Potatoes are quite nutritious and could be called a super food, given their high content of Vitamin C for instance, which rivals that of many alleged super foods.

This is more a testament to the snake oil that super foods actually are than on the nutritional value of the humble Solanum tuberosum.

Where are the power plants for these?

The result will be that no one will voluntarily hold up law and order, because even the slightest mistake will cause him to lose everything. The best you can hope for is that they do nothing for fear to screw up.

And then someone will agree to step in only if everyone else will warrant him that he will not be punished for his honest mistakes, and you just reinvented Qualified Immunity.

It might not form immediately. There is at least 400 millions of years we don't have any signs of Life on Earth - enough time for Earth to cool and reheat several times.

I am with the previous poster on this one. Besides the fact that nucleobases have been known to be in asteroids and comets since at least the 1980ies (together with ribose and other sugars, and amino acids), their presence in Ryugu does not hint that meteorites brought them to Earth. Instead, it hints at them forming easily under the conditions of the Solar system and being abundant everywhere it is not too hot for them to be destroyed.

Which is quite irrelevant, as you could bet on the outcome of U.S. or Canadian sports events somewhere else, in the U.K., Singapore or Austria. The financial motive to threaten someone for a specific outcome was there already, and there also were cases in court about blackmailing coaches and players and fixing games.

Which would be... right back in Classical Greece about 800 BCE? Professional athletes are as old as sports, and at the first Olympic Games back in 776 BC, professional athletes were competing. And there were bets on the outcome of the competitions. We even have contemporary reports of death threats against athletes more than 2500 years ago.

Renewables, especially Solar and Wind, are so cheap, you can simply switch them off when not needed. That's quite different to a nuclear power plant.

Nuclear needs really large ways to store electricity. As a nuclear plant can not be shut down easily when less power is required, it needs a way to get rid of the additional energy. Usually, it's stored into large pumped-storage hydroelectricity plants, and you need to include their cost too.

On a side note, people are always waving the baseload flag, without every asking themselves what baseload actually means: It's a source of energy which (except when shut down for maintenance or an unforeseen event) always provides the same amount of electricity - completely independent of the actual needs. That means that baseload energy can not react on short term price signals, and that means, that for a large part of its running time, it's not running economically, and more so, it has to be kept running even when cheaper sources of energy are available, causing them to be shut down instead and hence increasing the average price of electricity. Basically, it's the "bad money drives out good money" or Gresham's law all over again.

Seriously, though, the story of Banksy being Robin Gunningham has been out for years, so that part is nothing new.

That, and "gainful employment" usually means a person has a job with pay that meets their living expenses plus a bit. What living expenses do these robots have, except for the livings they take from humans?

He's also a fool when it comes to politics. People should want government writing rules and picking winners for AI just as much as for social and news media: not picking winners at all, and setting as few and as narrow rules as possible. Do you want the default (or only) AI service to run like the DMV?

Betteridge's Law continues to hold true.

I have just installed two panels two weeks ago, and as this is early in March, it's not running even nearly at peak power. But nevertheless, I got up to 490 Watts from the panels, or about 2.5 kWh for the whole day.

This is pure passive aggressive grey beard Linux snobbery masquerading as thoughtful commentary

Apple is bsd Unix and has a complete set of Unix tools. Apple knows there customers needs probably better than any maker and you never were going to be one.

The whole point of this is it's inexpensive. Ic you desire more power it's not for you

In 1790, the US population was 94.9% rural. There is no country. in the world today that rural -- Burundi, which looks like blanks spot in the world at night satellite picturs, is 88% rural.

The largest city at the time was New York, with a population of 33,000. Northern Manhattan was near-wilderness, mid-town was farms and country houses.

In 1790 the US was. country you could "police" with sheriffs and volunteer posses, largely to keep the peace. If you got robbed, you hired a private thief catcher. This works in a 95% rural country with just 3.4 million inhabitants. It would be chaos in a country 87x larger.