A few remarks...

> Meanwhile Huawei announced that it is increasing R&D spending

This might be a false comparison. Huawei and Amazon are very different companies. It would be difficult to directly compare them, and to suggest that the strategy that works for one would work for the other is at best naive. For example, it's worth noting Huawei is effectively a state owned enterprise of the PRC, and their business is subsidised by the state. It's also worth noting that the PRC tightly controls the public statements, censors everything, and many times statements are aimed at the domestic audience. Meaning that the CCP wants the Chines people to not be exposed to bad news, everything is just great with the PRC! Reuters acknowledged that in that link you shared, that they could not independently verify any of the statements made. So it's a bit weird you chose to cite a source with super questionable content. Also it's worth noting that in the USA several other big corporations are cutting jobs, and those might be a more credible direct comparison.

> This is so stupid. In a few years Amazon will be trying to hire these people back, having lost ground to companies that looked beyond the next quarter.

You might think it's stupid, that's your opinion, but I would suggest you might be fallaciously appealing to ignorance. That said, it was really amusing in an extremely ironic way, because you say "companies that looked beyond the next quarter", and I would argue that Amazon is probably doing exactly that. Consider that Amazon already cut 19K jobs, and is preparing to cut another 9K. Do you really think that is a company with a short term vision? They clearly believe the economy is going to get worse before it gets better, and if anything they now believe the economy is going to get much worse than they originally forecast.

Big corporations have teams of economists on the parole, they are not living in the same kind of denial that you might be. (no offence)

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.

We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!

:-)

I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.

Someone who broke their neck and was suffering from paralysis. You can control a chair or exoskeleton. People who can not hear today have cochlear implants, this is not all that different and might (eventually) work better. Or speak, or see. Other people who are disabled in various ways.

Oops. To continue: I'm just not seeing that it is so hard to access. But then, I use a Linux desktop, which has always come with a proper PDF renderer, there has never been a need to download "Acrobat".

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

Lithium battery fires are in the news because they are new. There are many more gasoline fires every day.

Pistons? We don't need no stinking pistons! Next thing, they'll be adding a bridle and a bit!

Consider that it is evangelism. Saying "We did this, we're a big investment bank" implies "It's OK, and you should do it too". I've heard people refer to arguing a vendor to lower a price as "jew them down". Enough with that.