Another alternative take : calories don't exist, food don't contain "calories", we can't isolate a system to count calories in and out. It's mostly believing something because society claims others supposedly serious people think think they exist.
"Joe Biden, did not want to admit his senescence. "
No, not just Joe. There were a lot of younger people who did not want to confess Joe biden's state because it would reduce their power and a lot of them were under 65.
True, but there were also many younger people who never wanted him to run in the first place. One of the major downsides of the two-party system is that the major parties maintain a duopoly of power, significantly stifling alternative movements (like the Sanders progressives) from making major inroads politically even though public support is widespread. This is a systemic flaw in American politics.
This is an intentional feature of modern American politics. It's not what the founding fathers intended, but if you think that gerrymandering, lobbying, and 2 party dominance don't benefit those who currently hold power in the US you're crazy.
It's a little cryptic, but I believe this passage
"slightly longer than the Polarstern with its 118 metres and about twice as wide"
tells us it's the size of two Polarsterns laid side by side.
I still don't know what that is in terms of football fields, I assume you mean United States and not Canada, but maybe someone else can help out as I've gone as far as I can.
On the other hand, balcony solar power will be a game changer for the world, provided your neighbors won't steal the panels like they do the catalytic converters in my neighborhood.
I tried to read the article and what I got out of it was that the author believes that the deal that keeps the internet safe is that we just don't try to break it hard enough. Ignoring all the state actors who do that all the time.
Seems something of a unusual take on the state of the world
This is how a lot of the world works. Certain things aren't done very much because it takes a lot of human effort to do those things and that creates a status-quo.
For example a lot more people would sue eachother for petty things if it suddenly became very easy and cost efficiant. Its not, so they dont.
Another example of AI doing this exact type of thing in another realm: In the past convincing someone you were somebody they should give money to for a scam was very possible to do, but also difficult and not very cost efficiant. You could try to impersonate someone's daughter or a police officer, but it took a lot of effort to get it right.
Now, with voice mimicking ai, deepfakes, social media to mine for personal info, etc its not as difficult and so, very likely, its becoming a bigger problem than it was.
Really? I think that's pretty much accurate. If you've ever visited a website whose authors you don't know and trust, you've exposed yourself to potential attacks and trusted in sandboxing to keep your computer safe.
I don't. The batteries will last longer than 10 years. The 10 year typical advertised lifetime of lifepo4 is to 80% capacity, and I'll just keep on using them.
The actual payoff calculation is a lot messier than that because you have to factor in the NPV of buying batteries vs. just throwing the money in the market, AND you have to be able to forecast that growth vs. growth in power prices. So the honest truth is I have no idea if it's going to be a net good investment vs other options.
Fortunately, I don't have to care, because I bought the batteries for UPS runtime, which I value independent of the time-shifting. The time-shifting is just a way to squeeze money out of an investment I already made. Had I been going for payoff, there are cheaper battery/inverter options out there with a sub-5y payoff.
An alternate take: if calorie efficiency is so important we should focus on consumption more than production.
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