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silence7 ,

Here’s a gift link you can edit into the URL in your post so everybody can access the article

silence7 OP ,

Sure, but cars have a useful life of about 20 years. Using only old cars is not a long term solution

silence7 OP ,

Yes, they can be repaired but it stops being cost-effective eventually. So almost everybody eventually replaces old cars

silence7 OP ,

None of them unfortunately

silence7 OP ,

You can, but the result is that a bunch of navigation, tire pressure monitoring, and other features break

Game of clones: Science is immortalizing Argentina’s top polo horses (wapo.st)

the extent to which this polo-obsessed nation has already fundamentally transformed the sport and the nature of horse breeding was evident on the field at the Argentine Open in Palermo in late November. As the players and the clones watched a video montage memorializing the late original champion mare, her name flashed across...

How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent (www.nytimes.com)

In the past, the government would make examples of a few individuals, some prominent; now it is practicing widespread censorship. This year, with antiwar speech in public largely eliminated, the records show that authorities remained intent on stamping out criticism expressed online and in private. More than 3,000 cases involved...

HVDC Networks Come to Europe | New technology is making possible the first multiterminal DC system outside of China (spectrum.ieee.org)

The 260-kilometer, 320-kilovolt high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system, based on technology from Hitachi Energy, in Zurich, marks a milestone in an ongoing transformation of the European power grid: It will plug into the first truly dynamic multiterminal HVDC network in Europe.

silence7 OP ,

One - the Nevada Test Site. There’s a monthly tour of it from Las Vegas.

The US has shifted non-detonation nuclear stockpile verification, and hasn’t set one off since the 1992.

silence7 OP ,

27 years is a long time. Full replacement or retrofit is doable in that kind of time.

Saudi Arabia Is Trying to Block a Global Deal to End Fossil Fuels, Negotiators Say (www.nytimes.com)

The Saudi delegation has flatly opposed any language in a deal that would even mention fossil fuels — the oil, gas and coal that, when burned, create emissions that are dangerously heating the planet. Saudi negotiators have also objected to a provision, endorsed by at least 118 countries, aimed at tripling global renewable...

silence7 OP ,

The rules on the talks require consensus, and the president of the talks is an oil executive from another petrostate and likely to interpret a requirement for consensus as a requirement for unanimity

FDA Approves World’s First Crispr Gene-Editing Drug for Sickle-Cell Disease | Landmark decision heralds a new type of medicine that can tackle genetic conditions that are hard to treat (www.wsj.com)

The key thing about this kind of therapy is that it’s not a drug you keep on taking - it’s a one-time thing which permanently cures the disease.

silence7 OP ,

The pricing is higher than you’re describing - about 2 million dollars, which is still cheaper than paying for ongiong treatment over the course of a person’s life.

It’s priced to be attractive to corporate-sponsored insurance plans, not for individuals to pay out of pocket.

silence7 OP ,

The insurer pays for it by not having to cover the expense of treating the disease anymore. It’s an incredibly expensive disease to manage as a chronic condition. People who have sickle cell are going to have to have budgeted money to cough up their yearly deductible in any case. (Skipping out on paying medical bills is also a possibility)

And yes, I agree that not everybody will get treatment quickly because of the high cost.

silence7 OP ,

The paper it links to does in detail: by asking it to repeat “poem” forever

silence7 OP ,

They gave OpenAI 60 days notice before publishing so that they could add a new guardrail. That’s surely what happened.

silence7 OP ,

There is some history of limiting the reach of actual national government sponsored influence campaigns like this. It hasn’t been perfect, but it hasn’t been zero either.

silence7 OP ,

It’s not really protected though; companies you interact with are using it to target ads.

silence7 OP ,

Your boss cares the moment somebody starts to unionize the shop.

silence7 , (edited )

These things also all strip off the tokens which make gift links work

Edit looks like I was wrong on this

silence7 ,

Tested New York Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, and Nature, and they seemed to work (unlike the one built-in on Mastodon, which fails on all of those)

It however did not however strip all the tracking parameters - some of the stuff indicating that a link was shared by an Android user from the New York Times didn’t get stripped off.

Eg: www.nytimes.com/…/punk-museum-las-vegas.html?unlo…

kept the smid=nytcore-android-share

silence7 ,

Here’s a gift link you can edit into your post so people don’t hit the paywall

silence7 ,

This is incredibly concerning because he’s also planning to purge the civil service and military of anybody who might object. It’s a recipe for a rapid and total end to democracy in the US.

silence7 OP ,

yeah. What they’re not talking about so much (but which can also help) is keeping the temperature down while frying. Some of the newer induction stoves and hot plates have temperature sensors so you can reliably keep temperatures just below the point where the oil starts to smoke and produce a lot of particulates.

silence7 OP ,

Get therapy for the noise fear and use the hood.

silence7 OP ,

Was not aware.

There are quieter hoods out there - lots which are a lot quieter than a typical vacuum cleaner. Tough to choose if you’re a renter though.

silence7 OP ,

Here’s the thing: it costs a lot to replace a water heater, and they tend to fail after 20 or 30 years. It’s completely OK to say ‘spend this way instead of that way’ when people are forced to spend anyways

silence7 OP ,

If methane gas is cheap because you’re in the US, don’t count on it staying that way; there are a ton of export terminals under construction, and when completed, they’ll raise domestic prices in the US to match those on the world market, which are 2-3x higher.

silence7 OP ,

I’m expecting US methane gas prices to rise to match the much higher global LNG price due to the large number of export terminals under construction.

silence7 OP ,

Those look cool but very expensive compared with most ebikes

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