Your numbers are wrong.
Netflix offered $27 and change per share.
Paramount offered $30 per share. That is about 10% more.

You need to read the article, not just the summary.

With similar efficiency claims? I am sure there are advantages to this version.

If the article had compared it to existing sterling engines and mentioned how it was better than existing Sterling Engines, that would have made it interesting.

Instead they talked about Super Soakers and mentioned all the obvious industrial uses that such a machine could be used for. The things anyone that graduated High School should have been able to think of themselves.

Was this article written for people that failed High School Physics? Is it an attempt to get an orange skinned fool that was tricked by a Democrat into pardoning him to fund something?

How did this sad excuse of an article get approved here?

I can see a service where you can send a satellite message to disable your car/brick it. But a system where if you lose satellite communication for enough time it bricks itself automatically?

I can see a hundred ways this can go bad - starting with what actually happened.

Horrible business plan.

So you hand picked the few and extremely uncommon jobs that actually had real time constraints and think you are smart?
Nope, you need to get better at arguing.

Lets go through those cases one by one:

A) Fire men spend 90% of their time training - which they get all the extra time they need. Yes, in a real emergency they need to hustle, but even then they use the slow is smooth, smooth is fast technique. They do not rush because you make mistakes when you rush.

B) Catching criminals is a slow methodical process, not chasing them. Except in TV. In TV, it is all about the car chase. But in real life it it about waiting for the phone records, DNA tests, fingerprint searches, people to call you back.

C) CPR is not a rush. You need to start right away, but then take your time and do it consistently, not in a hurry.

D) Burgers cook at a consistent time. You cannot decide to do it in half the time. If you try to cut it short, that gives food poisoning. The act of prep and assembly should be done well, not fast. Trying to rush it causes mistakes. Or low quality.

E) Judges routinely grant extensions but as long as the lawyer started the work at the appropriate time, again, it is not a rush. Unless someone forgot about it and tries to do it quickly.

F) The fact that you are unemployed and useless is on you. Not relevant to the discussion of people doing real work. Nor do I want to hire the guy that desires to sit on the couch and smoke pot. That guy, I fire.

1) Why are tests timed at all? The smart people usually finish early. Is more time helpful to anyone - or just the kids having problems answering the questions. Why not double the time and let everyone spend 10 minutes obsessing over the questions they do not understand.

2) Should we encourage professors and bosses to just be more accommodating. There is no good reason to let them be assholes and put arbitrary time limits. Good bosses keep their good employees happy - shouldn't professors do the same? Give them comfortable chairs, etc.

3) Perhaps this is a real issue. Are people getting more mental issues because of chemicals/plastics in the environments. Or could these problems have always existed and we just have better diagnosis - particularly for people that can afford good health care.

4) Are smart people more prone to psychological issues? I have heard intelligence goes along with anxiety. More brains = caring/obsessing more.

5) Did they get more time in High School? Or does this only happen in college? Perhaps we just do not notice it in high school because each class has fewer college rated people.

6) OK, lets say what everyone is thinking - they did not have disabilities, this is just a way of cheating. Of all the ways asshole rich people could try to cheat the system this seems more acceptable. We will not be able to stop rich assholery entirely and I would rather they get more time instead outright bribery.

7) Finally and most importantly - do you really think the grades are that important? Schools are about education and networking as well as proving your knowledge via grades. Quite a few people go to school to learn or make new connections, not to get a job. Especially for the really rich people. If your father has 100 million, you are not concerned about where being #1 in the class. You want to learn stuff and meet people, not get good grades. Perhaps the solution is to eliminate the grades entirely.

FBI routinely hires people convicted of computer crimes and places them under extreme guidance.

As this is government work, I could see them wanting to hire someone that has proven hacking skills. But not as a subcontractor.

For what you ask?

For Christmas Presents to staff in my building, postman, etc.

All I need is their name. I can write it out ahead of time, put it in an envelope, write their name on the envelope and hand it to them in person. No one needs to know how much till they open the envelope. I can give out multiple ones to multiple people all privately.

