surprised there’s so much gold.

I was 100% sure that would be the answer. Is there a feline that is rough?

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The DC-AC-DC conversion loop does cost 15% or so. LiFePo batteries (better than NMC) 10%, and motor 10-15%. AC grid transmission losses add more.

With home solar, DC charging (hopefully bidirectional), 75%-80% efficiency to the wheel. But sure, AC grid tied charging could drop it by 20%. Still better than 60% losses.

Comparing to ICE engines, its fair to exclude transmission losses (exists in both. about 5%), and there is regen available for EV, and it doesn’t idle. My original 75% claim may be too generous, but 3x efficiency of ICE is still fair.

this week‑long autonomous browser experiment consumed in the order of 10-20 trillion tokens

at $60/m, that is $600M to $1.2B in full price cost, but 1/4 this is current standard pricing. Still, even if a buggy piece of shit, a 1-3m line code project in a week is impressive. OTOH, netscape 1.0 cost $4M to develop, with the advantage of working (though other advantage that it was your web page’s fault for not working).

They set a very challenging experiment. There is a reason for chromium being a popular base for a browser. The more interesting experiment result is if it is ever usable. Are the bugs solvable by AI.

Yes. The structure of the deal, with 20% revenue royalty, in addition to 20% ownership, leaves 0 possible chance of any profit. Only Zionist supremacist control of media can be motive.

you could drive 70 times as many miles in a solar-powered electric car as you could in one running on biofuels from the same amount of land.

that and biofuels only land could produce the same as existing global electricity demand are bigger takeaways.

Article undersells the 7000twh of existing car+truck energy. With just 75% efficiency for solar panel to EV wheel, just 2366twh of solar would replace the ICE twh to wheel equivalent fuel consumption. So, the land conversion formula allows for 10x the number of cars and trucks. Even H2 electrolysis would permit 7x the number of cars and trucks (ensuring lighter trucks/cars as well) from biofuels land.

100%. I did get a 32gb mini pc this summer. win 11 is not as stable as win 10 on ddr3, mostly sleep/monitor issues. and 780m on ddr5 is about the same for gaming as 1660s on ddr3. Don’t chase gaming frame rates until prices get more reasonable. If you somehow don’t have a PC more recent than ddr3, then it’s not time to get into gaming, but upgrading cpu/gpu and an extra 16gb ram is likely the better value compared to new system.

Afghanistan had its treasury holdings in US banks. Iraq still does. It doesn’t have permission to withdraw, and its oil revenue goes into US controlled bank account. ie. The US has veto power over Iraq government spending budget. Venezuela, now has such an explicitly bragged about arrangement, with explicit promise to directly steal Venezuela funds for US/Trump interests.

It’s a good test of sovereignty to request withdrawal, or selling whatever is supposed to be held.

CBS, Disney, Columbia U have all bowed down to him. These suits are too frivolous to settle, and they turn NYT, Dimon, Powell, Cook into DNC idols somehow. The purpose is entirely to cower everyone else into submission, and the sycophants to rage against DNC idols and cheer for his anger, in distraction of “tough guy failure” for a European solution to Greenland, or his Mossad agent BFF who suicided in impossible manner under his watch.

This is an intimidation law suit. The fact that its baseless won’t matter to others scared to speak out. He’s also suing JP Morgan, and ceo Jamie Dimon, for $5B as intimidation because Dimon, at Davos, said the WH should cool down the hostility over migration.

Not sure what your point is. Oligarchist or Zionist supremacism has no influence on US democracy? No politician supports warmongering? Where is the crap?

do something useful

Skynet or China wins is the goal. It’s useful to US empire to do Palantir surveilllance for “Patriotic subservience to Israel first agenda”. Robocops instead of ICE officers provides useful increase in bravery to apply fascism. We must race China in robots, without any manufacturing aptitude, or power capacity, with only extortionist oligarch power expansion options, under an oligarchist, corporatist, zionist supremacist fascism to concentrate oligarchy and fascism further, so as to force China to keep up and “everyone” (important) makes money playing the game of winning is which side gets destroyed more.

So, as long as we view US empire as useful, Skynet is very useful. We can pretend that some other apps will be useful (Nadela is saying “just buy a PC and learn excel to be useful” as main point), but all of big tech is courting US government for big datacenter use, and political unanimity for war on China, means there is no other “useful” application required.

The most important social permission for AI, is the permission to fund Skynet, and the permission for warmongering military budget and attitude. An Israel/Oligarchist first rulership means there is never any money for any other purpose than that supremacism. The destination of collapse is a consequence only for the little people. Wealth “creation” (pillaging) in the journey, and escape from consequences of collapse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bShGUPU3TQ $120/kwh. There are amazon listings for 20kwh in rack batteries for under $3000. It does take DIY (no soldering kits) to get to $100/kwh. searching youtube for projects/options reviews, and especially the linked author is recommended if you’re interested.

EVs alone have major grid balancing potential. You can get home batteries for under $100/kwh in US right now, and cost of EV batteries have always been lower due to bulk/contract purchases. At $100/kwh, even from grid TOU use power, you can time shift profitably for just 1c/kwh before financing costs, but before resilience/backup benefits from batteries.

Solar is by far the cheapest way to charge those batteries, where home solar without monopoly persecution from utilities, as in Australia, can be extra affordable. But even before abundant solar is permitted in our countries, or even net metering, simply having TOU rates that are cheap at night allows for enough arbitrage for when TOU rates are high. Where some EVs are $300/kwh to $500/kwh for the entire car, TOU rates can allow for arbitrage that pays for whole car.

You see… the problem with food (and all other inflation) is those damn regulations! Imagine how much bigger piece of chicken you could buy if it was infested with avian flu, and our great American farmers could just make you buy it! If all of the anti-business commies stopping American from being great again, we could should empower (taxpayer giveaways to largest political donors) innovation that provides far cheaper food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_nNemsNT8

It’s a weird move because Tesla was receiving nearly 7 years of $99/month up front if people gave it to them, while being as slow as they want in reaching their promises. So, either they are worried that they will be forced to give refunds for underwhelming service, or they are planning massive monthly fee increases. It’s probably the latter to their credit. Robotaxi fee would be a normal high fee.

Kites are more complicated than spinnakers which are already “fishing junk out of the water with extra steps” complicated. It is promising for solar electric boats, both as backup power, and voyage power boost, but even if they are promised as autopiloted flight, there needs to be a lot of experience in how to use them and when to bring them down ahead of weather, and lulls are big problems. There are commercial ship models, but I’m unaware of success stories with customer satisfaction.

The US already has direct colonial control over NATO. NATO is fully committed to not let Russia invade Greenland or setup oil rigs off the coast, and it is absurd to suggest that Russia or China are patrolling Greenland or have any desire to attempt to take their resources without cooperation. But the US would get NATO’s help for defense of Greenland, and NATO would permit greater US contribution to NATO command bases there, or obey orders to contribute more themselves.

Trump, in addition to repeating the false China/Russia threat, has admitted zero interest in Greenland’s resources. They are too far away and extremely expensive to develop. This leaves only a single possible motive for needing US control over Greenland: The absolute certainty that EU will disobey US orders for greater submission and the need to directly threaten them from closer distance. There is no offensive missile threat to Russia provided by Greenland relative to other NATO territory.

First thank you for filling in OP’s coverup of Mama’s intentions.

We will merge, in a series of passes through each other, with almost no stars actually colliding

So then, we’re just going for a ride to a farm upstate :(