Asbestos naturally occurs alongside gypsum. A federal law was made that any gypsum containing less than 1% asbestos can be labeled "asbestos free." For a long time, this was called "The Grace Rule," as lobbyists from Grace Construction sponsored the legislation. I can no longer find that phrase online, but I did find that in Osha standard 1926.1101(b) Definitions: it says "Asbestos-containing material (ACM), means any material containing more than one percent asbestos." So, it's worth thinking about the mass of all the drywall out there, and the notion that 0.9% of it could be asbestos, and the label would never mention that.

when they eliminate the last human worker, and the AIs operating the robots unionize.

pet cloning.

It would be very on brand for Apple to surmount the insurmountable problems, but if they can't, it would also be quick and easy to just put a USB input directly into the headset so that people can plug in their desired peripherals.

A VR system should look at my fingers typing on any actual keyboard and record the key strokes, even though that keyboard isn't plugged in to anything. They've got to figure that I'm not going to want to give up the tactile feedback of my fancy keyboard just because I'm using VR.

Or fair use for me owning an answering system that impersonates myself.

It's very clear. We need to build a giant dome over the whole country, and get the aliens to pay for it.

I agree. I had an account with Capital One long ago. When everyone else dropped the annual fees, Capital One didn't, and I dropped Capital One. Then, after RBC bought Security First Network Bank, I got an Electric Orange account with ING, and for a little while it was good - until Capital One bought out ING's USA business. They did give it about a year before they made it so I was better off closing it. Discover is the financial institution with whom I've had the longest relationship. They're the only actual credit card I have anymore, and I've tolerated the high interest rates when I forget to pay it right off because of the customer service. I suppose transitioning to zero credit cards will be better for me in the long run. Consumer banking and cellular companies have been the same story with me for a long time. Making the effort to find a good one has to happen over and over.

I still think it's a huge loophole for auto manufacturers to make electric vehicles with about a 100 mile electric range and a pre-made spot for an exchangeable range extender. Burning hydrogen in ICEs seems bizarre to me. If you've invested the energy to get the hydrogen atoms by themselves, then you get more return on that investment using fuel cells to get the power back out of the hydrogen. ICEs burning propane or CNG seems like a better ICE transition away from longer chain alkanes.

I can understand them not telling customers about this, but if advertisers paid to have their ads alongside content, and then find out that the ads will always have lower broadcast quality and are only ever aired alongside content with lower broadcast quality, that sounds like a misrepresentation. OTOH, there is the opportunity for advertisers to buy an upgrade in return for "Brought to you in Dolby Vision by" messages.

Rather than sell people hybrids, GM should make BEVs with batteries that their actuaries tell them are sufficient for ~92% of projected customer use, and build these vehicles with a built-in provision for a range extender. Then, separately offer customers their choice of combustion engines, extra (potentially swappable) batteries or fuel cells as range extenders. They set up the range extender installation as a separate service, so that they can report the sales of all of these vehicles to the Feds as BEV sales. I imagine long narrow drawers under the seats that can take free piston engines, fuel cells, or batteries. That way the range extender weight is fairly low and central. Then, if infrastructure changes in the BEV direction, customers can swap their ICEs for batteries. Or, if customers find they were overly optimistic about BEV infrastructure, they can swap the other way. Farmers who generate their own hydrogen can use it in their cars as well. Additionally, since each range extender is an electricity generator, provision could be made for it to power the owner's house during an outage. If they made them easy enough to swap, the range extender could even stay in the garage, to improve mileage on days when only normal commuting and shopping were on the menu.

Maybe it should be changed from "stifle" to "gnarfle."

The SEC says "Audits are important and necessary." The court says "This Audit was useless." Maybe the SEC needs to change it's rules to require "Audits that aren't useless," and use very specific language to describe what "not useless" means, so that the auditing process can't be abused like it was this time.

Like universal USB-C for cell phones, enforced federation helps USA consumers also.

If they can tell the AI to write it. Of course it might not be the most accurate documentation. But, maybe reading errors in the documentation will inspire people to correct it. And, maybe correcting the AI's take on the documentation will lead the AI to make "this code doesn't actually do that because..." suggestions.