There are cheaper plans that subsidize under the AT&T network even.

Edit: ignore this post, I have no idea what Canada’s disability law is like

Administrative law is complicated by them having to follow their own procedures and the courts deciding to completely ignore changes to those procedures or make new ones up out of whole cloth.

The autonomy is a strength in some ways compared to parliamentary democracy and ministers, but the courts have really fucked around with it.

You gotta be stupid as shit to run something like this from the US and keep a financial tail of credit card payments to you.

You also gotta be stupid as shit to actually pay 10 bux for this.

Opposite if they’re military. She gets benefits for being his wife. His income drops if divorced.

Because you live in a persistent fantasy existence in order to cope with failing to achieve any developmental goals since high school.

Serving the videos is where they really get hit, not necessarily storing them.

It is expensive, but it’s hard to quantify that expense for a cloud provider like Google. They’re liable to use their market prices for cloud services to justify the “cost” when they want to make it look more expensive than it is. They’re already building a cdn for all their other services as well, so YouTube’s cost is baked into that.

Reddit, by comparison actually pays for cloud hosting for all it’s video services and so pays out the ass.

Good luck with the lawsuit for breach of contract when you broke the contract. I’m sure the judge will be amused.

You and downpunxx are my most frequent mentions from my kbin days. Not that I particularly want to compare you.

There’s a few with a thousand on top of all time for Lemmy. It would have to break those before it gets there. But since we’ve got a perfect storm of Linux, crypto, and anti ai discussions going, all we need is @[email protected] to make a top level comment about how not voting for Biden is voting for Trump to really push it over the top.

Is this going to be the most replied to post on the Fediverse? 635 in 2 days and still going strong.

Edit: since it’s now at 666 replies, please nobody make any more comments

He said the numbers.

Of course it is. The what neuralink is touting is the exact same situation that company was in. What happened there was they were creating an application for types of rare retinal blindness with the hopes that some other research would magically come along that makes it apply to other types of blindness and give them a market they could properly scale in. Surprise Surprise, no such deus ex machina occurred and the company could not see a path to profitability.

Neuralink is the exact same, cervical vertebra paralysis has less invasive adaptive mechanisms that are cheaper to implement, so there’s no way this will ever be a profitable approach with that alone. They’re hoping that this will magic into some brain machine interface without any actual hope that is going to happen.

The basic research just isn’t there to be doing this shit, but the investor dollars need to be put somewhere.

Torque from a high voltage electric battery lawnmower motor just can’t be beat in my experience. Just chews up things that would make a similarly priced gas engine stall.

Tough to do when those services tend to get infiltrated by bots as well.

I misspelled strait, but I was referring to the shallows that contain the vast majority of ocean life due to ease of photosynthesis with littoral. Much of the Persian Gulf is within these shallows. In a lot of ways it acts like a salty inland sea that exchanges some of it’s saltier water with fresher water from the ocean, but that’s limited by the size of the strait of Hormuz.

It depends on how local we’re talking about. If you build a pipe out of the littoral zone into the ocean with multiple outputs you likely wouldn’t kill much of anything but a few plankton. The intake pipe is often worse than the output pipe for wildlife.

For a place like, say, the the Persian Gulf, that uses oil for heat desal and gets their intake and output from a sea so it’s all littoral and doesn’t as quickly exchange it’s water with the ocean, of course it’s an environmental nightmare. It’s naturally saltier without desal because of the higher evaporation rate and small comparative inlet size of the straight of hormuz, but at this point its 25% saltier than the rest of the ocean thanks to that desal.

Doesn’t take into account the reactivity difference with the matrix either. Solid state batteries are in a vitrified matrix essentially, and glass don’t burn. Would make a lithium solid state battery likely safer than this.

can’t just push it back into the ocean because that increases the salt concentration in the ocean which is actually not great and when done at scale

Only locally, it’s absolutely not a problem globally. That water will go back into the ocean soon enough. We’re not generally putting wastewater in aquifers. The same is true of lithium. Both sodium and lithium form salts that dissolve in water, so over time their biggest concentration is in the water and that’s why we refine it from salt flats.

I don’t consider the refining of lithium to be a huge problem, other than the fact that it usually just means they’re trucking a bunch of water to the desert for concentration and evaporation ponds (or worse, using the local groundwater in the desert instead of trucking in desalinated water like they should be).

To put it into perspective, high lithium brine and ore reserves contain about 14 million tons of lithium. Seawater contains over 2 trillion tons. We currently have a yearly consumption somewhere under 200 thousand tons. We won’t be hitting a lithium resource crunch anytime soon, it’ll just get more expensive. If we ever get hydrogen fusion running, we’d have to separate a bunch of lithium-6 which makes up under 5 percent of lithium.