The turbine is about equally difficult to make as the reactor, it doesn’t make sense to waste one on a reactor that can’t max it out. Small modular reactors work great for boats though, where size is a bigger factor, and the Navy is actually pretty good at making them.
GameStop could actually help solve some problems eBay has. GameStop has stores everywhere that can serve as pickup locations to avoid theft problems. GameStop has humans that can help with scam offerings where fake items were sent, or verify an item is intact before returning so a seller can’t lie about it being broken. eBay can become a supply source for collectables or whatever products GameStop wants to focus on in stores. They could sell a membership that lets you have items shipped to your store for inspection before purchasing or something like that.
Andor is one of the best things Disney has done for Star wars, but it’s far from perfect. If you watched it between Obiwan and Ashoka it looked like a masterpiece.
I think the bigger issue is that most of the show isn’t that good. Less than half the seasons are good, and the lows from the bad seasons are really low. Watching it on a streaming scenario exposes this a lot more than reruns of the good parts.
That’s great for the 80%. It doesn’t help the 10-15% where a road trip becomes significantly longer, or when you don’t have access to home charging on vacation or a weekend trip. I find a way to work around a once or twice a year event that’s not great for an EV, but I can’t justify a car that doesn’t work for me once or twice per month.
The price is definitely the bigger issue for EVs, but even then they definitely need to either roughly double range or halve charging time from 20% to 80%. Right now, they don’t quite cover enough of users needs, especially at the price. I need a vehicle that covers 90-95% of my use cases, and EVs are sitting closer to 80%.
This has nothing to do with keys. This would be like Sony listing a basic PlayStation on their website that was $100 cheaper than other stores and Walmart threatening to remove PlayStation from their stores. This is about Steam (like many retailers) ensuring that they aren’t being undercut by other retailers.
This isn’t about steam keys, it’s about a most favored nation clause. It’s a fairly common clause when selling across multiple platforms. It can be considered anticompetitive in some cases. It’s also pretty standard in retail agreements. It’s why name brand products are generally the same price everywhere.
The same thing would happen if Walmart found Sony was selling PlayStations cheaper on their website than in store.
The fact there’s a fairly large amount of people eating raw meat and milk and there isn’t widespread illnesses in those communities is an endorsement of how safe our food industry is.
Long Covid was also a goldmine for the medical quackery institutions.
I like my professor’s view in AI from over a decade ago. AI is the term non commercially viable research. Once something becomes viable it gets rebranded, like automatic text recognition, computer vision, machine learning, llms. It worked great until generative AI was good enough to impress average people, then it became a great way to attract venture capital. It’s still not quite viable so the rule holds, but we are in a very messy and public era where several products are likely to emerge and separate from the AI title.
First rule of rocketry, always assume it will explode.
If a jury can’t reach a unanimous verdict it’s called a hung jury. Essentially it’s a mistrial and the case can be retried.
I’ve been called several times. Failing to show up gets more extreme as the level of court increases. County and city courts tend to have smaller penalties and pay less than federal courts. The pay is basically a joke in all cases. Jury duty is generally a lot of waiting for things to happen, and it’s pretty boring.
The first time I was called in for a criminal rape case, I believe this was federal. The victim was under 18, but over the age of consent. The issue was around her being mentally handicapped. I was removed during voir dire by the prosecution, but it took until the second day. The first day was mostly sitting and waiting, I don’t remember if either side got to remove anyone the first day.
The second time was a county court. All cases settled that day before trials. So it just wasted a few hours.
The third time was another federal court. It was a civil case of a prisoner against a guard who destroyed his legal documents searching for “contraband.” I was part of the jury for this one, it was a 2 day long trial and we took an extra half day of deliberation. Ultimately we were a hung jury.
This is probably a good thing as these tend to be shit jobs with high turnover. Dealing with angry people for hours on end isn’t great for anyone long term.
The line I like is “you can’t outrun your fork.” Weight loss is 99% about the kitchen, bodybuilding is probably about 75% the kitchen.
There already is a blood spot test for rare but serious diseases that states do. It depends on the state though for a specific list of what gets tested.
This is generally true for most highly commodified products. There’s only a handful of places that make the product and they tend to make all the brands. What tends to be the difference is the brand name will get the highest tolerance product, then generic brands get filled with what’s left. Sometimes it’s exactly the same, sometimes it’s smaller or more broken pasta, or cheese powder with under or over amounts of seasoning and fillers.
Disease requires mass concentration of people which was less common in America. They did transfer syphilis to Europe though.
Copper is way easier to fence and way easier to steal. The RAM and NVME aren’t getting installed until the building has functional security. The mile of copper wire to run power is locked in a trailer and might not even have a permanent fence around it yet.