And the legal liabilities associated with any bad-apps that get through the testing and impose harm or loss on the user.

Cheap reliable oil bad.

Read up on the term "external cost", then actually think about the implications for more than 750ms.

You should then realize that oil is not, and never has been, cheap, but rather has been monstrously costly, and all those costs are coming due.

Given that it was a totally automated landing and that its own lidar sensors were broken such that it had to use the ones on a NASA payload to complete the landing, it could well be that it has landed in a deepish crater -- which would explain the very weak radio-signal. The walls of that crater could be blocking the signal. This is because landing on the South Pole means that earth is very low on the horizon so it doesn't take much of a hill to get in the way of the signal.

I think they've been reluctant to do this because of concerns that not having it tied to a phone number will make spam easier. As it is, I get one or two spam messages every couple of months, and while it's not impacting me right now, it could become a major problem later, made worse by Signal being completely unable to filter based on content by design.

On top of that, if they see sharply higher uptake and use enabled by email addresses, they would also face higher bills, and as an organization that is heavily reliant on donations, they have to watch those costs. Their 2022 US Form 990 filings showed $26.1 million in revenues against $30.5 million in expenses. They had $37.3 million in assets against $33.1 million in liabilities. Their net assets have plummeted in the last few years from nearly $39 million in 2019 to only $4.2 million in 2022.

This (*cough*) game was essentially invented almost fourteen years ago by Alex Steacy of LoadingReadyRun -- as a joke.

And then someone actually wrote it.

China is moving away from holding long-term US debt. Their holdings peaked at $1.3 trillion in 2014, and it's down to about $770 billion, give or take a few billion, in the last few months, a decline of 40%. Part of this is selling existing bonds, some of it is redeeming bonds that have matured. They are not buying nearly as much as they used to, and it's not an issue of trust that they won't be paid back. They bought them because they fully expected to be paid back, and they were. The Chinese government is in part worried about capital flight, and is trying to keep foreign currency in the country, partially for trade use and partially to prop up the market for the yuan (which officially trades within a narrow official band but unofficially trades much more widely). They're also shifting to other assets like agency bonds and short-term T-bills and notes, which gets them some profit but keeps dollars cycling back into China. They're not completely out of the T-bond market, but they are reducing their overall position.

Hey, at least the bug is reproducible!

It is not "full" with tritium. On Earth, tritium makes up 10E-18 of hydrogen atoms. There are about 4.6E49 molecules of water on/in Earth. Rounded off, that's about 10E48 hydrogen atoms in water. That means there are about 10E30 tritium atoms in all the water on/in the planet. Using Avogadro's number, that's 10E30/6.023E23, or 1.66 million grams of tritium. So yes, technically there is much more tritium in the oceans, but it is still less than two metric tons in the entire world, and that's only if you could process the entirety of the world's water supply. It would be much less expensive to manufacture it, whether by CANDU reactors, TPBARs, or lithium blankets.

That's just someone sending to a wallet. What was the last confirmed communication or transaction from Satoshi?

Manning was convicted under the UCMJ. Manning technically faced the death penalty, but that hasn't been sentenced under the UCMJ, much less carried out, in decades. The US military hasn't executed anyone since 1948. The last people executed on even remotely similar terms were the Rosenbergs in 1953. Everyone else executed by the federal government since then has been on conviction of kidnapping, rape, and/or murder.

The idea of Washington being anointed king was never a serious one. He did set some standards that would be followed for almost 150 years, but his role has been somewhat overvalued in the nearly 250 years since his presidency.

The primary US source of tritium is, as I mentioned, specialized rods called tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs) that are inserted into one of the reactors of the Watts Bar plant in Tennessee. Each rod can produce 1.2 grams of tritium over a lifespan of 600 full-power days. They have run up to 1792 rods at one time, allowing for just under 1.8 kg every 1.65 years. Cooling ponds may produce some tiny amount of tritium, but it is not recovered.

To expand on the tritium point, only a small amount of tritium (a few dozen kilos) exists on the planet at any given time because it has a half-life of only about 12 years. In North America, the primary civilian source is a byproduct of the CANDU reactors in Canada, and that's only a few kilograms per year. The other major source, used for supplying tritium for US nuclear warheads, is a fission reactor in Tennessee where special rods are irradiated over the course of months to produce a few hundred grams of tritium.

To have enough tritium for fusion, effective lithium blankets need to be developed that capture neutrons and produce tritium (Li-6 + n = He-4 + T) to be fed back into the plasma. To my knowledge, this has not yet been demonstrated, though work has been ongoing.

Of all the publicly accessible AI systems Bard is the worst by far. There's no way I'd pay $20 a month for it.

It is unbelievably "woke" and many of the responses to queries that do sneak past its firewall of "we must not offend" are just totally wrong.

Google are a long way behind in this area -- which probably explains why the AI behind all the moderation stuff-ups on YouTube is so bad.

We had no option but to use tape to write-protect on our 128Kbyte hard-sectored 8-inch floppy drives. Oh, we're not going that far back? :-)