Didn't they try to do that kind of image recognition in the 90s and find it unreliable? IIRC they tested it with tanks and found that rather that detecting tanks it was detecting sunny days, and once they eliminated the weather variations it couldn't do anything useful.

Today Tesla's vision system is notoriously unreliable, and you would assume that in military applications the aircraft are going to be camouflaged.

But then you have to transmit potentially massive amounts of data back to Earth.

Say you want to detect aircraft entering airspace. They are difficult to detect with radar, so you want to do it optically. You need decent resolution to capture small drone sized ones, and you need multiple images to help with camouflage, false positives, and determining flight path.

That's a lot of data. The data rate is likely to be the limiting factor on what resolution and how frequently you can image an area. Being able to do the detection on the satellite, and only send reports or images that suggest further investigation is worthwhile, is going to be very useful.

China is headed that way with their renewables. Ireland is planning for renewable hydrogen production as well.

I think it will probably only end up with relatively niche uses, but it's a useful option.

Cryogenic has bee used for the ground tests, so presumably it was here too.

AI slop articles that get summarized into yet more AI slop. I doubt many humans read this stuff.

It doesn't affect text so ctrl F still works. The rest can be mitigated by supplying element sizes in the HTML.

Amazon will replace workers with robots the second it is feasible. This won't do anything to change that.

Is there any risk of being caught in the lie? Here it's possible that your employer will get at least a sense of your previous salary because they need to handle income taxes for that year.

I do it anyway and it's never backfired, but I suppose in theory...

Bombing people doesn't really help them.

I see Israel has started its usual tactics of destroying all the civilian infrastructure in Lebanon, in preparation for annexing part of it.

Months? They have been converting some motorway here for *years*. I think we are about 4 years in now, I lost track. It's taken so long that they started out making it a "smart motorway", realized that those things are deathtraps, and now I'm not sure what it's going to end up as.

We have had average speed cameras in kilometre after kilometre of 50 MPH stretches for many years too. Some of them seem to have been forgotten about because there hasn't been any work or cones there for years, and most people speed through at 70.

To be fair, the US didn't start the war, Israel did. Trump was just too weak to avoid getting dragged into it, and now he doesn't know how to end it.

Of course Israel doesn't want it to end, they want to keep bombing Lebanon and annexing parts of it to build their Greater Israel.

The way to stop nuclear proliferation in the Middle East is to disarm Israel. They have somewhere between 100 and 200 nukes, and multiple ways to deliver them (aircraft, missiles, submarines). They also have the "Samson Option", where if Zionism is on the brink of extinction they are threatening to launch them indiscriminately. Europe is within their range, by the way.

What really helped with smoking was first nicotine substitutes like patched, and second vaping.

While many people do regain weight when they come off these drugs, maybe in time we can find ways to prevent that, or find better drugs like this one that either keep the weight off or which they can just take forever and are cheap.

You make it sound like people have a free choice about their lifestyle, but that seems exceedingly unlikely given that a) three quarters of Americans are making these bad choices, despite likely knowing what the good choices are, and b) what we know about modern life and the pressures people face.

About three quarters of Americans are overweight or obese. So at most you can say some people an exceptional ability to regulate their weight effectively without assistance.

People have been arguing for years that people need to do more exercise and eat more healthy food. They have been trying to regulate food producers and advertising to make healthy eating easier and more affordable. These efforts have failed. You can argue that we should try harder, but realistically the chances of it working seem to be quite low. If medication turns out to be the way to force the issue, well I'm not going to begrudge anyone who takes that option.