I think the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East are relevant here, although most probably not the dominant factor. Russia and Iran are undoubtedly spending down their Bitcoin reserves at a rapid pace to cover revenue losses elsewhere and move money sanction-free.

Read the summary. Some guy wants to be an urban hermit. Where's the news for nerds?

The only justifiable reason to tolerate coal is because it is one of the few energy sources that can store, independent of weather and other factors, large amounts of "fuel" at the project site. Generally sites will hold 1-3 months worth on the coal pile. The only other energy sources which can do this at a reasonable cost are nuclear, biomass, and geothermal, all of which are more expensive than coal (if you exclude health impacts).

The most likely outcome is that we will end up with the same deal as the previous one which Trump canceled. Arguably worse because Iran has demonstrated that they can indeed close the straight for all practical purposes. 60+ days of bombing by the most powerful nation on the earth accomplished basically nothing. A few more days will surely do it though.

>Has nobody learned from Theranos?

Very few, at least in the US. Critical thinking skills are almost absent, which goes a long way toward explaining current US politics and the popularity of AI.

>saved users an average of 43 minutes a day on administrative work.

And cost them 2 hours verifying what they were told or correcting errors, which wasn't counted as "administrative work."

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Many, many places in the world get their water from underground aquifers. These are not really part of the water cycle and are being depleted at alarming rates in many areas. Even if the water is taken from a river, someone downstream may have been counting on that water for their needs.

I have no doubt that the government was an important customer but the "free" advertising and virtue signaling gained them a lot of business.

Surely Meta had their AI review their AI for security flaws, didn't they?

>You can't rename a Bluetooth speaker.

Bullshit. Maybe you can't. I can.

> You can capture the packets, and determine what the device is, which would quickly resolve the concern. The real issue, as I see it, why didn't they do that before overreacting?

You think every plane is equipped with a BT sniffer? You think that even if a BT speaker were identified as the source, it couldn't have a bomb inside?

They didn't "overreact." Long before they turned around, multiple announcements were made to turn off all BT devices. The reprobate didn't obey instructions from the flight crew.

Denotating it is exactly what the Bluetooth name does. *Detonating* it, on the other hand...

You realize that's the point, right?

My point being that when you wrote "There's no GPS in my PC, idiots", the fact that there are no GPS does not mean your PC cannot locate you, and thus the popup could still be relevant.

Now is it annoying like hell? Heck yes. Not my point at all.