I am against AI and LLMs but the reason is quite simple, a lot of modern writing is offical bullshit to get stuff approved. Research grants, medical therapy approval, offical work mail that has to sound professional, job applications (insofar that noone cares what you write, they want a standard template and pick a candidate along qualifications anyways.). All these texts cost a lot of time and it makes no difference if a human or some copy machine writes it. And tbh. were it not for all the disadvantages of modern LLMs i would use it for the exact same reason, because sitting at a grant application for two hours while others do it in 5min is fucking useless and exhausting.
BYD is rumouredo introduce them next year. They filed multiple patents this year and the rumours have been ongoing for years that 2027 is the target year.
Me living in Texas, "Man i would really love some french fries, seems like i have to take a quick trip to canada to get some because apparently Costco is the only company with french fries"
Seeing how easy it is to land on the sex offender list (e.g. public peeing at night near a school) I have to say I agree.
Plus if you have done a crimr received your just punishment it should not affect your future job chances, else the justice system is not working.
Article is a bit unclear if this includes only under 30 oder under 35 but "HPV vaccination has prevented nearly 200 young women from dying from cervical cancer in England". Plus the many more cervical cancer cases it will prevent after 35. (plus anal, penis and pharyngeal carcinomas)
But the period between when costs exceed revenue and when difficulty falls low enough to restore profitability is where the damage happens, both to miners and to the spot market that absorbs their forced selling.
Ohh no, the poor people investing in a useless product are not making money while they waste energy and ressources. Next you are gonna tell me that gold and diamond prices are also dropping and some poor investors wont get richer by it.
Funfact: sperm contains protamin, the antidote for heparin which is used for anti coagulatory properties in medicine. During cardio vascular surgery you get a shit ton of heparin so they can perform the open heart surgery (so the heart lung machine doesn't get clogged). After the surgery you get protamin so you do not bleed to death. This protamin is often sourced from salmon sperm. If you have strong fish allergies you could theoretically react on it but it's not very likely.
While i agree with the sentiment v-bucks are not 100% profit. People buy v-bucks for skins, these skins have to be produced by people who typically don't do that for free. And for ongoing sells of v-bucks fortnite has to get regular updates, one of the selling points of fortnite are the regular seasons and events, these are not free to produce. Obviously they do all of this to increase profit but 100% profit ratio is a strange take.
Or e.g. in my last appartment we had an weird electrical water heater that didn't work that well. I was able to easily estimate the extra cost it procured by estimating water volume, temperature difference and electrical price, most annoying par was converting from joule to calories because it is not base 10. (would have taken >3years so not worth it for me)
I do stuff like this all the time. Like if i bought a pool i wanted to estimates how much water it needes to estimate all the follow up costs, if i am cooking something i often switch between kg and g, if am measuring things i switch between cm, m and mm depending on what i am currently measuring all the time. E.g. i needed a new working plate in my kitchen, i wanted it precut to fit exactly in after moving some cabinets while still aligning the sink. The whole space was measured in meters, but the individual cuts were all measured in milimeters. I was able to do all of that in 5 minutes with one piece of paper for sketching and my head. (And it fitted down to the milimeter in the end).
Should you be allowed to have children if you are a known carrier of some bad but not inmediatly deadly risk gene like fragile x, chorea huntington, mucoviszidosis, diabetes 1 (let's ignore the worsening of fragile x and chorea huntingtion across generations for a moment)? Should you be allowed to have children if you have trisomie 21, or some other mental disability? If you say no i think you are ableist and can't comprehend that people with special needs are still people that can be happy and can have desires.
If you say yes why can't two cousins have a child? What if they have two forms of birth control and just want to fuck? What if they are the same sex? I my experience most people who are against two cousins having sex do not give a flying fuck about some theoretical chile but just think it's icky. Which is a fair feeling you are allowed to have but should not be basis for a law.
Tbf gold demand is artifical, total mined gold by humanity is approx 27m³, used in electronics is 1m³, rest is jewelry and storage. Value of gold essentially boils down to "it has value and is pretty"
Something i have thought about for some time. Do we only have one consciousness? Like if you literally split your brain in half via operation suddenly you got two brain halves tha't can not communicate with each other in any way. Do you now have 2 personalities and consciousness? If yes, why don't you have them before? Maybe you always have two but they are just in agreement. And why stop at two?
There are some interviews with siamese twins (the teacher sisters for example) and it's so interesting to see how they talk. They finish each other sentences which is natural i guess but they also say "ehh" when the other one doesn't know a word. It's like a single person talking. I am not arguing they are distinctive persons. Just some random thoughts.
I would argue, that the reason why the cat choose this spot is partially because it is the deepest spot, eliminating the uncomfortable slope it would have if it sat 1 meter to the right. Thus there is a causation, the roof shape causes the cat to sit at this spot.
Contact info gets hashed in a clever way which doesn't send your info (although i guess phone number hashes could be brute forced?)
Meta data is also not available. They have no way to know who you are talking to. The only info they have is that you logged ij with a ip at a time. I believe they can't even reliable track how many messages you send. Even with a compromised server most of the magic happens in the open source client side app so that they can't gather very much. I understand your concerns about popular centralized services but i really believe that they are unfound with signal.
AFAIK you still need a modem with OpenWRT and DSL? Do you have a source that you do not need it?