Well shit, that even predates the LLM boom.
Wild stuff
GissaMittJobb
joined 2 years ago
May his suffering be immense
On top of this, the AI jobs are paying some flat-out ridiculous rates.
Like, millions of dollars up-front in signing bonuses kind of ridiculous
Humans have been cooking with fire for a bloody long time, and we've gotten very good at making it safe. I'd wager that this is just energy companies lobbying against gas, as they can make more money burning coal/oil to power electric stoves.
The opposite is true actually with the gas companies having been behind the Cooking with Gas-campaign in order to make sure that they keep getting gas line installations in place.
Indoor combustion is still very much detrimental for health, trying to claim otherwise is quite frankly absurd.
- $3,400 for the stove because induction is rare here and they do not have base models
IKEA sells a 4-zone induction cooktop for $500 in the U.S.
Granted, this is more expensive than $380 I'd have to pay for a 4-zone induction cooktop from IKEA here in Sweden, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the $3400 you had to pay.
There are people who make it out fine after having lived all of their lives in the thick smog of Delhi, that does not make breathing in that smog any healthier.
I have no idea why you even bring this anecdote, as if it were even the slightest bit relevant when measured against the body of evidence present
Another video to add onto the pile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54
A small anecdote from an outsider - here in Sweden, gas stoves are more or less unheard of, as is using gas for heating homes or water. One of the things I kept reading occasionally on the internet was people trying to sell me on the importance of owning a CO monitor. This was always strange to me as these basically are not a thing here in Sweden. It took me a long time to connect these two facts together - there is no need for us to own CO monitors, because we never even expose ourselves to the risk of CO poisoning by not burning gas in our homes.
Apart from that, induction is just so amazing to cook on that there's really no way that exposing yourselves to the reduced air quality + risk of CO poisoning + always having a source of emissions when cooking can be worth the feeling of cooking on a gas stove. There's just no way.
wat
In this case it was some banter against Brits, but yeah
Don't risk your lives or limbs for the bosses, people
Appropriate that being in the UK is the negative option here
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here -
It's not like rails are in any significant way displacing solar panels.
If one were motivated, you could use the same land for tracks and for solar panels by raising the solar panels above the tracks and catenaries, making double use of the land at the expense of having to build platforms for the panels.
Finally, solar energy can't be used to transport passengers by plane since electric plane travel is not at a mass-market scale (nor is it even certain that they will ever be able to).