So long as most of these states have party primaries, particularly closed party primaries, it doesn't really matter because anyone insufficiently pro-Trump is getting primaried hard.
They still have to face competition in the general though. If Republican voters are disgusted enough, they might vote for a Democrat, but they are more likely to stay home and just not vote. Which could be enough for them to lose their seats.
SECTION 1. The President shall not have the power to grant pardons and reprieves to—
(1) the President’s self;
(2) any person, up to a third degree relation, of the President, or a spouse thereof;
(3) any current or former member of the President’s administration;
(4) any person who worked on the President’s presidential campaign as a paid employee;
(5) any person or entity for an offense that was motivated by a direct and significant personal or pecuniary interest of any of the foregoing persons; or
(6) any person or entity for an offense that was at the direction of, or in coordination with, the President.
Any pardon issued for a corrupt purpose shall be invalid.
SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
It wouldn't be an ordinary law, it would be a constitutional amendment, so that wouldn't be an issue. It's probably not going to happen, though. Amending the U.S. constitution is incredibly difficult.
Until I realized this, the title was quite confusing. If “20,000 leagues” were referring to depth, it would be enough to go all the way through the Earth, exit the other side, and then make it a quarter of the way to the moon.
Reminds me very much of much of the frontier science Ashton Forbes (the crazy zero-point energy guy) has been exposing on Twitter. For example:
"There is a very deep connection between magnetism and zero-point energy. So yeah, go ahead and build a magnetic motor. It's possible to draw this energy just using spins of electrons and permanent magnets." https://x.com/JustXAshton/status/1830621589848928459
Unfortunately I can't find some of the more relevant posts I have seen recently. But maybe someone else on HN also follows this guy.
Just because energy is there doesn't mean you can use it. You can only use changes in energy, like a battery discharging or a log burning. Zero point energy is the resting energy of empty space, and the only theoretical scenarios where it changes involve the laws of physics being changed and the universe being destroyed. In a sense it's the tension of having laws of nature. I sincerely hope it's not on the menu of consumable fuels.
It's also worth mentioning that quasiparticles are bursts of energy that move through materials. For example a soundwave is a burst of quasiparticles, and the quietest possible sound is one quasiparticle, a phonon. I think this disclaimer should accompany all of the press releases about new particles discovered in condensed matter (solids, basically).
There's a little cautionary story I like to tell about predictions and probabilities
There is a man living near a volcano. He has put up a sign outside his house for travelers, proudly declaring: "Will not erupt today. Accuracy: 100%."
One night, after thirty years of this, the volcano erupts for a few hours at night, oozing magma on its opposite side.
The next morning, the man is grateful that his house is fine, but feels a pang of sadness as he replaces the famous sign with a new one: "Will not erupt today. Accuracy rate: 99.99%."
Yes, most people can predict weather in the dessert. But why do you claim this is what happened here? Or was it a joke? Because people took it serious.
Neither the article, nor the linked paper state that. But they have all the details on precision and condition.
It was a joke about how silly valley based companies will claim the moon and back and then design a car that doesn’t know dumping snow in the boot is bad.
The work was done by DeepMind, which is in the UK. Weather in the UK is quite variable and difficult to predict (which is why the English are always talking about it).
>Figure 2 shows some of the forecast samples of GenCast for Typhoon Hagibis, shortly before it made landfall in Japan on 12 October 2019. Figure 2b–e,g,h–k,m shows that GenCast forecasts are sharp and have spherical harmonic power spectra that closely match the ERA5 ground truth at both 1- and 15-day lead times
Seriously. Let's see an accurate forecast for Cleveland, Ohio. Even local forecasters can barely get the next day correct on any sort of consistent basis.
They're currently discussing how difficult it was to design a credit card reader for the Robotaxi that would reliably fail whenever it detects cash in the passenger's wallet.
I dont know how true it is now but I can tell you once upon a time they preferred cash and yes their machine frequently seemed to be broken or had some issue. My experiences were a long time ago before the rise of Uber and Lyft
This is complete and utter bullshit. Whatever your personal experience, I have ridden taxis hundreds of times over the course of 2 decades and not once has a cab demanded I pay cash. I exclusively used credit cards and have been since roughly 2009
Non-software-developer humans often use things called "lamps" to illuminate spaces at night. Unfortunately, illumination inhibits effective nighttime coding.
Europe and Japan should be totally capable of producing super inexpensive batteries. They just don't, at the moment.