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  • Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken

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  • How often do you take road trips? The vast majority of trips taken by car are within 20–30 km. An average EV range can easily cover most people’s daily driving needs.

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    If the cream of the crop is original content, bots are useless

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  • > > > You know scientists always trying to make things happen but never asking if they “Should”? > >

    I’ve never seen someone use this as an argument, only as a joke. Can you provide some examples of the things that you think scientists tried to make happen without thinking whether they should or not?

    Also, how is user-specific trust at play here? I never even look at usernames, instead I will upvote or ignore posts based on their content. I don’t think you can really ease Lemmy/kbin users into believing some divisive nonsense that easily.

  • Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks.

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  • Why do you feel like matrix has failed? I joined it recently and to me it looks like it’s kinda growing.

  • Will ultra high-res climate modeling finally convince climate deniers?

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  • With stuff like “act of god” clauses and limited liability bankruptcies it might not really bother them that much.

  • Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project

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  • > > > “I’ve been very interested in things like universal basic income and what’s going to happen to global wealth redistribution,” Sam Altman, Worldcoin’s cofounder > >

    Holy crap it’s Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. After that recent article about his $2 Kenyan workers it’s much harder to believe in benevolent intentions.

  • The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

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  • As a suggestion, I think it might be a good idea to space out the submissions by some amount of time, like half an hour or so. I’d guess the biggest gripe that people have is that it occupies a large chunk of the timeline simultaneously and it’s just weird to suddenly notice it. Here’s how it looks like for me.

  • Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

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  • It's amazing what one person's actions can do to an entire brand. For the first several years after the Model S release I was sure that my next car is going to be a Tesla. Now, I'm 100% sure that I'll never buy one.

  • Google it? People now are searching with TikTok or Reddit.

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  • Not surprising really. Google has decided that it really doesn't want me to use it so I switched to DDG a couple of years ago. And it doesn't feel like I've lost anything of value.

  • The UFO Whistleblower Is Back With More Crazy Claims

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  • I have yet to see one. Can you link to something that can’t be explained by planes and balloons? Genuine question.

  • Now Reddit sell NFT-like stuff

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  • Mostly because hosting an image within the blockchain would require so much computational power and excess energy usage, that it wouldn’t be profitable even for the most successful scams.

    And I’m not sure whether calculating proof of work for a blockchain that holds images within is even possible using the current algorithms. But I’ve looked at it a while ago, could be that some updated system already exists. But it’s still very much not free, and quite damaging environmentally.

  • The UFO Whistleblower Is Back With More Crazy Claims

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  • This person deleted their comments, so to clarify, it’s an answer to something along these lines: “You need evidence? Did you look at the post?”

    I did. And there is exactly zero verifiable evidence. Are there any verified photos? Material or biological analyses? Spectrography graphs? For now, there is none.

    At this point it's still just "one dude heard that another dude says it's totally true". Once something goes public, we can discuss it. But for now, nothing can be seriously discussed, it's all speculation.

    Hell, I would love for it to be aliens. But up to this point in our collective history, it's never aliens.

  • The UFO Whistleblower Is Back With More Crazy Claims

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  • — UFOs are real and we’re shooting them down with energy weapons!— I have yet to see any evidence supporting that. Plus, is has a lot of logical holes too.— And what’s your evidence for that? Haha gottem

    The burden of proof lies on the person making the original claim, not someone disbelieving it for lacking actual real-life evidence.

  • There's 3000 cars on fire in the North Sea

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  • Now Reddit sell NFT-like stuff

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  • It’s quite different, and your purchase seems more sensible to me.

    When you buy a skin, you’re buying an asset that you’ll see and use in your game. Sure, it’s just cosmetics, but it’s kinda usable cosmetics. If the game goes down, your skin is probably lost as well, but at least you had some fun with it.

    When you buy an nft, you buy your rights to a link to an image. It’s way more “protected” than simply buying a skin, in a similar way to how owning crypto works. Your right to that link is saved on a blockchain and you become the sole “owner” of that link. You could technically resell it (not sure if it’s allowed on Reddit though), but if a server hosting that image goes down, you’re left owning a broken link.

    And while there’s no other way to get an asset into a game other than to buy it (or mod the game), you could just save an image you like and use it as an avatar anyway, so you’re not even required to buy nfts to use those as an avatar/banner. It’s more of a trading service.

    That technology seems great for proving your rights to some documents or IDs, but it’s still weird to me that people decided to use NFTs for selling link rights to generated jpgs. You don’t even get the licence or usage rights to an image itself, it could be copyright-protected and owned by someone else.

  • First room temperature and pressure superconductor discovered

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  • You still need a magnet-superconductor pair for quantum locking and magnetic levitation. This is called the Meissner effect and it seems like it has been confirmed for this material. Here’s a video showing an example of such a system.

    Before, the best way to scale this up might’ve been to make permanent magnet rails and run a superconductor train along those rails, but that would have been totally infeasible and inapplicable in real life, since building rails out of permanent magnets is expensive and dangerous, and the train would need to house a really large superconductor chilled to liquid nitrogen temperatures. You couldn’t have built a track out of superconductors irl because good luck keeping those at the temperatures required for superconductivity to kick in.

    If this material turns out to actually work as claimed and to be producible at scale, you can switch those and make an electromagnetic train that travels along superconductor tracks. Which is way easier, cheaper and much more doable in general.

    But the earth’s magnetic field is extremely weak, and even the tiniest pieces of superconductors are unable to lock with it. So no, it does not allow for trackless levitation.

    But a cool new train system design becomes possible though!

  • Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification

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  • He’s playing with his new middle age crisis toy. Cars and spaceships became boring.

  • First room temperature and pressure superconductor discovered

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  • Not really. If that turns out to be true (nothing is guaranteed yet), the processes described are pretty straightforward and don’t require any super-advanced tech to be reproduced. Full-scale production could be rolled out in mere years. That would become beneficial for stuff like MRIs or electric cars as soon as production starts.

    After that, my guess would be that some large-scale energy infrastructure projects, for example, could be completed in about a decade.

  • Pentagon-Funded Study Uses AI to Detect 'Violations of Social Norms'

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  • Locking social norms at some predetermined stage is a great way to curb all progress. Like, slavery was a social norm at some point.

  • Texas charges prisoners 50% more for water as heat wave continues

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  • Texas charges prisoners for water? What the fuck, how is this even remotely legal?