Richest man in the world, but 90%+ of the population has no freakin' idea who he is or why he's important.

It's going to be the biggest handwavium of the whole project, unless we discover a near-zero-energy way to bridge those light-years..

There was an early report that the lone survivor heard a loud bang.

That could, in theory, mean something major went wrong with the electrical system (yes, a high-amperage system can make some very interesting and loud sounds while failing). If something really bad happened in the aft electronics bay, it could take out the entire main electrical system - both engines feed electrical power through there. Something exploding there could cause the ram air turbine to deploy automatically.

"I'm going to be managing AIs and telling them what to do!"

"I hate to break it to you, but you need to be somewhat accurate and precise in your words. A good vocabulary is also pretty important."

"Pfft! I don't need to spell or know a lot of words, I'll have AI for that!"

Yep - it's funny how many of these "use our app" situations don't really do that much compared to browsers or embedded interfaces.

The actual NBC article: "Yeah, the Secret Service is actually liable for those charges, and some of the cities have incorrectly tacked on huge extra fees and sent the bill to the campaign, but we're going to keep pretending it's the campaign's responsibility."

What the Independent article fails to mention: Any money Trump pays would be going straight to the money owed by Giuliani in that lawsuit, so Giuliani doesn't care too much at this point.

For that region, the real issue is subsidence from the removal of ground water, not a localized increase in sea level.

Fort Pulaski is next to Savannah, which has had a massive population growth (and accompanying increase in fresh water usage) over that time period.

https://www.wsav.com/weather-news/storm-team-3-now/is-savannah-sinking-major-hotspots-sinking-due-to-subsidence/

Nope.

While they're similar in meaning, "graft" tends to be used more for politically-based corruption, while "grift" is usually more private sector.

Never mind that a lot of people have to purchase tickets well within that time frame.

I've had tickets purchased for me while I was packing to go to the airport. Work related, last-minute schedule changes required it.

Then there's that whole "90% failure rate" on the tips from airline employees. If you have a source who's wrong nine times out of ten, they're not a source, they're just making it up so they can get a cut of the graft.

AI also needs a bunch of nice fast storage to feed the data in and store the results, but Samsung raised prices enough that people are skipping off to other vendors for drives.

This is on top of "VR needs good, small, high-res displays," but Samsung isn't competing in that, either.

Or they just pay off the ATM techs to disable the dye packs.

They are sorta skipping the "some idiot lab assistant let himself get exposed, started feeling a little ill, and spread it to a number of people, one of which went to the market" theory.

Heck, if it was someone in their early 20s, they might have been contagious without feeling too bad.

All this study does is nail down one of the early vector locations, not establish the actual origin.

"I gotta have an AI-capable machine!"

"Um... you're an accountant. You run three packages, none of which use AI."

"But we MIGHT!"

(sighs) "Fine, then. We'll get you something that can run AI." (orders Yet Another Basic RTX Computer)

People who make two minute discussions into two hour meetings that accomplish nothing. People who âoecreateâ by leeching off of the one actual artist in the department. People who are âoeidea menâ who mostly just use whatever they saw on MySpace when they were a teenagerâ¦

Baalbek's foundation was made from three 1000+ ton stones, not a single 3000 ton stone. (Each stone was 19x4x4 meters.)

Still an amazing feat, though.

You'd be surprised how well a bunch of people can move something heavy, though (as long as you don't need it to move very fast).