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For instance, trucks must meet certain maximum weight requirements to be legal on roads due the damage they might otherwise cause. Lithium based batteries store much less energy for a unit of weight, so designers must make a harsh trade off between cargo capacity and range. Toyota claims that their prototype has about twice the range than the BYD 8TT, which is an all electric class 8 semi trailer.

Depending on how the development of batteries progresses, Hydrogen based tracks may end up being the most effective way forward. At least, till there is a fundamental advancement in alternative energy storage mediums.

Why is nobody impressed by the future?

So, yeah PyTorch is correctly serving as a 'glue'.

https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/commit/0763d366e...

100x seems like a pretty generous cap to me.

> <meta data-rh="true" name="robots" content="noarchive, max-image-preview:large"/>

So, OP must be using some other means to retrieve the page.

In the case of NY Times, they're likely just grabbing the non-archived version and performing an operation similar to 12ft ladder.

Google cache fetching seems like it might be an effective strategy for a site like Washington Post that have extremely effective paywall enforcement (till your turn off JS), but also allow Google cache.

The sad truth is that drones are inherently dual use and there's nothing that can be done to stop that.

Bitcoin seems like a poor inflation hedge to me.

However, it does seem to be working out well for them. Joke is on me, I guess.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/8/15/sri-lankans-make...

https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2022/04/12/bizarre-the-fb...

Seems inhumane.

> The term synergy was refined by R. Buckminster Fuller, who analyzed some of its implications more fully[9] and coined the term synergetics.[9]

> * A dynamic state in which combined action is favored over the difference of individual component actions.

> * Behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately, known as emergent behavior.

> * The cooperative action of two or more stimuli (or drugs), resulting in a different or greater response than that of the individual stimuli.

It's reasonable to assume that these folks may have significantly reduced NZ's imports of SA wine for at least a while.

I think it had more to do with 'Moore' rhyming with the word 'law'.

There hasn't been a radical shift in the use of the word 'law' over time.

It was really a tragic fall.

You may ask why I'd need a timer in my web browser for 5 days, and you be right to do so.

Here you go.

Pretty rich, considering they're licensing this commercially.

Linux has supported AMD CPUs for decades and AMD has engineers creating kernel patches to ensure their CPUs work correctly on Linux.

Linux support for Apple chips is in its infancy and what little support it does have has been provided by a ragtag team of volunteers that have reversed engineered the M-series chips.

It's reasonable to assume that the AMD chip might be at a slight advantage on Linux.

In the meantime, patients will be switching from drugs with known efficacy to wonder drugs with potentially no clinical evidence of having a medicinal effect.

> Could there be ineffective drugs? Sure. But as doctors and patients learn, such drugs would disappear over time.

Trying to do that piece meal won't work. You need controlled statistical studies to establish such things.

> doctors must still evaluate the drug to find out how efficacious it is for each particular patient.

Generally informed by subsequent clinical trials. They don't just go with their gut.

> Btw Ivermectin is FDA approved. I am not sure why you bring that up?

You know very well why. In fact it kind of makes my point. Patients are attempting to switch from a treatment regime with known efficacy (vaccines) to one with highly questionable efficacy (Ivermectin). If you follow through with your plans to deregulate the pharmaceuticals industry, you'll see a lot more of that.

As already demonstrated, Bose was able to sell what was effectively a hearing aid in this new category, but without making any claims about assisting with hearing loss.

I guess what you're suggesting is that manufacturers should be able to make any claims they please with the FDA being relegated to a position of endorsing those claims.

Nothing that has happened in the past few years has given me any confidence that such a system would work (see: Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Bleach, intravenous UV light, Chelation, et al.).

Yes. To the extent that there are regulatory gaps today, they're almost exclusively filled with quack medicines.

I'm sure the market might work it out in the long-run, but in the meantime people will suffer from inadequate (or even detrimental) medical care.

You seem to accept this logic for drugs, but quack mechanical devices can cause harm as well. For instance, an inappropriate hearing aid could hasten hearing loss.

> What about costs and benefits, too?

We should definitely work to improve the regulatory process, but just giving up on the whole concept of regulation seems counterproductive.

Companies can already sell what is effectively a hearing aid[1] without FDA approval. They just can't market it as such.

There's already too much quackery in the world today, we shouldn't be inviting more of it.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bose-Hearphones-Conversation-Enhanc...

I'm supposed to believe the planet's alpha predators willing make themselves subservient to smaller, but more furry beta predators?

Yeah, they are.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/453

> The legislature can't even stop companies from being treated as persons which any sane person will tell you is unreasonable or illogical.

I've never gotten why people are so opposed to the idea of corporations being treated as unnatural persons for certain purposes.

Companies are owned and operated by people with rights, so some of those rights transfer to the company. But, the owners agree to have some of their rights qualified when acting through a corporation in exchange for enjoying limited liability.

For instance, imagine you own a house under your own name. The government can't build a stadium on top of it without just compensation. Why should it be any different if you happened to have purchased that house through a corporation?

Corporations were a relatively recent invention in the context of the common law and treating them as qualified unnatural persons allowed them to integrate into the legal system without creating an entire parallel system. As a developer, I find it a pretty cute retrofit to the model.