But that is it. That is the only thing I do it for.

If my building were to set up a website to let me do this, I would probably stop writing checks. Give the postman cash.

You run Windows and it blue screens. You run Linux or FreeBSD on that same hardware and it doesn't panic or log anything that looks like hardware issues, it runs for years without issue.

Yes ECC RAM solves random bit flips, but they happen so infrequently they can't be the cause of every Windows BSOD.

Censorship is the GOVERNMENT preventing information from being published.

Citizens cannot engage in censorship. Corporations cannot engage in censorship - but they can request the government do so (i.e. sue you for saying something and try to get the courts to censor you).

When people refuse to support your beliefs, that is their legal right to do and not censorship. When people call you out for lying, that is not censorship.

What possible reason could you have for hiring contractors that have a record of hacking your organization?

I could see hiring people that hacked somebody else.

I could see hiring hackers as direct employees so you can keep a close watch on them.

But hiring a hacking organization as contract employees?

That person was either a) Bribed or b) a Moron.

They need to be fired to prevent them from hiring the same people tomorrow.

That is likely not the fault of medical school, but the fault of society.

One of the problem with being in the top 1% intelligence is that you are constantly surrounded by IDIOTS.

Society needs a lot of educated people. If we limit 'the important work' to just the top 5%, then we will never have enough: Doctors, Judges, Lawyers, Engineers, Research Scientists, or Politicians. etc. So we have developed systems to let the top percentile (above average) people do work that we would much rather have the top 5% do.

Your surgeon for example, does not have to be a genius, he just needs to have steady hands and be taught what to cut. Yes, the guy inventing a mechanical heart needs to be in the top 5%, but the ER guy can just be above average.

Everybody wants their guy to be the best - but honestly you rarely need one.

P.S. Pray you are never the smartest guy around - it just means that you cannot ever ask anyone for help. They are all morons that have no idea what you are talking about.

A modern jet engine has parts made of steel that have to be grown from a single crystal. It is not enough to merely be martensite steel, the entire piece has to be one crystal. This techniques advanced techniques to create.

The jet engines reach 3,000 F (1700 C), which is way to hot for your run of the mill metal. The metal also needs special coatings.

I cannot imagine any serious manufacturer selling 3d printed parts for a jet engine without a thorough testing.

I bet this was someone saying , "eh, I can print that out for 1/10th the price they are selling it for".

A decade ago Doctors would google your issues. Now they use AI. I bet the AI does a better, quicker job. 20 years ago they would look it up in a medical text book.

Doctors are not memorization machines. Medical school doe snot teach them to memorize all the facts about diseases and the human body. Instead it teaches them how to ask the right questions. They need sources to ask those questions. The internet has those sources.

Yes, there are other sources - hence only 30% of the doctors use AI.

The key point is it is a doctor doing the research. You do not have the knowledge to judge the results the AI gives you, nor the knowledge to ask the right questions.

There is a huge difference between asking AI "What to do if your arm is broken." verus asking "How to tell the difference between a displaced fracture and a communituted fracture"

Not entirely true about stability. Lots of corporations develop a network of big data that can be turned on or off depending on electrical situation.

Most AI can do this. The trick is to have the tech distributed around the world. If your English AI center is short of power, you can redirect the processing to your Japanese AI center, or the Chicago one, etc.

The extra 1 second before they deliver the photo realistic picture of a certain political leader in a pink princess dress you requested does not affect anything.

First, the UK has a major problem in that their only large metropolis is London. London is a huge city about the size of New York,just under 10 million people. The UK's next largest is Manchester, which is under 3 million. The UK got two more with more than 1 million, but that's it. Much of England is rural. With so much concentrated around London, power becomes a major issue.

Secondly, the grid is more of a problem than the power plants. In a large metropolis It is often easier to create a power plant on a set area than it is to send the electricity to the individual houses. The grid of transmission wires is usually near capacity on a city that is growing, so you need more power lines as well as more power plants.