nickhammes

the curing process introduces carcinogenic nitrates, which is a similar risk factor, if I understand correctly

If you're going to say anything other than unconditionally legal, you need some really clear legal definitions on something, but you certainly can. Like you could define viability as if you delivered it on the spot, you'd have a fully-formed baby with lungs that are ready to breathe, and otherwise unlikely to need life support. You could define the first 6 months of pregnancy as inviable.

You could define the burden of proof in a way that protects doctors, maybe someone trying to already wrongdoing needs to prove that no reasonable physician would agree with their judgement. You could even limit who has standing to take legal action, because some random person on the street isn't party to it at all.

I'm not saying that "if the doctor and pregnant person agree, it's legal" is bad, but there are certainly other reasonable options, that I think would play out similarly in practice. Like I'm assuming a doctor about to deliver a baby wouldn't likely entertain a request for an abortion instead, nor would they likely get one.

The field of artificial intelligence has also made incredible strides in the last decade, and the decade before that. The field of artificial general intelligence has been around for something like 70 years, and has made a really modest amount of progress in that time, on the scale of what they're trying to do.

Watching the commentary would be hilarious.

Not only were there 6 mirror matches in the bracket, prearranging the finals matchup, but plenty of people showed up with decks that weren't red, and some even had favorable matchups against one of these archetypes.

Yet somehow, wotc will look at this and make a ban announcement next week like "We hear you; sheoldred the apocalypse is banned from standard, but we're watching cori steel cutter closely"

Agreeing with this, expanding a RAID array is not necessarily impossible, with something like RAID 5, and the right RAID setup, you could theoretically add an identical disk without wiping it all in the rebuild. RAID 1, you'll 100% need to copy the data somewhere that isn't the 2/4 disks in the meantime. In an environment where storage is expensive, RAID 1 is not suitable imo.

ZFS makes it so easy though. Throw a mismatched disk in? No big deal, it's in your pool now. Want double parity for extra peace of mind? You can do that. It self-heals so you don't need fsck, its maximum limits are too big to realistically matter on human scales, and the documentation on it is pretty good.

At this point, they certainly shouldn't be counting on it

How to avoid Nazis: if you find yourself surrounded by losers, leave.

Fun fact, due to the power difference in the US, kettles are much slower here than some other places. You can run a 3kW kettle on the grid in the UK, and boil a single cup's worth of tea water in about 45 seconds. In the US, most outlets won't allow more than 1800W, or 1.8kW, so the best kettles will take almost twice as long.

Certainly, some interesting developments have happened, and we've realized our old models/thinking about progress towards AGI needed improvement.. and that's real. I think there's a serious conversation to be had about what AGI would be, and how we can know we're approaching it, and when it has arrived.

But anybody telling you it is close either has something to sell you, or has themselves bought it.

Yeah this is it, the problem is that even once you solve the technology problem, it becomes the choice between two logistics problems, distributing liquid fuel for refilling, and moving large amounts of power on the grid on demand. The latter is a solvable problem, but the former is just so well understood.

Certainly, most people are better served by EVs today, for their personal vehicle needs. But I think hydrogen will be a compelling option for people with specific needs beyond the short term. Especially with continued investment in that technology in Japan.

There are two hydrogen fill stations between my home and work, they definitely get used, and the price per kg of green hydrogen is still trending downwards. It'll never be the next big thing, hydrogen is heavy and has several of the other problems of gasoline that EVs always solve. But for people who need personal transport, and need to frequently go larger distances than one battery charge will support, hydrogen fuel cells solve a problem EVs have, without going back to fossil fuels; fuelling up takes negligible time.

I think hydrogen cars will have a niche for a long time to come, enough to keep the technology around and evolving.