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The Roche limit is literally named for Édouard Roche and his theory of Saturn's rings being formed by a ripped apart moon (he named the moon Veritas) in the 19th century.

The difference between this situation and the grocery store is that your hypothetical customer didnâ(TM)t already own the gluten free bread the store didnâ(TM)t stock, but they are the owner of the photos, e-mails, and other content that Google was just the custodian of. Unless of course Googleâ(TM)s TOS states that they are in fact the legal owner of all data stored on their servers. I donâ(TM)t know what exactly that fine print says in this case. IANAL.

For employees that are capable of doing their job remotely, the only thing they should be measured on is whether they are able to deliver the work expected as described in their job description.

I am a software engineer (as I assume a significant number of /.ers are as well). I am not hired to produce a certain number of keyboard clicks or for my laptop to be active during certain hours. I was hired to produce working applications according to business requirements in a reasonable amount of time.

As long as I do the latter satisfactorily, it is none of my employerâ(TM)s business when I am actually physically at the keyboard coding, and the moment they start measuring my performance by the former, I will be taking my talents elsewhere.

Luckily, I have found an employer that fully understands and respects this.

Generally I would agree with you. But in this case, it is different. It is not saying we shouldn't go to space until we solve world hunger. It is saying we shouldn't consider planet wide atmospheric manipulation on another planet until we can figure out planet wide atmospheric manipulation on earth.

I mean, we've figured out how to manipulate the planet wide atmosphere for the worse as an accidental side effect of modern civilization, but we still don't have a clue how to intentionally improve a planet's atmosphere.

Only the most Mars-worthy would fuck. It's beautifully Darwinian.

Universal cross platform binaries will always suck because they have to support the least common denominator between the supported platforms. Making a single binary that looks, feels, and performs well natively on all platforms is basically impossible. Java tried that decades ago, and I can count the number of successful java desktop apps on one hand of an absent minded shop teacher.

The only way this sort of thing would work is if somehow there is a guarantee that if I pay for the platform A version of software X, I can download and install the platform B version of software X for free at a later date. Not just trusting the vendor of software X to provide a key out of the goodness of their heart, but something universally mandated. I have no idea how that would be implemented in a secure and fair way, without having to either depend on a meta store monopoly like Epic wants to be, or an EU style government regulation to force the mandate.

Unless there is some event that causes a disruptive market force like EVs suddenly becoming more than just a niche for rich environmentalists, causing a demand spike resulting in Peak Lithium.

The problem is the communists and the libertarians go too far in their respective directions regarding intellectual property rights. A middle ground supporting both ip enforcement and a strong fair use doctrine is necessary, but middle grounds tend to be unpopular in politics these days.

At least in my state, where I personally know an election judge who meticulously documented the whole process, when the absentee ballot gets sent out it is just a piece of paper with some ink on it. When it gets signed and sent back, it is transformed into a powerful legal document. As such, all of the anti-fraud measures that keep our elections safe and secure occur on the return side. That is why the fearmongering idea of individuals getting sent hundreds of absentee ballots is meaningless. It doesn't matter how many ballots are sent to the voter. There are safeguards in place to ensure that the voter can only fill out and return one.

You are right that SpaceX made this innovation, but not for Starship. Falcon 9â(TM)s first stage lands with the same Merlin engines that it launches with, and they have perfected the maneuver with that vehicle to the point of it being as mundane as the landing of a 727 jet.

Itâ(TM)s a lot easier to not crash when your only operational flight hardware is just an overgrown Estes rocket.

On the other hand, ideas are cheap. The hard work comes in successfully pulling off the implementation. Landing and recovering rocket boosters has been an idea as long as rocket boosters have existed, but ever since the early failures, the conventional wisdom has been that it is too hard to be practical. SpaceX deserves all the credit for deciding to try anyway, and then putting in the aforementioned hard work to make it happen.

In every OS/window manager that I know of, it is trivially easy to move the dock/taskbar/app launcher to any edge of the screen. Bottom is just the default, but if you are a power user and need to maximize vertical space, nothing is stopping you.

Adding capabilities always involves compromise. A Swiss Army knife will never cut better than a fine chef knife. Wisdom is in finding the perfect balance in finding focus, and removing just enough capability outside of that focus so as to maximize the functionality of what is left.