They deployed some in Japan, but it turned out that even the low temperature ones were not significantly cheaper or better than the rapidly improving Chinese lithium ion ones.

Toyota may be in the same position. They have been promising this for a long time, but if you look at their claims from a few years ago they aren't really any better than what CATL and BYD are shipping today. Theoretically longer lifespan perhaps, but batteries already outlast the rest of the car. BYD is selling cars that charge at 1000kW, so speed isn't really an issue. Modern chemistries are very hard to ignite. Chances are their tech will be expensive when it arrives, so not very competitive.

The urge to reproduce is arguably the core motivating force of living things. To suggest it's narcissism if the person has been dealt a less than ideal hand seems a little misguided. They're gonna try to reproduce pretty much no-matter-what but also, unless the problem if immediately terminal, there's always hope. Gene expression varies based on environment - they are a palette of available colours to be chosen from as needed - not every picture produced from that palette is the same.

I'd buy this game if reasonably priced :-)

So, sanctions are coming? Extract everything of value before it's too late?

Buy now, pay later.

Are we really at the point where killing historic racists who would otherwise kill you is controversial?

It's probably just been delayed for about 5 years, for political reasons.

I'm not sure extension writers care all that much about Firefox now. Compatibility is nice to have, but given the tiny market share I think most of them are concentrating on Chrome-based browsers. I fear that ad-blockers will stagnate as a result.

This feature sounds useful until you realize that you can't trust the summary, so it's largely useless.

Many years ago someone contacted me about developing something like this, but with a gambling aspect. The idea was that you bought it, and if you could solve it you won a cash prize. It wasn't quite like a Rubik's cube, it worked a little differently, but looked similar.

I told them it was impossible to secure it against being hacked, and given that money was involved that was inevitable.

Here's the thing, Intel loves to be the one that sets the standard. They do because it provides them with a dominant position which they can then leverage. However, in order to do that, not only do you need to have an implementation, you need a reason for developers to give a shit about your implementation. If it can't be used for multiple platforms or if it's total shit for non-Intel chips then why the fuck would any developer use it?

Here's what's more likely to happen: Intel will develop it's own partially closed source libraries that are specifically optimized to their chips and nobody will use them.

The only viable alternative (that developer will actually use) is looking at existing APIs/frameworks and submitting optimizations for Intel chips. Doing so means you will not have the dominant position and can't be used as leverage.

Honestly, they could go with the compatibility route and it would be better for more people. However, I know Intel's greed and their greed is telling them to sabotage their own efforts which means later they will be surprised when their code is largely ignored.

They are contacting their representatives and offices, not everyday people. This isn't spam.

Which is actually really cool from an evolutionary perspective. It allows for deeper solution of 'fitness maximisation' because runtime (environment, activities, cooperation with others) have an effect.

The biggest single factor in how long someone lives is genetic

This sounds true but actually isn't. I've heard figures of 20-30% of outcomes attributable to genetics, the rest due to other factors. To be fair you did say it's a variation but it's the genes which are the noise on the signal / tail on the dog.

The heritability of human longevity: a population-based study of 2872 Danish twin pairs born 1870-1900 (identical twins == identical genes yet somehow different outcomes).

Once you accept that expression of genes is influenced by your environment, it's clearly not as simple as 'genes are all':
  * Environmental Epigenetics and Its Implication on Disease Risk and Health Outcomes

Maybe being super-chilled the whole time had knock-on effects - no having himself reamed-out by cortisol for example.

Going for a shower to wash off your slime :P