parameters.

Dealers don't get exclusivity... Someone can open up a Ford dealership across the street from another Ford dealership.

What on Earth are you fucking talking about?

Comment Re:Protecting any business model should be illegal (Score 1) 41

It does no such thing.

Yes, it does.

There are plenty of single vendor only dealerships.

Yes, and their competitor right across the street or in the next town over.
You're confused about what is meant by competition.

You don't get to not honour warranties simply because you didn't go through a dealership.

You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

That's not how any of the legal system works.

Right now, today, an original manufacturer warranty on a car can not pass on past the first sale.

Why the fuck do you opine about shit you literally know nothing about, in a country you know nothing about?

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