Multi-junction cells can do this. They're expensive though.

Did you even read his post?

Toyota started using non polymer cable wraps/sheathing based on a soy compound years ago. Rodents love to eat that stuff.

You can use the UV light. You need different material with a different bandgap. Basically a whole other panel, stacked on the first. But before you go after that 5% UV you're going to want to go after the blue, and probably the red and some of the near IR.

They're called multijunction solar cells and they're used in places where you need maximum efficiency, like in space. For regular use, single junction cells are much more popular because a single bandgap panel absorbing at the maximum solar emission is going to be more efficient price-wise than a multijunction cell where the extra bandgaps are in lower emission ranges.

Those subject matter expert jobs at Google probably pay a lot better than the tenure track at a university. For awhile there it might have been a good gig.

It could have something to do with at least one of these workers reporting to Congress that they were working on a "faulty and dangerous product". If people are talking like that publicly, then it gives Google all the incentive in the world to lay off some of the more vocal ones. A union would certainly prevent some of those layoffs, of course, but they haven't actually formed one yet.

Oh dear, I'm sorry I didn't read this before replying above.

Zuck was one of several government projects along the same lines back then, and he got lucky, that's all.

So is he a CIA operator indoctrinated from birth a la The Bourne Identity, a genetically programmed clone, or a straight up android?

"Free market" is a stupid propaganda cliche that is devoid of meaning.

Uh huh. Is this one of those "propaganda I don't believe" Instagram slideshows?

Free markets exist and are pretty widespread. They require government intervention to maintain. Adam Smith himself called that one of the primary functions of government in the economy. American corporatism isn't the only system in the world, and authoritarian "democratic oversight" as suggested by the OP is definitely not a good alternative.

Seems like he's not the only "indoctrinated idiot".

Why not? It's a barren rock devoid of life. Not that $300 million will get you anywhere close to a lunar mining operation.

What he's saying, is that people voted with their wallets.

The lesson to be learned here is that there's a sucker born every minute. Also you "allowed" Zuck to waste billions on VR because PEOPLE VOLUNTARILY GAVE HIM THE MONEY. People had the choice to spend money on other things and instead bought ads on Facebook. They voted with their wallets. There's your democracy in action.

When you read "AI" on Slashdot, or in a business article, it's almost certainly a language model made by one of a handful of companies.

If it's about Nvidia it might have something to do with robots.

Free market capitalism has as a core principle the importance of market forces. That is, democracy.

Zuckerberg gained control of billions of dollars because he correctly judged that the people wanted to play hot or not with pictures of their friends and would accept psychological manipulation in return. He spent billions on VR because he thought it would work even better.

If you're American, "democracy" has had lots of opportunities to spend money on health care and does so to considerable excess.

Indeed, No True Scotsman would use STL with C++.

The last job I had where I had to use C/C++, we automatically ran an expensive static analysis tool every time we checked in code. I'd estimate that it only found about half of the potential segfaults, and it made up for that by finding twice as many false positives.