Elias notes that Apple and other companies are investing massive amounts of money to create conformable batteries, such as the L-shaped batteries in some iPhones, but are using costly and limited traditional methods.
See, the thing with molds and specialised tools is that they get really, really cheap at scale. It you're making something like a drone, using a mass-produced drone-shaped battery and fastening chips and motors on seems like it would be better than painstakingly printing a battery into whatever cheap plastic body.
The tech eliminates the metal casings, bus bars and other components that hog space in conventional cells.
Those things also all have purposes. I have to wonder if there's some kind of tradeoff not being advertised here.
Huh, thanks. That's actually more recent than the polls in the graph, I wonder when they're going to get it put up.
Calgary is definitely going to be the battleground. Having a prominent former Calgary mayor as candidate should help at least a bit. I can't say it's impossible we'll elect her again, but I can say all her ideas are unpopular, and that her messaging isn't strong.
Lots of managers don't understand the tech, and an outright majority have no way of measuring productivity beyond in-seat time, which is supposed to be their whole job.
Oh, okay. AWS is actually a good analogy. It's a huge pillar of the existing infrastructure, and if it was gone it would be a pretty huge, unprecedented crisis. The internet would still come back, though. (Since I'm on all alt platforms already, I actually didn't notice it was down until I saw it on the news!)
Similarly, NATO would be in a bind, but I have every reason to think the considerable power and common interests of the remaining parties would see it through. One big question I've seen mentioned is the American officers that staff parts of it. Either they could keep working there even if the US is not a member, which is possible, or there would be just be a period of interruption to it's coordination functions while the ranks are refilled. Since Britain and France are nuclear powers, just article 5 is a strong protection already, though.
Oh, so there is more than the US's say-so at play.
It's almost like it's a voluntary agreement to coordinate and defend each other. One which doesn't intrinsically depend on the US in any way, but just happens to have the US as by far the largest member.
None of these are safe, though. Just safer than actually doing violence yourself.
It seems like supplying fake IDs or doing sabotage would still fall under "fighter". Even just as words "the fighters" and "the resistance" are somewhat synonymous.
Exactly, it's not booming, but it is kind of carrying on. Russia stopped reporting it's interest rate when it was around 20% and going up, IIRC. The post-covid US rate peaked at 6% or so. They've started figuratively burning the furniture - all maintenance and secondary industries get squeezed, the less-beloved oligarchs get squeezed, production (such as it is) moves to military stuff that's destined to be blown up anyway, as opposed to future sources of revenue.
Mainstream journalism isn't the best source about this kind of thing, not because they're dishonest or incompetent, but because they're allergic to statistics, and the tone can be anything. On the flipside, you'd think Ukraine is going to run out of territory any moment, going by the reporting, when in actuality the front lines have barely moved since the initial stages of the war. Adiivka and Pokrovsk are not major centers. Perun on YouTube is a military logistics person, and has some nice, really detailed videos.
The question is when he runs out, and that's harder to say. Yours truly guessed 15 months a few months back. One could also guess years, or weeks. Forever defies basic logic about how the supply chains work right now. There's also a question about what happens then - can they keep going and sending soldiers through an economic collapse?
You can absolutely have a modern level of population density and bioproductivity without fossil fuels.
To grow crops at modern levels you have to supply nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur, pesticides and mechanisation. Sulfur is the only nutrient that comes directly from fossil fuels now, but it's easy enough to find other places. Near me there's been giant stacks of the stuff not even worth selling. Pesticides come from a variety of places, some biological, some which derive from fossil fuels now but could potentially be replaces with building blocks like xylochemicals. Mechanisation could use electrical power, and metals smelted with hydrogen instead of carbon.
Side note, but out of curiosity, why Edo Japan? Isn't that basically the same as Europe circa 1600 or 1700?
To do this properly, OP would have to start with the relevant timestamp and a brief transcript. The context would then be, like, why this is being mentioned in that video and at that place in the video, even if it's as simple as "this is a prominent Linux YouTuber talking about the drama a bit in passing". Just so that it's not quote mining from irrelevant people and places.
(It's worth noting that a guy I've never heard of being fashy isn't really a crazy claim, anyway. I'm not going to make final judgements based on it, but then I wouldn't ask for a source, either)
So if the US genuinely invade that would be considered triggering Article V as the article doesn’t have an exemption clause of said invader being a different NATO Member.
Sort of? Turkey actually tested this once. Since it was Turkey and Greece it all kind of just got smoothed over. If it was the US the entire thing becomes a farce, and the treaty is just a piece of paper.
Furthermore the way NATO is structured is it can’t function unless the US is at the steering wheel.
Are you just thinking about all the US officers involved in running it? It's not like the US actually, officially calls the shots.
Oh you're right! My bad, sorry.
Huh, so I wonder why the graph lags behind the input data, then. The methodology page explains how they weight it, mostly.