>"To run it they'd hired Collin Burns, who'd worked"

They'd?
Who'd?

"Had" is not needed in either of these cases. Try: "To run it, they hired Collin Burns, who worked"

What is with all these strange contractions lately? And especially using "there's" with plural subjects. English can be difficult, but this should not be difficult for an "editor".

Obviously we aren't expecting a merit hire from the current administration; but this seems like a weird move even by their low standards of thuggish demands for compliance and sniveling loyalists. Hegseth is having a tantrum over anthropic allegedly getting in the way of the DoD fulfiling his fantasies of masculine adequacy; so you fire the guy who left anthropic to work for you?

Isn't the whole point of treating any differences of opinion as personal insults to be dealt with regardless of their legality, while coddling loyalists regardless of their actions, to encourage people to obey you rather than others? Especially if this guy wasn't in a position to personally change Anthropic's contract with the DoD what lesson are you conveying by punishing him anyway? "We might just fuck you over because we don't like your old boss" seems like an actively counterproductive line because it essentially tells a nontrivial number of people that compliance isn't worth it because they'll be punished anyway; rather than encouraging them to turn on whoever your enemies are in order to be rewarded.

because only a few at every level of government liked them *and* their legal status is very dubious

There, there. With enough of China-sponsored whipping up, the liking of a nuclear weapons research lab can be sunk overnight just as well. Indeed, this very story describes a symptom of that happening.

the rule of law is excruciatingly imperiled atm

"At the moment"? Laughing out loud...

I'm not seeing how that applies as a response to my post then. There's 4 cars there, presumably one wants to charge all of them if they're EVs?
Also, nothing says that you need to replace all 4 (or more?) with EVs at the same time. Logical move would be to replace 1, get used to it, and if it works out well, consider a 2nd.

Recharges at a supercharger is closer to 15 minutes today than 40. I said and meant 15 minutes.

This effectively is a fight between two branches of government, one federal, the other municipal

Federal government is at quite a disadvantage on local level — as ICE have found out dealing with other (or the same) anti-Americans.

David just might defeat Goliath

David was neither an insurrectionist, nor given aid or comfort to the enemies of his government.

I think you have the power-dynamic all backwards.

You do. Government's — even local town government's — power over businesses is immense and quite literally keeps us all from having good things.

The only method of having the same power throughout the entire charge is to limit the amount of power output when the battery is full. With gasoline, I get the same power output regardless of how much is left in the tank until the tank is entirely empty.

That being said, if I had a garage, I would likely own at least one electric car. I do own plenty of other electric vehicles that I can store and charge inside.

Your data from [connected apps] isn't used to train our models

Why not — and why are people so worked up about it?

Do you resent a junior colleague learning from you too? Would you like employers to starting stupulating a right to erase memories of a departing employee upon termination of employment — lest, heaven forbid, he profits from the experience gained working at one place during the rest of his career?

There are special cases, but in general, of course conversations and collaboration should be enriching for both sides.

A VERY insightful choice. I suspect he is too dumb to understand it, even if his brain wasn't addled by old age.

Only humans can play that game. Code from AI is not copyrightable.

It is different because of "who" is writing the code. If I do it, I can claim copyright. If an AI does it, it can not claim copyright.

The laws will change to allow this; but, currently, AI work can not be copyrighted.

I do not see how they are extracting anything unless they are also lying about the code being generated from an AI.

Code generated by an AI can not be copyrighted. Richard Stallman's dream; however, Malus absolutely WILL lie about the source code so they can retain copyright. The crimes almost write themselves at this point.

No. It is not. Once an apartment building is built, there is no further maintenance or upgrades. An apartment complex was just completed near to me. It has exactly zero charging available. These buildings typically last 50 years or more.

Long story short, unless you live in a house, an electric vehicle is going to be an albatross on your neck for your lifetime.

LOL. They will never do that. They will just bring in more laws and tariffs to protect their business interests. Same old song and dance. There will be no further innovation, there will only be consolidation of power.