He gave a speech at the Libertarian National Convention promising to pardon Ulbricht if elected. That and the RFK Jr. deal helped him a great deal.

I don’t see why the legislature shouldn’t comply with their request for the industry to be regulated. What’s the objection to that?

You shouldn’t have to opt-out of any of this, but if you own one and want to keep using it, I thought this would be helpful information.

I ran Wireshark to capture traffic from my LG C5 and the only “scanning” it did was SSDP. Did they post any written article with further information on what it’s doing? Most if not all of what was detailed in the video can be opted out of;

https://www.pocket-lint.com/i-stopped-my-lg-tv-from-spying-on-me-by-adjusting-these-settings/

Should have used The Treaty of Canandaigua as their argument to the administration as to why they couldn’t change the name.

My Apple Watch is within 2% of the reading on the exercise bike and is noted as the most accurate in the study. I’d wager your exercise bike reading is pretty close to your actual calorie burn.

They did identify the specific facility in Mexico from which the outbreak originated. People just aren’t going to buy the other, perfectly safe shredded lettuce though, so why not give it away?

disk

Optical disc, not a magnetic disk.

It takes time to build out capacity to increase HDD production, but when operating margins are approaching 30%, somebody is going to want cash in. If the new reality is that every company wants to harvest and retain as much data as possible at all times in case it has potential as training data at some point in the future, then additional capacity will eventually be built to tap into that.

I know it sucks if you need storage now, but I think the smart decision is to hold off until the market stabilizes. You might even get lucky; the bubble might burst and the market will be flooded with cheap excess HDDs.

Ford’s $30,000 EV truck is supposed to be here fairly soon as well, although it looks like that will only be available as a crew cab, sadly.

A steamer is crucial for easy-to-peel hard-boiled eggs. I steam for 9 minutes for a not-fully-cooked center but you can steam for 12 minutes for fully cooked. Place the steamed eggs in an ice bath and transfer to the refrigerator for at least half an hour. This is the most reliable method I’ve found for peelability and consistent doneness.

You wouldn’t, but that’s what governments are effectively asking be done, lending validity to the analogy.

The article is about AWS data centers not AI compute specifically. That’s the cloud infrastructure for a lot of the web. The comparison to agriculture is about scale, not the importance of the Internet vs. agriculture. Using 0.011% of the water as the farms in Kansas to power 25% of the Internet is nothing.

The average for farm land is around 500,000 gallons per acre per year. Using the same amount of water as 5,000 acres of farmland to run >25% of the nation’s cloud resources isn’t enormous. Not that they couldn’t do better.

It is still far from commercially viable yet.

Solid-state sodium is still in the laboratory stage. People assumed Donut was claiming to have developed a solid-state sodium battery due to their “no lithium” statement, but they never specifically claimed they were using sodium.

All solid-state lithium is a bit further along. Korea has pilot plants producing full-sized EV batteries that are being used for testing before they do the final scale up to production. Chinese manufacturers are also basically at the same stage. Those will likely be available in production EVs by 2030.

I was thinking about those red states where they’re now eliminating the last remaining black districts. In so many red states the real election is the Republican primary, since whoever wins that will win the general no matter how abhorrent they are. So why don’t all the now effectively-disenfranchised voters start voting in the Republican primary for the least-awful Republican? I can’t imagine the reaction of Louisiana Republicans if busloads of elderly black people started showing up to “their” primary after church on Sunday.

Aluminum, steel and glass recycling all make sense and work perfectly well.

I get my healthcare through the ACA (Obama) and I got 30% of my solar PV system paid for by the IRA (Biden), so every single day my daily life benefits from the last two times we had Democratic presidents.

My state expanded mail-in voting during the pandemic and it’s so nice to just fill out a ballot at home. The Republicans have been fighting against it and now I have to include a color photocopy of my ID with it due to their fuckery.

You can screw my corpse too, if that’s your thing. I’ll be dead and won’t care.