That's a really good example about the dogs, and a useful phrase to know, as well. Thanks!

I would expect as much. Can anyone even make a good case for the existence of "Journals" -- as companies that get to sell access to research they didn't fund? I don't believe any scientists are getting rich off royalties from them, right?

They seem to me to be like a worse version of the record label racket. It seems like peer review itself should provide enough signal (drawing on the reputations of who decided to review it) to distinguish a Serious Paper that Really Matters from some slop fabricated by a conspiracy theorist in their basement. And surely the bandwidth costs etc. are so low as to be borne by the universities themselves, either by each of them self-hosting, or by funding a cooperative to host them all in one place. Or whatever Arxive is, of course.

That was 12 years ago. A 12 year out of date critique of a web technology that has had ongoing language updates and two entire rewrites in that interval should be viewed with some suspicion. Also, are you really just citing the title of the article and none of the content?

I'm not even defending PHP here, just questioning lazy kneejerk, "but it sucked once, so now I hate it forever" thinking.

I'll disagree a little bit: we have heavy lift rockets bringing mass to orbit at a greater rate than any time in history and new larger and more efficient rockets on the cusp of being brought to use, with next generations planned for the future. Space launch technology -- the actual raw launching of mass to orbit, where it can be useful -- has advanced. And mass to orbit means more fuel -- if we really wanted to get something out there faster.

And that's where our statements arrive at the same conclusion: there's little need to do anything but super efficient deep space probes. While I can quibble with your implied assertion about newer technology not making a difference in ability, in a practical sense given our funding of deep space research, the big tech upgrade has been to data collection devices and communication. We'll have to have way cheaper lift capability before extra fuel to cut time off a project makes any kind of sense. But it is now at least plausible as an option.

(Also, this appears to be the only thread that isn't making Trek or Aliens jokes)

Perhaps so in Europe, but I don't think that's part of this. Check out the Amazon page about it. https://logistics.amazon.com/h...

They expect the business to physically deliver the packages. I assume if you have a van and a delivery driver on the payroll who is underutilized, it could work out well, but also it's Amazon, so I assume most participants will be doing so with slim to negative margins once all costs are accounted for.

> of non-Amazon goods delivered

I'm afraid you have it backwards. Amazon will be dropping off 30 *Amazon packages* a day at a florist, pizzeria or bodega, and the business owner will be in charge of employing drivers to deliver them. I think it's just an attempt to drive the existing contractor business model to new local entrepreneurs who may not have considered it. Clearly they're suggesting that if you already have delivery drivers, especially not fully utilized ones, this is an easy way to make an extra $7,500 in revenue per month, although I suppose even if your business was say, a coffee shop that had zero drivers today, you could lease a van or two and just do this as basically a business side hustle.

I can't find a video of it actually working, just stuff in a bowl. Is anything actually cooked by this 'robot' or is it just a glorified vending machine?

Will the crypto defenders please explain why this currency is worth so much, despite no-one using it for anything and having absolutely no fundamentals?

How many people are using Shiba Inu?

That's a good way to encourage people to stretch out the work as long as possible and kill productivity.

Well, with attitudes and work ethics being expressed like this article has described, what else do they expect?

Boomers and Gen X messed about at school, walked straight into a job where they could just sit in a cubicle and drink coffee every day, or a cushy unionised factory job, and could buy a house and start a family at 21. Millennials had to get three degrees just to get a job that allows them to share an apartment at 35. Old people played life on easy mode.

That's not a problem in most developed countries.

The incentive to do business in China is access to the world's largest middle class. Since when did communist China promise a level playing field for corporations?

You could say that about the South Sea bubble or tulip prices.

Did killing Osama start a nuclear war?