

There’s also ancient Greek and Rome which were republics 2000 and 2500 years ago.
There’s also ancient Greek and Rome which were republics 2000 and 2500 years ago.
I agree, I think we are witnessing the global influence leader transition from the US to China. All they had to do was provide investments in lower income countries and stability at the national leadership level. The US did the rest by exploiting those same lower income countries for centuries and not providing a stable foreign policy.
Inflation’s back, baby!
Switzerland has it too, and while English isn’t the official language almost everyone speaks it.
It surprises me that bringing the server in house especially for emergency services isn’t a priority.
If their claims are true, yeah. That’s how I read the implications.
I wish we had a brave new world, we’re getting 1984. While a brave new world was unsettling, almost every character enjoyed their lives. We’re getting “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.”
I know you were just using that title because it conveniently fit the sentence. I just needed to get this off my chest.
Yeah, choose SCUBA spelunking like a real daredevil!
True love is knowing the exact line between playful annoying and rage-inducing annoying. It takes a while to dial in. I can tell you’ve found it.
Hey! Fuck you chemicalwonka! Your nuanced, slightly different opinion enrages me! We’re enemies now.
Thank you for this researched, thought out answer. I really appreciate the time you put into it. Super interesting topic and I’m glad to learn more!
They can’t control which particles fuse though. The Helion energy reactor still has the particles for deuterium to deuterium fusion. 50% of the time that gives your tritium+p and 50% is He3+n. I don’t know the preference of each fusion event in their reactor, but not all events will produce charged particles.
The way I understood it, the system used electromagnets to create a magnetic containment field to drive the fuel together to create the fusion event. That same magnetic containment field would experience a force from the produced charged particles. That force would produce a current in the electromagnets. That current would be stored in capacitors as a voltage which would be used as the energy source for the next magnetic compression cycle. The excess energy stored in the capacitor after the compression would be ‘generated’ energy.
Yes! That is super cool tech. If I remember correctly, only about half of the fusion reaction energy was produced as charged particles though. The other half was free neutrons which are notorious for not interacting with the EM field.
I love the idea, it is such a cool direct energy capture method, but it is inherently inefficient.
I’d love to be proved wrong. I did a quick search and couldn’t find the company I’m thinking of, so I’m going off memory.
That they are, but they’re still spinning magnets like our honorable ancestors did.
This individual got the joke.
It’s why photovoltaics are so cool. Direct electricity generation without having to spin magnets in circles like neanderthals.
I agree, LLMs have the amazingly human ability to bumble into the right answer even if they don’t know why.
It seems to me that a good analogy of our experience is a whole bunch of LLMs optimized for different tasks that have some other LLM scheduler/administrator for the lower level models that is consciousness. Might be more layers deep, but that’s my guess with no neurological or machine learning background.
It also doesn’t subsidize actual gym users memberships though.
Yeah, the hands look like they’ve been replaced/repaired… And not very well.