It’s like with earthquakes. At first, when nobody knows jack s**t, they tell you 10 people died.
When the statistics come home, often enough, an initial 10 turns into 10 000.
With a heat wave spanning half a continent and breaking records, the typical mortality to expect (basing on experience) is at least 1000 people (some of them old and about to go anyway, but pushed over the edge by heat).
Possibly, reverse motivation - the training goal of such an agent would not be nice and smooth output, but shooting down misinformation.
But I have serious doubts about whether all of that is feasible, given the computational cost of running large language models.
Speculation on my part:
Patriot stocks may have been really reduced - by defending Israel during Netanyahu’s adventure against Iran (it could have been smarter to tell Netanyahu not to start).
There is no reason to think that stocks of other weapons (e.g. air to ground missiles, glide bomb units for F-16) have suddenly gone really low. In fact, there is probably a f**kton of them.
Consequently, I suspect that Trump and Putin have made a deal they failed to disclose: Putin promised to refrain from helping Iran (it was an easy promise, he was really low on supplies). Trump promised in return to refrain from helping Ukraine, which he could have easily helped. At best, he got conned, at worst he got to do what he already wanted.
I would advise journalists to ask around: “has the US DoD been ordered to alter criteria for determining what is sufficient supply?” If yes, we’re looking at an excuse. If no, we’re looking at inability.
Both are bad, but inability can be corrected with honest admission and action, Ukraine has a bit of money from other allies to actually buy some US weapons, although they are rushing to make more domestically.
If it’s not inability but an undercarpet deal, then corrections are bit harder to achieve.
But the SBU had followed the pair and had special equipment on hand, the operative said, expecting another attack after the previous blast. “We had certain technical means to block the signals to the telephone,” said the source. When Alexander rang the phones strapped to the bombs to detonate them, the calls did not go through.
That was thoughtful of them. :)
At this temperature, emergency medical departments are guaranteed to be full. Weeks later, an uptick in mortality is registered on stats, without exception.
Hard to tell. Definitely not where I live (Estonia) since local planning bureaucrats seem to have a fairly strict understanding of “how you are supposed to live”. What follows is an imaginary conversation with planning officials over years:
“why do you ask for a building permit, you’ve got to get a road first”
“we want you to pay for the road, paving it, running road lighting along it, etc, please invest several hundred thousand into getting that road”
“so, to bypass our demands, you built an agricultural building, please don’t live there, at least not publicly”
“you want to install solar panels, there’s a permit for that”
“so, to bypass our demands, you installed movable solar panels and a solar fence, we are severely concerned about it and consider taking action, but won’t”
“after years, out of sheer bordedom, we are intending to privatize your access way and attach pieces of it to other plots of land”
“we can’t take public ownership of it, as that could obligate us to build a road there, and we don’t really understand why you wouldn’t want to force us to”
“oh, you spoiled part of our plan by requesting a power grid connection to be built along that path of land, now we’re kind of stuck with it, but hey, let’s try to obstruct getting the grid connection built”
“let’s have doubts about why a power grid connection is needed, as the buidling it might supply isn’t properly registered”
“oh, you have written that you need a power grid connection for a vehicle charging point and those have really low planning requirements, damn convenient to you, in fact you might get the connection built indeed”
Same question. :) The OP seems to have forgotten to post it.
What I can tell by heart: MorningStar is an established brand and they’re fairly well trusted - they’ve been selling charge controllers and inverters for at least a decade. They might be a bit costly, but there’s support and it’s likely to work. :)
Myself, I haven’t had the chance to look at their products up close.
Something is wrong here. Likely the exact category in which things are compared. 1.17 kilograms, 200 W and world’s lightest… I’ve seen 2000 W drone motors that weigh less than 1 kilogram and aren’t called the world’s lightest, because one can go lighter.
It looks like a neat motor, though. For a very limited power level. But they didn’t even tell the efficiency…
I think the 38% number is definitely wrong, maybe even wrong by one order of magnitude.
I tried fact-checking and came up with this:
https://providencemag.com/2018/04/what-a-country-immigrants-serve-us-military-well
Few Americans realize that 65,000 immigrants serve in the US military today. That number includes some 18,700 troops who hold green cards (in other words, legal permanent residents who are not yet naturalized citizens). According to the Pentagon, about 5,000 such residents enlist each year.
Since the total number of the US armed forces is around 1.3 million, it follows that 38% is definitely wrong and the correct number of immigrants is likely around 5%.
I think the 38% number originates from service member naturalization stats or service member family stats and has been mis-interpreted. Can’t tell for sure, didn’t hire a spy to find out. :)
P.S. Edit: found a secondary source with similar data:
https://www.usafis.org/can-i-join-the-us-military-as-a-green-card-holder/
Approximately 8,000 Green Card holders join the US military each year and around 35,000 are currently serving on active duty.
Since green card holders aren’t the only variety of immigrant, the number 65 000 seems plausible.
My estimate is that this will result on 410 lawsuits filed per day. :o
I think it’s not a smart move to have 150 000 lawsuits per year over the same question - it’s much preferable to have 1 lawsuit for a whole class of people - defending the rights of everyone in the same situation - and some extra lawsuits for those who want to present a unique take on the matter.
Regardless of whether an opinion is for or against something, the recommended subject matter of this community is definitely not smart cities, but off-grid living.
smart cities
There must be a better community for that. A city, especially a smart city, would not be considered off grid.
I am not a member there, but I would take a look at “c/urbanism”. It is about cities.
Moderator of community, not admin of instance.
Exotic, rare, not representative of everyday things.
Here’s a reasonably representative photo.
No. Also, I apologize for being a bit rude, but what would you gain from having a video of a home wind generator working? There’s probably thousands of such videos on the Internet.
They use resistive heating, so they can only charge it dirt cheap when there is surplus solar or wind.
The question is too vague to answer well, but I have run a high autonomy household for 10 years, so it’s possible. Solar with battery storage, small wind generator to supplement things during storms. Heating uses wood.
Latitude 59, so I get an electrical energy crisis every winter, but on most winters, I don’t have to start a gasoline generator or bring electricity over with my e-car.
If you’re on a lower latitude, it becomes simpler, if you only have enough surface for solar panels.
It’s a pretty neat system:
However, heat stores are subject to scaling laws which don’t favour sand on the large scale, at least unless it’s underground (and then you have to keep groundwater out to avoid vaporizing it). Large thermal stores benefit from storing heat in water, and placing the water deep underground, so the boiling point rises. If local rock has low thermal conductivity, even better.
For comparison Helsinki (.fi) has a 10 GWh underground thermal store. Where I live, Tallinn (.ee) will soon get a 1 GWh surface thermal store. And Vantaa (.fi) will soon complete a whopping 90 GWh thermal store that’s located 100 m underground, so their water will boil at 140 C instead of the usual 100 C. Boiling points up to 300 C are attainable in practise, then the curve starts leveling out.
If implemented like moped battery swapping on Taiwan, things might work. If everyone designs their own unique solution, nope. :)