The tragedy of the commons: While GEO is regulated internationally (with each country being assigned certain "slots" to use), LEO is a free-for-all, so now that launch costs are getting cheaper there is a race to put as much stuff there as possible (by governments and corporations alike), since the people in charge of such decisions see LEO as a piece of real state and not as a Kessler syndrome waiting to happen.

The problem with hydrogen is that, to act as a vehicle fuel, it involves a liquefaction stage that kills any hope of profitability. The only commercially successful liquefied fuel is LPG because propane is an industrial waste of the distillation process and refineries sell it for a very low price so they won't have to burn it off. The moment you have to consume something valuable like electricity or natural gas to make hydrogen (taking a conversion loss in the process) and then spend more energy to liquefy the hydrogen, you have lost. Also, natural-gas-derived hydrogen isn't even carbon neutral. I can be convinced of "green" hydrogen as a fuel for the airplanes of the future if we assume a future humanity that is 1) is really committed to 0% CO2 emissions and 2) has an abundance of electricity, but not for cars (or trucks or ships for that matter).

Where is Joe Biden to say he will veto this RISAA Act even if it passed? Or will the PATRIOT Act be retroactively whitewashed in Democrat circles?

Wall Street engineered a merger with McDonnell Douglas to get McDonnell Douglas' "management talent" (aka accountants and suits) so that engineers wouldn't be in charge of quality and safety.

Yes, that's why you need someone skilled in the art to call out the fact the patent is BS instead of having sleazy lawyers and clueless jurors make a judgment on the patent's validity.

Which is more reason to have people skilled in the art determine the validity of a given patent (and whether it's being infringed), not random people with zero background in the particular field. Random people with zero background in a particular field will equally fail to understand a valid and invalid patent and will veer towards "deny everything" or "accept everything" depending on the moment's whim.

I don't need to ask myself because I already know what a patent is: Patents are meant to be understood by a "person skilled in the art", not by the average rube (mere mortal) on the street who has zero background in the particular field. This also answers your other question: Patents (valid ones, that is) allow a person skilled in the art to understand the new invention mentioned in the patent and then replicate it once the patent expires.

About the jury thing, I know that's how the legal system works, I am saying it's absurd. It's highly unlikely most people in the jury had a single clue about the stuff mentioned in the patent, much less being able to understand whether a valid invention was described, so the trial served as a pointless speedbump since Amazon was obviously going to appeal to get to a court that's going to understand the patent.

...which is the wise thing to do. Why should a jury (that is, people who probably have an "Earnhardt Lives In My Heart” bumper sticker on their car) be allowed to rule on a highly technical case such as a patent lawsuit is beyond me.

Yes, I don't understand why the previous commenter considers it an issue for Windows on ARM.

I doubt Microsoft cares about Surface hardware booting anything else than their own OS. They haven't on any of their past Windows on ARM devices.

I think he means the lack of a standard way to boot the OS and the lack of a universal framebuffer standard like VBE (aka VESA). To put it in plain terms, Canonical can release a single x86-64 iso and it will boot on every PC made in the past 15 years (and with a graphical installer too!) even if the OS has to use VESA mode until the user loads the GPU drivers. Good luck doing something like that on ARM, you have to put out an image for every little ARM board out there because every ARM board uses its own bootloader standard.

And then there are issues with some SoCs drivers requiring a forked kernel for stuff like the GPU to work.

Although it's worth noting that some Surface devices have touchscreens and can run full desktop apps (not mini-me iOS versions of those apps) while Apple won't sell you a touchscreen MacOS device. The touchscreen display is also the reason for the added cost compared to a Macbook Air.

I wonder how much of that was due to the massive alt binaries section.

Nintendo didn't accuse YuZu and SuYu of copyright but violation of the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA. In other words, YuZu didn’t get hit with a DMCA copyright takedown notice but a DMCA circumvention-of-DRM notice. There’s a big difference between the two.

Also, it's worth noting that YuZu and SuYu didn’t/don't provide keys but a decryption mechanism that takes keys as input. Does this violate the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA? Nintendo thinks it does, YuZu and SuYu think it doesn’t (but YuZu didn’t want to risk going to court so they settled). Let’s see what SuYu does.

Let's be realistic here, during 2020 and 2021 most companies hired a lot of people on the assumption that Fed interest rates would stay near zero and that borrowed money would keep flowing free (and the scarce resource would be talent, not money). Now that the Fed jacked up the interest rates and borrowing money has a cost again, those companies are laying off some of the people they hired during that period (hired sometimes without proper review of their qualifications or even a position to put them in). And then of course you have the layoffs of the HR people who were hired to hire other people.