If I end up having to pay for your lack of preparedness, which I am, yes.

Or vaccines now? Just inject some virovores and all your covid worries will be gone :-)

I don't see how this could possibly go wrong...

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They have enough other characters that Mickey and Minnie have become obsolete. I was just there and we saw those two in only very limited circumstances.

I'm in my 40s and in a leadership role at my company; I refuse to use or accept business cards from anyone and have for more than 20 years. There is absolutely no reason, whatsoever, that anyone should use them in 2022.

This is not one party or the other - both sides are equally guilty, so don't go there

It's also not something recent, it's been this way for decades. Defense contractors splatter their work across as many states as possible so that almost every senator has to vote for it. "The door hinges for this fighter jet are made in bum-f#%k (insert state here), we need to preserve jobs"

On a slightly different angle, that's why SpaceX is crapping on the traditional players, they're not playing the same game.

I think the title says it. These universities smell money, and they unite to get political support to slurp at the trough of government largess...

The problem in the US is that companies worship "finance" and use investment bankers to sell off their assets to keep the share prices high. Reward the executives in the name of "shareholder value".

OK, rant over...

This is the context which should have been added to the blurb IMHO. Over the course of 2021, Google was doing ~5.6B per day.

While 2.5B in a year is admirable, particularly because competition in the search space is incredibly important; Brave isn't even making a dent.

If it can run a microwave for 3-4 hours, that's somewhere in the 1000 - 1200 watts, about 1.5 horsepower. Similar to an entry-level motor scooter. They would really need to scale this up for a car, otherwise the range will be pitiful

They're not inexpensive in the least (an S90 starts at 52K) and are quite comparable in price to BMW and Mercedes. I am not claiming those are 'rich person's toys' but there are plenty of folks who make good money and are driving them.

1. Netflix used to have popular movies and TV shows that were either more prominent (unsearchable/algorithmically curated view is NOT advantageous) or simply are no longer available due to planning or competition from other services.

2. HBO Max is absolutely destroying Netflix (and other services) in quality content--both created as well as curated.

3. HBO Max started coming 'free' with my mobile phone plan whereas Netflix is raising its prices and offering me less quality content.

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I realize it's not an easy solution on the content side, but there are other opportunities for Netflix to really make a dent in their losses, but for whatever reason they're just not doing it.

If they truly mean "whole genome", that has only just been achieved. More likely it's the whole exsome, which is the coding of all the proteins. This can be done for less than $200. You can process the sequencer output (FASTQ files) with open source tools and reduce it to a set of calls (VCF, INDEL, etc) which describes the differences (ie. mutations) when compared to the reference genome. That output, in text form, is a few dozen MB. No big deal.

The challenge to this, as others have pointed out, is that customized treatments will be ridiculously expensive. I'll bet they'll even markup the cost of the lab work 5-10x

Yes, the M1 chip might be great for AI / ML / whatever - but good luck getting things to just install and run. I've been going round in circles trying to get XGBoost, TensorFlow and other libraries to run on my new laptop...

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Omicron would be a brilliant way to give yourself 3 or 4 days off over Christmas...

1. Call in sick on the morning of the 24th, say you were exposed or just have a scratchy throat
2. Get your sample taken as late in the day as possible
3. The labs won't process the PCR test for a couple of days
3. Maybe go back to work on the 28th?

The timing of this over Christmas seems very suspect to me

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The problem here is that they kept adding features on top of features, to handle random requests and maybe even show how clever they are. That's why "Hello World" can be hundreds of megabytes if we just use a couple of frameworks.

Suppose you're using a shell script and just want the number of lines in a file, but "wc -l" accesses the Internet to check for printing the counts in Mayan numerals using the latest Unicode offerings? Would you be surprise if it broke?

The success of Unix (and Linux) has been SIMPLE and COMPOSABLE pieces. I never worry about "sort -u" trying to do something I hadn't thought of, it just works the same every time.

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No worries, just so long as they're not hitting Pornhub for 4K videos every night...

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