"Because the world doesn't need synthetic rubber, pharma, plastics, roads, and the shitton of other things you ignore from the oil industry" is in fact a pretty good argument to stop just burning the hydrocarbons. They can be turned into things far more valuable than heat.

a) if you burn billions of dollars pouring useless concrete pilings, it's not a very good money laundering scheme - the idea is to keep most of the money! b) the guy with the money owns his own country! He makes the laws, why would he need to launder money?

Limited by G forces! When was the last time anyone but an astronaut's journey was limited by G forces?

Goodness me! That there is some righteous ad-hominem bitterness towards a person you've never met! But help me understand - will be better that the gig economy jobs cease to exist, so the people who "took what they could find" will no longer be able to find even that?

Despite millions of individuals exercising their free will to work gig economy jobs, evidently because they determined that to be their most attractive option, there has been a lot of commentary over the years that these jobs "weren't good enough". I've seen countless airmchair protests that the pay, or benefits, or conditions aren't adequate for a human worker. Now, when suddenly it may be possible that human workers will no longer have to do these jobs, are the same comentators worried about the loss of jobs? It doesn't compute...

Correct that "oh we must protect the children" is the thin end of the wedge to total Internet censorship, and VPN bans are not far off. But don't forget that left wing is the original control economy and invetor of the Cheka. Our Labour government is pushing this, and mandatory ID cards, to expand state control into every corner of private life.

Waymo and Tesla have functioning full self-driving systems available for what? around $10,000 per car? This one which performs the arguably simpler task of following a slow convoy yet costs $1 million. How does the State of Colorado manage to spend so much?

Sorry, $99mn in the last three months, not year!

Um, except this "awful company" hasn't profited from those who are already on the edge of bakruptcy - it lost $99mn in the last year. Assuming it would be a worthwhile goal, should we praise Klarna for progressively distributing investors' capital to those less able to pay?

That is true. Or, at least the batteries are not allowed to be checked in, so the following questions that bother are: is anyone paying attention to those restrictions? how many people even know/care what a Li-ion battery is, and which of their devices have one? are the airlines checking the checked luggage for Li-ion batteries?

Being a foundation so thoroughly rooted in the digital era, why aren't they auctioning NFTs? Of idk, v0.9 of the GPL or a poster digitally signed by RS or...

No, that would be stupid.

Lack of adequate housing isn't the only thing holding Britain back, but it's one thing, and it's a thing that the government could improve with a stroke of the pen. Currently, the country has a tax on moving house - the "stamp tax" - of around 10% of the value of the home in question. It creates a huge friction against finding the correct living situation, making people hang on to a home for as long as possible. The result is people in homes that are too small, or too large, or too far from their place of work because it's just too expensive to move. If the government removed this tax on moving (maybe shift it towards a tax on occupying), people could swap situations much more fluidly, effectively increasing housing supply without laying a single brick.

Am I the only one who fell asleep in the early 2000s, woke up, read this article, and was stunned that there is someone still using IRC - and a significant project no less? Do other gropus use it as well?

time that a quantum copmuter has fit into a rack?