Makes it seem like the people choosing the training sets are morons.

That is somewhat of a myth. An EMP can damage electronics attached to antennas or long power lines that can act as antennas. But an EMP will do little or no damage to isolated electronics, or to electronic devices that include countermeasures, such as shielding and isolation circuits.

Other than costing 10 million times as much, how would that differ from putting a telescope on a high altitude balloon in the earth's stratosphere?

I attended public school, and remember learning in 5th grade that Eratosthenes of Alexandria accurately calculated the radius of the earth around 200 BC. In addition to changing shadow heights as you move from south to north, the curve of the earth is visible against the moon during a lunar eclipse. Both the Ancient Greeks and the Romans were well aware that the earth was a spheroid, and knew the approximate radius.

Either the school you attended was exceptionally bad, or you spent a lot of time not paying attention.

It will happen approximately 47 years ago.

No, not near enough to justify the cost. Most residential water use is lawn irrigation. People should get rid of their grass lawns, and use xeriscapic plants. My yard is mostly rocks and cacti. The only irrigation is for my vegetable garden and fruit trees, and those are all drip irrigation, so they likely use less water than if the same fruit and vegetables were grown commercially.

Warren Buffet still lives in the same modest suburban house that he bought in 1958. So I guess that makes him just a regular middle class guy.

My grandmother had a better heuristic: Paper towels. According to her, when you can afford to buy paper towels, you are no longer poor.

Not when you include all the robots in the count.

There is absolutely no reason to believe this is true. Deep Blue could easily defeat any of the engineers that created it. Stupid parents occasionally have smart kids. There is no "Conservation of Intelligence Law".

It is about 10cm or 4 inches spread over the entire state.

There are 264 gallons per cubic meter. So 11 trillion gallons is 4.16e10 m^3. California has an area of 424,000 km^2, or 4.24e11 m^2. So divide the volume by the area, and you get the depth = 4.16e10/4.24e11 = 0.098 m or 9.8 cm or about 4 inches.

I live in San Jose, and we have gotten more than 4 inches of rain in the last week, and it is still raining. There are areas of California (the Mojave Desert) that get a lot less, but also areas (the North Coast) that get a lot more.

This is not unique to tech. Ask any public school teacher about the educational methodology fads they have to deal with.

This is complete nonsense. Bilingual education is deeply unpopular among Latinos, who overwhelmingly prefer English immersion for their kids. Latinos are transitioning to English just as quickly as other waves of immigrants in the past, such as Italians, Germans, etc. You should read some history books on the Italian speaking tenements in Brooklyn a century ago. People then were spouting the same xenophobic nonsense that you are today.

Maybe the idiom database for Japanese is weak. When I try it for Chinese (which is very rich in idioms) to English, and back, it gets nearly all of them right.

That is a ridiculous analogy. You could use the same argument to say that every state, city, and neighborhood should build a wall to control who comes and goes. And "knowing who they are" is not the same as tearing apart families that have been here for a decade or more, working hard, and being (otherwise) law abiding.

And since you asked, yes, I do let "random" people stay in my house. I have sponsored two Naxi girls that came to America as students, and are now permanent residents. I will be sponsoring another immigrant next year.

We are no where close to "full". Most immigrants settle in cities, and the population of most cities has actually fallen in recent decades. Detroit has lost 60% of its population since 1950. A half million hard working Mexicans would be a huge boost to that city.

A long, long way from where we are now.