Which makes me wonder if this was some kind of inside job. Faking both sides of a conversation to steal a one time payment for a project a small town and a contractor? This isn't 'send out a million emails and see who bites' type scam, they had to know about both parties and that a larger transfer was going to happen soon.

On the other hand, C does exactly what you tell it to do. Rust always feels like a constant argument with the compiler (linter really?) where it keeps going 'I understand what you are trying to but am not going to do it'

You also have to remember your place in the world. Acting above your station and taking actions that are reserved for higher ups is a social threat.

Their whole ethical system is built around the idea of a natural order and actor (rather than action) based morality. This person acted above their station and did things that people of their place in the world are not supposed to do. In a way, he stole from trump and his community by taking their natural right for their own.

This. One of the big problems with the modern environment is that the interests of shareholders no longer align with the interests of companies, and neither of those align with the interests of industries or the economy.

Though part of the problem here is, as I understand it, microsoft doesn't want games that simply succeed, but that have the same margins as Office or Windows. Sounds like executives only want to be associated with brands that can land them their next c-suite position, so 'profitable' isn't enough, it has to be big enough that outsiders go 'wow'. Put another way, the metric for success isn't 'sells well', but 'improves the personal brand of executives'.

Should it though? I'm not seeing the article touch on it, but I can not imagine the newtons per watt being all that high even in ideal circumstances close to the earth.

I actually wonder how it compares in efficiency to a photon rocket. The magnetic field even in low earth orbit is not all that strong, so I imagine you have to expend a whole lot of energy to get much translational movement out of it.

That is the odd part about their restructure.. apparently xbox is profitable, but lower margins than their other high margin businesses, so they are cutting it back to have fewer offerings? It reads like they are doing it less for the company or money, and more personal brand since being in charge of nothing but a few well known blockbusters is better social credit than many small titles no one outside gaming has heard of.

I am not even sure it is really about trump or the party, and I doubt the energy companies actually care about things like this. DeSantis is deep into the 'cruelty as a status symbol' thing, and evangelicals eat that up. They don't seem to really care what he (and others) do, as long as it hurts and upsets people they see as inferior...

That they made peptides part of their marketing pitch says a lot. This is not a tool for doctors or researchers, but hussle culture biohackers and dropshippers. Now they can be even less creative and hands off with their snakeoil.

I suspect when they picture 'any clinician around the world', they are picturing biohackers running unregulated supplement websites, like that guy who claimed he built a billion dollar company with nothing but AI.

While 'AI" has gotten a lot of pop attention latetly, the actual systems (and the problems they cause) are much older.... 2011 is _WELL_ within the timeframe someone can blame 'AI'. People have been trying to turn over these kinds of processes to various models since at least the 80s.

So... a big bonus for law enforcement and device owners, not that useful to hackers?

Ah, I thought they were referring to inclusion of some kind of LLM based tool right in the editor, kinda like how various full IDEs now have one built (or plugged) in.