Because China values North Korea as a buffer state between it and South Korea. And China is a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council.

East Germany unified with West Germany because of the Soviet Union's acquiescence. And the USSR, now Russia, is also a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council. All 5 veto-wielding permanent members of the UNSC must agree before any planet-scale action is taken.

I don't see any wording in the law to provide a gap between successive 5s ads, so companies are free to just string together 20 of these 5s ads and capture you for 100 seconds.

Legal code is like Software code. Intentionally leaving backdoors in it means it was theatre all along.

Your nerd pass is hereby rescinded.

So, let me get this straight.. The TVs will monitor you. But the monitors won't monitor you. Brilliant!

You're still here after all these years?

Notably though if we actually run out of work to do we have a post-scarcity utopia, and that happens when people are so rich that there's basically not a single person who, given even more money, would even be able to think of something to spend it on. That's not going to happen any time soon, so we're basically dealing with a distribution problem, which requires distribution (e.g. minimum wage, set it to 1/3 national hourly GDP, the reason for this takes a while to explain) and redistribution (negative income tax, do it as a universal dividend) policies along with monetary policy to properly increase the money supply to not fall behind productivity growth.

Just hack into everything he makes, that's going to be the MO here. "Oh this guy's LinkedIn says he worked at [insurance company]" boom, an army of 14 year olds now is millionaires from stealing millions of credit cards and selling them on the dark web.

Musk didn't attack Trump. Instead, he attacked Peter Navarro (Trump's economic advisor and tariffs architect) for being a "moron" and "dumber than a sack of bricks". Trump's Whitehouse spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt responded to their spat by saying "Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue."

I *wish* I made those quotes up or they were from The Onion. No, those are truly their quotes!

France is also at the brink. At any point, Le Pen may win. Then what? Gypsy around from place to place whenever there's a far-right head of state?

Who owns the output of 1990s word processors with spell and grammar auto-correction?

Who owns the output of photos made in photoshop using advanced distort filters and other algorithmic manipulations?

Who owns the music that have gone through auto-tune?

In none of these cases was it "oh, the folks who made the software own the output!"

In none of these cases was it "oh, the folks who run the hardware in the cloud own the output!"

In all of the cases, it was "the folks using the software were the creative ones. The software is, on its own, inert."

The large language model was actually a multilingual plus-sized fashion model who misunderstood the intent of the job description. So zero AIs fell for the trick and just one confused human did.

Yeah, I run a Ryzen 7840HS on my main pc, and a Ryzen 7840U on my handheld (ROG Ally), so I chuckled immediately when I read "Intel 7840HS". It's quite clear that editors just slap "Intel" on any x86-64 architecture cpu. The funny thing is that x86 used to be Intel, and all other x86 cpus were "Intel-compatible". But x86-64 is AMD (Linux even calls it AMD64 architecture), so all other x86-64 cpus are "AMD-compatible" now.

Most likely fake revenue. I have a friend in a related industry. If company A wants to sell a piece of junk for $1 to company B, then B will most likely refuse. But, if company A offers that piece of junk for $1 plus an exchange of $20,000,000 in both directions (no real cash is moved because it nets out to zero), then company B will love it. Both company A and company B can post that $20,000,000 as "revenue". Revenue is among the easiest things to fake. They say money doesn't grow on trees, and that's true for profits because profits is real money. But revenue is fake money. Revenue and fake money /do/ grow on trees. And companies get into deals with other companies for just sloshing fake money around between each other to drive up their revenue. It's a big scam since the 1980s when the issue of "transfer-asset-pricing" came on the radar. But no one knows how to fix it. So companies routinely get into such deals. That's why Warren Buffet ignores revenue and just looks at profits when assessing companies. But many other investors care about revenue, which means companies love to get into shenanigans to print insane revenue.

The alternative, which is also possible, is bribery. If the insurance company knows it's worth millions, rather than paying millions, they can just find a paper pushing VP at the car company, throw him a $300,000 of "gifts" on the down-low, plus a token $26,000 to the car company, and get a contract signed and save themselves from having to spend millions! So long as it's relatively hush-hush and not many in the car company know they got jipped with a $26,000 contract that should be worth millions, it'll fly under the radar.

Both are terrible. But the former is legal and widespread, while the latter is illegal but unfortunately all too common.

It's just another influencer-triggered "cancel culture" scenario. You see it at universities throughout the U.S. where comedians are kicked out before they can even begin their performance.

Wasn't the mammalian neo-cortex well known to be able to do that? The neo-cortex was supposed to allow mammals to envision scenarios in their heads and make predictions for things that were not immediately in front of them. As well as enter R.E.M. sleep.

Any pet owner will tell you their dog has dreams and is chasing squirrels in their R.E.M. state of sleep. Their paws move slightly in a running fashion, and they let out little quelps, like they're chasing something in the field.

Of course, there's a risk of anthropomorphizing behavior, but a brain scan of a sleeping dog can help put that to rest. And pet dogs are not an exception, any mammal should be able to achieve the same, and likely corvids and marsupials as well.