I'm not super surprised.

As the article points out, a lot of e-graph projects include rules for culling e-nodes or stopping generation after a certain cutoff. That this is considered a perfectly normal thing to do hints that equality saturation isn't really the magic sauce of e-graphs.

I feel you're underselling the second statement a bit:

> Each ministry (including operators) will be required to finalize its own [migration] plan by fall

This sounds like there's actual pressure to start moving soon, especially for adopting existing DINUM solutions.

(I agree the title is clickbait.)

The end result of treating domestic and sexual abuse like Serious Important Subjects that people should only talk about in a Serious Respectful Tone isn't that people become more mindful of abuse dynamics, it's that they avoid bringing up the subject at all.

In practice, yes, abusive practices of corporations echo abusive practices of violent partners, and the parallel is worth highlighting. Bringing up the fact that both of them will use grand gestures to stop you from questioning their pattern of behavior isn't disrespectful, it's useful information.

If anything, abuse victims should hear that message more often.

This isn't rocket science.

The system should be so obviously secure that any person walking into a poll station should intuitively understand, seeing the poll workers, why fraud would be very hard to perform, so that when their favourite populist candidate loses and claims fraud, they think "that doesn't make sense".

If the voter needs to read technical documentation to understand why the populist is wrong, it's already too late.

The Russia allegations ranged from "Russia hacked DNC servers/accounts to interfer in favor of Donald Trump" (demonstrably true in several instances) to "Russia hacked voting machines" (very probably false). And then in 2024 the DNC quickly accepted election results.

By comparison, Donald Trump still claims that he legitimately won the 2020 elections, the majority of his base still believes it, Fox News spent years spreading that message even though their own journalists thought it was bullshit, etc.

I maintain that this is a systemic problem and a better system would not have given Trump the leeway to do this, but let's not pretend it's a bipartisan issue.

No, no, no. January 6 is a systemic failure.

The purpose of a voting system is to select the most popular candidate in a way that is so far beyond doubt that a populist loser can't claim the results are wrong without alienating his base.

Even leaving aside the whole "Trump doesn't care if his lies are credible" thing, the US system works very poorly there. Mail-in voting, drive-in voting, voting machines, they leave room for suspicion, no matter how confident the people running the system are.

The US is still a rights-based state, which means that when they arrest someone (legitimately or not), lawyers and human right advocates can eventually track them down.

When a secret police disappears someone, they actually disappear. Families can spend years wondering if their loved one is still alive, or was murdered by organized crime, or ran away, or was secretly taken by the state. The US these days is pretty bad, but it's nowhere near that bad.

So far it's been slart enough for what I need, so closing my ChatGPT subscription was a really easy decision to make.

A few Youtubers have pushed the "if it's not a scam, it's probably a novel capacitor" hypothesis, but in their video announcing this test series last weekend, Donut Labs claimed "it's not a capacitor", so I don't know what's going on.

The report does include a few photos, and the battery does look pretty small on them? So I don't think there's foul play there.

Note that the report includes some photos of the battery, so we can assume that it's not, like, several orders of magnitude larger than what they advertised.

EDIT: Honestly, I'm pretty excited. Even if their promises on cost and materials don't pan out and the lifetime turns out to be terrible, what they've just demonstrated is already a game-changer.

You could use DeepL! It's a German company.

That's not an accurate summary of what most Effective Altruists preach or do. The stereotypical EA interventions are "direct cash transfer to super-poor communities", "buying mosquito nets to fight malaria" and "lobbying for animal welfare", long-termism is much much more niche.

https://www.vergemotorcycles.com/ts-pro/

The webpage does mention the solid-state battery, and the starting price is 30'000$, so... holy shit?