Sliced? You buy up-market fish sticks. Hoi polloi have to make do with mechanically recovered meat bound with transglutaminase.

Apple Messages isn't social media at all. It competes only with SMS. Same with WhatsApp. I can maybe understand a judge concluding that buying WhatsApp didn't meaningfully stifle competition, because no platform for basic point-to-point communication is ever going to prevent competition by apps that come on your phone (e.g. Messages).

WhatsApp isn't just point-to-point: it has groups, which is how it was able to create its own network effect. And Apple Messages doesn't come on your phone if you have an Android.

What about people with licences from other states? Do they have to stop at a checkpoint on the border and sign their rights away?

Why do people give credit a performer of songs and not the author

Because the Internet is full of lyrics websites which attribute songs to a performer and don't give any information about the lyricist and composer, or even tell you that it was a cover.

Note that not all of the businesses mentioned are about crypto. Wise is an international transfer service which AIUI works by matching people wanting to transfer in opposite directions and so minimising the actual currency exchange, which allows them to charge very low commissions. It's already registered as a bank in Europe. The application in the US is probably linked to its plan to move from the London Stock Exchange to the New York one, because the UK is less happy with founders having a different class of share which gives them disproportionately more voting power than their stake.

No, Communism is getting the workers to own the means of production. Getting the government to own them is more Stalinist.

TSA is a specifically US agency. Ryanair does not operate in US airspace, much less fly to US airports. EU security checks are focussed on security, with some theatre at times, not looking for thoughtcrime.

While Germany struggled to build 27,000 trucks in 1943, America produced over 560,000 GMC trucks alone.

There are other factors to take into account: for example, the difference in population by a factor of two, or the fact that only one of those two nations was under heavy bombing of its industrial zones at the time.

Autmattic's good name

Have a care: you could be responsible for a lot of people dying of laughter.

That's not actually what the announcement says:

When submitting review articles or position papers, authors must include documentation of successful peer review to receive full consideration. Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv.

(my emphasis). They're still accepting preprints of research papers without prior peer review.

Are you old enough to even remember--when people actually looked forward to a new Windows release?

I remember Win 3.11 but I don't remember anyone ever telling me they were looking forward to a new release of Windows.

Is this in any way relevant to an article about people wanting to unionise in the UK and Canada?

Or take pain medication with opiates as an example.

That's quite a bad example. The long-term effect of not treating chronic pain is that your nerves become so used to transmitting pain signals that they keep doing it even after the actual cause has resolved itself. It's a lose-lose scenario. I've tried both paths (no medication in my 20s when I had a serious carpal tunnel inflammation; opiates in my 30s when I had a damaged disc from a traffic incident) and although the opiates didn't fully remove the pain I would choose to take them again.

You haven't made drastic enough changes to fix it. A proper fix needs to distinguish social media (the "first era") from antisocial media (the "second era").

it contains a rigorous proof that significant parts of the observable universe are uncomputable

Where? It claims

Thus, Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem asserts the strict containment $Th(F_{QG}) \not\subseteq True(F_{QG})$ [41,42], guaranteeing the existence of well-formed $L_{QG}$-statements that are true but unprovable within the algorithmic machinery of $F_{QG}$. Physically these Gödel sentences correspond to empirically meaningful facts e.g., specific black-hole microstates that elude any finite, rule-based derivation.

but I see zero attempt to justify the claim that the unprovable theorems correspond to meaningful physical states. If we posit for the sake of argument that the Collatz conjecture is true but unprovable, does that mean that it corresponds to a black-hole microstate?