Once mosanto has 90% of the market and they jack up their prices. Farmers can go back to growing non-GMO seeds and not using round up to weed.

Another hilarious thing about the argument is that Roundup, and also the gene package involved in Roundup Ready plants, are now in the public domain. The patents are expired.

There's nothing preventing a country from just ignoring patents, too. That pretty much happened in India with Bt cotton, engineered to express an insecticidal protein. Gray market seeds with the trait became widely available there and the foreign patent holders judged it not worthwhile to try to prosecute. This was all very good news for Indian cotton farmers, especially considering the personal cost to them of exposure to the pesticides they'd otherwise have to have used.

I moved from gas boiler to electric years ago and would like to move to an electric heat pump hybrid, but it doesn’t exist. Moment lost.

What do you mean when you say “heat pump hybrid?”

Well, they have electric boilers, gas boilers, and gas/heat pump hybrid boilers. but not restive/heat pump hybrids. (for houses heated with hot water) I suppose this is because the return temperature to the boiler is already 50 Celsius so the heat pump can’t help you at all

Edit: Oh actually, I was wrong.(and I guess it makes sense. It would suffer the same problems as an electric hybrid) There is no hybrid gas heat pump for hydronic heating. Basically my entire city is hydronic heating so heat pumps are not an option. However

a bunch of my neighbours have heat pumps and I suppose it’s just heating one room in their house and it’s not even connected to the thermostat of their hydronic heater in any way.. Seems pretty silly to me. At least you get an air conditioner out of the deal so that you can use more electricity in the summer.

There are air-to-water heat pumps that can run hydronic heating (even radiators, though underfloor is a better match due to the lower return temps).

You can then make your own hybrid with a resistive electric boiler or a gas boiler wired to second-stage or emergency heat.

My 1920s house with radiators and terrible insulation outside of Boston runs with return water temps in the low 90s in shoulder season and 120°F when it’s 12°F outside, using outdoor-reset/weather-compensation.

Those return temps are entirely compatible with air-to-water heat pumps. (And result in 22-24 hour run times per day, which makes for extremely comfortable heat, despite the generally lacking insulation.)

I don’t have one because HVAC contractors are living in the 1990s and want to do a 3-hour, 2-person combi boiler install for $10K in profit rather than think through how to do anything unusual.

The example of the Elon Musk thing was basically fine other than it cited and now deleted article. I give this research paper a mark of 45%.

Crack it on a flat surface not an edge

The research team also found that the price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 89% since 2010, making solar-plus-storage systems as cost-effective as gas power plants

Well, which one is it? Is it cheaper or the same price as a gas plant?

New energy generation from solar is cheaper. New energy generation from solar plus storage is cost competitive with natural gas peaker plants. By how much depends on the region.

slot machines generally pay out 90 to 95%

Not really there’s always gonna be water comets in the frost zone.

I can also only experience true visualizations when falling asleep or dreaming. I concluded that being awake (correctly?) suppresses vivid visuals and some people when awake simply do not have this (mal?)adaptation.

I think you're probably right, though sometimes when this happens I feel very awake indeed.

Write one set of common rules, include them as needed. Seems useful.

That's an incredibly dishonest reading of my comment. Using ML to build simulations is different than letting an LLM build the plane for you.