Comment Good (Score 0) 16
Good.
Google should have been doing that anyway. They are plagiarizing the content for free; the least they could do is actually acknowledge where they got it from.
Comment Re:Or switch to Libre (Score 1) 181
Being that its a mac, Apples Pages and Numbers apps are surprisingly functional software and I havent found many Doc or XLS files it cant open and work with.
Pages can't open old Mac word processing documents from decades ago (anybody remember Clarisworks? MacWrite?)
LibreOffice can.
Comment This will push formalisation into the mainstream (Score 3, Interesting) 56
Coq was released in the nineties. But mathematicians hate it because it doesn't allow them to be sloppy. Well now they will be forced to do what they should've done three decades ago.
Comment Or switch to Libre (Score 5, Informative) 181
Or dump Microsoft and switch to LibreOffice.
Comment Did They Not Read Jurassic Park? (Score 2) 104
Nature will always find a way...
Comment Re:Why would you want to attract them? (Score 2) 36
Property taxes—paying for fire, police, and emergency services that they will never use, plus some high-paying jobs taking care of it.. For poor counties these are giant revenue sources.
They would be giant revenue sources... unless, of course, they are given tax breaks.
Comment Re:Why do we need a giant publicly funded moon bas (Score 1) 82
Hell of an assumption considering which company volunteered to retrieve astronauts from the ISS after "only" another rocket company failed to do so.
Not sure what you mean by "volunteered". SpaceX was paid to retrieve the astronauts, which they did as part of their contracted flights to the space station.
Comment Re:Space is still hard (Score 2) 73
True.
SpaceX's recent successes tend to make people forget that the company started out with three failures in their first three attempts to launch their first rocket, the Falcon-1. (And, for that matter, SpaceX also had it's share of explosions on the pad during a static fire.)
Yeah: space is hard.
Comment Re:We may have altered the plan. (Score 2) 82
I'm not an expert on rebuilding massively exploded launch infrastructure; but I have a suspicion that a 2026-2029 plan is now going to involve less Blue Origin than previously believed.
Ars Technica has an article discussing how this is a major setback in the NASA lunar plan: https://arstechnica.com/space/...
Comment Re:Blue Origin's New Glenn Exploded (Score 2) 82
Blue Origin's lander doesn't fly with a Blue Origin Rocket, afaik.
In fact, the Blue Moon lander is designed to launch on New Glenn. It's designed to fit the NG's 7-meter fairing.
https://www.blueorigin.com/blu...
Comment Rocket-powered drones (Score 1) 82
Only thing I can think of is they will use tiny rockets or air jets in place of propellors...
Right, these are rocket-powered drones.
That means their total flight time will be limited by the amount of fuel they start with, but it should be enough to hop around to multiple sites, including (I'll hope) sites too uneven to land a large lunar lander.
Comment Got one! (Score 1) 43
Looks like they caught one of the hundreds of thousands of people that must be doing this same sort of thing. Most of the others just aren't making quite that much money doing it.
Comment Re:Betteridge's Law Is Still Right (Score 5, Insightful) 240
The answer is no, because anxiety and job insecurity is not a Culture Shift, it's already our culture.
Comment Re:Mathematician commentary included (Score 3, Interesting) 83
To be fair, even just a tool that can search the literature for solutions of similar problems is extremely useful.
Comment Re:Where is the shovelware? Where's the killer app (Score 1) 40
I mean, the Play Store has always been flooded with shovelware, AI may actually raise the average quality.
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