You could just say ‘Public Domain’ but then you have the issues around privatisation.

Not just jobs. AI can’t hold copyright. This could have messy legal implications.

While I agree hours probably shouldn’t be going up, I think there’s a bit of a ratcheting effect at play.

If you take the classic “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, you end up with the question of how you define ‘needs’.

As tech gets better, the standard of care goes up in healthcare - treatments that were ‘impractical’ 20 years ago are now expected standard of care. Same goes for safety and for standard of living. Electric lighting, aircon, floor space, your own bedroom not shared with 3 other kids, TV/telephone/internet. It’s now basically standard in first world countries to fully treat sewage and have aircon on buses - that wasn’t the case 50 years ago.

Every time automation displaces some drudge work, we’ll be able to find something new that technically could be done and would be nice to have. 30 years later people will be screaming bloody murder if that former nice-to-have breaks down.

That’s certainly not to say we’re efficiently using the labour we have.

OpenAI is joined at the hip with MS, right?

What’s the bet this is MS’s attempt at getting back into the corporate mobile space again? Brand it as CoPilot Phone…

Is this AI?

Why can’t both be accurate?

A fair number have reasonable driving ability but still drive outside it.

RAM’s main advantage over HDDs/SSDs is fast access times.

Needing to fetch anything over the internet would make it faster to just use HDDs.

OP says horse chiros are basically PTs. I don’t know whether to believe them or not, but the idea that you don’t need to be a full vet to give a horse PT seems reasonable.

Physical therapists are not necessarily as qualified as doctors; they can do great work without needing the breadth of a full training. The same could apply to animal health.

It’s electrical componentry, so conductivity and corrosion are a concern. Differential thermal expansion can also be an issue.

The lugs are aluminium.

The split bolts are copper or brass, tin plated for better corrosion resistance.

None of this is going to be found in a security camera (unless they’ve earthed it with fat conductors for some reason). It’s high power gear.

Are there that many? How much wood are we talking per person per year?

Some of the articles I saw suggested that it was (at least historically) trimmings from hedgerows, which are too thin/green/wet to be useful for much else.

In a lot of places farmers burn piles of unwanted vegetation anyway.

I’m guessing they would ask you first (and the office would be slathered in Trump-Passport posters).

I am somewhat surprised it’s not just a ‘which one would you like’. I wouldn’t have thought the logistical concerns would be that major?

As noted elsewhere, there’s only 25-30k total being produced and only for people who apply in person in DC. You’re not going to get one of these unexpectedly.

It is bail; it is in lieu of being in prison where you have none of those abilities anyway.

We can discuss whether the original arrest/prosecution was sensible (it probably wasn’t), but the bail conditions aren’t unreasonable for whatever version of ‘hate speech’ she’s charged with.

Bonfires apparently, at least in parts of Germany.

I don’t see anything significant suggesting they’re being discontinued. It’s a relatively small amount of wood mass being burned on one day a year.

And there we have the difference between advocating and enforcing. Plenty of people now have the time to focus on safety issues; doesn’t mean they get any more effect than the people advocating for veganism or environmentalism.

In a functioning system (and bear in mind that sometimes the US doesn’t have that, and I’m certainly not taking the US situation as a goal), a regulator is often going to step in and make you stop.

People only caring once it affects them personally means that the people who haven’t been affected yet are going to keep vibe-coding dams and drag-racing on public roads.

Coercion can be a relative thing - anything from slavery to a gentleman’s agreement that if you help me build a house, I’ll help you build a house, because neither of us wants to lift rafters on our own.

The work required to e.g. build a (reasonably large) bridge is substantial; the work required to maintain that bridge in a safe condition is also substantial and it’s quite well known in free software circles that maintenance is a lot less sexy than building another shiny new bridge - government can struggle with this too, but that’s where rigid safety and oversight systems come into it. Start looking at dams and it gets way more scary.

Many many safety failures affect far more than the person who made the decision. That said, you often find the opposite - many people value others’ safety more than their own.

This can be a critical mass thing, though. Some projects are pointless unless you get enough people involved, but then have worthwhile results.

I would also put ‘safety’ in the “valuable, but no one wants to use it” category (note - not create safety systems, but convincing the truck driver or forge worker or backyard chemist to implement and use them).

Some idle comments:

• In hot climates, an indoors HWHP is preferred, as it offsets AC loads. In cold climates, put it outdoors.

• Avoid putting AC units directly in the kitchen due to fouling the filters.

• Multiple single splits can be cheaper than a multi split, and are generally slightly more efficient.

• Shade can help reduce AC loads significantly.