LG says that after public outcry they have decided to allow consumers to "delete the shortcut icon". Interesting phrasing - almost as if Copilot will still be on the TV but out of site.

I want accountability and having powerful agencies accountable to no one, not even POTUS, is the way you nurture corruption.

... that the chinese cannot innovate, they can only replicate

They have plenty of skilled engineers, I'm honestly surprised at the lack of innovation in this area.

Ridiculous - unaccountable agencies given that kind of power is not what the Constitution intended.

This would be like having a public corporation with departments that are entirely autonomous and not subject to board decisions.

Agencies have always been under the authority of the Executive branch, why is this an issue?

Do people prefer to have unelected government officials making decisions that affect us all without any representation?

Basically it's the equivalent of Jenkins (https://www.jenkins.io/) which costs exactly $0 to self host.

This threw me for a loop - I was not aware of more than 4 and had to check on that.

Turns out the 5th isn't really the fifth, it's cytosine with an added methyl group attached and there are actually two variants:

5-methylcytosine (5-mC)
5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC)

So I'm sticking to my original understanding of DNA/RNA that it consists of only four nucleotide bases, but one can have "markers"

GNCA covered this in detail. There's some insane financial reach arounds going on with everyone promising billions to everyone else in order to pump up the stock pricing:

Worth the watch:
https://youtu.be/h3JfOxx6Hh4

It pays to be skeptical of anyone making predictions 10 years out in a rapidly changing socioeconomic environment like this.

Moore's Law is nearly dead so don't expect radically faster silicon anytime soon. And the AI's of today that are sucking down such massive amounts of power are frankly quite rudimentary even when compared to the bottom tier of workers.

What's displacing workers right now is corporate leadership using AI to streamline operations. We all knew there were tens of thousands of white and blue color jobs that honestly served no purpose - AI is helping management find them and fire them.

So, we could use the renewable/carbon neutral (or negative) path .... OR .... not, but with lots of extra steps and no guarantee of success?

  "And then there's the problem of trying to stop. Because an abrupt end to geoengineering, with all the carbon still in the atmosphere, would cause the temperature to soar suddenly upward with unknown, but likely disastrous, effects... "

Just have an end to fossil-fuel use, you fucking idiots! That's a tractable challenge. That's something we have decades of experience with. Play to your strengths, humanity. Don't listen to fucking morons!!!

This seems to have been an investment scheme. Who hired an architect who is this insane?

"One recalled warning Tarek Qaddumi, The Line's executive director, of the difficulty of suspending a 30-story building upside down from a bridge hundreds of metres in the air. 'You do realize the earth is spinning? And that tall towers sway?' he said. The chandelier, the architect explained, could 'start to move like a pendulum,' then 'pick up speed,' and eventually 'break off,' crashing into the marina below."

That level of nonsense is usually restricted to a flat-Earth message board. But these folks were hired? They had no intention of delivering this project. If they wanted to deliver it, they wouldn't have hired people from the local psyche-ward.

Anyone who voted this up is disgusting.

OP is also disgusting.

Since when do people who read "news for nerds, stuff that matters" advocate for racism? Good, old-fashioned racism? The kind that started in the 16th century, and should have died there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That this is a post and was moderated up is disgusting. What the hell is wrong with you?

"1) Canada has already lost its status. Its hard to see how that is Trump's fault."

It is the fault of people who cause other people to hesitate or not vaccinate. We call them anti-vaxxers.

"2) Trump has only been in office for less than a year. Its unlikely the measles outbreak is a result of any of his policies."

Trump appointed an anti-vaxxer to head the CDC. This is his policy. His actions drive this as much as RFK and other anti-vaxxers. No one seems to disagree that the folks who vote for silly policies view his silly policies as legit, and legit policies as silly. That means they are the same problem -- ignorance masquerading as a relevant choice due to people's fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The same things any flim-flam con-artist would brag about.

"3) The outbreak is all along the southwest border with large populations of people who lack access to regular health care."

Yes, it is truly sad to see how terrible healthcare is in the United States. Why do you view that as a reason to not try anything new, and give up what little is being done? We seem to agree that what exists is not satisfactory.

"Blaming anti-vaxxers is attributing way too much power to a fringe group."

Wrong. That's like saying the person who drove the car off the cliff isn't responsible, because the other people in the car could/should have wrestled the wheel away from the driver. The driver is responsible. It is ridiculous to claim otherwise (you sound brainwashed).

"Perhaps we should look at years of neglect of public health in those states instead. With millions of people lacking access to basic health care what did you expect?"

Yeah, normal people have decried the terrible state of public US health policy. The only improvement in the last 2 decades was Obama Care. What's with the Republicans taking that away? How far into the dark ages do they want us to go?

""Trump did it" has become the standard excuse for the widespread failure of our political class. You can just point the finger at Trump and pretend the problems will be solved when he goes away. So his rival politicians will spend the next three years talking about Trump instead of addressing how to make our lives better."

Like you are doing? This "point" seems weirdly self-antithetical. Trump is one part; there's also Justice/SCOTUS, Senate, Congress. All aspects of government are in government, otherwise it's not government. Seems tautological.

"Its not that there isn't a lot to criticize about Trump. Its that most of the criticism is directed at minor sideshows like this one. And I say that as a former community health worker who spent a couple years knocking on parent's doors to increase the level of MMR vaccinations in local schools. I may have run into one parent who opposed vaccination. The rest just lacked the personal resources to get their kids immunized. They had a hard time making sure their kids had breakfast and got to school."

You know, programs that provide food to those in need + vaccine resources were cut by Trump and his cabinet of doom? This "point" also illustrates that this problem is big and has many factors at play, like problems that humans have traditionally banded together to face. That's why most developed countries (just the USA abstaining) use socialized healthcare policies.

Frankly, your confused post just shows why the problem seems intractable to the occupants of the country most victimized by their own medical policies -- the current USA medical policy is rake-stepping! You have people who make more money than god from medical care profits which are in the bleeding-from-your-eyes-numbers of over ,000 markup, because no-one shops around for things like bullet extractions. It's not a service that does well in unregulated capitalism (unless you own the company selling heroin, in which case you're billionaires and don't care).

Trump is also a promoter of that. It's valid to mention the toxic effect his cabinet and policies have had during *BOTH* of his terms, because that is literally what's happening now. These are the issues we agree on, and these are things driving those issues. The learned helplessness and unwillingness to challenge ignorance you seem to suggest isn't helpful, in my opinion.

$150k taken as a lump sum is $75k and after tax is probably closer to $50k which honestly isn't that much. I'm hopeful her "most cherished charities" are unlike the vast majority in that only about 10% of that money actually makes it to those in need, the rest goes to "administration fees".

Generally speaking, such money is better used to directly support your neighbors. Spend it on staples and donate that to local food banks. Perhaps I'm jaded by experience, but I would never trust a charity with cash.

It would make more sense to me if they had monitoring capabilities outside of China. China is not known for their reliable self reporting.