Since the scanning technique is to slice off the binding, remove the cover, and then auto-feed the pages through a high-speed scanner, it destroys the books anyway, regardless of the "stupid law".

Another win for Betteridge's law of headlines.

If the question were answered, the headline wouldn't have been in the form of a question.

The information buried way down in the article is that the atmospheric gas detected is helium.

Really not as exciting a discovery as the article makes it seem. Nobody doubts that planets can have helium in their atmosphere. In our solar system this is characteristic of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn) and the ice giants (Uranus, Neptune).

For most at-home end users Linux has been good enough for years. Most of these people only use two applications: a web browser (through which they also get web based email), you have a choice of many with Linux; and an office suite (word processing and spreadsheet) that Open Office does excellently. They will not need to use the command line.

Other needs: printing is easy via CUPS; system updates easy; package installation easy; Gimp OK for simple image editing; music playing - well supported; SANE does scanners well.

It just needs someone to do the installation and provide a little initial hand holding and most people then just get on with it. Their main problem is fear of the unknown before they start -- so do your bit and offer to hold peoples' hands.

Yes: there are always people who need something special that you can only find on MS Windows or a Mac; but I am talking about the 80% of home users.

It seems that the USA is dropping the ball on weather balloon monitoring.

Better approach is to ban the business models used by social media that make them so addictive and harmful. And if a social media business does not comply, fine it 100% of its revenues in your jurisdiction.

If they still don't comply, request Zelensky to pull a Wildberry trimming operation on their data centers.

It's the social media companies who are the evil ones here, not the users who need age-restricting.

The poor moderators. They'd have much less content to review if the button were "Doesn't Seem like AI Slop"

I admit that before now I hadn't even heard of this one.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
  Their website: https://zoox.com/
  News article: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

There's a damn good chance most engineers and PMs don't have a clue about their organizations most immoral actions

Seems highly unlikely, when such actions are obvious even to the general public.

The article is missing key context information.

When Google says it's "shutting down" the project, does that mean that the AlphaFold software will cease to exist? Or does it mean, the project has been completed, and therefore the development team can be reassigned to new projects, but the AI prediction model can still be used to predict protein folding?

I have seen someone advocating for LGBTQ+ on his platform Telegram, and this is very unmistakenly terrorism in Putler's eyes. So such things might happen. France (whose passport Durov holds) may react in every way you think of, because everything that improves the rule of France in usually considered perfectly ok, and the UAE, sigh, it depends I would say. After all this combination of nationalities is not very wise.

You'd better have real-world evidence that these alternatives work before burning down the current system. And I do not believe there is any real-world evidence; in fact, most of the real-world evidence points to the contrary.

to replace Trump and his cronies. It would be very hard for them to do a worse job.

It's also the reason we have quite a number of average people with secure retirements. Yes, BURN DOWN CAPITALISM sounds good, and given the huge problems of unregulated capitalism in the USA, I even have some sympathy for the sentiment, but in reality, well-regulated capitalism backstopped by robust government social programs is simply the best way to generate wealth for everyone.

Burning down capitalism completely will simply make everyone poor and make life shittier than ever. We need to regulate it.

If you day trade, then yes... the stock market is gambling.

If you invest in low-cost index funds and hold them for a decent amount of time, the odds that you'll make money are almost 100%.

There's no analogously-safe way to use prediction markets.