The company paid independent testing organization VTT to do limited tests for battery. The VTT.fi did just the test it was paid to do, nothing more.
The result: Donut battery behaves just like any other battery is expected to behave in same testing. For example, you can fast charge normal lithium ion battery at Donut speeds 4 times.
Founders behind Donut have new AI startup Asilab, marketed with similar bullshit "This changes everything" story. It seems that they are just hustlers separating dumb investors from their money.
I like to read Krugman on economics, but this ties things together that don't match.
While donations from the wealthy to Trump were significant, Kamala Harris still outraised him by a huge margin. It's a misconception that billionaires 'bought' Trump. Many of them detest him and are opportunistic suppoters. Only a small minority supported him consistently, and GOP elites resisted his rise in 2016 as much as they possibly could. Trump won because he has massive grassroots support. At least 25% of the electorate are hardcore supporters.
Secondly, billionaires did not want this war. Trump's enables were Evangelical Christians and their sick theology connected to Israel. In Latin America it's Rubio.
Finally, billionaires don't pay for this war through direct taxation. They pay for it indirectly: as U.S. debt and interest rates rise, financial instability increases, causing their assets to depreciate.
I dont really buy the "this is all Evangelical Christians and their sick theology" angle
To me this is about power, religion is branding and the real decisions follow money, media control, and long‑term interests. Not every billionaire has to love trump and just enough of them have to be okay with him because he delivers tax cuts and deregulation
On the Middle East part: these aren't just random countries tied to some prophecy, theyre core US allies. If the US misplays this and loses them, thats a huge hit to US leverage
It's both. The Republican party (like all parties) is made up of groups that barely tolerate each other. In this case, you have a bunch of Evangelical theocrats and a bunch of atheist technocrats. They tolerate each other because they both really despise progressives, but once the progressives are completely defeated they'll turn on each other.
The theocrats want to bring about Armageddon. It's not clear if the technocrats are merely not objecting to it, or if they have some other goal in mind. Perhaps they want to funnel money to themselves via the defense sector, or perhaps they want to show off America's might. It may just be supporting one of our few remaining allies, who considers Iran a threat but hasn't risked an all-out war.
I'd like to think that, if this goes badly, then the theocrats and technocrats will blame each other for doing something costly. But I'm sure they'll just blame progressives, which always seems to suffice, regardless of how absurd the explanation is.
This was supposed to happen already in the 2000s. JVM in everywhere, especially in the browser. There was Java rings you could wear, Java Card VM (JCVM), Squawk VM, Java ME.
"Java the language is almost irrelevant. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers for Ada, and they all work. Not many people use them, but it doesn't matter: they all work." --James Gosling
Then Microsoft happened. MS realized that "Write Once, Run Anywhere" kills their OS monopoly, so they polluted Java with brilliant Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy (Sun vs. Microsoft revealed the emails where the stated goal was "Kill cross-platform Java" by growing the "polluted" Java market.):
Embrace: Microsoft licensed Java from Sun Microsystems and built the MSJVM. It was the fastest JVM for some time.
Extend: They created a programmer tool for Java with proprietary Windows-specific "extensions" and also removed standard features like RMI and JNI.
Extinguish: Developers using MS tools (90% of devlopers at the time) produced "Write Once, Run Only on Windows" software and killed it and pivoted to C# and .NET
Before Java 6 in 2006 JVM wasn't a good target for dynamically typed languages. In Java 6 they added some support but it wasn't very efficient. In 2008 they started serious work on fixing this, and that work went into Java 7 in 2011.
The .NET CLR on the other hand was designed from the start to be a good target for all types of language and was superior to JVM at this from the start through at least Java 7.
Before 2006 there was very little demand for dynamically typed languages. So it was not an issue.
Dynamic typing was even accepted thing for general purpose programming. It was just a curiosity. It's strange how mainstream programmers are always stuck into fads and superstition.
Java failed because of its security model - trying to run trusted and untrusted code in the same VM without a hard boundary - a given call is trusted if every call stack entry at the time of the call is in a trusted class. There were too many confused deputies - if you can set up a trusted object to make a call that requires trust later on without your involvement, then you have privilege escalation.
The solution was to sandbox the whole VM but this breaks all the existing code designed for partial sandboxing (e.g. most of the standard library). WASM uses this approach from the start.
Again: Microsoft. Microsoft actually promoted their own version of "fine-grained permissions" before Sun released JDK 1.2 just to make it incompatible. Customers did not care abut security. Microsoft provided shortcut to speed. Sun already lost.
Don't be surprised if Google adds something similar to Chrome for WASM.
Which is very much Google's approach to Android. AOSP could be targeted directly by devs, but Google pushes everyone to use Google services in their apps (and assume it's available on any android device) which means Android with Google services is the only viable version of Android out there.
JCVM did not require GC. It was designed to run on extremely resource-constrained devices-think 16-bit or 32-bit microcontrollers with only a few kilobytes of RAM.
Java Card 2.2 and 3.x specifications added optional GC.
American Bar Associaton agrees. ABA Plea Bargain Task Force Report is sad read. US criminal justice system is horrific and plea bargaining is big reason for it.
So you are telling me that the people who make money from criminal trials don't like the part of the system that would make a trial not necessary. Weird huh...its almost like they have a significant monetary reason to get rid of plea bargins.
But you leak all type of information and and the retrieve either leak even more data or you'll end up with transferring a god knows amount of data or your encryption is trivially broken or spend days/month/years to unencrypt.
this question should've been posed earlier when first LLMs were training. many people chose to ignore the question, and now, several distillation epochs later, it is not a question that matters, as both yes/no are true, and not true.
is it legitimate for millions of people to exploit, expound on knowledge that was perhaps, to begin with, not legitimate to use? well they did already, who's to judge the commons now?
What a ridiculous take. Many people loudly raised the question and objected to the practice from the beginning, but a handful of companies ignored the objections and ran faster than the legal system. If they were in the wrong, legally or morally, they still deserve to face repercussions for it.
it is a take, ridiculous or not. the fact you rage against it implies its not as improbable as you may want it to be. besides ridiculousness is a very subjective matter, right? many things are super ridiculous in 2026 from 2020s perspective, and this just piles on top.
to me is superb ridiculous to shun the comment though. but we'll be having this split for a while, that for sure.
They are build to physically last 5-7 years in 24/7 datacenter use, but they have effective lifetime just 3-4 years, then their value has deprecated and electricity and infrastructure cost dominates. Meta did a benchmark where 9% of the chips failed every year, 'infant mortality' is much higher in the first 3 months of use.
9% is an absurd failure rate for solid state electronics. Particularly considering the profit margins. I assume it's related to the power densities involved. Would you happen to recall the source?
If this happened to bank deposits, it would be called a bank run.
Every time the crash starts the same. The problems start in markets that are opaque and non-regulated. Banks are now fine, the risks moved into private credit and shadow banking.
The US has between $1.3 and $1.5 trillion in private credit AUM. 70% of global private credit. It has expanded rapidly and the quality has decreased as it has been "democratized" and retail investors have access.
The price point of SGI Onyx in 1994 with the performance of 16 million Onyx workstations.
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