War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I like the way Tile handles this. By default trackers are in "lost keys" mode. If you want the stealth "anti-theft" mode, you need to verify your ID periodically.

Abuse is still possible, but I think it's a good balance.

From TFS:

If you were hoping they just shit out some worthless NFTs during gameplay, then I'm sorry to disappoint you. They seem to have added landlords as a way to extract more money from an FPS.

I agree with what you're saying here... I very much want anti-trust enforcement for these reasons and more. I'm just unconvinced that this case is going to make corporations sit up and take notice.

Poe's Law is hitting hard with this one. I honestly can't tell if you're serious or sarcastic.

I do believe serious anti-trust enforcement would help with inflation, but I'm skeptical that this is the signal that they're getting serious.

The Moto G series didn't do this before. I liked them because they were okay phones with a fairly clean Android install and great battery life. They included some junk like wallpapers, their tutorials, and "dolby atmos" audio tuning, but no adware / third party sponsored crap. Unfortunately it looks like they're going the Samsung route now.

Boeing's problems aren't due to hiring the wrong color people. This is happening because McDonnell Douglas's predatory management took over the company and prioritized short-term profits over making top-tier products.

Stuff that matters.

You are correct. Here's a size comparison: https://minesto.com/wp-content...

The "buy box" is where it says "add to cart". It's the default seller, but you can scroll down to "other sellers on amazon" or "New (x) from" to find other options.

I'd say it's more like some sketchy pirated version of democracy, which came with an extra helping of malware.

Great link, thank you! I really appreciate this kind of engineering - it's mechanically simple, stripped down to very few moving parts, but makes the absolute most of each one. The wobbling wheels are a clever way to dig out of soft terrain. Being so small, I would hope more lander missions can bring a couple of these along. They probably don't have great range, but I think they'll be invaluable for inspecting the main lander, and running over to get a close-up of some glint spotted in the main camera.

There are many satellites in GEO. After refueling one, it would only take a couple of small maneuvers and a bit of patience to move to the next.

"Its solution was to bypass the "middleman" (the grid) altogether [...] via the electricity grid."

You didn't bypass shit. You built a datacenter in an awkward building that has some available space.

100 gallons of gasoline produce about 1 ton of CO2 when burned. Assuming this technique works and buries 1 net ton of CO2 for $100, that means it'll cost about $1 per gallon to clean up car emissions.

Likewise, you can get about 869 kWh per ton of CO2 from a coal plant, 2062 kWh per ton from a natural gas plant, or 13,745kWh per ton from a nuclear plant. Therefore you can clean up electrical generation for about $0.115/kWh for coal, $0.048/kWh for natural gas, or $0.007/kWh for nuclear. I've looked up enough numbers, but I'd assume renewables would be down there with nuke.

If you tack those costs on to the prices of electricity supplied by generators, you'll see a pretty rapid change in the "nuclear and renewables aren't cost-effective" mantra. Likewise, tack it onto the price of a gallon at the pump and you'll see an even faster push toward electric cars.

Those aren't the only ways to pay for it of course, but you have to pay for it somewhere (climate collapse is much more expensive in the long run). Pricing it in close to the source will get people eager to change sources in a hurry... and for those who can't, it's okay as long as they're paying to clean up their own mess.

Sources for CO2 emissions per (gallon, kWh):
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehic...
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs...
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-che...