A pair of 9 and 11 year old boys made a similar trip going from Needham MA, to the World’s Fair in Montreal. They did it with a pony/pony-cart in 1967. PBS did a really nice short documentary on them where they're interviewed.
I was/am a fan of z.ai’s GLM models as a drop in replacement for Claude. But they more than doubled their prices recently. Still a ok alternative, but not really an amazing deal anymore.
I've tried out gpt-oss:20b on a MacBook Air (via Ollama) with 24GB of RAM. In my experience it's output is comparable to what you'd get out of older models and the openAI benchmarks seem accurate https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/ . Definitely a usable speed. Not instant, but ~5 tokens per second of output if I had to guess.
Your article states 68,300 figure is using average global energy supply at the time. As grid decarbonization happens that break even point can be reduced to as little as 30,000 according to the article(pure renewable scenario). It's not an overnight fix, but it's a clear improvement.
Not only that, but Volvo is procuring their batteries in China and the footprint for battery production is deeply impacted by the carbon intensity of the grid where it is produced. So using a Volvo is already close to a worst case for the battery production.
Any reduction in this can have a big effect. The EV here is 10.7tons more intensive to build, and the battery counts for 7 tons.
> The more harm is done, the less likely that people will support a public option.
I don't think that is the case most of the time. If anything, suffering makes people more likely to be sympathetic. For instance: people with low incomes, and those without private healthcare are more likely to support socialized healthcare in the United States.[1] These are the people most likely to have been stuck with ruinous healthcare bills.
"You can _not_ buy thousands of rounds worth of any ammo other than .22 with a week's worth of minimum wage pay (if you know something that I don't, let me know where you're finding these deals)."
It's pretty close. Ammoseek shows 9mm starting at ~$0.30 per round, and most other popular pistol calibers starting at ~$0.40 to ~$0.45 per round. And it's easy to find better deals if you're checking the r/gundeals subreddit periodically. That puts 2000 rounds of 9mm at around the gross income weekly income for someone earning $15/hour.
The West Coast is not the entire US. Most states don't have a $15 minimum wage. That pricing is mostly at 1000 round quantities. 50 round boxes are usually between $20 to $25 a box.
The assertion is correct in the sense that somebody living in a state with an exceptionally high minimum wage can buy a thousand rounds of ammo that isn't .22 in a week's pay if they have absolutely no other expenses is just barely correct in a strictly technical sense, but doesn't really add up for the purposes of this conversation. Even if you were willing to go completely broke spending every cent you make on ammo, you would need another $500 minimum to buy a cheap carbine and enough magazines to carry 200 rounds with you in a reasonable manner.
Confusingly Apple actually has a few ‘Apple TV’ product. There’s the app that you’re describing then there’s the physical device, as well as the subscription service.
The physical device is the Roku competitor, and supports Netflix/Disney+ etc.
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