The cloud is a trap
Run away!

I'm curious how the nuclear decay of sodium 22 produces antimatter to begin with. Does something transmute, for lack of a better word, into antimatter when its nuclear bonds are broken?

Every invention ever made has been used in war.
This is sad and depressing, and clearly points out the biggest problem with human society.
I wish we could kick the habit and get over our addiction to war, but this appears to be a fantasy.
And yes, in the past I have worked on jobs for the military.
It's complex.

Unfortunately to an extent your former roommate was correct; that having personal ethical/moral guidelines generally does reduce the amount of money one can rake in and attacking those who do have and advocate for morals in society to discredit them is one way to help secure that income stream.

Right now we seem to be living in an era when the amoralistic are generally winning, they've convinced millions upon millions of people to embrace their selfishness. But this only works out for a subset of those trying to practice it, particularly when they aren't smart enough to understand when they're easily manipulated by those who are much more experienced or are good at motivational speaking to compel the listener. Those late to the party end up going against their own interests to support those they idolize to their own detriment.

It's the curriculum.
Students are taught to reduce everything to measurable numbers. If it can't be measured with a number, it doesn't exist.
They are taught that endless growth is not only possible, but necessary.
They are taught that the purpose of the corporation is to increase shareholder value.

If it's no longer offered for sale, it becomes open source

Immature tech needs time to be integrated
Eventually, when agents are trusted and more mature, they will have their own API and set of security rules

That depends, are you a robot?

Wouldn't any robot's mustache be a fake mustache unless it was literally shaved off of someone else and somehow affixed intact to said robot?

Mmmhmm. Flock's model appears to be to get their equipment put in, and once in, to let whomever they want have access to it rather than the original polity or agency that partnered for the install. And after the partnership ends they fight against their equipment being taken down.

Sounds to me like they specifically want to enable a surveillance state, but that this surveillance state operates about as accurately as the one from Terry Gilliam's Brazil .

...it was 100% local, verifiably local, with NO internet connectivity at all.
The cloud is a trap.
Run away.

If you're catching the products of your exhaust then you're now negating the effect of producing the exhaust in the first place, so you're not going anywhere.

Not all rockets produce water. Rockets that use hydrogen and oxygen do, but not all rockets use that fuel blend.

Frozen water does not have most of the things to sustain life. It has water, which is a component required for life as we know it, but that's only one component.

This was Uber's end-goal from the very beginning. The human drivers were only a stop-gap, as Uber wanted to position itself to lead the market in self-driving private on-demand transportation. To do that it first sought to position itself as the lead in the market for conventional private on-demand transportation.

Many businesses don't care about the people that work for them because they only view them as liabilities, not as assets. This becomes more and more relevant the more a given business pushes their employees into being meat-cogs in their corporate machinery. Originally it was manufacturing but now the new hot thing is to push this into services.

So yeah, this is no surprise at all.

Since the dawn of the PC era, I could write any code I wanted and run it on my computer.
Every person should have total control over the devices they own.
Hopefully, the new AI tools will allow us to take total control over every device we own, whether the manufacturers like it or not.
Using software as a weapon of control sucks.

...it would need to be 100% local.
No cloud, no internet connection.
I would block it at the router.

Good thing I don't want a smart home controller