Is a new functional economic system that rewards useful work without the runaway conditions that lead to billionaires.

Unfortunately, they're well entrenched and will actively resist changes to the current system.

Wheels, at least macroscopic scales, are probably impossible for evolution to produce. Anything that has to freely rotate, in fact.

But it would be fun if that weren't true - I'd expect to see fish with propellers for tails.

The best concept I've seen involved a robot with knee and toe wheels. When presented with a smooth surface, it knelt and could travel at high speed. It only used legs when obstacles required the extra flexibility.

Arguably, you left out Canada and Mexico. And Venezuela and Cuba and Iran. Maybe Denmark.

>What would you spend all the money on if you knew we'd all be gone in 50 years?

I think this is one of those really character revealing questions if you can get an honest answer from someone. Most of us will be dead in 50 years no matter what, but you're probably not living like that's all that matters. Even while you're alive, you should probably give a shit about your fellow human beings and the quality of their lives.

If you're response is, "what the hell, let's burn it all down" then you're probably not a great person to know. I'd like to keep things going at least as nice as they are until I'm gone, and I think it's not the worst idea to try and help others have a decent life too.

On the other hand, if your response is, "Well, we probably shouldn't invest in anything that takes more that 50 years to return value", that I can get behind.

Pretty much anything past the frost line starts requiring prohibitive amounts of solar panel to get decent power, and Voyager is much, much further than that.

If you could send a refueling mission, it would be for sentimental reasons only. Any vessel you send that could catch up to Voyager would be much better utilized simply carrying a new and improved instrumentation and communications package.

If you give up your nuclear weapons, the next greedy sociopath to lead a neighboring nuclear power is going to kill you.

If you have nuclear weapons and are self-sufficient in critical areas, and you don't go around making enemies every time you open your mouth, you're fine.

Pakistan and India haven't nuked each other, because the people in control of the weapons want to live. If only one of them had nukes, the other would be gone by now.

This isn't a Val Kilmer performance, it's an AI performance wearing Val Kilmer's skin and using his voice. There's a difference, even if it's just in the viewer's head.

A little cameo in a series to show the writers haven't forgotten the past work of an actor is nice to see. A hour of screen time is ghoulish exploitation of his legacy by the family.

Why would you dedicate any storage to permanent GPS logs in a car? The way to monetize that data is to actually have it, which means periodically sending it back to the company's servers.

Car manufacturers will often make choices to save fractions of a cent per car, so why would you have them put any more storage capacity in them than the bare minimum?

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

I've been looking since March 2024. Having no reasonable options in sight, have reopened https://informationr.us/

US economic policy is destroying American advantages in global trade at an unbelievable pace, while simultaneously undermining the domestic economy.

Even if Ford managed to build an 'affordable' EV, I suspect the percentage of the population able to afford it will be vastly reduced by the time it gets to market.

I would watch that show. Seriously.

I'm not sure how straight you'd play it, it'd need some degree of comedy, but an investigative procedural where there's no human conspiracy, just some jaded and worn out alien gumshoe... there's potential there.