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It's an excellent idea if the conversion market can be bootstrapped. In France there are already firms offering the service. Millions of cars exist in the roads and they have 90% o…

> Are you really running your test suite for every "i+=1" change on other languages? You don't have to run your testsuite for a small bugfix (that's what CI is for), but you DO nee…

The most annoying thing in my experience is not really the raw compilation times, but the lack of - or very rudimentary - incremental build feature. If I'm debugging a function and…

My stated point was acid raid in the context of climate engineering , there was nothing said about quantity. Small quantities will cause acid rain in undetectable amounts, and have…

I indeed knew the scale, it's plastered all over this thread, but it's not relevant to the point being made. The whole scheme is harebrained regardless of the amount, what depends …

Why yes, what could possibly go wrong by releasing the main constituent of acid rain in an haphazard attempt to cool down the Earth, a problem itself created by releasing uncontrol…

But you will not use it if the depreciation on your car vastly exceeds what you could earn from the scheme.

There is an economic case being made above that explains why, you might want to try and follow that and respond on point instead of mindlessly nitpicking. There exist large scale t…

It can't, because the distribution fee is an amortized cost of having distribution infrastructure built. Since that infrastructure still needs to exist regardless of where you get …

But if that limitation is repetitive to the point of investing in infrastructure to use EVs, then some other large-scale investor will close that arbitrage opportunity. Basically, …

Copyright exists to protect human authors and promote creation, which in turn leads to learning - from other human beings. Algorithms are not learning, they are automated tools whi…

That just means people will buy daily drivers with small batteries and charge them nightly. 15 years out of a cheap compact car with near zero operating costs sounds like a good de…

This is never going to happen at scale. Energy is fungible: one cannot compete on "quality" of energy, just on price, a kWh is a kWh and the provider with the cheapest energy will …

It's about a law designed by humans to give everyone a chance to make a living and contribute to the common good. You think you have found a loophole in that law that lets you use …

The crypto market is the trash, a decade old speculative bubble with zero real world applications.

Well, here's my point of anecdata: despite Python being a very productive language and very easy to use, despite it existing for more than three decades and being perhaps the most …

That example threw me off too because both the numbers and the perspective are non-nonsensical. 90% of the energy draw of those data-centers goes into things like inner video encod…

What do you mean, autism is well established as a personality trait that diminishes empathy and the ability to understand other people's desires and emotions, while having a strong…

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What you and many other in the thread seem to be oblivious about is that algorithms are not people. Yes, it may come as a shock to autistic engineers, but the fact that a machine c…

The model can generate original images, yes, and those images might be fair use. But it can also generate near verbatim copies of the source works or substantial parts thereof, so …

But they are not original works, they are wholly derived works of the training data set. Take that data set away and the algorithm is unable to produce a single original pixel. The…

Well, it's only natural that technological progress and competition will reduce prices and allow the masses to enjoy products that were reserved for the rich in earlier times. Ther…