This is just some normal (non-dark) matter that we expected to be out there but was previously unobserved. It has nothing to do with dark matter or dark matter theories. We infer vast amounts of (otherwise unobservable) dark matter from its effect on gravity, and that has not changed from this.

I don't necessarily disagree with where you're going here, but can you elaborate on this:

I've worked at government contractors that had real air-gaps for things like their databases, but that does not seem to be the norm for the rest of the world. How would ordinary businesses make use of their databases if they are not network accessible under any circumstances, printed reports? Some sort of unidirectional transmission? What sort of data ingress are they using?

I ask this because I have been involved in the transfer of data in highly regulated, air-gapped systems, and they are incredibly expensive. Are you really indicating that true air-gap databases will be ubiquitous (or at least commonplace) in the forseeable future?

It's a cool idea and they stand for a lot of great ideals, but laptops are incredibly hard to get right, drivers are hard to get right, and they are a small team trying to support a large number of possible configurations. Hardware gets more complicated by the year: forget the CPU and various GPUs, just look at how many other devices in a modern computer have a full-on processor, e.g. fancy touchbars, displays, even hard drives! Hell, your CPU probably has its own secondary general-purpose processors for things like security, and our CPUs themselves get firmware updates now to change how their instructions function. They are doing great work, but the deck is so stacked against them that it's not funny.

Most space launch companies are inefficient and ineffective. SpaceX has the margin to pay these taxes, those unfortunates don't. If you want to kill competition in an industry, tax it enough that only the large corporations can survive the loss, and add some complicated regulations in for extra effect. No one else has anything close to what Starship may become, and further reduction in margins will ensure that SpaceX will have a defacto monopoly on non-military space launches while their competitors are strangled paying for FAA services that is disproportionately benefit owners of private jets and charter flights for the rich.

It works as a total blacklist, but not as a blacklist specifically against AI scraping (while keeping search engine visibility). That's mostly what this is about, coming up with a new robots.txt parameter that tells AI bots to scram

We ourselves are living in someone else's simulation anyway, thisisfine.jpg

> Millennials are the largest *untapped* market that video game companies should be focusing on...the generation spends more time gaming than both Gen Z and teens

That word does not mean what you think it means

> Good luck Zig!

For great justice.

Development won't be complete until responses are read in Dr Sbaitso's voice

With Penrose tiles there's a simple rule about which edges you should line up that, if you follow it, allows you to tile an infinite plane without running into that problem of not being able to add on. So there's probably something analogous rule for this one tile version.

The idea that software not signed by some entity in the country that they represent is installed any high-level official's phone is absurd. How did the world get this way?

But "Counterpart" has taught me that it can lead to a compelling drama series with 100% on rotten tomatoes, free on Amazon Prime ;)

Different in the sense that nobody uses it. Free texting became the standard intra-US before whatsapp existed; not so internationally.

No protomolecule, right?

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