It's probably to avoid buying (expensive) spectrum.

If you can just use Bluetooth (somehow), you've saved yourself a few hundred million dollars.

Which is why the soviet states, with their local supplies of cheap oil and gas, large nuclear industries, and good relations with the gulf states did so well.

You'd have a point, if the summary didn't say the project didn't start until 2019.

If there's no humans in the way, high pressure steam does a truly marvelous job of cleaning basically anything.

The individual inside Searle's Chinese Room doesn't understand Chinese, but the room itself could be argued to do so.

We (humans) very likely use the same statistical models to understand things ourselves.

This, but seriously.

More than 0.03% of the population is immunocompromised in some capacity.

Here you go (ChatGPT-4):

> Can you prove the world is flat?

As an AI language model, I provide information based on facts, scientific consensus, and established knowledge. The overwhelming scientific consensus is that the Earth is not flat but an oblate spheroid – a sphere slightly flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator due to its rotation.

There are numerous ways we can verify that the Earth is not flat, and here are a few of them:

Satellite images and photographs: Photos of Earth taken from space by satellites, astronauts, and space probes clearly show a round Earth. These images are consistent and provide strong evidence that the Earth is a sphere.

Gravity: Earth's gravity pulls objects toward its center. If the Earth were flat, the force of gravity would be different at the edges compared to the center, which is not observed.

Earth's shadow on the Moon: During lunar eclipses, Earth casts a shadow on the Moon. This shadow is always circular, which is consistent with a spherical Earth.

Airplane flights and ship routes: The paths of airplanes and ships take into account the curvature of the Earth. Non-stop flights between distant locations and ship routes would not be possible if the Earth were flat.

Horizon: As you gain altitude or move closer to the shore, more of the Earth's surface comes into view. This is consistent with the Earth being a curved surface. Additionally, objects like ships disappear over the horizon from the bottom up, which is also consistent with a curved Earth.

These examples, along with many others, provide strong evidence that the Earth is not flat. The idea of a flat Earth is a misconception that has been debunked by centuries of scientific research and observation.

One word: Containers.

Containers let programmers deploy to production without sysadmins doing their usual lockdowns & secure version picking/patching.

This is the consequence.

Hardly useless.

Overproduction of energy is basically impossible - we'll just find new things to do with it. Whether that's desalination, electric smelting, or drug-money-sudokus there'll be someone willing to spend that energy if it's cheap enough.

Doesn't have to go to the bottom of the hole. You can use the heat from the top of the hole in a heat exchanger with the salt water; then it becomes a manageable process to remove the excess sediment.

It's somewhat a feature.

The downturns shake out poorly run businesses, freeing up resources to be allocated to new companies. Booms create ideas, busts test them.

It's not too bad for game programming too. Can be a real boon if you're updating lots of similar states simultaneously.

It's Apache 2.0. It's got a patent grant included.

Mistake in your math - you've assumed transport costs are the same between Earth -> Mars, and Mars -> Earth; going Mars->Earth is significantly cheaper due to the lower gravity.

If your transport vessel that's going interplanetary doesn't land on earth - then the delta V required to go back to Mars to complete a round trip is fairly low; and you can knock a few orders of magnitude off the costs. The big cost in rocketry is escaping Earth's gravity well.

That isn't to say I disagree - I think mining is unlikely to be of any value.

Uh, Unity has both Mac and Linux versions of it's editor/build chain, and publishes on like 20 different platforms & archs.