From the article, however, you don't technically need an apple device...an iCloud+ account is sufficient. That said, I don't know many people with iCloud+ who aren't already in the Apple ecosystem, and obviously anything Apple releases will obviously have some advantage to it if you use the hardware alone.
Given the running narrative that closing down TikTok is more of an effort of American social network platforms, it's probably more a form of protest than anything.
Is that more or less efficient than a heat pump water heater driven by solar though? A quick search shows that the heat pump option can be upwards of 3x more efficient. Plus, you can use the extra electricity generated to power your fans or heat pump cooling system.
It's just coming out of winter here in Perth, Western Australia. I have 6.6kw solar power and also a 15 year old solar hot water system with thermostat controlled electric booster (so not ancient, but also not the most advanced tech). On cold and cloudy days the booster turns on and draws far more power than my panels are generating at that moment, but even on nice days it turns on over night when there is no solar power. I saw on one particularly bad day that it turned on 3 times in 24h - 2x when dark - and drew over 1.5kWh each time, and I only used the hot water once in the morning. So I turned the booster off a month or 2 ago (can't remember when exactly, but yes it meant some days I couldn't have a hot shower), and on my recent 2-month power bill I had used 215kWh less than last year! (I also replaced my plasma TV with an OLED in that time, so that might have been responsible for a portion.) So whilst I get free hot water for ~8 months of the year, the other 4 months it uses a ton of electricity.
My sister recently got a new hot water system and I showed her some data that showed heat pump ones were better, so that's what she got. The data showed that whilst they use electricity during the summer, they use less during winter, and they end up ahead. But actually we can see on her power bill that when it kicks in on bad days, it too can overwhelm her solar generation at that moment.
Ultimately I think we need smarter connected systems to get the best efficiency. The booster in my solar hot water is just a basic element like a kettle. Surely it could be "throttled" (supplied with less watts) or cycled during the day so that it only heats when there is solar power available? If I have to have a slightly-cooler-than-hot shower first thing in the morning because I didn't want it boosting at 4am, then so be it.
That's an interesting attempt to deflect from the income disparity between those in executive positions to those that work for them. Even in tech, while the salaries of tech workers is high it's nothing compared to the execs.
But let's follow the deflection. Instead of monetary disparity, lets look at energy waste disparity. It was recently shown that the top 10% wealthiest Americans contribute to 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the country. As you said, we are all on the same planet. just because they have managed to grab a bigger piece of the pie shouldn't mean that they get to pollute the planet more than anyone else. In both cases the mindset needs to change and those at the top maybe need to be a little less greedy overall.
> That's an interesting attempt to deflect from the income disparity between those in executive positions to those that work for them. Even in tech, while the salaries of tech workers is high it's nothing compared to the execs.
That's quite the arbitrary line to draw. Different roles have different labor markets. If you're a software engineer you are probably getting paid 10 times more than an EA.
> It was recently shown that the top 10% wealthiest Americans contribute to 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the country.
To be in the top 10% in America in terms of wealth, your net worth needs to be ~$850k.
To be in the top 10% in America in terms of wages, your annual comp needs to be ~$175.
That means probably most senior software engineers are in that bracket - https://www.levels.fyi/
Skepticism on this was called out in WaPo's article on the same subject:
Other experts on the AMOC also cautioned that because the new study doesn’t
present new observations of the entire ocean system — instead, it is extrapolating
about the future based on past data from a limited region of the Atlantic — its
conclusions should be taken with a grain of salt.
> how about they become a therapist and sell access
> what if they sell access to lectures
I fully agree. But in all of your examples someone is purchasing the right to access the information in question. Did Meta or OpenAI purchase the books (or lectures) with the intention of feeding them into the training for their respective LLM's?
> The Minority Report movie probably set the industry back by a decade or two. Waving your hands around to control stuff seems logical but is quickly exhausting.
There was an operations center I worked at that had a large touch screen (think cnn wall), that always sat in the corner of the area collecting dust, but whenever some higher up would visit it would get pulled out and used just to provide a wow factor. It was always the unlucky one that ended up having to use it during this time. The fatigue was horrible.
