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Worst case scenario we dig up more lithium. I'm convinced the Nickel and Cobalt will be recycled. Lithium is a small percentage of total mass, 1-3%, and is abundant in the earth's …

These are old talking points from the fossil fuel industry. The batteries themselves will be recycled to recover their valuable minerals. The process will certainly require care to…

On top of the obvious grift and bribe seeking potential there is also now an obvious mechanism for ideological control. Govt doesn’t like the way the model describes the events of …

Why not also require that cell companies share up to the second location data with authorities? It would be so much easier to catch criminals!

Just to expand on my ideas above about how we might manage them: (1) Entities creating these data sets should require licenses to do so. (2) Creation of real-time location data set…

I don't think any entity (including but not limited to the government) should be allowed to create or maintain data sets of people's near or real time location data. Think about al…

The problem is right now LPR data is available to just about everyone who wants it for any reason as long as they are part of law enforcement. They are using it, for example, to cr…

What are the alternatives for Europe? Continue to import oil and gas? Have some of your most important economic inputs price and supply controlled by the dumbest egomaniacs alive? …

We aren’t making a very good case for ourselves on the world stage are we…

Solar and wind are scaling much faster than gas and oil right now. After the recent Iran war I think it would be insane to rely on new oil or gas. Yeah let’s rely on this commodity…

You can scale battery installations basically arbitrarily to the size of the grid connection you have. Put the batteries at the end user if you can. Then they get power outage prot…

Atomic power is in a bit of a sour spot as a technology. The large size of plants means we don’t build very many means we don’t get much cost reduction from learning curves. Wind a…

That land is producing food for cars. If we covered half in solar panels we’d have almost enough energy to power the country. Turn the other half over to food production and you’d …

It’s really not niche anymore. It’s the dominant form of new electrical power generation and has been for a few years. https://www.publicpower.org/system/files/documents/Americas-.…

It’s weird that he’s so in the numbers but then doesn’t carry through with the battery electric truck calculations. He just dismisses it out of hand. Your cargo may be reduced but …

It is totally nuts. We will see I guess. If there will be a ground invasion, people will see the convoys moving into position. You can’t really hide that much stuff.

My read is most likely some kind of strike on the cartels. There hasn’t seemed to be any significant US military buildup so it’s something they’ll be able to do with a smaller forc…

My bet is a showy armored advance though the open terrain near there… it’ll look great on camera! /s

I'm just going to copy my comment on a previous post about this topic: You think that Trump won't demand something in return for this? I keep telling everyone I know that AI will b…

You think that Trump won't demand something in return for this? I keep telling everyone I know that AI will be enshitified just like every other internet business. Tell me why the …

Tbh an intensive class dedicated to teaching kids how to put their phone down would really be a good idea!

That sounds like dystopia to me… the smartphone is such a crazy distraction to deep learning why on earth would you bring it into the space willingly.

What’s the skill though? Most everything you do on a smartphone is trivially easy thanks to all those hard working app developers. We all know from experience that the vast majorit…

I’d argue most of the cost of scare housing is supply limits imposed by ridiculous over regulation of new construction. It’s not like we forgot how to build houses and apartments w…

What the actual fuck are you talking about. Gonna need some proof that isn’t a 4chan sewer please.