It's a great feature but what's weird is that "Live Translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple Account Country or Region is also in the EU." https://support.apple.com/de-d...

I thought the risk is more like some superpower version of a prion disease. If the opposite chirality organisms produced something induced opposite chirality molecules that caused our molecules to assemble in some nasty/useless way. Or perhaps an opposite amino acid is similar enough to get wedged into a regular protein but enough to throw a wrench in the works.

I think the point is that there are many facets to the problem and we just don't know, and the possible consequences are great enough that researchers should proceed with caution.

"Hey, the first one's free, kid."
"Just say 'No'!"

My opinion is that this is stupid. People who comprise corporations already have a voice as individuals. They can always take money out of their own pockets to support the causes they want to support. If they want, just have the corporation pay them additional salary/fees that they can then donate. Allowing corporations to donate money gives those who control corporations influence above and beyond their influence as individuals. In effect, they get to leverage the resources of all of the shareholders and employees to THEIR cause, whether or not all of the shareholders/employees support it. Not all shareholders have direct control of their holdings, and employees are often at a power disadvantage in terms of choice of employment, so a system that allows some people to influence politics using corporate resources does not sit right with me. Not allowing corporate persons additional speech rights does not diminish anyone's individual rights, but it does keep some people from having more rights than others.

Regardless of the reasoning, the observed reality is that majority of people are quite unhappy with a government that seems to be serving $BIGCORPS to the exclusion of the general populace, and that does not seem like a good formula for continued peace and prosperity. If the intent of the Supreme Court is to serve the People, they should overturn it.

Not just that, but RFK is directly responsible for bunch of children dying needlessly in Samoa. The blood is figuratively directly on his hands. Now he's trying to do that to children in the US. The one good thing he's promoting does not excuse the bazillion horrible things he's doing, especially since the dismantling of the regulatory apparatus by the administration [gutting of the DoA, FDA, etc.] would take the teeth out of any positive food health initiatives RFK might be promoting. I can unequivocally say that RFK IS the enemy of the American people. The misinformation and policies he's promoting will be a huge net negative for the populace.

I also wonder if this has any relation to comedic timing, how a certain amount of pause or phrase delivery can enhance or diminish the joke, and when things "hit" the audience.

Don't know about mutes, but there is a famous case study of how a bunch of deaf orphans in a Nicaraguan orphanage spontaneously created sign language. I would guess that if they could hear, but still insulated from external input, thy would have likely developed an auditory language.

'That's the thing I'm going to be expert at for the next 30 years,' I can promise you that's not going to be valuable 30 years from now,"

I dunno. I got started programming Acorn Risk Machines and here I am 30 years later making a decent living off of it.

Yes, I understand that their coffee was ground in the morning.

Close. Since Gen6, use of PAM4 encoding transfers 2 bits/transfer.
Before that, regular NRZ encoding transferred 1bit/transfer.

Gen6 is still 32GT/s, but approximately 64Gb/s.
Gen7 is 64GT/s, but approximately 128Gb/s

Perhaps, but I doubt the hacker groups are making careful analysis of knock-on and secondary effects to make sure people aren't injured. Maybe it was just an accident that they didn't muck with some system that say, causes a critical safety check to be overlooked and cause a plane to fall out of the sky.

As repugnant as the current Russian regime is, and even if some or many civilians support it, I would draw the line at attacking/disrupting civilian infrastructure. Go to town on the military/military-adjacent industry, but leave the civvies alone.

I say this just on the principle that if this is normalized, *I* could be next. Goodness knows U.S. infrastructure is probably Swiss cheese to determined hackers, and there are plenty of people having beef with the U.S. (this goes waay back, even before the current administration, but especially so now.) I don't want to be caught in the cross fire.

That said, perhaps the horse has long since left the barn, got on the ship, and the ship has sailed. What a sad world we live in.

I read somewhere recently that OSHA is largely defunded by the current administration with large portion of their staff laid off. We can welcome back the days of arms getting chopped off and eyes being taken out soon. So much winning!

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Where's the standard comparison to well known buildings? I thought it was required for such types of articles. ;)

I'll add that the iconic Tokyo Tower, once the tallest structure in Tokyo, is 333m.
Bing tells me the empire state building is 453m.

That's pretty impressive for a windmill.