They don't have the authority to arbitrarily decide where to put fracking wells either. Or mines, or oil rigs, or chemical factories...

In fact they technically get permits to do basically everything everything they do. Or at least that used to be the case when the EPA actually meant something. Never stopped them from completely fucking everything up to save money though, did it? And I bet you know it.

I guarantee that if any of these get built and fails, the way the public finds out about it is someone noticing a spike in cancer rates.
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I, for one, have complete confidence in corporate industry's ability and willingness to respect the environment and the safety of the general public.

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> Have grade-separated tracks that go above or below the roads.

Easier said than done.

Grade for typical trains is something like 2% or less, so raising a railway high enough to get over a roadway needs almost a quarter mile of track on either side minimum, so for a single rail bridge you just created at a half mile of impassible wall and cut a whole neighborhood in half. Automotive roads are better but still limited in a similar way. maybe triple the grade/a third the distance but you're still making a huge barrier.

So if you need to get through a town without having grade crossings you're basically stuck building the *entire* thing 14+ feet in the air, including the stations, which is outlandishly expensive both to build and to maintain.
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I'd love to know how he plans to power the country during a windless anticyclonic night then. Batteries? Hydro? Dont make me laugh.

...wind is only providing 8gw, ccgt is providing 13. Nature is fickle. The sort of people who think base load generation wont be required in the future are deluded.

Any MS UI designers and devs who gave a damn about efficient human interfaces left during the development of Win8 IMO. Things got slightly better with Win10 but It's been mainly downhill since then. The kind of UI fuckups and fundamental design flaws MS keep making would get any college CS student an F grade.

Thats just word salad. If you want to be taken seriously you might want to explain yourself.

Teleportation sounds cooler in the white paper.

Actual teleportation doesn't and will never exist outside of sci fi.

Looks like they modded you down so you got your answer. Yet more proof that Rust is more a cult now than a favoured dev language.

Thats an explanation, not an excuse. There should have been a limit check, end of. Probably written by some clueless kid just out of college because any semi competant dev would have put that check in.

"It did not guarantee that she could be resuscitated"

Once you die from cancer the secondaries have usually spread everywhere so until a seriously good cure for fatal cancers has been found then there's no point reviving her. Given his health I suspect he'll be long dead before that technology comes to pass.

Because obviously having a numeric password for Windows login which has far less entropy than an alphanumeric + punctuation one will obviously improve security wont it?

[crickets]

Clearly this is what the world was asking for in Windows 11. Never mind fixing bugs like the bottom of windows getting stuck under the task bar and having to faff around to resize them (hey, maybe allow the task bar to be moved!) , the "Oops no internet" setup error loop even when windows had connected to wifi in the previous screen and so on.

No, lets introduce Son Of Clippy!

FFS, get a grip MS.

LLMs make a lot of mistakes but the tech bros don't care - they're using them for all sorts of things including supposed self driving cars. If the AI fucks up and causes issues , well , on appendix section 16, sub section A, paragraph 21 there'll be a clause explicitly exempting the AI company from any responsibility and in jurisdictions where that disclaimer is void then what the hell, they've made billions anyway and they'll just settle out of court.

False analogy. Looks matter with cars along with price and there is no car that can do everything due to physical limitations. None of the above apply to linux distros.