The United States is already falling behind in AI. We cannot allow an elite yak gap!

If this guy was smart enough to cobble together a game, he may also have been smart enough to include consent to the wholesale appropriation of your data in the software license agreement.

(I think this would make the charges more difficult to prove, but probably only enough to get him a better plea offer.)

We must have joined the same day!

Most of the world is not Northern Canada, which must be where they got that number from. Maine averages 4.55 peak sun hours per day, and is the northereasternmost state in the continental United States. Even Washington state is at 3.95.

Solar panels: The roof of a trailer is about 450 square feet. In the northeastern U.S., you would average only 3.5 hours of full sun, so you'd get only a little over 13 kW per day.

So the solar generation function of a panel is no sun, no power, partial sun, no power, peak sun hours, full power.

Well, I guess that you're the expert.

So in an entire day, covering the entire roof of a trailer with solar panels would add a whopping 7 miles of range

Maybe that's enough to get you over a time zone or so so that you get an extra hour of "full sun"? ;)

After all, it's not like trailers are ever sitting idle during loading, unloading, or waiting for loads. Always moving, doncha know.

Once and for all people: "it's" (with an apostrophe) is a contraction of "it is." "its" is the possessive pronoun, which was intended here.

Yes, it is. Now think of the rule for possessives with every other type of noun (ordinary and proper) - " 's ". It's like the "i" before "e" except after "c" (and sometimes "y") rule, irregular verbs, and a host of other landmines in writing down the English language.

It doesn't help that there's a group of people actively miseducating kids about pronouns and demonizing references to them. His, hers, its, yours, theirs, and ours are all bricks paving the shoulder of the road to hell.

So embarrassed by the crap that you have to make up that you're posting AC? What are these free business loans only "illegals" qualify for, and where can I apply? Yo quiero links!

The page clearly says "Klaatu, verata, nictcugh"

He donated thousands of dollars to strip people off their right to marry. That is why he was ousted after 11 days on the job. I'm not sure that he ever said how he voted.

They paid so much more than market price that you have to think this isn't strictly a business move. (This also happened with Twitter and Saudi Arabia.)

Several people are already demoing mobile charging trucks. Pretty soon the AAA will just arrive and plug you in for a quick boost, the same way they'd give you a few gallons of gas.

Since when are the rich important...

I don't know, the law is pretty draconian. If a child under 18 tries to register, their email is sent directly to Ken Paxton.

This sounds like someone made minute, non-revolutionary advances on standard de-salination and described it as if they were the first person to invent evaporative desalination. People have been doing sun powered desalination for thousands of years.

At small scales.

At large scales, desalination plants use reverse osmosis, which pretty much inherently creates a brine that is released back into the environment. You're not "moving the salt" to any useful industrial process, since it's still rather dilute.

At best, some of those plants use solar power to drive the RO process. But we'd much rather have the electricity to power other things, so a process that uses a non-semiconducting metal surface to perform solar-powered evaporative distillation, without a need to dispose of a brine, and without relying upon solar-electric generation and conversion, is a bigger deal than you make it out to be.

Looking at America today, who can blame him?