Comment Re:I hope they realize people hate slop (Score 1) 79
Comment Re:"Magnetic charging'? (Score 3, Informative) 93
Google says that patent expired in September of 2025, as it was filed in 2005. Yes, we are getting old.
Personally, I prefer the old rectangular Thinkpad charging connectors.
Comment Re:Tax break = taxpayer paying for water and power (Score 1) 62
Comment Re:Just for clarity (Score 1) 86
"Past performance is no guarantee of future returns" applies to any recorded dataset.
Not to recorded datasets, particularly. For example, that's the reason to think the sun will rise tomorrow morning - it always has.
Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 196
Comment Re:Starlink origin (Score 1) 51
Comment Re:Even the description is AI written. (Score 1) 147
Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 128
Comment Re:Now it has to play Risk (Score 1) 40
Comment Re:Now it has to play Risk (Score 1) 40
Comment Re:Fascinating... (Score 1) 40
Comment Worthless (Score 1) 19
TikTok took in $39 billion in 2024. So this is like, what, five minutes worth of revenue?
Nothing will change. That fine isn't even big enough to be a rounding error.
Comment Old news (Score 1) 2
My late wife did undergraduate research in photosystem II where there was quantum effects back in 2002. She did her PhD thesis on proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) in soybean lipoxogenase, then had a long career developing models for Fortran code that did quantum simulation of proteins (she was behind Tagdock in Amber MD). This is nothing new; several biological systems have quantum effects that are central to their mechanism.
Comment oh, only your equity? (Score 1) 105
I always figured that people who genuinely believed their employers were likely to kill literally everybody in the near future might burn down a bit more than that, but so far it's mostly been tweets