Why does Elon Musk feel entitled to have his products endorsed in a "Must Have" section of another company's store? In what universe is Twitter or Grok a "Must Have"?
This is the real question. Does Apple (or Google, etc.) have a legal responsibility to present app offerings in its store in a fair and non-arbitrary way? The EU has the DMA, but there's no such law in the US. There are anti-trust laws, but they are very broad and vague.
Twenty years ago my career started thanks to my college having required internships and the college working with local companies to have students work a full year over a two year period between classes. After that there was only one job I was hired into because of my resume and I was working on a Master's degree in CS (though that company was a headhunter group that paid me the same hourly wage as my previous salaried job with no benefits), everything else I got the job because I had worked with people at the company in previous jobs.
I don't honestly trust a lot that I could pick up a job now if I did not already know people at the company.
There is so much truth to this. At my previous company, 2 out of 3 new hires were previous interns. Absent internships, even getting noticed was a crapshoot, since getting past HR required the right buzzwords and a bit of luck.
This particular new graduate from Purdue didn't seem to have any college internships, which was probably the biggest hurdle in finding a full-time job. Almost all current college students (in engineering or otherwise) know that internships are what are important, much more than GPAs or classes.
When I graduated with a degree in EE in 2014, I saw a job posting for Western Digital. It was an entry-level intern postion requring a PHD in related field, or Masters + 8 years experience.
For an intern position.
Well, there are internships in research organizations where everyone has a PhD, so it's not unreasonable to expect all such interns to be working toward a PhD.
Otherwise, most organizations where most workers don't have PhDs usually don't want new colleges grads with PhDs.
If Trump were Hitler, Joe Biden wouldn't have happened.
Dial it back a notch, I'm worried about your blood pressure.
Look- he has the power to take over the police functions of the district. He has the power deploy the military when people get in the way of enforcing Federal law.
Maybe it's time an incomplete shitwad DID use those powers, so that we can all fucking remember they're there- granted by Congress- under the assumption that someone like this would never be in office.
Trump is not Hitler. However, he does aspire to be Putin, Xi, and other autocrats. Trump already had this aspiration in his first term, but the didn't fully appreciate how much the Constitution holds him back from being an autocrat. In his second term, he has learned what the weaknesses of the Constitution are. The biggest weakness is that the the judiciary and the legislature are forced to rely solely on the president to obey laws and court orders and thus are essentially powerless in the face of a president who choses to ignore them.
The main difference is these batteries store power that was generated by something else and can only provide power for hours. The hydro dam or nuclear plant is generating power and can do it continuously. That's why the cost comparison makes no sense.
The more apt comparison is with natural gas generators, since the goal is temporary fill-in power and not baseline power. Hydro and nuclear are good for baseline continuous power, but are not useful for fill-in power. The goal is these batteries is short-term, unpredictable power during evenings, so the power shift from daylight solar to evenings using batteries that were already there for other purposes is almost "free" in terms of capital expenses.
The power companies are clearly profiting from that - they are charging for more for what they take. Instead, they should be giving homeowners full credit on their bill at the same rate as they themselves charge. The homeowner is the one who invested in that infrastructure, NOT the power company.
This is the big issue. Who owns the batteries (i.e., who gets to control the batteries), and who owns the energy in the batteries. It seems like for the $150 per season, PG&E owns the energy. They "allow" the battery owner to use the energy in their own home, but PG&E gets to pull whatever energy they want.
I wonder if PG&E charges the batteries during the day, and the home owner uses that energy in the evening (say to charge a car), is that energy free?
Whether $150 is worthwhile depends on the spreadsheet. For those with solar, how much credit are you getting for NEM each month?
was 535 megawatts, equal to adding a big hydro dam or a half-sized nuclear reactor at a fraction of the cost
It's really not the same, for a number of reasons.
Well, yeah, but most of the differences are advantageous. The power is basically instantaneous, can be cycled quickly, and has no ongoing environmental negatives. The batteries work as both a source and sink. Ongoing operational costs are far better. The batteries are distributed across the state, which means better robustness.
