I've heard so many variations of this. Friend's son mentioned in passing that it's going to cost him $800 to get the cracked screen on his phone repaired. I asked how much his phone cost. $1,800. He's been without work for two months, and before that was in a low-paid job. His kid has the latest Playstation and something like 1-2 rooms full (and I mean full) of toys and kid stuff, some of it still in the original wrappers. He's tens of thousands of dollars in debt. That's just one example.

Neo. No-one has ever done anything like this before.

The way is void - Musashi.

Yup. A Russian worker at Mayak single-handedly achieved criticality in 1968 (he subsequently died). There were several other cases of this happening over the years, but I think the 1968 one was the only solo achievement.

Not necessarily. Just before the subprime mortgage crisis hit I was working at a large financial institution and the rank and file were well aware from looking at the data both that a crash was coming with 100% certainty and fairly close to when it was coming, they were off by a week, maybe two. It seems unlikely that the bosses, with access to the same data, were unaware of this as well, however everyone involved in the bubble was making so much money that no-one was going to do anything to risk having it stop. If you were making googleplexillions selling fantasy magic would you stop and watch everyone else continue making googleplexillions for a bit longer than you?

No it's correct, there's just a small typo. Here, let me fix it for you:

make number go up

there's even more gullible suckers around than during the dot-com boom.

"I'll say! You just need to mention AI and the rubes will practically throw money at you"

They gave up their privacy when they stepped out of their front door.

I remember a story on Slashdot from around the turn of the century, an audit of servers at the Pentagon found that the most common Admin password was Password, the second-most common was P@ssw0rd.

At my first real IT job in 1996 if you knew the birthdate of of the children of 4/5 of the users you knew their password. I wasn't allowed to insist on a change in the user training.

My understanding is that the exports are going out under the Belt & Road Initiative, so as much as possible is done with local labor (so the opposite of IMF/World Bank programs), and local people are trained to manage it as well. This is one of several reasons why Belt & Road is replacing IMF infrastructure funding throughout the Third World, rather than having KBR come in and build facilities to support the foreign extraction industries and then abandoning the project to decay they're creating both the technical and financial underpinnings of sustainable public infrastructure. (This is not coincidentally the way Gate Foundations projects work.)

The Chinese build nuclear reactors in around six years from breaking ground to connecting to the grid. They've licensed 30 of them to be built in the last three years, and are exporting 15 more. Unfortunately we're not allowed to buy their tech.

I'm sure it will be the Baptists, they specialize in going into cultures that they don't understand and insisting that theirs is the only way to live, like this moron:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

He's the 2018 winner of the Darwin Award.
https://darwinawards.com/darwi...

You joke, but having something definitive allows researchers to work filling in the gaps. The decipherment of Linear B was accomplished only after Alice Kober figured out the coding for 'and'. Now instead of a few big long stretches of text that you don't understand you have more pieces of smaller stretches which you can compare and contrast.

...to get a short explanation of why this is interesting. We already have nuclear fission.

Is the emphasis on startup here? Or are they doing something revolutionary?

Likely a lot more of the traffic is coming from smart TVs, vacuum cleaners, irrigation systems and the like.

They're looking at the upcoming effect on buying for the Christmas season. If Walmart's credit card processor gets DDOS'd at that scale they'd better be hosted on AWS or Azure, because Bank Of America's network sure as hell won't be able to deal with it. Amazon will be all right, but Pinconning Cheese's online store would be blown out of the water.