Google will have to admit they and everyone else uses their brand as a common language verb, which removes the copyright ;)

they kept their link tracker in the paid post. the link to the pseudo manifesto currently is https://go.nature.com/45zyjh

some intern is going to get the ax

Ammonia as ICE car fuel, just in case you've always wanted to drive a car which smells worse than they do now.

I can't imagine the refueling smell or even process, as it's one of the worst. I could be wrong, perhaps your car won't smell like bad sweat and you wouldn't need a breathing mask to refuel, but ...

It's a popular model internationally, but particularly in India, so I think there's like a billion of them.

China has over 4x the population of the US. They are about the same size in geography, Have access to resources and a temperate envrionment. Chinese relegation as a 3rd world country had historically been due to their own failures to invest, grow and adapt to the modern world, and were blinded by their past success as world power that they had failed to grow and realize that the barbarians are out pacing them.

The United States is slipping into that type of thinking, we are not trying to compete with China, we are just trying to convince everyone that USA #1. China isn't playing any more unfairly than the U.S. has, but the U.S. has given up putting effort into competing with the new conditions.

It is easy to be ethical when you have nothing to loose.
We see this in politics where a political party might demolish or even kick out a member for misdeeds, but only when they are nearly certain their replacement will be a member of the same party. Otherwise they will fight tooth and nail, and excuse all the bad behaviors to keep the scumbag in.
We see this in business, where they will follow ethical and responsible business practices, just as long as it is convenient to them. Proud to show off their 0 emission fleet and solar panels, just as long as they are more affordable, or they are continued to get positive press from it. However if a factor changes, they will drop it and ignore any of the benefits to the community, and just do what ever brings in the most money.
Religions will encourage a set of values and a way of life, that is general considered good and healthy, until it leads to some people especially people with notable ranks in the religion, to be disadvantaged by following these rules.
Individuals are open to diversity and multicultural activities, until we perceive others getting something that you though that you deserved too.

As I have gotten older, I have learned to avoid Hero worship, and have gotten skeptical towards any person or group who is being treated as a Hero. I will applaud them for the good that they did, however I will not use that as a reason to admonish them for the bad they can do as well. I no longer have the will power to adjust my ethics to excuse bad behavior by anyone. Sure I can be convinced to change my mind, but it isn't because someone who did some good in the past just believes in it. Also I need to realize that I myself am not immune to having my personal set of ethics corrupted because things may go to my disadvantage. And I find it a struggle to make sure I am not falling down the rabbit hole.
 

Tesla especially initially, had a lot to gain to develop a reliable and wide reaching charging network. Only selling Electric Cars means a poor charging experience would kill themselves. Other automaker GM, VW, Ford, Hyundai, KIA... See EV as a new business expansion opportunity however, they are not tied to the Charging network, as their business has more options. So they relied on third party (or mostly so) charging companies, expecting them to do all the work. While these third parties are smaller companies with less resources, and expecting to try to be compatible to all the car companies, with minimal support and resources to expand at the rate they need.
NACS will not solve all the problems as the Tesla Charging Network will need to be relied on to be compatible with other cars, and for third party charging companies all their problems still exist, except for that Tesla Customers can use their network without a converter.

Despite Right Wing Propaganda, California and San Fransisco are from a failing State/City. While the need for office buildings is declining, there are advantages to to being local to the economy source. Speaking as someone who live in the country, their are some advantages with city life. Being close by to cultural activities, nearby to shops, and access to a diverse set of foods, as well if you happen to be a people person, you get to be around people. While the Office may no longer be needed, the workplace may still be nearby, where you may need to go to meetings, or some other activities that may need more personal touch.
There is also access to city services. Water, Garbage Pickup, Police/Fire/Ambulance who can respond in minutes not hours... So people do actually enjoy city life. I am not one of them, as I prefer to avoid people and noise, however the supply of places where people can live in cities have been diminished, reusing office space can help.

No it won't solve homelessness, or poverty. But it might help the few who on the edge to go in the right direction.

Help! I've been catfished by the CIA Chat AI and now I have a what must be a Predator drone following me around town. I swear I was just cosplaying a dangerous guy really, let me live! The only scenario I could see happening.

That proposed SEC rule on reporting stock lending to FINRA (second link in last paragraph above) is about naked short sales used to manipulate the market. It's not about investors borrowing against assets to avoid taxes.

And you're paying a lot to Visa for this service. Visa/MC announced in fact that they are increasing credit card processing fees to deal with fraud: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

You're paying far more in credit card processing fees than makes sense for the service and the insurance against fraud provided.

This is not true. The Bundesbank did a report on this in 2019.

(https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/800766/0462923c3587a2d98f2c2db5b71047ae/mL/2019-06-kosten-zahlungsmittel-data.pdf)

The report found that transactions under €50 were cheapest to process with cash. Transactions over €50 were cheapest to do with Girocard, a German interbanking payment system. At no point were MC/Visa cheaper.

Isn't this how it starts?

https://www.malwarebytes.com/b... I don't know what size it is (was?), or how many of its staff are affected, but come on, acquire a new company one week, lay off 100 staff the next? How are people supposed to have a life? Companies that complain of falling staff loyalty have actions like this to blame. It's like trying to make a home and have a family in a video game level where every floor tile you touch falls away a few seconds later.

I have been using GCP/BQ heavily for 7+ years now and we're GCP native at my current company for nearly 5 years.

Google's penchant for deprecating products is a constant worry for me, particularly our insane reliance on BQ. While BQ StandardSQL is close enough, lifting and shifting to something like AWS or Azure's cloud warehouse tooling would definitely be a headache.

That said, with their deep integration w/GA4 reporting and continued development of BQ, I am guessing they make enough money (particularly after their 25% price increase for on-demand) that it'll stay around for another few years.

Fingers crossed because, honestly, I don't want to have to deal with management of our warehouse and BQ makes it easy for us not to worry about that at all.