I actually think the difference between 51% and 65% is surprisingly small.

The online music streaming market doesn't seem to have become fragmented like the video market has. Everybody has everything. You don't have to sign up for 10 different music streaming services to find what you want. I don't actually have spotify, it seems like everything is on Youtube anyways?

Would you call China invading Taiwan defense? That is the issue. Neither China nor the USA will be invading the other anytime in the foreseeable future.

Its like claiming medical ethics laws are stifling the advancement of medical treatment and drugs, because you cant test on patients without their knowledge and explicit consent...

They might very well be, but its a limitation society is willing to accept over the protestations of drug companies.

Going out of business, it ain't pretty. You take measures to increase revenue, but it inevitably makes the product worse or more expensive.

I agree it won't last long, but there is a "magical" or "high priesthood" aspect to it for now (or put more pragmatically - trade secrets). If it were just a matter of going through some set of well-defined steps, even hard ones like getting a PhD from Stanford, way too many people have done that for $10M pay packages to happen.

I guarantee you that a mid-level research scientist in AI from non-distinguished company is not making $500k per year in flat salary.

I actually think that's the way to go. There needs to be a law about whether AI is allowed to learn from content on the same terms as a living individual, or not. Then there also need to be technical means to enact whatever policy is legislated, which is here this Cloudflare technology could fit in.

I wouldn't say "from scratch." The Germans made a very significant investment in rocketry, and it's hard to argue we didn't exploit it, when Werner von Braun (a Nazi, and in fact officer in the SS) was the chief architect of the Saturn V.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history...

China is making progress. Between 2013 and 2022, particulate pollution in China declined by 41 percent. That is huge.

https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu...

Nobody else but the prison system can set the price of calls to the prison system, so they're milking it. (Oddly this was also true when I lived in the dorms at college, before cellphones).

I don't think its' a matter of taking it easy on the prisoners, it's mostly a matter of not highway robbing their loved ones, who haven't done anything wrong.

My latest vaccine shots had the 6G upgrade, to take advantage of the higher-speed web access when the networks upgrade, but if they're selling those frequencies to high-power carriers, then I won't be able to walk into any area that handles AT&T or Verizon. :P

Seriously, this will totally wreck the 6G/WiFi6 specification, utterly ruin the planned 7G/WiFi7 update, and cause no end of problems to those already using WiFi6 equipment - basically, people with working gear may well find their hardware simply no longer operates, which is really NOT what no vendor or customer wants to hear. Vendors with existing gear will need to do a recall, which won't be popular, and the replacement products simply aren't going to do even a fraction as well as the customers were promised - which, again, won't go down well. And it won't be the politicians who get the blame, despite it being the politicians who are at fault.

Fair enough, you have to wonder if the human body will even be relevant in 5000 years.

This seems like about the only way interstellar travel could actually work. Freeze-drying living people for 5000 years seems like a long shot. But would we engineer machines to last that long and construct people on arrival? Seems awfully long. Also, would they be fully human after being raised or constructed by robots?

I guess deep-freezing eggs and sperm would be easier.

The only person bringing SpaceX into this is you.

Why does there have to be any comparison at all? Why does there have to be a perceived competition between what Blue Origin are doing here and what SpaceX are doing over there?

There is something broken in western news media and social media, in that everything simply *must* be a race or a competition, and if one entity in the perceived competition is behind then they shouldn't even bother - it doesn't matter that none of the actual entities themselves see themselves as being in a competition or race, they dont matter, its an external thing being forced on them by observers.

The concept that an entity can be entirely about their own milestones, rather than judging their progress by measuring against another entity, is rapidly becoming an impossibility in many peoples minds.

You see it all the time, with SpaceX being used as the thing to measure against - someone hops a rocket, oh but they are a decade behind SpaceX so why are they even bothering. Someone launches a new rocket but its not reusable, doesn't matter than it meets all the internal requirements of the project and the project sponsors, its not reusable so they are so far behind SpaceX so why are they even bothering. Blue Origin launches a sub-orbital rocket, entirely meeting their own internal goals, but its not orbital so they are so behind SpaceX, so why are they even bothering...

Not everything has to be a competition.

This article echos a lot of your reasons

https://www.cinemablend.com/mo...

• It's Just Really Expensive To Take Your Kids To The Movies These Days, Especially For Something New
• Elio Is Going To Be On Disney+ In A Few Months, So I'm Not Surprised If People Wait It Out
• The Delay And Marketing Didn't Really Help The Movie
• It Feels Like Elio Is More Of An Animated Movie For Parents, Which Isn't Necessarily A Bad Thing

The "just wait to stream it" part is not specific to this film, so questionable whether it explains the failure of this particular film. But still if Disney is hoping to make a whole bunch of money from this new money stream without impacting their legacy money streams at all, then they have another thing coming. You can't have your cake and eat it too.