This is a good thing, providers should offer services to competitors in other markets, otherwise we would end up with more oligopolies like Visa and Mastercard. Though it wouldn't be surprising if Musk and Bezos had a handshake deal to create a duopoly just so they can keep the government off their backs through plausible deniability while cornering the market.

I don't know why they don't just adopt what other game companies do, sell tokens (in each currency) and allow the purchase of games from those tokens. This decouples the purchasing workflow, and also lets them minimize the merchant fees when buying larger bundles.

But will he kill off the transmeta crusoe, his own child?

It's impractical for all actors to be fluent in every language, and at some point it impacts their ability to be successful in different markets without dubbing. I'd much rather actors can at least speak passably in one language and have AI fix the problem than to have another voice actor overdub it which 100% makes it less authentic to the performance. (Ex. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon where the actors gave their best shot at once dialect but it was a cringeworthy performance to native speakers). This is no different than studio recordings for albums being super clean renditions with perfect vocals vs when a band tours and the performance being less than perfect. We all strive for perfection and once achieved, it can be hard to replicate consistently, when on a tight schedule. The same thing goes for vocal coaching, in a short period of time, you can pull off that accent perfectly a few times, but under the stress of performance, you may lapse. I'd rather the actors focus on their core performance and less on the infrequently used language skills that they likely won't use again in their next project. Timebox the effort, and when it doesn't come out polished enough, we have AI.

Most true discoveries happen with a sample size of 1, the importance is having a way to track and find these discoveries so that researchers in that field can discover these and weigh them appropriately for their own research. They are absolutely correct that this shouldn't be a basis for everyone performing self-treatment but knowledge is knowledge, it's up to the researchers doing the follow up work to determine if it's useful or not. Currently this knowledge is being suppressed for the greater good (laymen, and non-research professionals), but that should not apply to the research community.

How does this affect sales tax?

Now, when can we start passing larger drugs through for alzheimer and dementia research? Cancer research is great, but dementia seems to be a much greater strain on society at the moment.

In pretty much every country outside the US, you only pay taxes to your place of birth when you're actively residing in that country (and using it's benefits) and you don't pay tax if you're living abroad. I'm not aware of any other countries that permanently subject you to taxation in that fashion. Isn't that basically the reason the US broke away from Britain in the first place? They weren't getting the benefits of taxes to the crown while living in America and paying their own way. Ironic that the lesson has been lost along the way.

People who bought these first gen hubs chose smartthings because it was not associated with Amazon, Google, Ring (at the time independent) or any of the big players so it could seamlessly support just about anything. Once Samsung bought them we knew it was going to kill that independence. Will probably move back to openhab when it finally breaks.

Does the constant shrinking of electronics make them more susceptible to EMP? I recall a lot of electronics in the 80s were mostly discrete components, parts rated at large fractions of a watt if they had to dissipate induced currents. While there are some components which are EMP rated and encased in heavy shielding, I imagine we could have a situation where necessities like power regulation circuits for LED light bulbs fail across the entire country even at extended distances, whereas it wasn't a problem with incandescent. Most electronics from 30 years ago were in metal chassis, while today polymers are the standard. Are the EMP studies from even 20 years ago still relevant today?

In ten thousand years, when they propose the first dyson sphere to capture the energy lost from the sun, there will be those complaining that the aesthetic of artificial stars on the inner surface won't satisfy folks that are logically aware of their artificial nature.

Completely true, i use two 50" displays side by side on my desk at 2' distance and the difference is extremely apparent in texture sharpness at 4k. 8k is simply stacking two more monitors on top and expanding gameplay to them. Not that a 3090 would necessarily even handle 4k 140hz gaming at full quality.

I've been using that for years next to the bed, perfect for tossing the phone onto it without looking at the alignment. It's slower than modern chargers and I know those motors are eventually going to wear out, so I'll miss it when it's gone.

Yeah but they map to EBCDIC not ASCII codes, so it's pretty incomparable.

Most BMS's carefully control the charge voltage anyway at least for lithium devices, so I wonder if this is actually a very successful attack if carried out? That and putting cheap SMT fuses before the charging circuits should be a best practice, it hopefully will only result in disabled, not dangerous devices. I bet if I they had firmware access to my car's ECU, a furnace, or an electric water heater, they could probably cause damage too, but 100 pounds of canine fury usually prevents that at this house.