I'm too uneducated. If 92 antiprotons end up annihilating themselves in collisions with matter, how much energy is released? Is it "did you hear that?" or, "I found the driver's femur!"

And would Uber apply a surcharge?

What are the chances that the robot was being controlled by a human and not AI? There have been a lot of "demos" of AI robots that it turns out is a guy in another room controlling it. If I had to bet money, that is what was happening here as well.

Americans are predisposed to use energy wastefully. They aren't alone, of course, but when national symbols include huge homes and big trucks, and their president hates windmills, non-incandescent bulbs, and low flow toilets and showers, their collective behaviour won't change until a plea to conserve comes with financial pain and an honest-to-goodness shortage.

Watch how a populace fields a request to not water lawns in a drought region to see how they move.

Allow me to posit the following: we could very well be minding our own business but still strongly influence the rest of the world. For example, if a company wishes to do business in America -- the world's largest and most lucrative commercial market -- they must comply with US laws. This is no different than any other country. You may not like it, but that's how commercial business works, and it'd be no different if someone like North Korea had the market everyone wanted. You'd just be complaining about a different country.

Don't like it? Don't do business in the US and you're free to do whatever you want. You'll be excluding yourself from probably 70% of the available market, but you're free to make that choice.

Don't forget, your argument can be turned around quite easily: you could mind your own business and stop trying to tell the US how to do business according to your wants/needs. Funny how that works.

You're blissfully unaware of how national sovereignty works.

Good luck getting the US to accommodate an Interpol extradition request for 4chan and its personnel. There's no reason the US would agree to it since 4chan has violated no US law. So long as 4chan operates in the US exclusively and violates no US laws, they are effectively beyond the reach of the UK government. They could presumably nab some 4chan executive if they ever visited the UK, but all one has to do to avoid that is just not visit the UK.

This is how international legal disputes have been handled since the dawn of international legal disputes. Don't trust me, look it up, I'm sure chatgpt can fill you in.

One of the primary ways that the population can try to find fairness, redress, and compensation for wrongs incurred is through the justice system. By putting a blanket stop to that, they are doing an end run into what is really the only tangible power the people have.

No matter how you feel about the rest of this complicated matter, wiping away legal accountability en masse is a terrible precedent.

Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Well, yeah. That's what it says on the tin. :)

But there's a suggestion that some people did have safety incidents, we just won't mention them. I wonder how many, and of what nature. Were their errors understandable, and have steps been taken to correct the possible misuse, or at least the documentation?

"...no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed..."

When I read a phrase containing a built in caveat, I always wonder what's tucked inside it.

This shows the real issue with AI. It isn't in the AI itself, but the people using it. I don't have an issue with them using AI to try and identify the suspect when they are having a hard time doing so. But you can't just take what AI says and assume it is correct and act on it. AI is a tool and needs to be used as such. When it gives you something, it is up to the people to actually check out what it says and follow up on it. People are using AI as if it is the answer but it is just a tool to try and get to the real answer and that is the part that people are ignoring.

I don't think that's a sound assumption. Big companies often outpace their contract pipeline. Some so it by design. Having staff "on the bench" is anticipation of work to come.

Atlassian derives the bulk of their income through subscriptions, not contracted projects. That's my assumption, but I think it's defensible.

I think if your point were true for them they would, as you suggest, keep consuming that project queue. Nobody company doesn't want revenue. But since they're looking at the other side of the ledger, I suspect they're not oversubscribed.

Of course if somebody wants to chime in and say "I tried to give atlassian money to get work done quickly and they weren't interested" I'm open to being proven wrong. :)

That only works if your company has access to "more work". If your contracts are being fully serviced, and your bottleneck is demand, "paid work" isn't on the table. Just "make work". And that is not efficient.

Finishing projects early only makes you more profitable if your project queue is oversubscribed.

It's about time they admitted to something that was obvious to almost everyone: nuclear power is the only effective path to carbon-free base load power generation. Wind and solar make good intermittent sources, but base load has to be utterly reliable regardless of whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining. That's nuclear.

Getting rid of the nukes was a knee-jerk reaction, not a smart technological decision. The pivot to depending on oil and gas from a potential hostile neighbor just added to the madness.