In my day, the whole world was an "analog bag".

Mainly because my parents were too cheap to buy me the TRS-80 I kept harping about.

100 Big corporation publishes paper claiming to finally achieve quantum supremacy
200 Wait a few days
300 Some random math guy demonstrates how to calculate the same thing faster on a conventional consumer laptop
400 GOTO 100

Your stolen phone is a lost potential sale for the manufacturer. If you buy a new phone, swell, but the buyer of a stolen phone then doesnt have to buy one.

Apple should track stolen serial numbers, and have parts validated as not stolen against a master list if they change, and need to be "activated" to function for longer than say a day. Swap a screen, it better be legit, else the phone locks you out until you put a good one in, rendering stolen screens, cameras, batteries, etc, useless. They could do this with component identifiers and an activation system for parts, but they dont. Probably because the Chinese will do what the Chinese do, sight "sovereignty" or some other BS to let their people lie, cheat, and steal their way to a middle class.

The question I have is why isnt "Find My" enabled on these phones, preventing activation on another iCloud account or unlocking the phone? My understanding is once an iPhone is stolen, as long as Find My is on, it has an activation lock? Also why aren't the Chinese carriers being forced to respect stolen IMEIs? Is Apple allowing them to carry iPhones while not adhering to the international standards? Thats fucked up.

On the flip side, one reason I'm sticking with my old cars and not considering buying a new one any time soon is because I really like the fact that they lack connectivity of any kind. They also have real control knobs and no touch screens.

Folger's Crystals already did this experiment this back in the 1980s. Then they publicized the results ad nauseam.

No.

This room-temperature ice is simply a plot device that demonstrates the sheer stupidity of human behavior.

One of the most fascinating aspects of H2O is the sheer number of forms it can take under different conditions.

If you set up a market, and multiple people who actually had $1e100 put in a bid of that amount for your stupid crypto, then at least for that instant it was worth that much. It may not be worth that much later, but it would be NOW.

FFS, how can you have such a hard time understanding such a basic concept?

Luckily for the Chinese, they're allegedly communists.

"From each according to his ability" - that would be the robots.

"To each according to his need" - those millions of people.

We'll see whether it pans out.

...that there's a LOT of minerals and other nutrients in food, only a fraction of which are produced from chemicals in fertilisers, O2, and CO2. If you produce too much with too little consideration of the impact on the soil, you can produce marvellous dust bowls but eventually that's ALL you will produce.

There's a lot of stuff that is on the Internet that doesn't end up in AIs, either because the guys designing the training sets don't consider it a particular priority or because it's paywalled to death.

So the imbalance isn't just in languages and broader cultures, it's also in knowledge domains.

However, AI developers are very unlikely to see any of this as a problem, for one very very important reason --- it means they can sell the extremely expensive licenses to those who actually need that information, who can then train their own custom AIs on it. Why fix a problem where the fix means your major customers pay you $20 a month rather than $200 or $2000? They're really not going to sell ten times, certainly not a hundred times, as many $20 doing so, so there's no way they can skim off the corps if they program their AIs properly.

If you want to go absolutely nuts, check space utilization on your Mail app in your iPhone. Yeah, you just paid extra for 512G of storage for nothing. OK, you bought a phone with 256GB. What for?

They should call the app "TV", like they call Messages Messages, Calculator Calculator, Calendar Calendar, Mail Mail, and so on. Apps should have generic names.

They should call the set top box "iTV", like they call an iPod an iPod, an iPhone an iPhone, an iMac an iMac, etc... Devices should have iDevice or iDevice Pro monikers.

Then, they should call the service "Apple TV", like "Apple Music", "Apple News", and other services "Apple (service)".