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Western nations reducing will DO nothing - it is too small a fraction of greenhouse emissions. The large fraction is coming form india and china. And they do not have electric everything. they don't even have running water in most places.

Your view is outdated. China is building renewable power generation at an extremely high rate, and also exporting cheap solar panels worldwide. China has a higher share of electric vehicles in cities than most of Europe and America does. It appears their emissions are now starting to go down as a result, although the economy keeps growing.

India still has a long way to go, but China is doing the right things. Same can't be said about USA under current administration.


China's solar industry has some growth pangs right now but will recover: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/chinas-solar-... (Aug 2025) + https://archive.is/6hCFU + (May) https://www.carbonbrief.org/chart-why-chinas-solar-boom-is-s... (June)

Most individual and collective consumption driving polluting production is overwhelmingly traditional western/first-world economies, though China is catching up.


>Same can't be said about USA under current administration.

The reason half the population won't take climate alarmists seriously are statements like this.

Saying the West, generally, or the US, specifically "aren't doing anything" is ridiculous.

https://ourworldindata.org/profile/co2/united-states


That chart conveniently ends at the end of the Biden Administration.


https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-... Western developed countries have emitted 54% of all CO2 in history.

India and China today emit more than Europe and North America combined. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

China's solar panel and battery manufacturing industries are humanity's best chance of "electric everything". Without them we're all cooked.


"for entertainment value, when i'd like to see how an enthusiastic 5-year-old would react to the task."

Your 5 year old is going to a heck of a kindergarten.

It isn’t blocked. It is on for me and the site loaded fine.

It was at the time. Now it’s loading fine. In the 403 screen it specifically called out iCloud privacy.

It was on for me again, 6 hours later.

Ah, another domain for the blacklist.


1. Lie about making thinking machines smarter than humans

2. Get treated like you actually did what you claimed, and face consequences

3. ???

4. Profit


Seems to be: replace permanent Nd magnet with an electromagnet.

There is something... weird about this. this tech has existed.... a long time. And I am not familiar with what is common in electric cars so may be missing something obvious but thought this was already how it was done. let me explain my limited understanding.

With ac motors electromagnets can be used in the rotor. there is even a super clever way to do it where the electromagnet in the rotor is driven wirelessly via induction. there are some downsides but having no physical sliding electrical connection to the rotor is a huge upside. The ac can be dynamically formed from DC via high speed switching(transistors, in industry often called a VFD).

Due to the upsides of ac induction motors I sort of assumed this was already what was found in cars. I am a bit surprised to find out there were rare earth magnets in the first place.


Permanent magnet motors are simpler and cheaper to make, at least in the small (yes, small --- there are electric motors in the MW range in industrial applications, which are themselves larger than an average car) sizes found in EVs.

AC motors are not magic. The core is essentially just a coil with one turn, so it can generate only a very limited magnetic field. So they have to be bulkier for a given power density and generally slightly less efficient.

They even use regular carbon brushes to supply power to the magnet. Munro has a teardown video for a similar motor for Nissan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFmp9ODkCA8

So does it consume significantly more electricity?

Not really. The excitation power is a small fraction of the total.

The problem is that it makes the rotor far less mechanically robust and also heavier. That's why these motors are less powerful.


Any expert in any field will gladly tell you that ML sucks for specifics of their field (and it does). But if you are not an expect in that field, it looks convincing enough to make you think that maybe it is OK for that field, and your field is somehow unique. It is not. Any expect in any field will confirm to you that ML produces plausible-looking slop which is occasionally completely wrong. This is the case for all fields.

I think we can all agree that MiTM is a valid attack vector and this should have paid out the bounty. AMD won't do it, but perhaps we can crowdsource it - the dude deserves it. Join me in doing this: https://ko-fi.com/mrbruhh (identical link to the one in the write up, feel free to verify).

I started it with $100 - https://ko-fi.com/transactions/03df753c-09b0-4972-8e53-adf06...


I want the opposite: a news app where i can completely remove all sports and celebrity trash from being mentioned, referred to, or in any way appearing to exist.

Hey look, the guy who calls it Sports Ball. Everyone loves that guy.

> In Germany extra-EU immigrants are on average net contributors to welfare state too.

All the data I find shows them contributing less than natives, and even MORE less if corrected for age. https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/232517



But this paper is not about extra EU migrants but all migrants. And even then if we control for age they say they are contributing less than natives.

I think it would be very odd that less educated people on average contribute more than natives, especially if they are at risk of being discriminated when looking for a job.


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