Let's back up to step #1 where you claim Apple didn't make massive profits on the iPhone.

Fiction:

12 books from the Deverry series
The Three Body Problem trilogy
Monkey
Treacle Walker
Various books on Powershell

Non-Fiction:
Linux Administrator's Guide
Linux Network Administrator's Guide
Both OpenZFS books
Ansible
Terraform
Various books on Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL optimisation
C++ manuals
Various Cisco manuals
OpenPF manual

I dunno man. Hydrogen aside, Toyota's foot-dragging on full electrification in favor of hybrids is currently working very, very well for them. They are a conservative company for conservative buyers who want a low-risk and economical transportation.

Toyota Cashes In on Booming Hybrid Sales
Updated Feb. 6, 2024

TOKYO - Gasoline-electric vehicles are flying off dealer lots in the U.S. and generating a windfall for the reigning hegemon of hybrids, Toyota.

A couple years ago I was more bullish on Tesla leaving them in the dust technologically, but Tesla seems much weaker now after going all-in on the Cybertruck and now self-driving Taxis which they can't actually make.

I don't necessarily think it's "wrong" for these people to protest until they get fired, but I do think google has the right to fire them and I don't they should be able to sue over it.

China's birth rate is down to 1.16 - about half what is needed for population stability. The median age in China was 18 in 1970, 37 in 2020, and will hit 50 in 2050. All of this will make younger workers even more of a hot commodity, but they will simply be forced to relent and accept more older ones over time.

https://www.statista.com/stati...

And your response is, "don't look up!"

Tell me why you think animators in the West deserve exclusivity in creating anime.

Oh, I thought Stalin died from a stroke. But I like your version better.

People want to keep using air travel. And if making them (us) pay for carbon sequestration to offset the jet fuel burned renders it carbon-neutral, why not?

The conservation laws are statistical, at least to a degree. Local apparent violations can be OK, provided the system as a whole absolutely complies.

There's no question that if the claim was as appears that the conservation laws would be violated system-wide, which is a big no-no.

So we need to look for alternative explanations.

The most obvious one is that the results aren't being honestly presented, that there's so much wishful thinking that the researchers are forcing the facts to fit their theory. (A tendency so well known, that it's even been used as the basis for fictional detectives.)

Never trust results that are issued in a PR statement before a paper. But these days, it's increasingly concerning that you can't trust the journals.

The next possibility is an unconsidered source of propulsion. At the top of the atmosphere, there are a few candidates, but whether they'd impart enough energy is unclear to me.

The third possibility is that the rocket imparted more energy than considered, so the initial velocity was incorrectly given.

The fourth possibility is that Earth's gravity (which is non-uniform) is lower than given in the calculations, so the acceleration calculations are off.

When dealing with tiny quantities that can be swamped by experimental error, then you need to determine if it has been. At least, after you've determined there's a quantity to examine.

seems to be a problem for a univariate measure.

Does that come up in chess?

In "Infinite Jest," (1996) David Foster Wallace recounts a fictional history of video phones in which people eventually quit using them because people couldn't resist the temptation to increasingly embellish their appearance until it was all fictional and served no purpose.

This particular code might not be, since they're not releasing it due to the risk (certainty) of abuse.

But wow, this is so much better than I've ever seen in a video game. Combined with the ability to generate faces indistinguishable from real, NPCs are about to take a massive leap forward.

Even without a totally different sort of compute resource, I think algorithmic development (steady, or sudden) may very well reduce the compute required by 99% or more. The fact that EVERY parameter, reflecting ALL knowledge about EVERYTHING on the internet, is used every time for generating each and every word (token)... that can't be necessary. Mixture of experts models (or something) will fix this.

It's partly just age. Remember, the boomers had quite a radical streak in the 1960's.