MikeCapone

He still owns over 40% of Oracle, that's a much bigger equity stake than most founders, and most of these other trillion-dollar companies don't have founders in charge anymore.

I really hope this can become a new standard and be available everywhere (image tools, browsers, etc).

While in practice it won't change my life much, I like the elegance of using a modern standard with this level of performance an efficiency.

Why is the low of 2020 the right level to benchmark from?

JPEG XL looks like a great format, I hope it takes over.

I get that most bandwidth goes to video, but it would still be nice to have a great modern standard for images.

France has been mismanaging its fleet and signally for years that they want to move away from it, under-investing in it, etc. It's not the technology's fault.

Germany had some of the best managed plants in the world -- until they decided to shut them down, leading to more coal being burned and more dependence on other countries like Russia...

It's because the US Navy can just decide to do it without years of red tape and mountains of paperwork. National security cuts through the red tape.

I don't think the government owning civilian reactors would help if they don't reform the process that means it takes 10+ years and millions of pages of documentation to get anything done.

The US Navy could be quite quick building reactors and innovating, because it didn't have to go through the same amount of regulation. They've operated lots and lots of reactors with very little problems for decades.

How do they deal with variability of all these renewables? Where is all that storage going to come from?

Only realistic path is nuclear, but it'll take longer than 2035.

Agreed if what is taking so long makes a difference.

I suspect a lot of it is red tape without a real benefit...

That's why we're also electrifying transportation, should push for heat pumps in buildings, etc, but yeah, there's a lot to do. Not dealing with electricity doesn't help the rest, though.

Wind & solar are great for what they are, but they aren't dispatchable, and we're better using battery capacity for EVs rather than the grid.

And we're shutting down nuclear power plants? How about we do what France did in the 70s-80s and solve this problem once and for all.