The real question is, is there a compelling economic or profit motive for sending humans to the moon? The answer to your question and also these questions is, probably not.

The CCP is certainly not above showing off. But typically they are a little more calculating than that, and quite careful. Usually their purpose in "showing off" is to project power. The CCP feels it's China's turn to rule the world as they see the rapid decline of the United States and Russia. However the CCP's own position is more precarious than one might think.

How often do we encounter endangered bird embryos that lack eggshells?

I can see how this technology might be used to revive extinct species, but the claim that it helps endangered species is nonsense.

That people are using examples from three years ago is pretty good evidence.

At least we can take some comfort in knowing that the kind of persons who were convicted for their roles in the Jan 9 insurrection are also many of the the kind of people who are completely incapable of dealing with a million dollars cash payout and will spend it foolishly and end up impoverished and on welfare before they are done.

If by some miracle anyone who's not of the party of Trump gets into office and if by a bigger miracle you get a functioning congress again, you'll desperately need to set up a fairly long-term, truth and reconciliation commission to publicly air all the corruptions from this regime. Maybe most will still go free but at least their crimes will be publicly known and proved.

We can dream.

Shrug. You don't like the GPL. I get it. You can't blame GPL or developers who use the GPL for Vizio being in violation of that license. I have zero sympathy for them.

The GPL made Linux into the most widely used and successful OS. We should all be grateful Linus chose it rather than use the BSD license. Linux would have failed had it not been for the GPL. If anything I think one could make a strong case that open source in general is failing, largely because of permissive licenses that allow proprietary companies to not only use it but feel entitled to free support for these vital pieces of software infrastructure. This is the actual war that we're losing. Add to that the fact that no company (and few developers period) cares about the license at all unless someone tries to hold them accountable. It's all freeware to them.

Yes I agree the multiplicity of licenses that open source software is available adds complications. But if open source didn't exist at all and you were using third-party components you'd still have to deal with license terms, which may be conflicting. For example if a library says it can be used for non-commercial purposes only, that is something you still have to abide by.

Before Covid, we had a semblance of free-market supply and demand. Demand would ultimately influence supply to increase, driving down prices. But in Covid companies learned that with just-in-time supply chains and huge barriers to entry, they could pretty much be cartels with no legal consequence and make a ton of money. So when demand goes up they no longer bother with trying to increase supply to meet that demand. In fact they often now reduce supply to drive up prices even farther. In hindsight it's an obvious flaw in the free market system as we practice it, but it was never exploited nearly to the degree it is now.

So what. If developers release software under liberal licenses that allow proprietary use, that's on them. Vizio is welcome to use such code in a proprietary manner. How is that losing the war? Besides that, what war are you talking about?

When Vizio chose to use GPL'd software, they must abide by the terms or remove it. It was their choice to use that code.

Also stop calling them viral licenses. The GPL doesn't infect anything. This is a lie, plain and simple. If you use any copyrighted code you must do so under the terms of the license whatever that is. If you fail to abide by the license you have three choices: 1. abide by the license terms and release your changes, 2. remove the code entirely, or 3. negotiate licensing terms that fit your needs. Corporations who fail to abide the license terms deserve what they get.

What a silly question. Of course they do. In fact it would be immoral *not* to make as many bucks as possible. I mean what would you do with that money anyway, buy gasoline? You're way better off handing it over to Google. Because they will do wonderful things with that money. Or something.

Suddenly doesn't work? What are you talking about? Google search hasn't really worked very well for years now even before LLMs.

Republicans have always been hypocritical about states' rights.

Abortion was a states' rights issue until RvW was overturned, and suddenly they wanted a national ban.

They want the Feds to overturn state-level pot legalization, ban sanctuary cities, etc.

That was three years ago, which is an eon in AI terms.

There have been vast advances since then.

Google search has been really poor for quite some time. Between SEO rubbish and just the general lack of context in conventional searches, at least half the time search fails to give me relevant results. Also conventional search lacks the ability to fine tune the search with added context. AI Mode may not succeed the first time, but I can add context to my search query, and steer the AI towards the relevant content (including telling it that it hallucinated). It works for me better than the old search. It's not perfect and can fall down spectacularly. For example you asked AI about configuring something specific on your WiFi router of a particular make and model, it assumes that any and all WiFi router information applies when it clearly does not.

TLDR: conventional search is dead and has been for a long time. AI search actually does work, at least for me.

That is nominal GDP based on a very weak currency.

In PPP terms, Iran's GDP is about $1.2T, about the same as that of Illinois or the Netherlands.

Toyota pioneered the power-split cvt. You've got the most fuel-efficient ICE/transmission combination on the planet. See Technology Connections video on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then the future will belong to China.

Better start learning Mandarin.