Cory Doctorow has a few articles and podcasts about stock pricing. Basically, stocks are sold at any price the buyer is willing to pay for it. Stocks from over-hyped companies that may have a great potential for growth are expensive if enough people believe that that potential can eventually pay off. That also means that these companies must continue to produce hypes, else their existing stock value plummets and the company loses its "value". Note that any value here is purely imaginary and extremely volatile.

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Not really. It enabled them to break down tank factories during the second world war, and move them elsewhere to resume production within months. It also enabled any aircraft factory to make any model that was needed.

But it could be that you have forgotten that the US also had standard tanks and could force companies to make that standard model. Those factories were not collective ownership, but the "means of production" were state controlled nonetheless.

It is usually both. Say you have a spy speaker that listens for a magic word and then expects a question from you that it should answer. The listening for the magic word is done on the device itself, as it is a simple task and would need an insane amount of bandwidth and resources to do that in the cloud. The question itself is then processed in the cloud. Turning that answer into audio again may or may not be done on the device itself.

Funny how lots of theories only displace the question. If life came from space, it only displaces the question of how it was formed in the first place. The same is true for religious origin of everything (where did the chaos come from? and where did God come from?) and its scientific counterpart. Replace the chaos with the "soup" of matter and energy and God with the mysterious instability, and it is immediately clear that there is very little difference between the two. Neither answer the question of how it all started, both just displace the question.

There, fixed that for you. Whether the people have a free choice is entirely up to the government imposing fair market laws. Companies usually choose to not have competition. Without government regulation, these companies will become too powerful and start to take over society. There are a lot of versions of capitalism, depending on the rules in which the companies operate.

If the CEO of TotalEnergies had any balls, he would have used the money to build the wind farm (probably a slightly smaller one, so he has some profit) in a country that needs it most (Cuba comes to mind). It would be the best ad and best investment for the company imaginable.

I'd try the Darwin Awards. But be warned. Applying can be dangerous.

And: is there a Pokemon base on that carrier?

No. A loan is lending something out and later getting it back. You lend things out that can be used, not used up. Asking extra money for a money loan is or was seen as inhumane in all major religions. Only Christianity now tries to deny that. The extra money is called usury, and was forbidden (because seen as inhumane). The moneylenders who violated that law therefore came up with the word "that what is in between", or, as money terms are often in Latin, "interest". So interest is the criminals term for usury.

I have been thinking if we can use this for anonymity. I am thinking about "VPN over SPAM", "data connection over ads" or "chat over slop" or something like that, where basically bulk waste traffic is slightly modified to contain a small amount of useful data. The bulk traffic would be sent to a vast number of users, so you would never know who the recipient is by looking at the traffic itself.

As yet, I could not come up with a practical solution, but it would make the waste less wasteful.

I am worried about security, but no phone manufacturer is. I put a custom "rom" on my phone, but google has spoiled it already before I even had a chance to buy it. The problem is not the customer, it is google and the manufacturers

Funny how western countries often "help" poor countries with loans over which (1) usury must be paid, (2) it must be paid back as well as (3) some critical function of society has to be built. Why is there never a question on that on /. ?

I would think that the sun's radiation is a bigger problem than the growth medium. Without the protection of an atmosphere, I would expect the potato plant to burn up right before your eyes.

Do they also have a theory about how to deliver the nucleobases to the surface without damaging them? It suggests more that these substances are easily formed, not that asteroids brought them to earth.