In an industrial context, it will depend a lot on the facility. Sure, more recently-built facilities will have all kinds of instrumentation broadcasting to a central control room via SCADA or what-have-you. But there are plenty of older facilities that don't have that. There may be a gauge (an analog dial, even) sticking out of a pipe somewhere, and rely on someone laying eyes on it once per shift or something. Maybe that could have been replaced with a digital gauge that reports to a central system, but if it ain't broke...? Or you have some complex, but old, piece of equipment that has plenty of instrumentation, but no obvious way to get that information our to the world. Or, as the article mentions, sight glasses to look into some chamber or check a fluid level or something. You could park a small camera in front of it, with some machine vision, and have that talk to the mothership. This robot is just that, but can move from one gauge to another.

Let me google that for you: rivian

Or wikipedia?

Or just getting it from the context of the summary?

Rivian is an EV company, and unlike a number of vaporware pedlers seeking their next VC round, actually makes and sells vehicles - around 50,000 last year.

This is a neat case report, and could well point HIV researchers in interesting directions.

But before popping the champagne, keep in mind this treatment is not going to scale to a large population.
1) It involves a bone marrow transplant. Usually you first have to kill the marrow that's in the host, usually by irradiating them. Not only is this dangerous and expensive, it leaves the host without a functioning immune system for weeks (until the donor marrow takes hold). During that time, the patient must kept in isolation to avoid infection. This is a heavy risk, even for someone with HIV. (Most folks with well-controlled HIV have a functioning, though compromised, immune system.)
2) Anything that mentions "stem cell therapy" will immediately be out of a price range for most folks, insurance companies, or national health providers. It's increasingly widespread, but still bespoke for each patient - not at all like cranking out generic aspirin for a few cents.

I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Sounds like a job for small claims court.

I'm waiting for a modern remake of The Conversation , complete with glassholes. Alas, audiences today probably won't look up from their phones long enough to take any of it in.

They're also pretty anti-American in the sense of violating the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment. Blue laws are tied quite overtly to the Christian tradition of Sunday being the day for worship. Putting a restriction on the buying/selling of booze because of one religion's preferences does not comport with separation of church and state.

Heck, most self-professed Christians don't even attend regular Sunday services!

More like a case of "game recognizes game". Among swindlers and con men, it's all friends together.

Damn. No mod points today, but perfectly played.

It is worth asking about. But there are plenty of answers available if one is willing to spend 10 seconds looking.

You could try this timely video from Scott Manley, for one.

If you have given away books that you purchased, that is a gift. In your head, you may equate the money you paid as renting the book for a time, but try extending that model to, say, housing, where ownership and renting are well-established paradigms. If you pay a bunch of money to acquire a house, and then hand it off to someone else, that's not the same as paying rent for an apartment.

In the case of libraries: you don't own the books, you borrow them and return them. The library used taxpayer money to acquire the books. Maybe you consider a tiny slice of your local taxes the same as renting a bunch of books, but I doubt you'd frame it the same for, say, the local fire truck. If you borrow a book from a library, and then sell or give it away, you aren't furthering the library's mission - you're committing theft.

For a book swap: you can show up empty-handed and walk out with a couple well-worn mass market paperbacks. But the social contract is that you contribute books as well as take them. If all you ever did was show up and take books, you're a moocher.

I can understand the larger point you are getting at: books aren't necessarily meant to last or be kept forever. They're entertainment - as you say - meant to be consumed, and then you move on. My family and I have a similar dynamic as you and your wife: my family wants to hoard books; I'd prefer to have less clutter. But that doesn't mean that "books are made to be rented"

Possibly because they were so busy investigating and prosecuting the insurrectionists of Jan 6th? It was the largest investigation in DoJ history, ya know. On the scale of prioritization, going after folks* that use violence to try to overturn an election seems more important than being able to fixing a tractor.

* Even outside of that event, they're some pretty unsavory characters - see some of the recidivism since they were pardoned

Nor was anything gained.

I'm not particularly worried about it. Our ability to build and deploy Wind and PV (measured in GW capacity) is much larger than our ability to build and deploy EV batteries (measured in GWh capacity). China is deploying around 1 GW of new PV per day within its own borders, and exporting a huge amount to other countries. Meanwhile, the estimates of China's battery manufacturing capacity (EVs, stationary, portables) is on the order of 10 GWh/day.

As you rightly point out, capacity (GW peak) is not the same as production (GWh). A 1-GW solar array won't produce 24-GWh of electricity in a day. For a decent site, you might get a 15% capacity factor, or 3.6 GWh. That's less than the new battery capacity per day - we can't win! But just like there's a capacity factor for renewables, so too is there one for EVs: hardly anyone is filling and discharging their entire battery every day. In fact, most folks don't use more than 20% of their available capacity per day.

They are both growing, but I think that electricity production can stay ahead of demand.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" - Thomas Watson

So long as Sony is still making Memory Sticks, I'll be OK!