Bets aren’t 1-1.

You can have one person with insider information win a seemingly impossible bet against 1000 people taking the other side.

The person who wins takes in a ton of money, and Polymarket takes a cut.

Each of those 1000 people all thought they had an easy win, but the only people winning these bets are people who either are the people making the decisions, or who are in the room with the people making those decisions.

Most people I know bought records, but used reel-to-reel to copy them.

Later it was cassettes to copy them.

Never saw anyone try to copy the physical record itself.

The article says the car swerved into the garage, which means the car took control of the steering wheel and turned it off the road into the house.

Tesla says the cars should be able to drive straight on the road without driver input. This car took control and drove it into a wall.

That is Tesla’s fault, not the driver. Heck, based on the information here, even if the driver was 100% paying attention, they might not have had the reaction time to stop the car.

That’s a bad take.

Tesla built the system, and advertised it to provide a specific service. That service is faulty. Tesla is at fault.

You can’t expect every consumer to just understand that the company selling the product is outright lying. That’s putting the responsibility in the wrong hands, and absolving corporations of lying to the public.

Anything thrown up just creates a more elliptical orbit, not a higher orbit. There would have to be a second thrust at the top to bring it into an actual higher orbit.

It would still deorbit fairly quickly because the lowest part of that ellipse would still degrade quickly.

And human tissues, and it’s been shown to be safe in phase I trials.

So saying “in mice” undersells where they are at.

Negative, it only gets irradiated if the water comes in contact and gets contaminated with radioactive material. Just like the cooling water that flows out of a nuclear power station is not more radioactive than the water that goes in.

I have 2 gig symmetric fiber and it costs $70 a month.

Speed tests confirmed that I’m actually getting 2 up 1.8 down consistently.

I have my whole house wired with cat 5e and it’s pretty nice.

Ah, but current market value of a BROKEN SSD is much lower, so…

Naw, AI is literally corpo bland. It can’t be interesting and unique, cause it can’t take chances.

If everything is the same boring AI garbage, it’ll just blend into the background.

Good marketing has to be interesting and stand out. LLMs are the opposite of that.

The R2 starts at $45k, which isn’t a bad price for a luxury SUV.

They’re also planning a more affordable R3.

I would be very interested in seeing the results.

They literally just released a (more) reasonably priced SUV. The R2.

They always planned on starting with the high end market, then slowly release more economically priced versions as their technology matures.

Will it work? Who knows.

It is ABSOLUTELY not cheaper than other methods. People are jailed long distances from their family and friends, and probation along with a criminal record can eliminate most decent paying jobs.

Prison is a huge waste of resources. Literally just giving people a couple thousand dollars instead of (or after release) can
1 - Provide the foothold needed to get a home and a job
2 - Reduce the need to commit additional crime
3 - Prevent the need to investigate and prosecute that crime
4 - Prevent the need for future incarceration

https://stateline.org/2025/05/14/cash-assistance-may-curb-recidivism-among-people-leaving-prison-study-says/

Basically, doing the bare minimum of “just give people some cash to get back on their feet” is an amazing step… just imagine what would happen if we provided more support instead of just cash. But people want to punish offenders, not fix the problem. And it’s all FAR FAR cheaper than what we’re doing now.

What? Donut Lab is a Finnish company. Donut Media is a YouTube channel company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donut_Lab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donut_Media

Is this a bot that just chimes in about Donut Media just because it has the word Donut in the headline?

Odds are that will be a net positive for society regardless of if they were guilty or not. Rehabilitation should be the goal, not retribution.

You know, I never really understood how fletching works until just now.

I mean, I still wouldn’t know how to do it, but I think I get the overall concept.

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/nhtsa-announces-final-rule-requiring-rear-visibility-technology

That’s because backup camera law just passed in 2014, effective 2018. Which means that screens of some kind became mandatory in all cars.

Once you have to have a screen, might as well throw a few features in to make use of that expensive screen since it’s just a couple bucks here or there to add things like an infotainment.

Now that people need the touchscreen anyway for the infotainment, might as well get rid of those expensive buttons and just do everything with a touchscreen menu.

As long as we have all that other stuff, might as well throw in a cell modem and get some $$$ from the insurance companies and data brokers to get some ongoing revenue from these cars we sold.

Works fine for me.