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Pretty likely that they might be. The logic works differently in a few different markets but essentially:

• You demonstrate your mean usage at a given time, say 2kw
• You trade 1kw
• You demonstrate that you used 1kw less than normal
• You get paid

(obviously only in certain markets, but these are fairly widespread)

Even this is only kind of true! There's markets where you're paid to discharge into the grid, but also most countries have "baselined" markets, where using less electricity than normal at that time is considered the same as an export. Which something lime a powerwall lets you do by being flexible on when you use it vs the grid. Situations like that are pretty much straight win win.

Ascii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.

Wait till you here about every ascii letter. . .

Okay, so you switch to solar/wind/nuclear or some other semi CO2 free source. Now you take CO2 free energy away from someone that now will have to use co2 generating energy instead.

Not sure if this makes climate capture any less baloney, but energy, especially renewables isn't a 0 sum thing. A country with good renewables often generates more elecricity then it can handle and there's a negative price for electricity at those times.

If you can choose when you use elecricity, you definitely aren't forcing someone else to use CO2 intensive energy.

I don't think that makes a big change to your overall point, but it's an interesting feature of renewable energy so I figured it was worth saying.

Thanks! Somehow missed that, but I still don't really understand the details, like how and whyit incorporates generative AI, and if these are for Netflix or for Netflix ad customers.

I can't tell from the article what the AI side of this is? Are Netflix offering to make adverts for customslrs using AI? Are they just showing adverts in general from customers, including AI generated ones?

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but I've read the article twice and still don't know 😂

I'm just curious, but taking Elon's ahem "politics" out of it, what kind of price would you start thinking about the cybertruck? Would you choose it over another electric pickup?

Thanks for sharing! This.makes me think of how vacination existed as cultural knowledge in Asia and Africa way before modern medicine adopted it.

Interesting, although I'd be even more interested to know how it varies across countries, the gender differences in France are pretty different to say, Norway or Saudi Arabia.

I don't disagree, but I think it's worth acknowledging that the US government could very easily regulate things so that Tesla are responsible for the financial burden they're putting on the world when they inevitably scrap these vehicles.

That doesn't address a bunch of other problems, but changing the global system of resource allocation is a hard thing, and making companies have some semblance of financial responsibility for destroying the planet is an easy thing that any government could do tomorrow. Just like how capitalism will (and did) inevitably result in child labour, but that can be (and was) outlawed directly.

I'm not trying to undermine your point about capitalism btw, just make the case that even within the constraints capitalism has, companies are getting away with an outrageous amount of destructive behavior.

Most big groups have monthly "welcome sessions" that are a great way to feel things out if you're not sure.