I was spitballing alternative sprint race implementations, and I thought of “if you start in grid slot N, you have a twenty-minus-N second penalty”. So Hamilton on pole would have a 20-second penalty, then Verstappen with 19 seconds, down to the Haas drivers with a 2 and 1 second penalty.

Arguably efficiency might matter more with EVs- if you’ve got an inefficient car and lots of money it doesn’t really matter - you have a higher gas bill, but you get on with life. If you’ve got an inefficient EV, topping up 150 or 200kwh when the article’s merc might need only 60kwh means a huge time savings at the…

Even in theory, crypto is much more like a more volatile version of “cash under your mattress” than a bank. Just like CUYM, you have to hope someone doesn’t find your mattress / private key, just like CUYM you have no regulatory protection at all*, and just like CUYM you’re entirely dependent on your own smarts to…

Yep - blanketing the planet in solar panels simply to perform useless hashes and provide a couple transactions per second is not a step forward.

Rich people including Bezos actively lobby against our interests (minimum wage, environmental or worker protections, unionization), so it is rational for us to lobby against theirs.

F1 cars, given that they have enough downforce to drive upside down, would look ludicrous going off a jump - they’d go off the end of the jump and unnaturally zoom back down to the ground, probably starting before the rear end had even finished going over the jump.

Yeah, but at least the new rules are designed from the ground up to allow for better competition. I imagine someone will pull a Mercedes and run away with it for a few years, but if it cuts down on the number of hopeless DRS trains in the midfield, it’s worth it.

Not a single front wing removed, corner overshot, tire cut, etc? Seems unlikely, given this season has seen a first-lap safety car just about every race.

I am so looking forward to this. The first 10-15 minutes of a race are usually the most exciting bits anyway.

I’ve run a kill-a-watt on mine (6-slot one), and it only draws about $1/mth in electricity and cough up enough basil for our 2-person family with a herb-enthusiastic cook. The liter of nutrients we bought last year for $20 is only about half-gone.

I’ve run a kill-a-watt on mine (6-slot one), and it only draws about $1/mth in electricity and cough up enough basil…

In Canada we have a ton of programs that “let” new homebuyers dig into registered retirement plans so they can spend it on a house, as well as straight-up cash payments from the govt so long as you spend it on a house.

Ooo, was one of them Target? Once they ran, there was tons of reporting that was basically exactly what you described: run at a distance by US managers, no attention paid to local supply chain, etc.

I’ve made a not even very successful game as a side hobby, and I could give nearly the same interview. It was a multiplayer game with only a few hundred passionate users, but every morning you’d wake up to 5 new emails where people had issues, feature requests, and so on. Every user seems to think they’ve got a claim…

Whiting did die, so it’s not an entirely unnecessary change.

Michael Masi is definitely has a different approach than Charlie Whiting.  Way more safety cars and red flags.

Looks like pretty shallow draft and calm day. If someone was doing some waterskiing in a big boat nearby or the wind picked up I bet it could’ve pushed them over.

Hindenburg is a short-seller. They find shitty companies, do research about them, go short on the companies, publicize their research, and then profit when the company’s stock falls to reflect the newly-public information.

Hindenburg’s reports can certainly cause a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In this case they’re probably not being supplanted be competition just yet, moreso I wouldn’t be surprised if the regular Chinese person looks at the government strongly hinting that it dislikes Tesla and says “yeahh... I’m going to avoid buy a car that the CCP hates”.

A family member used to do trans-atlantic sailing, and described the her first response to the concorde going overhead in the middle of the ocean as “OH SHIT DID THE MAST JUST BREAK?”.