an also that they don't realize that paying by check is literally an electronic transfer with added steps (and costs), because today all transfers, with the exception of handing over money to someone else, are an electronic transfer, but with a check you need to have a physical transfer to some place, have either automated or a person open the letter, check what is in it, verify if it properly fill-up, then enter the details in a form/database for the transfer to be executed electronically, it will take way longer, it is less reliable and safe and costs way WAY more.

in this case, they way they've implemented it is very bad and easy to circumvent security features

what I saw the guy didn't specify if root was needed, but my guess it was not, and for storing a PIN number, it should have been validated on the server side not locally, or even if validated locally if an account already created it should check if the PIN has been set-up before instead of just asking for a new one, imagine if your bank or credit card worked like that, major flaw

I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but the app is very badly done, has been hacked with very simple techniques, for instance, one can reset the PIN just by opening one of the configuration xml files and deleting the PIN section, next time the app opens it asks for a new PIN, which was only stored in the device (also encrypted and not hashed), similar attacks remove facial and digital locks, and I'm sure many more bug will appear.

until AI bubble pops, you will not be able to buy one unless your name is John Hyperscaler and ask for at least a thousand at the same time and even then a single one will cost you, my guess, at least 10k USD.
The worst of it all is that this is a run just to guarantee supply in case the manufacturers cannot meet demand, the "quote 10, to order 5 to receive 2" that we saw during the pandemic, and because the manufacturers know this is the case, they are making zero effort to expand the production capacity because they know that when the new factory capacity becomes available all this craziness will likely have passed and they will have no costumers to pay for the products no matter what the contracts say, because bankrupt costumers cannot pay you.

I'm really hopping that this bubble pops soon, the longer it takes the crazier this will get and the bigger the fall will be (and consequences).

impressive that they've managed to not mention the X-Ray frequency because they probably think people would not understand petahertz but toss around attosecond like it is an everyday word and everybody knows how short it is

It is not like south korea is major manufacturer of storage devices, right?
Samsung probably could find 1PB of flash memory lost between their offices cushions...
And the justification that 1PB of data was too big to back-up is completely absurd, these days this amount of data is not even that much, there are people if more than that in their servers at home, let alone a datacenter, for crying out loud, there are systems with more RAM than this in a single pod.

just pump in CO2, helps keep the pressure up, would be a carbon sink and you get fizzy drink water for free, just add some cola and a bunch of sugar

maybe the researcher has nothing to do if it, not even the research, it used AI to do the paper and it told the reviewer AI to mod it up, if you think about it the researcher is the real victim here

no money in that, but the day they sell this as potential form to dick enlargement, watch out nvidia, you will be the second largest company in the world in no time.

From the article the worst thing is lunch time meetings, I can do 8pm meetings occasionally, and even done 10pm weekly when working with asian clients, but the amount of lunch time meetings in that graph is just obscene and a very american thing, I don't think anywhere else in the world people do that, we need down time during lunch to eat properly and have some rest or even, gasp, socialize a little.
To me lunch time meetings are just unacceptable, even when working from home.

Using corn to make ethanol is borderline stupid, it has lower yields and higher costs and more directly displaces food production, sugarcane is a much better crop for this purpose but is hard to grow in the US.

This table you pointed to refers to mining not enrichment, which is what the article refers, the link below show a breakdown of enrichment by country and russia is about 40% with US being only 11%. I recall sometime back reading that 1/3 of the fuel the US uses in its plants today come from russia.

https://thundersaidenergy.com/...

That is interesting, what holds you from immigrating now? only job offers/opportunities or some other factor?
Living in the Philippines would also have the advantage of being much cheaper, at least today, who knows in 25 years, but would likely still be cheaper to live there and occasionally visit Japan than living in Japan.

First I didn't say anything about poor, the point is young couples or couples with young kids, poor or not that is what they need right now, and moving and settling in would expensive no matter who you are, so money incentive would help.
Second, being poor doesn't mean they would stay poor, it is very common for immigrants to a new country to arrive with little money and build a good life by working a lot.