People do this too when they suddenly get a wholesale offer on stupid things. My friend opened a business and shortly after he had thousands of bouncing balls in a closet for no fucking reason.
The only blunder in the story is not being able to come up with a recipe to use the canned tomatoes. Panini/bruschetta etc. are pretty common in cafe’s.
Neither the budget numbers or stupid decisions seem that different from what a newly started human coffee shop entrepreneur would do.
I’m not at all a fan of AI, but humans are stupid too.
The finger toothbrush is an actual product. It’s sold in pet stores.
China has about the same laws on property rights as elsewhere. It was introduced in 2007 which is why we see so many stories on funny “strong nail” houses from China.
It would be interesting to calculate the user’s value of the time wasted on this shit.
My guess is that online advertising has a negative return for society as a whole. It should be illegal.
The weight of a heavy electric Hummer is 4.5 metric tonnes.
The maximum allowed weight of a fully loaded cargo truck is 44 metric tonnes.
According to the fourth power law, this would make the impact of the truck more than 500 000 that of the Hummer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
Sure, the Hummer itself is already 16 times worse than a regular 1 ton car, but in the scale of things, the difference between any personal vehicle and a truck is about the same as whatever the truck is.
Aother interesting thing about roads is that they’re build to withstand the wear and tear from heavy vehicles.
This doesn’t seem interesting, until you also find out that the wear from all other vehicles is completely and utterly negligible. Doesn’t matter if you ride a bike, a motorcycle, car, electric car, pickup or SUV. None of the personal vehicles make a dent on the roads of any meaningful size, even if they make up a majority of the traffic.
Obviously we still need the roads for small vehicles, but the cost of constant maintenance all comes from cargo and busses.
If you see it this way, then almost all road construction is a hidden subsidy for the cargo industry who uses trucks instead rails or boats.
It would make a lot of economic sense for the society as a whole to demand fewer cargo trucks and more cargo rails.
the Start menu is getting a full rewrite in WinUI 3, which will make it 60% more responsive
Uh. I think I found the issue. A menu isn’t even supposed to have various degrees of responsiveness.
Autopilot is not AI. It’s basically a system that makes sure that some gyroscopes are aligned with whatever destination is typed in. It makes no artificial intelligent choices of any kind.
Air traffic controlling requires a lot more data processing. A lot of it could potentially be made or is already made with algorithms, provided that the data is based on trustworthy sensors and radars that are always up to date. They’re probably not, so humans need to sort out which data to trust and make decisions that sometimes conflict with the erroneous data.
It makes no sense to throw a language model at the task.
Insurance is worse than communism in this case.
Tax paid universal healthcare and healthcare insurance both work on the idea of socializing the cost.
The difference is that insurance companies also need to make a profit too feed the owners. Since they don’t actually produce anything that can make a profit, the only place they can grab the “profit” is by denying cover.
American healthcare insurance is exactly the same picture that is shown when people try to explain why communism doesn’t work.
No, only in Sweden. And if you look up someone, they will be notified of who did it.
Also, we’re kind of used to those prices, because most of it is tax. The changes in actual gas price (which are upsetting Americans now) are fractions of the usual price for us.
Of course we also complain about high prices, but it doesn’t break our budgets.
Then OP ought to change the second “to” to “will” to avoid confusion.
What if the system you know doesn’t make sense to you?
The columnist has always had a hard time with representative democracy. It’s not a surprise that he found his angle in this election too.
I’m not saying he’s wrong in his core beliefs, just that he’s extremely narrow-minded. This is the hammer calling everything a nail.
No doubt. But why does the farmer get the money? It would make more sense for the government to buy the land back for good.
That’s a nice idea, but it would be better if the farmers hadn’t bought that strip of field to begin with.
Farming is ridiculous like that.
Now the farmers are getting paid your tax euros because they once bought it, destroyed it and took no responsibility for it.
Is it really a reward not to be obstructed due to something you didn’t do?
It takes years to design a new car model. It’s quite a risk to bet on combustion engines at this point.
While the world wide adoption of EVs is only about 20% of all new car sales (for personal cars), the statistics for countries that were early adopters shows that this figure doesn’t just increase, it accelerates when it comes over 1%, which it is almost everywhere.
So, it might seem reasonable to bet on the type of car that sells 80% on the market now, but that market is going to look very difficult by the time the cars are ready for production. Consumers have spoken: They want to buy EVs.
That’s half a word.