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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

So the UK pulled out of EASA because they didn't want to follow them.

And then they still want to follow EASA rules and want EASA to follow UK rules (basically EASA) in reciprocy ?!

It is moronic, just accept EASA regulations like about the whole world. No one is going to accept a regulation regime that fundamentally diverge from either the EASA or FAA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The funny thing about air conditioning fluids, is that we are actually moving from HFC to propane and ammonia, due their green house effect.

Aka the thing that CFC were supposed to replace because they were safer.

It is a circle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This isn't true anymore, Intel dropped AVX512 since they moved to Big+Small cores design while AMD actually implemented it with Zen 4.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This could be useful for making synthetic aviation fuel at scale. Need methane + hydrogen + lot of energy.

Copper is abundant compared to the other rare earth catalysts, thus reducing cost.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The end result is that basically no one will be subject to this tax bracket.

It is high enough that everyone at that level will mainly get their real income from stock/loan which aren't salaries.

Having this tax bracket or not having it is, basically the same for the super wealthy. The real method to tax them is through capital tax, not income.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That the thing that I kinda have trouble understanding.

The big multinationals are expert at extracting profits out of national economies and putting it in tax havens.

If they boycott Russia and get replaced by Russian copies, wouldn't the Russian state get a larger share of profits ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is x86_64. AMD had a joint venture with hygon and made a Zen 1 CPU with them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They banned destrucive research for new rooms, because some researcher decade ago, enthusiastically drilled a bunch of holes to nowhere in order to do find them.

They still allowed the non destructive muon imaging a few year ago that heavily hinted to an unfound room.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The BYD Seagul at 12k$ is not really the type of car that could be successfully exported in western markets. The 30kwh battery is too small. I could see the upper trim with the larger battery being successful in Europe, but this is absolutely not going to work in USA.

A better comparison is the 27k$ made in china BYD seal vs the 38k$ made in USA Tesla model 3.

And also there is a massive price EV price war in China. I don't believe any of their EV manufacturers is currently making money at those prices.

Even when they exports to lower income countries like Thailand, they are significantly more expensive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It is the Eurotram at Strasbourg

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

A 100% tariff is simply way too overkill. At this point it is not a tariff, but a straight up ban.

The aim of a tariff is making a fair competition between local products and imports, ultimately to lower prices for consumers.

What has been done here, is pure protectionism for the US companies that didn't invest enough in EV.

In the EU where we actually have Chinese competition, the cheapest EU-made EV (Citroën eC3) start at 23000€ and multiple models at this price point are coming in the next few years (Renault 5, VW ID2...)

 

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, which is similar to human response time(opens in a new window) in a conversation. It matches GPT-4 Turbo performance on text in English and code, with significant improvement on text in non-English languages, while also being much faster and 50% cheaper in the API. GPT-4o is especially better at vision and audio understanding compared to existing models.

Prior to GPT-4o, you could use Voice Mode to talk to ChatGPT with latencies of 2.8 seconds (GPT-3.5) and 5.4 seconds (GPT-4) on average. To achieve this, Voice Mode is a pipeline of three separate models: one simple model transcribes audio to text, GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 takes in text and outputs text, and a third simple model converts that text back to audio. This process means that the main source of intelligence, GPT-4, loses a lot of information—it can’t directly observe tone, multiple speakers, or background noises, and it can’t output laughter, singing, or express emotion.

GPT-4o’s text and image capabilities are starting to roll out today in ChatGPT. We are making GPT-4o available in the free tier, and to Plus users with up to 5x higher message limits. We'll roll out a new version of Voice Mode with GPT-4o in alpha within ChatGPT Plus in the coming weeks.

 

The document urged the EU to break away from dependence on Russian fertilisers, by investing in innovation on made-in-Europe production and developing alternatives using chemical nitrogen.

FertigHy wants to replace hydrogen – a key element in the production of nitrogen fertilisers – currently produced from natural gas with hydrogen produced by electricity.

Initially planned for Spain, the plant will be built in France and will use electricity generated from nuclear and renewable sources, emitting reduced levels of CO2.

 

France will ban the selling of single-use e-cigarettes by 2025, French Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau announced on Tuesday during a National Tobacco Control Program (PNLT) presentation, while increasing tobacco taxation.

 

Dans le cadre de la réforme du marché européen, la France s’escrime pour que ses actifs nucléaires existants puissent être couverts par des contrats d’écart compensatoire bidirectionnel (contracts for difference, CfD, en anglais).

Ce type de contrat permet de fixer un couloir de prix de vente de l’électricité sur le marché de gros européen. Si le prix de vente est inférieur au plancher du couloir défini, l’État paye la différence au producteur. Au-dessus du plafond, le producteur rémunère l’État.

des CfD sur le nucléaire existant permettraient de maintenir la concurrence sur le marché français de l’électricité, tel que le faisait le dispositif d’accès régulé à l’énergie nucléaire historique (ARENH) institué en 2011 et voué à disparaître au 31 décembre 2025.

L’ARENH permet aux concurrents de la branche «fourniture» d’EDF, les fournisseurs dits «alternatifs», d’accéder à une partie de la production nucléaire de l’électricien français à des prix préférentiels.

l’ARENH n’a pas tenu l’ensemble de ses promesses, notamment sur la libéralisation parallèle du marché de la production d’électricité.

 

Initially, the European Commission proposed two lists, one of which included so-called “strategic” technologies subject to a 40% domestic manufacturing target and fast-track permitting procedures.

However, this list did not feature nuclear power, a move that sparked outrage among its advocates on social media, particularly in France.

However, things took a new turn on Tuesday.

The compromise list now includes renewable energy technologies, nuclear fission and fusion technologies, energy storage, carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen transport infrastructure, and electrolysers, among others.

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