If they find water it will certainly put them at the forefront of moon science.

By the way, those articles seem fine. The first two are well established history at this point.

Just because it is sold cheap doesn't mean it isn't valuable. It may just be that people who value it don't know it exists, or it isn't available due to international shipping, or they won't start looking for years to come.

That's why I get scanned books onto the Internet Archive. Maybe nobody will care, but maybe someone will 10 or 100 years from now.

Competition is usually good. YouTube has been rapidly enshittifying, and there isn't really any alternative.

You can have both physical controls and a big screen. I like having a big screen for Android Auto, but wouldn't give up the buttons for other functions either.

Some of that stuff is good. Autopilot systems that actually work are great for long distance driving. You need some compute power for Android Auto/Carplay, and having a built in sat nav can be useful too. Remote management of air conditioning and charging are very nice to have.

Of course BMW's ads and other bullshit would be enough for me to return the car. My car has physical buttons for key functions too.

If they do find ice there, it's going to be huge. And an issue for the US, because everyone wants to go look there, but if the Chinese find it first it will be politically difficult to justify following their lead.

Unfortunately cooperation is too much to hope for, but it looks likely that China will get boots on the ground there before 2030 either way.

It's supposed to be about enabling new technologies and new business opportunities. It's hard to say how much slow broadband holds things back, but Starlink claims "typically" between 10 and 30 Mbps upload speed. If you work from home then I hope you don't need to share any large files. I work from home and that would be a major impediment to me.

That's just Musk hype, i.e. hopelessly optimistic drug-induced rambling.

I'm sure when they finally get it to work, Starship will be cheaper than other options. It won't be as cheap as he claims though, not by a long shot. There will probably be cheaper options too - Musk often claims he is going to make the cheapest product, but fails and others do even better than he was hoping to. Cars, solar, batteries, tunnels, robots.

To expand on your excellent point a little, the issue here is that they are offering a service, and users can use that service to create songs in the style of famous artists. If you asked some random session musician to create a song that sounds like a Tailor Swift one, with vocals matching her voice as closely as possible, using everything they know about her musical style, they would probably refuse.

It's the same with non-consensual use of people's likenesses, and requests to write novels in the style of famous authors. The only humans that do it usually hide behind an alias and post pseudo-anonymously online. Very few dare charge for the service.

Considering they are only worth $30bn, government should just get together and fund this stuff, and make the resulting treatments available at cost. $30bn is a drop in the bucket of even a single national government's budget.

In this case the CCP may be the only thing that alleviates the problem for us, because they have made domestic DRAM production a strategic goal. They won't allow domestic suppliers to collude either.

It's nothing to do with emotional maturity. These days younger generations are being shafted by the mistakes their parents and grandparents made, so of course they want change. The older generations did very well out of those mistakes, on the whole, so want things to stay the same, and definitely don't want things to get fairer at their expense.

House prices are a great example. If you don't have a house, you want them to be cheaper. Most people who have a house want to it rise in value, and definitely not fall. Landlords want more people to be forced to pay them rent instead of owning. Since young people are usually the ones who don't own a house, you get the young/old socialist/conservative divide.

If you want to talk about emotional maturity, look at attitudes towards LGBTQ people. The "ick" factor is a big influence on older generations, which needless to say is not a very mature emotional response.

What do you think was going through the heads of the people making that decision? Those people would be in my grandparents' or great-grandparents' generation. Would they think that extra sugar was a death sentence? I find that unlikely. Those decision-makers were puffing away like chimneys on pipes and unfiltered cigarettes. Even without reading Wikipedia on UK rationing you can probably guess that rationing was politically unpopular. The idea that people would hold onto rationing forever to avoid nebulous health consequences many decades in the future does not sound very plausible.

Massive number of engineers and scientists graduating every year. They put in the work and built better robots, it's as simple as that.

Unless you think they have a time machine and stole out tech before we even invented it.