Have you ever noticed how a company 'never does anything wrong' while their employees seem to frequently do 'regrettable actions' (as described by other company employees)?

The next generation's Bernie Madoff.

Elon's reality distortion field is different than Steve Jobs'.

Will anything ever replace the B-52?

There are a lot of other potential uses for hydrogen that may keep the price 'high' if its availability became ubiquitous. It may make sense for a BEV to also have a fuel cell, a next-generation hybrid. Anyone paying north of $150K for a car might expect it.

EVs generally need fewer repairs than ICE vehicles. A friend with a Leaf said that the only schedule maintenance work was tire rotation, even the brakes lasted forever. I suspect the more frequent Tesla service is body work, and most dealers farm that out.

Smells like poor software development, a.k.a. 'minimal viable product.'

Compensation based upon dead reckoning.

Russia, China, and the USA have a lot to lose by creating space havoc. On the other hand, Kim Jung-un has almost nothing to lose, and he has the rockets to do it.

Someone much wiser than I once said, "Machines will become a problem when they begin reproducing."

Assume there is material strong enough, it would become an unimaginably tall lightning rod. The ground potential differences are enormous, and the winds would create static charges that would keep the elevator in a constant state of fluctuating charge. Of course, someone would want to use it for terrestrial power generation, maybe putting a gigantic solar array at the end and bringing down petajoules of electricity. Just think of the impossibilities.

It is amazing how 'inefficient' power 'generation' seems to be. Imagine if they were 99% efficient. I guess that would be like imagining I was 26.81% efficient.

China manages the supply chains very well, partly because they can know most of what is going on within them. In America and Europe, corporations can conceal a great deal, which leaves governments with less control.

We are recyclable, but we keep trying to be immortal.

There are a lot of software engineers in China, and he has connections.

Forced ranking works best when it identifies those who are the poorest match for their jobs and works to reposition or retrain them before having to let them go, a continuous process. If a company suddenly decides to use forced ranking as a pretext for a layoff, it is just an excuse for letting managers dump who they do not like.

Decades ago, a Datsun with sump pump motor blew the doors off every quarter-mile drag racer and got EVs banned from NHRA drag racing; so they formed their own, the NEDRA . The handwriting has been on the wall for a long time.

"Tish-tosh and fiddle-faddle."

Why has no one mentioned that the Dr. Evil Mark may just be driving Meta to insolvency in order to avoid antitrust?

It is amazing how modern civilization mirrors the jungle, how the weak are preyed upon, how the strongest and smartest survive and thrive, how everything eventually succumbs. Both wondrous and deeply saddening.

I remember when they debated going below 1𝛍m. It was more of a process and yield issue back in the 1970s. Talk about 10nm at that time would have clearly been in the category of impossible.

Safari supports JPEG2000, which has been around a long time and gotten little traction. The web seems to favor the lowest common denominators, e.g., GIF.

One huge hurdle to self-driving autos is the fact that many drivers will not tolerate them. Frankly, many drivers do not tolerate other drivers but usually have to put up with them because they have as much right to the road. The reasons for this animosity are legion, and that only confounds the issue. I guess it is the devil you know verses the devil you do not know.

Since TIF, JPEG, BMP, and GIF, it has been hard to get traction on new formats. Part of the problem has been related to patents. Part of it is the fact that the existing de facto standards seem to be enough for most to get by on for now. Another part is that every camera manufacturer has its own 'raw' format, largely based upon the silicon they are using for their image sensor, and that includes Apple's iPhones. Long ago, I thought that JPEG2000 might succeed JPEG. Nope. Some might blame that on lack of backward compatibility, but I believe it was for reasons not unlike JPEG-XL.

North Korea and China are conspicuously absent, as is the NSA and FSB.