On the one hand, yes, there's no good way to regulate technology which is only used in a very limited number of vehicles. It would have to be more like spaceflight where it's regulated based on what damage it could do to third parties and not the staff and crew.

On the other hand they could have just called up James Cameron and the submersible engineers he knows, asked them if it was safe and waited for the laughter to stop before refusing to let it operate from Canada.

It seems that everyone involved in operating deep-sea submersibles knew it was a disaster waiting to happen but there was nothing they could do to stop it as no-one cared about their opinions.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

> Except, of course, for the front part, which was weirdly aerodynamic

It could separate, so maybe it was intended to be able to handle entry into a planet's atmosphere as a lifeboat. It also looked cooler that way.

> Yes, the lack of fuel tanks is a real problem. Also, how do they fly? They only have engines in back, but they skim over the surface of the moon like they are levitating.

I don't remember if the show mentioned anything about it, but I'm sure the books said it used nuclear engines of some kind. The model I had as a kid had rockets on the bottom too, which would have been a very inefficient way to fly but maybe doable if it was nuclear.

They're not "born lucky". They sell their souls to Epstein and his backers ensure that the money comes rolling in.

Most of the modern "elite" were made, not born. It's hard to become a billionaire if someone isn't willing to give you a billion dollars... and that comes with chains attached.

Sure, you'll get news stories about "oh wow, he was so lucky that someone just happened to give him a billion dollars" but once you look into it you soon find that it's the same old ticket-taking. Any time you see someone saying "I'm not passing my money on to my kids, I'm giving it to my charitable foundation" it's a pretty clear sign that the money was never theirs to begin with.

We're not talking about going from free to $10 a month. We're talking about business fees going from $1,000 a month to $10,000+ a month or more.

That completely changes the business model and eliminates the benefits of using AI over humans in many roles.

It's hard to see how companies can ever be convinced to pay the true cost of the AI services they use without the AI service waiting a few years for those companies to sack everyone who used to do the work and then suddenly ramping up the costs 10x or more when the companies have no choice but to pay.

The law under international treaties says the US government is responsible for all satellites launched from US territory or by US companies. That is why SpaceX have to get permission from the US government to launch.

Other than that, space is like the oceans where you can travel at will wherever you want. Currently you can't claim territory in space, but that will change soon as it becomes possible for people to live there rather than just take a vacation.

Even this article says that most parts will reenter in a few months. Anything small and low-density will come down rapidly due to drag at that altitude and the rest will follow.

SpaceX chose it in part so a dead satellite wouldn't stay around for long causing trouble for other Starlink satellites or other users of that region of space.

If it's in the CPU I bought, how should it never have had that feature that's clearly in the CPU I bought?

This is the CPU equivalent of those car makers wanting a subscription to enable the heated seats. Maybe AMD will enable it for $5 a month or something.

No, but they grow up into voters. And Starmer wants to allow 16-year-olds to vote in the next election because he hopes they'll vote Labour.

Hermes Agent already creates new skills as it learns the things you want it to do. I need to add an MCP server to it but I'm waiting until my Raspberry Pi arrives so I can move it off the main system and let it do whatever the heck it wants to do on that one... I'm pretty sure it will be able to do that itself.

Which is one of the risks of this stuff: I don't know how to do it because the software will just do it for me. Neither do I know if it's a safe thing to do or if it's inviting the entire world to come and party on my SSD.

> The alternative is that we are completely out of touch with reality.

You need to remember that most modern companies don't exist to produce products people want, they exist to push up the stock price so the MBAs at the top can cash out and move on. Everything about the modern economy makes a lot more sense when you understand that.

Bingo. It's not about the kids, it's about the adults.

Adults will complain that they have to send in info to prove they're not kids, and Starmer will say "it's funny you mentioned that, because we already have the solution. Just apply for your lovely new Digital ID."

I am an immigrant.

Never once in my life have I or any other immigrant I've known said they moved to pay Boomer pensions.

What was left of Britain after the British Empire collapsed died under Blair.

Not that the post-Blair Tories were any better, but they were just following Blair's script.