I'm gonna separate that into most profitable vs most impactful. Sure there's a lot of overlap but I think cost generally coincides with at least revenue but depending on your definition of impact, I'm nowhere near convinced there's a strong relationship with cost.

Knew nothing about him at the time but talked a bit with him and family as a teen. One of a few reasons I wanted to attend UNC.

It was actually a pretty good idea at first, when touching was suspected of spreading Covid and getting timely updated menus printed was more difficult. Now it's a bad habit to be kicked.

1. Tough.

2. Fallout from having bad CEO and "leadership". Doesnt cause him problems, he left it for others to suffer with. Typical.

3. Further ugly artifacts resulting from MD merger that should never have been allowed. There aren't many such obvious violations of anti-trust principles as mega-sized aviation manufacturer M&As.

Excellent example.

Lowen is right, and this is about the most market-driven solution available, for those so fearful of regulations. Of course it would be better nationally-implemented, or even internationally by treaty, but it needs to start somewhere.

For those who prefer micro-management, not many consumers would mind if they never saw another hard-to-open plastic blister pack.

As with almost every other corporate ill, punishing executives where it hurts (no future job prospect, lack of personal freedom (jail) would fix a lot of it.

Now I'll not only need to use two apps for messages but convincing friends to use Signal will be more difficult.

Instead, how about a Signal app I can force to ALWAYS use SMS, encrypting, then splitting messages and requesting acknowledgement that the recipient completely reconstructed the message. Or is that currently possible?

For me, SMS is MUCH more reliable than "data". Why force something LESS reliable than voice instead of more?

Fog. Your 4d location for sale. The part Hollywood got wrong was how easy it is to get.

"...implications for how asteroids were formed and also for planetary defense techniques to protect against potential rogue space rocks coming near our planet"
Giant pressure washer. Blast it apart while pushing it.

What's needed, Mike, is whistleblower protection for those working with Congress.

Win-win for them, Earth is their Botany Bay.

Occam's Razor may favor this. He's already had his companies do all sorts of stuff in space, sold a lot of EVs, smoked pot on TV, had pregnancies from employees publicized, what else to get attention? Visiting Mars himself isn't yet an option—at least not one he could live through. He doesnt qualify to be US President and it would probably cost a LOT to change that (hmm... another option to get attention?). So I'm at least partially buying this explanation. I think he also wants to control social media and this acquisition attempt has already altered Twitter irreversibly, even if the potential transaction ends today.

Not being a fusion physicist, from what I've learned, my money's on a Stellarator. They seem to be more dependent on information processing than on massive hardware (and massive money). The most efficient energy-wise reactor won't necessarily be the most efficient economically, so long as it makes plenty of power net of inputs. However, if the ITER machine can make tritium out of protium or deuterium that's a BIG advantage.

"Corrupt Officials Dont Like Others Sidestepping Their Schemes"

About time we heard from someone neither peddling propaganda nor swallowing it. Fission sucks for power production. Being stuck with existing plants, the logical path is to optimize their utilization, minimize mining-related destruction, and build the best waste containment we can. Otherwise, spend resources on other means. Tidal power is almost untapped. Offshore wind is hardly used despite the identification of many demonstrably suitable locations, from every perspective. Huge parking lots and warehouse roofs beg for PVs. Just last week the topic of unused/underutilized hydroelectric potential where dams already exist appeared in mass media. Talk about cheap! But more than anything smarter systems (including humans) need to negotiate with power production to reschedule flexible uses to match peak production so as to reduce the amount of energy storage required.