>>What's interesting is that this article leads with "Peter Thiel". Why?

When the AI-controlled stampedes head for blue cities during the election, don't say you weren't warned.

If Pi had the sales volume of even a low-tier phone manufacturer, the price would be much lower. There just aren't enough hacker nerds out there.

>>I don't see why I care about government trying to protect people from themselves with this one?

Because when they lose everything and have nothing left when to retire on, guess who will end up paying to bail them out? It's not the scammers who got rich selling them snake oil, it's the rest of us. And don't think they won't get a bail out; retired people are an important voting block and will support whoever promises them the most.

>>Or, since all microprocessors consist of registers, simple instructions, memory addresses, and push/pull, just create a very simple, generic, "language"based on that, and then compile it to any specific architecture.

We already have programming languages like that. C-- claims to be a "portable assembly language" (some claim that traditional C also fits that description).

>>Hydroelectricity is not considered a renewable resource. They require a lot of maintenance by machinery run by fossil fuels

Last time I checked, rain was still refilling the reservoirs so yes, it is renewable. It requires maintenance and will eventually need replacement just like everything else including wind turbines and solar panels.

Yeah, exposing a film to DLP is a little different than to a rounded, bezel-masked CRT

The media format is 16mm film. Here's the irony. Unlike U.S. television shows, BBC was an early adopter of video tape. (Recall that video tape was invented really late, available in 1956; everything before then had to be either live or telecined from film live.) But when shipping shows to far-flung international destinations, BBC "transferred" the video tape to film by filming a TV! That's what was found in the collector's cardboard box. That BBC used video tape is what allowed them to erase said video tapes.

Pretty presumptuous of you to assume that I don't already hate Sam Altman at least as much as you do.

But Larry Ellison needs those billions of dollars so his nepobaby can buy more movie studios!

Prosecution must have argued she deceived customers into thinking they were getting something they could legitimately used.

18 U.S. Code 2320 defines "counterfeit mark" rather broadly. Included in the definition in (f)(1) is a "spurious ... label ... likely to ... deceive".

Why would a website containing "tech" in its domain name feel a need to put "requirements" inside scare quotes and refer to it as "parlance"?

>> Every service member swears an oath to uphold the Constitution and to protect the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

What happens when "upholding the constitution" and "protecting the nation all from enemies" are in conflict with each other? What about conflicts with other commitments the US has made like the Geneva Convention? Who decides what is a "military necessity"?

Don't worry. If Trump has his way everyone's Social Security cheques will be cancelled.

Based on 5-10 minute videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZP1uzp_YQ, I look forward to feature-length fan replacements for Episodes VII, VIII, IX. Perhaps within a year?