On the flip side, one reason I'm sticking with my old cars and not considering buying a new one any time soon is because I really like the fact that they lack connectivity of any kind. They also have real control knobs and no touch screens.

Folger's Crystals already did this experiment this back in the 1980s. Then they publicized the results ad nauseam.

No.

This room-temperature ice is simply a plot device that demonstrates the sheer stupidity of human behavior.

One of the most fascinating aspects of H2O is the sheer number of forms it can take under different conditions.

Then they'll find out the hard way that Steve was right.

If you set up a market, and multiple people who actually had $1e100 put in a bid of that amount for your stupid crypto, then at least for that instant it was worth that much. It may not be worth that much later, but it would be NOW.

FFS, how can you have such a hard time understanding such a basic concept?

Luckily for the Chinese, they're allegedly communists.

"From each according to his ability" - that would be the robots.

"To each according to his need" - those millions of people.

We'll see whether it pans out.

...that there's a LOT of minerals and other nutrients in food, only a fraction of which are produced from chemicals in fertilisers, O2, and CO2. If you produce too much with too little consideration of the impact on the soil, you can produce marvellous dust bowls but eventually that's ALL you will produce.

There's a lot of stuff that is on the Internet that doesn't end up in AIs, either because the guys designing the training sets don't consider it a particular priority or because it's paywalled to death.

So the imbalance isn't just in languages and broader cultures, it's also in knowledge domains.

However, AI developers are very unlikely to see any of this as a problem, for one very very important reason --- it means they can sell the extremely expensive licenses to those who actually need that information, who can then train their own custom AIs on it. Why fix a problem where the fix means your major customers pay you $20 a month rather than $200 or $2000? They're really not going to sell ten times, certainly not a hundred times, as many $20 doing so, so there's no way they can skim off the corps if they program their AIs properly.

Let's take a look at software sizes, for a moment.

UNIX started at around 8k, and the entire Linux kernel could happily sit in the lower 1 megabyte of RAM for a long time, even with capabilities that terrified Microsoft and Apple.

The original game of Elite occuped maybe three quarters of a 100k floppy disk and used swapping and extensive use of data files to create a massive universe that could be loaded into 8k of RAM.

On a 80386SX with 5 megabytes of RAM (Viglens were weird but fun) and a 20 megabyte hard drive, running Linux, I could simultaneously run 7 MMORGs, X11R4, a mail server, a list server, an FTP server, a software router, a web server, a web cache, a web search engine, a web browser, and stil have memory left over to play Netrek, without slowing anything down.

These days, that wouldn't be enough to load the FTP server, let alone anything else.

On the one hand, not everything can be coded to SEL4 standards (although SEL4, by using Haskell as an initial language to develop the core and the proofs, was able to cut the cost of formal programming to around 1% of the normal value). On the other hand, a LOT of space is gratuitously wasted.

Yes, multiple levels of abstraction are a part of the problem. Nothing wrong with abstraction, OpenLook is great, but modern abstraction is mostly there due to incompetent architecture on previous levels and truly dreadful APIs. And, yes, APIs are truly truly dreadful if OpenLook is the paragon of beauty by comparison.

The solution is easy. WiFi 6 is only just starting to come out in the marketplace. If TP-Link hijacks the standard development procedure, solidifies a workable WiFi 8 quickly, and manufacturers/users in Europe, Asia, and Oceana all start using WiFi 8, skipping WiFi 7 entirely, the US will be left with an inferior standard that only they have gear for, with no option to use WiFi 8 for many more years because the only manufacturers making it can't sell in the US.

That feature has been baked into mobile operating systems for quite a while now; If you're just listening to something, it's automagically accounted for; I forget what Bluetooth spec that was introduced with. Video frames are buffered a bit behind the audio and it all syncs up so you don't feel like you're watching a kungfu movie dubbed in English. Where it is a problem is actual interactive programs. Games, music making programs etc. where user inputs regularly need to by synced to the sound. No way around it.

The US military mandated all sorts of vaccinations without informed consent, and with often with dubious reasoning, readiness be damned. Basically you're the governments Guinea pig, you'll take the shot and that's that.

For example, the use of the anthrax vaccine was halted when it made a whole bunch of those young able bodied men late to go to war back in 2004. There were all manner of congressional hearings about it; then they modified its use guidelines to include only soldiers likely to encounter it (basically nobody outside of bioterror units), scaled back the dose, and also reduced the number of doses.

By definition, what things sell for now is what they are worth now.

Why don't you go to the next board meeting of a typical publicly traded company, offer to buy them out by giving them its liquidation value in cash, and see what happens.