It's not Trump's fault. Really.

The US has long claimed the right to force US companies to divulge data - even data outside the US, and fsck the actual laws that apply in that actual country.

The US has long used it's financial sector to interfere with international transactions - even transactions having nothing to do with the US. Example: There was a semi-famous case where the impounded money that a Danish business was sending to a Cuban business to buy cigars, because this somehow violated the US embargo on Cuba.

Back when my wife and I had a tiny IT company, our lawyer warned us: never do business with anyone in the US. We made that mistake exactly once: took on a customer in the US. The person at the company who hired us moved on, their successor wanted out of the deal. Threatened to sue us for some trumped up reason, using something called "long-arm" that lets a US court claim jurisdiction over non-US entities. To their dismay, I have a cousin in the US who is a lawyer, and he put a stop to it, but geez...

I genuinely do not understand why people do business with the US. It's just not worth it...

Big cities need a lot of water. Obviously a lot of them are in "water stress", just by their very existence.

There is no "collapse", because rainfall continues just fine. What we have - and this is nothing new - are populations pumping aquifers faster than rain refills them. Rivers being pumped dry.

In the US, this has been an issue for decades in the Southwest. It is the primary reason that some coral islands are in trouble - again, for decades now.

Polluted rivers - also a long-standing problem, especially in Asia, but also elsewhere.

So, yes, a real problem. But do we have to have clickbait? "Global boiling", "Water bankruptcy", the world is ending tomorrow?

TFA says that they use this to test structural models of large structures. They aren't putting a full-sized dam in there. And, sure, it won't be perfect. However, if the model is significantly smaller than the centrifuge, the results will be pretty accurate.

Wait for it. In Switzerland we have Twint, which is basically what you're talking about. As soon as it established itself in the market, it started charging businesses just like credit cards do. Same income stream, only without the risk.

Yup. Had this. I find it really strange that a car running off a high-tech battery still relies on an old-fashioned lead-acud battery. Why?

If people have a right to their own image, the US should consider making nonconsensual photography illegal, even in public. N.b. this is the law in Europe.

I think most of the US requires consent for audio recording. Why should this be different for video?

When I am using AI to work on some problem, I am offering the AI information as well. Information flows both ways. It seems like information gained from users could also be used as training data.

Of course, some users would abuse this to feed the AI crap. Not sure how you would deal with that...

Surely this is easy? Equally, surely your boss knows? Maybe they want to compare those two lists?

For a non-technical user, it is nearly impossible to know which files and directories are on OneDrive, and which ones are not. And, yes, you can disable OneDrive, only to have s later update re-enable it.

Maybe not do directly related, but I also keep tripping over more places that Windows lies to you about the file system. New example from today: a user thinks that their home directory is "c:/users/Tom Smith" but that doesn't work as a path. Turns out that the path is actually "c:/users/toms" (name changed, but you get the idea). Why???

True. My wife used to work as a translator, and still does bits here and there. There have long been tools to assist translators. The "cheap" translators just take the output and submit it. The results are...poor. The good translators use tools only as an aid or maybe a first step. Even though AI is better than the old tools, it still does make mistakes, and it is missing the larger context that a good translator will have familiarized themselves with.

Of course, the problem is that a good translator costs money, whereas a sweatshop in Pakistan or India costs almost nothing. As always, you get what you pay for.

I don't get it. Discord is a fine app for chatting, but it's really no better than any other similar app. It's free, which makes profitability difficult. Their attempt at offering games was a complete flop. They make most of their money with "Nitro", which let's you do things like put fancy icons on your profile. Gee, whiz, wow.

An IPO smells like VCs wanting out.

Attach to a docking station with a USB-C cable - easy. Also usable when not at a desk - which a keyboard-puter is not.

Like Wikipedia, they were great in the early days. Then the site was taken over by pedantic idiots, and it was no longer worth the effort to contribute.

The problem is: the ship's crew are just chumps, doing something they were paid to do. Russia is almost certainly behind this, but...WTF can you do about it?