But let's address your thinking for a moment. Why is your default first thought: "Why is this poor USA based company restricted in Korea?" rather than asking the far more sane question of "Why don't we have strict data protection laws in the USA?"
Data protection is a valid concern, but keeping public data private is sorta mind boggling.
Moreover, the really big question is why Korea is lumped in with China and North Korea for this particular concern. European countries have better data protection laws without crippling maps software. It's not that hard to do.
There are some concerns for some use cases, but it's hard to understand how this vulnerability could be characterized as "nearly unusable for enterprise." It depends on the use case, but I imagine that most companies would be concerned about their queries and data being leaked and not at all worried that Open AI's model data is being leaked.
This is very interesting. Now one would be mistaken to think that the airline operations don't matter. They actually do very much.
We see this for many companies. Costco earns most, and in some years all, of its profits from its membership fees, but those fees would disappear without the low margin retail business. Amazon earns half its profits from AWS, and although AWS might be able to exist on its own now, it was motivated by the low margin retail business.
The world produces twice as many solar panels each year as it uses
Once you've built the solar panel, the energy is very close to free.
How could these go unused?
This is what happens when overproduction is used to force competitors out of the market. This is a national Chinese market strategy, to use subsidies, low prices, and dumping to corner a market, and then use that market for international influence. This strategy can work well, but it can also get financially out of hand.
His party controls both sides of the Congress - why can't he do it the right way, rather than the way that only he thinks is a real thing?
Because Trump is literally on a power trip. That's why his foreign economic policy is so haphazard. He's mostly thinking about wielding presidential power. Having to work through the Congress is an acknowledgement of the curb of his personal power.
Take a look at how Trump conducts cabinet meetings. It's shockingly eye-opening. When I say Trump is on a power trip, it might sound like an exaggeration, but just take a look at the cabinet meetings and you'll realize that's it's not an exaggeration at all. It's all about narcissism.
That is false. To quote article 2: the president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" i.e. the laws passed by congress. If congress sets some rules that the SEC enforces, the president cannot change those rules (laws).
Yes, this is the way that the Constitution is supposed to be followed. However, the current president has realized that only he can enforce the laws, so if he breaks, invents, reinterprets, or ignores the laws, there is no one else that can punish him. This is the way government functions in banana republics, which is what the US unfortunately is being transformed into.
The only constitutional mechanism for reigning in a wayward President is impeachment. Perhaps in the 70's with Nixon, congressmen might think about the good of the country, but in our times, it's all about politics and preserving the power of one's party, so impeachment in practically impossible. (Or more pedantically, impeachment is easy, but conviction in the Senate is practically impossible.)
Because one of the big manufacturers said they're going to stop making ddr4 so of course it's shooting up. The industry is moving on to ddr5.
"Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology controlled 90% of the global DRAM market in Q2 2025"
So, at most ChangXin Memory Technologies has 10% of the worldwide DRAM market. Can a "minor" manufacturer really cause market prices to double?
There are indications that Q2 DRAM sales increased at least for some of the big 3. This indicates that demand was strong, and this is the likely reason for increased prices. If there was an issue with supply, perhaps the high demand and higher margins for HBM are incentivizing conversion of DDR4/5 production to HBM.
Cloudflare are saying Perplexity is disguising its crawler bots as Chrome users.
Perplexity counters saying their crawlers don't do that, their other AI tools do it.
Seems like Cloudflare correctly determined that Perplexity are using automated tools to access website that requested to not be accessed by automated tool, despite Perplexity trying to hide their behaviour.
This is an interesting technicality. Perplexity is basically saying that robots.txt prohibitions only apply to training, either in terms of building page ranks for search or accumulating data for AI model training. So, if the data is immediately used, then it doesn't count as training, so robots.txt doesn't apply. Is this true?
Of course, the curious question is how Perplexity knows what's behind the robots.txt wall to serve as immediate on-the-fly answers if it didn't already previously crawl past the wall and store something in its database/model to indicate that the hidden data was useful.
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
