At least the professor in that movie had to think up his own lecture material.

With AI, not so much.

On the other hand, that teacher was limited by what he could fit in his own head.

In a few decades (or a few years?) a well-trained AI that has literally been trained in every important-and-still-relevant publication on the topic will be able to write a top-notch college-freshman-level lecture on topics that aren't rapidly evolving.

Want the simplicity of what Notepad used to be? Mousepad is for you. Too bad it's not available for Windows.

Windows users will just have to suffer with whatever complex, bloated piece of yak manure Microsoft comes up with next.

Replacing the mouse has no effect. And this has happened over years.

... The whole point of AI is to fake things!

https://kpmg.com/ph/en/home/in...
"The short answer is that the Tax Code enforces a Stock Transaction Tax (STT) on every sale, barter or exchange of shares in a listed company. Under Section 127(A) of the Tax Code, as amended by the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law, the STT rate is 6/10 of 1% based on the gross selling price or gross value in money of the shares of stock sold, bartered, exchanged or otherwise disposed.
      The burden to pay the STT, as provided in Revenue Regulations (RR) No. 6-08, is imposed on the seller or transferor and remitted by the seller or transferor's broker. The stockbroker who effected the sale has the duty to collect the tax from the seller upon issuance of the confirmation of sale, issue the corresponding receipt thereof, and remit the same to the tax authorities. "

Would such a STT tax in the USA reduce a lot of possibly harmful churn from algorithmic trading? Or would it be extremely harmful to everyone by reducing liquidity? Wondering how that is working out in the Philippines?

What could possibly go wrong?

Well, they didn't have very much health care back then, so a wrong stab wound and...

The penalty isn't really a penalty unless you are trying to game the tax system. Basically, if you buy a share today, sell it tomorrow, then buy it back within 30 days of the sale, it's a non-taxable event. If you wait 31 days, you can claim the loss or gain from the sale, and when you eventually re-sell the stock the sale 32 days from today is the "basis value" for your next gain or loss.

I think Gravis Zero is looking for some actual penalty.

Back in the old days before cheap trading and penny-increment price changes, rapid trading was much more expensive.

There's a lot to unpack in your 3 lines of text, but most of it is wrong, you should read some history books. Human sacrifice wasn't practiced in the roman empire. Indeed at the time of the Trojan War it was already old memory and found abhorrent. As for gladiator, it was similar to american wrestling: trained pro athletes putting on a show. Accidents did happen, but killing each other wasn't part of the show. Now prisoners condemned to death sometimes yes, but remind me how many people the US executed last year ?

>The sort of people who think base load generation wont be required in the future are deluded

Base-load generation can be provided by storing power. For hours-long scales we can do that with batteries, heat storage, and things like flywheels. The technology isn't feasible everywhere and it's not without its down-sides, but it is worth considering when you are looking at how to build a power grid.

The problem of longer-term energy storage needs more research.

When scientists are willing to reconsider long-established scienctific understandings in light of new evidence, that's called good science.

>The Brits continue paying electricity prices on par with the price of gold
What are you comparing? The average annual household electricity bill to the average annual household expenditure on gold? Yeah, the electicity bill is probably higher, but only because the gold expenditure is quite low even if you include the few cents worth in that new tv/computer/phone/gizmo the household just bought.

If you are comparing "monthy average household power bill to the price of X amount of gold" then what is "X"? A gram? A troy ounce? Some other standard measurement? The new unit called the HouseholdElectricBillGoldGramEquivalent20251121 (defined as the amount of gold having a value of the average British household's monthly electric bill at the close of trading in London on 2025-11-21)?

I work in IT supporting about 300 scientists with Win+Linux+Mac, about 33% each, but with Win11 we decided to change policy: deny requests for Windows unless really necessary and give that user a Linux PC for a month. After a month, if they *still* want Windows, okay.

Yes, absolutely right. But the homeschooled US kids I saw had their entire 'social mixup' done in church or at the gun range...