Hydrogen is not the answer. Hydrogen is the question. No is the answer. Always. For literally any purpose you could possibly come up with other than fusion.
I'm with you regarding hydrogen as energy capture. It should be noted however that hydrogen may be relevant to displacing fossil fuels in chemical applications, such as in making steel.
Dubbing is just making movies worse than they have to be, no matter if it's humans or AIs doing the "work".
I prefer subtitled movies.
I prefer dubbed movies. Unless they're directed by Christopher Nolan.
A Brother Color Laser printer is the correct answer. Laser, because you don't want the potential mess, expense, and finickiness of ink. I got B/W, which has served us well, but if I were to do it again, I would get laser. Kids love printed photos even if they are super shitty low quality. Give them some joy.
Brother has a good reputation, is cheap, widely supported, and since it supports Apple's AirPrint super easy to print to it from Apple devices without configuration. It just shows up.
There is one annoyance you have to get rid of, disable Deep Sleep, which requires a hidden menu. Otherwise you have to manually wake the printer up to print wirelessly every time:
General Setup -> Ecology -> Sleep Time -> BACK and DOWN* simultaneously to enter secret menu -> Deep Sleep Off
*on the popular models. Check for the secret menu code before ordering your specific device.
Don’t buy an EV unless you have access to reliable home charging. Part of the EV lifestyle is starting your day with the desired State of Charge (SoC) and you leave all the public L2 and DC Fast Chargers for travelers and visitors to your town because you shouldn’t need them.
While that philosophy might exclude certain people from buying EVs, it’s not like owning an EV is critical for survival. Any car will do, but if you get yourself into a situation where you can live the EV lifestyle then you buy an EV. Don’t buy one first, then try to solve the problem of how to reliably charge it.
I own an EV and a home. It would be trivial and cheap (thanks to electric company rebate) to add a home charger. I have not bothered yet. Charging is too readily available in my midwestern town of 100K pop to bother.
Everybody's situation is unique. For many, home charging may be necessary. But it's not a requirement.
Check if your employer provides charging. See if there's charging around your home or anywhere where you drive once a week anyway. That's all you need.
Civilization VI on the iPad is a great port. I play PC and Xbox too. But if I had to choose just one thing, having a full quality PC game on an iPad mini to play anywhere with many, many hours of battery life is just perfect.
As a parent that has experience with Apple's parental controls, they are nevertheless better than what the competition gives you. Guided access is great for really little ones. And then Screen Time gives you the controls you actually want, they extend across devices, and you can manage them either from the device itself or from either parent device. As they get older you can back off control in a gradual and sensible fashion. All the while family purchases and Apple subscriptions are shared across family members.
It's weird, but the Kindle Fire Kids, which is explicitly designed for child use, isn't nearly as good as using an iPad mini.
Disclaimer: I don't own a Tesla.
The NACS (what Tesla called it after opening it up) is objectively the better plug. I hope it wins out. It's not like Europe and North America are using the same plug anyway (CCS 1 vs 2), while China and Japan have two yet different plugs. So we might as well choose the better plug while there's still a chance.
Thank you! Too much emotion in this debate, not enough science.
"Trapped" implies that valuable assets still exist. It's gone. Like putting your money with Madoff. Poof.
But I'm sure the hedge fund executives enriched themselves with fantastic, tax-preferred compensation while the scam was running. So what do they care. Say you're sorry and rip off the next group of investors. None of them are going to prison.
Wait, I'm confused. You're talking about crypto, or fiat currency?
Crypto is fiat. It has no commodity value.
In crypto's speedrun of banking history, this is 17th century goldsmith banking. You take custody of a reserve asset (gold, US dollars) and issue tradable notes in exchange (gold certs, stablecoins). This makes it easier for your customers to transfer custody of the underlying asset by trading the cert/stablecoin instead.
After a while a while you decide to make extra money by lending out the underlying reserve asset, trusting that not everyone will come to you to redeem at once. A little while after that, you don't even bother to loan out the reserve asset, but instead you just start creating new certs/stablecoins out thin air and lend those out. Pocket as much profit as you can, before sooner or later a run destroys your bank revealing that you can't cover your tradable asset.
These aren't exchanges, they are banks. They have been compared to the wild west, but that's totally unfair. Wildcat banks were far better run and stable than crypto. Yet we did away with those because they kept hurting consumers. Nowadays we only let so-called sophisticated investors take risks like that with hedge funds. And nobody should be under any illusion that those provide stability or the ability to withdraw funds in a crisis.
Banks are not subject to runs in the way that you think. Banks have *many* financing options available. Taking deposits is the *cheapest* finance mechanism, but it's far from the only one. Banks can borrow from each other. Banks can access repo markets. Banks can show up at the Federal Reserve discount window. As long as a bank is *solvent*, it can find ways to deal with *liquidity*. Now some of them are expensive enough that the bank *might* become insolvent. But liquidity and solvency are different concepts. If a bank *does* experience a severe run, the FDIC will "wind down" the bank in some way or other and depositors will be made whole. Tether is nothing like banking.
Tether is nothing like regulated banking. It does strike me as akin to wildcat banking.
For those unfamiliar with Chegg, it's one of the, if not the, largest online cheating platform. There is some free access to cheating materials, there is a subscription for better access, and you can pay more for personalized cheating support.
The usual codewords used are "homework help" for just the cheating materials and "tutoring" to have someone do the work for you.
One hundred percent agree. Only redeeming quality is that they will take stuff down pretty quickly. I had a student post my entire final MATLAB project up (8 different coding questions, all authored by me so they can't find similar solutions on the web). Wrote a little take down request (my intellectual property, blah blah) had the provost sign it, and they took down the content within hours. Also provided me the email address of each of the users who posted it. It ended up three different contacts. One of my student's emails... their parent's email... their brother's email. Guess the family that cheats together stays together.
Were there meaningful consequences for the student? I assume not but would love to be wrong.
For those unfamiliar with Chegg, it's one of the, if not the, largest online cheating platform. There is some free access to cheating materials, there is a subscription for better access, and you can pay more for personalized cheating support.
The usual codewords used are "homework help" for just the cheating materials and "tutoring" to have someone do the work for you.
- Zero-emission vans, SUVs, and trucks with MSRPs up to $80,000 qualify
- Electric sedans priced up to $55,000 MSRP qualify
So even more regulatory pressure to make every family car with a hatch an SUV rather than a station wagon.
After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
