The whole point of the Michelin Star is that it's supposed to be hard to get, and set you apart from the rest of the crowd.

One star is supposed to mean "Worth a visit if you're passing by"; two stars is "Worth a detour", and three is "Worth a dedicated trip". A city of a million people should have more than one restaurant worth a visit. And if you take France as a reference, since that's where it originated, there are almost 10 Michelin-starred restaurants per million inhabitants (654 vs 68 million).

These countries already have that database. Spain launched its digital personal identity card a month or two ago. The only thing that's new is the obligation for social media companies to use it.

AGI can remain intransigent longer than you can remain solvent.

Winter is coming, Mark.

it's people who work at a small business looking at the social media YOU chose to make public

Or the social media that someone with a similar name chose to make public. Whether or not it's Orwellian for a company to process personal data about me which I didn't provide directly to that company, it's objectionable because receiving the data from the subject is the strongest guarantee that it's actually data about that subject, and searches based on nothing more than the name can be a strong guarantee of error.

Unreasonable is right, because unless they ask you for your usernames when you make the reservation there's no guarantee that they're even researching the right person.

I intended the giant death ray to be used to help man, not to harm.

That belongs in a MUSEUM!

bringing Space Shuttle Discovery home

Home? Has Discovery ever been in Texas? It was built in California and operated in Florida.

Didn't Australia lose a war against Emus?
Moas are even bigger.

People were complaining about it being a corporate usage 15 years ago, so it's nothing to do with LLMs or TikTok.

It was technically Chinese territory on a long lease to the UK. A suitable analogy for people from the USA would be Guantánamo Bay if the lease had a fixed term rather than being indefinite as long as the US keeps up the payments.

Doesn't have to be Silicon Valley. There are European fintech companies too, in particular neobanks.

"Cook until done" is nicely futureproofed. If you're not writing for publication you don't really need to consider gas vs electric-without-fan vs electric-with-fan ovens. And in the real world "180C at 50 minutes" usually needs adjusting anyway because of differences in air flow, poor calibration, etc.

Friends don't let friends eat British brains.

What's Randy Quaid been up to lately? For a few years there he was making good progress transforming into a real-life Russell Casse.