What was he expected to say? CEOs are little more than ra-ra, performing seals for their respective companies, whose job being to make sure to megaphone that their wares are the most wonderful thing in the world, that they give you minty fresh breath, that they make you irresistible to gorgeous members of your favorite sex, etc. For him to have said otherwise would have been like the proverbial guy understanding something when their salary depends on not understanding it.

This has been known for a while. The current galaxy formation theories must be overhauled.

And I am seeing no ads at all. Which is the only way I will carry on consuming this content. Fuck ads.

The only good ad is one that I do not see nor hear. I have not accessed any material that forces me to watch ads for years now, and will pointedly forego any sources that attempt to do so. They can stick their ads up there where the sun never shines.

More importantly: appearing to do so. No wonder the vast majority of startups fold in short order. Bloody idiots.

These auditing companies are corrupt by design. Yet another Arthur Andersen in the making here.

Cryptocurrencies, in general, and bitcoin, in particular, have not found any real use beyond speculation, crime and money laundering. All their other purported benefits remain niche, at best, Utopian most of the time.

If this is going to lower the price of 5 TB drives, bring it on: I have a good use for such drives, but not really so for 100+ TB drives.

I have many ways at my disposal to reveal just how big my dick is that do not include being seen in public driving one of the cars that you make.

Of course: Google is a for-profit organization, not a charity. They will do whatever it takes within the law to maximize their profit, and whatever they can get away without the law as long as they do not get caught, or as long as the cost of getting caught is not as high as the profit obtained. They do that all the time: when, say, the EU imposes a tens of millions of euros fine on Google, Google just pays up as part of the cost of inherent to maximizing their profit - such fines are to Google what a few dollars would be to most of us.

With 2026 technology space remains a hazardous, expensive, risky proposition. Which implies that space tourism will remain a very small niche for a long time. Hotels in orbit? Not any time soon.

The same as all other for-profit organizations. The assumption is that providing excellent products/service will do it, but the truth is that companies in general have many avenues to maximize shareholder returns that do not involve providing excellent products/service. In fact, once a company acquires a dominance in their space equivalent to MS's in the desktop, providing excellent products/service essentially becomes a liability: something that puts a dent on their profits.

I violently agree. The concept of a flying car that most of us have is along the lines of what is depicted in Blade Runner, Back to the Future, or The Fifth Element. These contraptions that people are trying to push are just oversized drones, or little helicopters.

They have yet to put anybody in LEO. I don't see BO getting the capability to reach the Moon any time soon.

It's actually morons, not children. Sometimes one can't help but wonder whether those responsible for the design and implementation of the end user-facing web sites GUIs are selected on the basis of their inveterate stupidity and ignorance. Well, they seem to be code monkeys all right.