The problem is that it isn't *just* shelter, it's a shelter and also an "NFT" (since it's an investment that's expected and supposed to endlessly appreciate for "reasons"). The resulting problem being that you can't get the shelter without the "NFT" so shelter costs are peak-Bored-Ape stupid even if you just want a shelter.

This, construction labor costs are only one of the smallest parts of the housing affordability problem. The bulk of the problem is artificially restricted supply (especially of high-density low-cost housing) due to zoning laws.

Looks like OneWeb was designed to get penguins and polar bears online.

(I checked and can't find anything about it being purpose-built for polar bases)

I wonder how small and cheap something like this could be built these days:

https://theaviationgeekclub.co...

Apparently some military aircraft have exactly this solution.

This was a half-baked mindshart of an idea that wasn't ready to be made public much less voted on. The mere concept of doing age verification at the OS level is riddled with more problems and loopholes than solutions.

Pretty much, it sounds like they're turning Xbox from a line of console hardware into a PC gaming service/brand, and the next-gen Xbox sounds like it will be a gaming PC with a stripped-down gaming-optimized version of Windows.

The original Xbox was almost that anyway, just different enough from a gaming PC to make emulating it a big PITA but essentially using ordinary PC hardware running cut-down slivers of Windows & DirectX in firmware. What reason does the Xbox have to exist as anything more than a console-shaped gaming PC these days really? Other gaming consoles have essentially morphed into gaming PCs running oddball hardware & software at the same time, they have all the complexity and expense but none of the compatibility, and the idea of proprietary hardware allowing a performance advantage only ever yielded one that was short-lived.

The Mechanical Turk was more like a mechanically remote-controlled animatronic puppet. I would point to Pierre Jaquet-Droz' robots as an example of pre-film robots, here's one that was programmable:

https://www.messynessychic.com...

I'm most worried that this kind of system might be impractical on a general-purpose computer and thus further fuel the drive to replace them all with user-hostile walled-garden computing machines. On a general-purpose computer what would keep someone from tampering with the age verification system or copying credentials from another system?

Do you also believe that North Korea is a Democratic People's Republic? If not, why not? The rest is historical-revisionist nonsense that anyone who learned anything outside of Conservapedia would laugh at, but this one is logically testable. The problem is the same.

Countries don't win wars or foreign-backed attempts based on inherent goodness, as much as I wish they did. It's based on who has the most powerful set of weapons or who's has the best Department of Underhanded Dirty Tricks. Having a working economy etc doesn't instantly grant an advantage at either of those.

It collapsed because of sanctions and isolation from the West. Soviet communism (which was again more like state capitalism) probably wasn't better than communist-pressured New Deal capitalism, but they would've at least lasted much longer if they weren't economically under siege the entire time.

Why didn't he win by a bigger margin? American imperialism. Both sides tried to interfere, I didn't think you'd have a problem with an election won without the popular vote that happened to get some Russian interference. Something else you may not have learned from Conservapedia is that Allende wasn't very pro-Soviet at all and was very anti-Soviet in a lot of important ways, so it's hard to call it Soviet imperialism when they only had a few vaguely aligned economic ideas in common. They were about as aligned as China and the US are now.

That's an example of Goomba fallacy. Most Europeans want a decent society to live in, European pro-business think tanks want a capitalist hellscape to make high-yield short-term investments in. Not the same people.

This isn't even about electric cars, it's about a specific electric car company with a wildly overvalued stock that European business interests are financially jealous of. Europe had electric cars first, produces a respectable number of EVs now, and has a greater proportion of electric cars on the road because a greater fraction of the population can afford them. Europe is an EV success story.

Those people are the owners and executives at larger companies, who have grown so rich and distant from their workers that they see them as replaceable cogs in a machine rather than human peers. Those at smaller companies may grow into them. Even if they tried to be angels, the economic system would incentivize them to do the same awful things.

Yeah Slashdot shouldn't be blindly amplifying a pro-business think tank's articles, we can do better than this.

If economic growth and technological innovation are your only metrics for success then China will beat the world with their slave labor, government-subsidized innovation and minimal environmental regulations. People don't want to live in that kind of society and toil like Foxconn workers right up until robots and AI make it impossible to get a job and they only have 7 months' pay to survive on for the rest of their lives. Good luck having a culture or civilization survive that. I'm sure Europe doesn't mind letting China and the US beat them in the race to dystopia.

Some people? That's a majoity of their workers. But their top 10~20% workers make big paychecks that the rest of the world oohs and aahs at without noticing that, or the fact that a hospital stay during a gap in health insurance coverage could send one of those top workers straight into bankruptcy.