It's a boss issue. Someone wrote a poor program, maybe in the 80s. Then the boss decided that instead of rewriting, their company's way of doing things should be the standard. They persuaded some other bosses of this. Now instead of an expense, you now have a "moat".

The US Constitution limits US government actions worldwide against everyone. /thread

I'm sure it was pretty easy to figure out which accounts he created at the end.

Well, Microsoft still hasn't figured out a way to detect the people creating thousands of hotmail and outlook accounts and using them for porn site spamming.

He mentions why it looks old on the home page, point number 12.

He is the One. He can stop bullets. He can fly! He can do ANYTH... (hold on, are we making sequels?)

Stopping bullets and flying, that's it.

They're taking the skill out of driving. Even the tyres are like that now, whatever the weather and the surface those modern tyres always grip. There's still variation but so much less than there used to be.
All you feel is safe.

In UK, sports gambling is the natural companion of liquor stores, payday lenders and similar businesses preying on / doping down poor people.

Elsewhere in Europe, it's typically regulated.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

that's a nice idea actually. But it would let people decide what they want to see , maybe Google want that control. They certainly don't want to give me the search results I want to see.

The most impressive thing is that the usual suspects still haven't shown up in the Slashdot thread to tell us how unimpressed they are and how this is not "real AI". I had anticipated progress, but that they would shut up so soon defied even my most hopeful predictions.

It's niche. Tidal energy can't offer much on a world scale but it might help some places. Like dams work on other places and wind on others.
It doesn't have to provide half the world energy in order to have uses. As long as people don't expect silver bullet solutions from it.

to the most propagandized place on the planet. You know you only trust us, everything else you hear is disinformation from our adversaries.

People's positions on the Michael Mann trial are too much informed by their position on the general issue.
It appears Mann was not honest or rigorous in is work in his eagerness to prove the climate change emergency.

That does not mean there is no such emergency, but there is this instant polarisation that some defend him because they want to defend the general position and others make him representative for climate science and use the case to dismiss the results of climate scientists.
That's all there is to it really.

We will need an area of 1 million square miles but this guy will handle the hard part by creating a prototype umbrella with an aera of 100 square feet. Then all we need to do is scale it up a bit

The second stage of any scam is to package it up and sell it to others, once it's too much work and risk for too little profit. Ready-made scam kits are about on the same level as "guaranteed" lottery schemes.