The article says that they contain NaCrO₂. That means that, by mass, they are 21% Na, 49% Cr, and 30% O. So I’m curious: why are they called sodium batteries, and not chromium batteries?

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I can’t tell whether you’re being downvoted because people don’t like the china-dog-eating stereotype, or because this is not the correct answer to “why China?”.

It’s hard for me to forget the video with a pile of dogs skinned alive and still moving.

There are so many precious details. The look of jealousy on the dog’s face as the dolphin-man-kebab and his woman are copulating. The dog-baby nursing. The five-o’clock shadow on the lonely dolphin-man-kebab.

Striving to maximize profit is what companies do. Blaming them is not useful. Instead, advocate for and promote government policies that would disincentivize fossil fuel use, like carbon taxes.

The whole Linux??

I’m not sure what PETA was thinking here… I’d reckon that it would be unlikely for people who respond to the proto-fascist propaganda style to consider going vegan.

What do you mean by “evaporation cooling”? A fraction of the water evaporates to provide cooling, a fraction is discharged as purge to prevent solute accumulation, and the rest is recycled? I thought the main reason that datacenters consume as much water as they do is when they don’t recycle the water, and just use it once and then discharge it (no evaporation at all).

This is super dumb. People will just Google their questions instead, and get worse results.

Also that the president has authority over the military (as opposed to Congress), because “you can’t have a coup if your executive is already a dictator” taps head

I agree that the literal text is what matters. There have been some neat attempts to write laws as code, which would allow them to be tested for constitutionality, for correctness, and also how they would fare in extreme circumstances. Unfortunately, I am concerned that even if laws were code (like a function that accepts parameters and returns a criminal sentence, if any), the laws could still be exploited be providing bogus inputs. I’m assuming that there would still be a corruptible being enforcing the law, whether human or strong AI.

No one should expect any legal document to be bulletproof, but the real problem is that the threshold to fix bugs in the constitution is so high that the bugs are rarely fixed.

Yeah the pardon mechanism is pretty much a zero-day vulnerability.

The Senate should be abolished. The existence of 2 legislative chambers, both of which need to approve each piece of legislation, is an obvious flaw that leads to deadlock and cynicism about “government not working” (rightfully so), and often lets both parties plausibly blame the other. No rational consensus algorithm involves an even number of peers.

Of course, the Senate will never be abolished, because doing so would require 2/3 of the Senate to approve its own abolition, which no rational Senator would vote for. So we’ll just have to wait for the US government lose a war to a foreign adversary or some sort of revolution.

I had a discussion with my boss today about potential ways to write code with AI and have confidence in the results without reviewing every line. You’d also have to automate the reviews in some way, and therefore also a way to confirm that the reviewer AIs are working properly, etc. The conversation discouraged me because it made me feel like I’ll end up being a manager of AIs who write the code and test cases, and I’ll just be an ape who manually tests some of the behavior before approving it for release. This is essentially what managers have been doing with human development and QA engineers in the past, but even so, I have a really hard time letting go and not reviewing every line of code myself.

It could just be that RusticLagers is saying the the woman is beautiful enough that countries could go to war over her.

I find it hilarious for a cyclist to be an anarchist. What do they think would happen without bike lanes and laws against hit-and-runs? Chaos and death.

PSA: If your router has a guest network feature, enable it, and put all of your IOT devices on it. Unlike the main network, guest networks are typically configured such that each device on the guest network can only access the internet, and not other devices on the guest network, nor the router, itself.

TIL Adele knows sign language