They will supply each satellite with an ice pack to dump waste heat into. SpaceX will launch regular resupply missions with fresh ice, as necessary.

Stacking chips is not the same as a monolithic chip with multiple active layers. When chips are stacked, each chip can be tested before stacking, and the final yield becomes a question of successful interconnect and not damaging chips during assembly. With multilayer chups each layer must be perfect for the device to work.

I'd guess that they're not using a process with the smallest geometry. That way they can have a process that is basically very high yield for each layer; the resulting die will have acceptable yield.

An advantage of monolithic multilayer over stacking is that there's no risk that the thermal flow will have gaps.

OTOH the nice thing about software is that it's easy to update, so anyone is free to replace their slow/inefficient software with a faster/efficient version as soon as they obtain it, at which point their fast hardware should run the efficient software very quickly. Nothing (except possibly bad management decisions?) is preventing anyone from creating efficient software, either.

Defies the thermal limits, probably.

but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Was there ever a ban, or just tarrifs high enough to price Chinese vehicles out of the market? Since Waymo isn't selling vehicles, perhaps that isn't an obstacle for them.

Maybe they were; at this point they seem to be reduced to trying to invent a more compelling form of interactive pornography that they can sell subscriptions to. Color me underwhelmed.

Perhaps it was referring to golems? That idea dates back to 400-500 BC, although really they behave more like traditional computer programs than anything we'd currently consider intelligent.

I don't need an AI to write my code, since I can write code myself. That said, it could be nice to have an AI inspect my code and point out anything it suspects might be a bug... there are already lots of static analysis tools that do this sort of thing and they are great, but I think AI might be able to find different classes of bug that are beyond the capabilities of static analysis.

Going a bit further, what would be even more useful is an AI that can run my program and exercise its GUI (or fuzz its inputs) and monitor the resulting behavior the way a human would, to look for faults during execution. Human-driven SQA is always a lot of tedious work, and a production bottleneck.

The Rastafarians have the distinct disadvantage of being recent, being well studied historically, and having been denounced by the person they consider their figurehead.

America was founded mostly by religious fanatics escaping countries that were either less fanatical or that pushed different fanatical beliefs. The result was a higher per capita fanaticism than Europe during that time period. From a higher starting point it takes longer to get to any particular lower point.

There are probably other reasons, perhaps in the US there's less punishment for believing silly things.

The Gospels are deliberately constructed fairy tales formulated to fit into cultural religious beliefs popular then.

There is no evidence for resurrection, all that exists now are writings (which are not evidence) and proven frauds like the Shroud of Turin.

Richard Carrier has published what is currently the best summary and evaluation of Christian claims. In short, the odds of Biblical Jesus ever existing are at best 1 in 3.4; the chance of resurrection being true is 0. (approximations based on my watching Carrier's youtube videos)

You might find Answer by Fredric Brown entertaining. It's only a page long; well worth the time.

How has porn corrupted open heart surgery?