Eranziel

I think that's a bad idea, both legally and ethically. Vehicles cause tens of thousands of deaths - not to mention injuries - per year in North America. You're proposing that a company who can meet that standard is absolved of liability? Meet, not improve.

In that case, you've given these companies license to literally make money off of removing responsibility for those deaths. The driver's not responsible, and neither is the company. That seems pretty terrible to me, and I'm sure to the loved ones of anyone who has been killed in a vehicle collision.

He guy continues to level up his mad genius game, wow.

That's measuring airflow required, which is not equivalent to energy required.

It's very worth noting that this kind of a system is actually much more cost efficient than vaccinating the birds. Vaccinating is very expensive when you consider the logistics of injecting the volume of birds we're talking about. IIRC Canada consumes around a million chickens per week.

25% might be what comes off your pay cheque, sure. That's not actually how much income tax most people end up paying. How big of a refund did you get this year?

Single-payer meducal systems are objectively less expensive than the US's ludicrous system. Americans pay the highest per-capita for medical care in the developed world by a huge margin. Technically it's not taxes, but that's because it's directly feeding corporate profits. It's still effectively mandatory cost of living.

Every credit card company charges large fees to the service provider for charge backs. It's standard practice. This is also leads to service providers straight up perma-banning customers who initiate charge backs instead of resolving a dispute with the provider.

This. This would actually help. I like schadenfreude as much as the next guy, but if all you do is point and laugh then you're only serving to further isolate these people and leave them vulnerable to the next line of propaganda.

That graph is hilarious. Enormous error bars, totally arbitrary quantization of complexity, and it's title? "Task time for a human that an AI model completes with a 50 percent success rate". 50 percent success is useless, lmao.

On a more sober note, I'm very disappointed that IEEE is publishing this kind of trash.

Are there any electric tractors/combines on the market, let alone used ones? I mean industrial sized, not small yard work equipment.

EDIT: OK, yes, there are some small electrified tractors available now. Fendt has a line available to customers, John Deere has a prototype, etc... But they are the smallest size of industrial tractors, meant for work like greenhouses, feeding livestock, municipal work, etc...

Electrifying farm equipment has huge engineering hurdles. They need a massive amount of power, which would mean very large and incredibly expensive battery packs. Those batteries would take either a long time to charge, or high current charging stations.

During seeding or harvest the machines often run for 16+ hours a day, and are literally out in the middle of a field. Where is the super-fast charging station going to go? They can't easily travel all the machinery back to home base every night, and there's no way it makes economical sense for a farm operation to get chargers installed at every field.

These are not necessarily insurmountable problems. There are a number of similarities to trucking, for example, and that's an industry that's starting to see electrification now. But the logistical problems are much harder than trucking. The biggest reason that John Deere etc... aren't making electric tractors right now is that no one would buy one, because no one has any infrastructure in place for it.

Exactly, it's just regular old enshittification.