I hadn't heard of this paper before. Now it seems some paper-pushers are afraid of what it says.

I suspect the general problem is letting third parties publish packages in official distribution without any review.

Compare with Debian, where each package has a maintainer who's independent of that package's developer.

Much slower, yes, but when you don't need the bleeding edge, that stability is worth a lot.

Is this the paper the article refers to? Publication date is rougly correct... https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/...

Looks like additional evidence that an AI can escape boxes.

https://www.astronomy.ohio-sta...

Assuming you can collect every proton that hits your surface, and that it's perfectly perpendicular to the sun (which won't be true on a rotating Moon), you could get 1 liter of H2O per 4.64 km^2 and 24 hours. Seems expensive.

3*10^12 protons / m^2 * s.

1 mole of water is 6.022*10^23 molecules, so 12.044*10^23 protons.

We assume we get the electrons for free.

1 mole of water is 18 mL.

So to gather 1 liter, we'd need 12.044*10^23 / 3*10^12 m^2 s

= 401,466,666,666 m^2 s

= 401*10^9 m^2 s

= 401*10^3 km^2 s

= 4.64 km^2 days

Google had 86.83% marketshare in March 2025. How much more until they're a monopoly by your reckoning?

I've seen this movie. It's called The Island .

As technology improves, the race to the bottom moves forward.

The only viable solution I can imagine is UBI, but implementing that will require a working democracy.

Or have old functions removed.

They have a page on Wikimedia Commons, but strangely it is not linked from their .org domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/...

Given that we can't expand the Earth, those of us who stay here will have to deal with some fundanmental limits a great deal sooner.

Give it another decade or so, then we can compare with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

Note that they terminated his account only after the violation had been widely publicized. I suspect anyone doing this in secret will be able to continue.

€10.6 billion for 290 satellites? That's about €36.5 million per satellite.

The total cost of SpaceX's Starlink program is not known. The best number we have is from 2018, an estimate of $10 billion for the whole constellation. Assuming the estimate holds for the planned 12000 satellites, that's about $833k per satellite.

As things stand, I do not expect this European system to be profitable.

That's if you have only one password.

What they *should* have had is many accounts, each with its unique password, easily revokable.