A robot can do many specialized tasks as good as if not better than a human.

I'm not convinced even with Singularity-type progress a robot can be developed that will do all of the tasks a caretaker does.

There's going to be a huge need for full-time caretakers for the aging.

The Athenian golden age only lasted about 18 years?

There is so much work, UBI will instantly be transformed into a form of workfare, mandatory work.

Every person at risk for falling at home for example basically needs a 24/7 caretaker.

Curiously enough, the United States already has something like a UBI for people who can show they cannot work. Look up SSI and SSDI.

Gee I have no idea why Cambodia would possibly not want to ally with the United States.

Every French leader seems to try this, and previously, every one eventually was forced to back down?

It will be interesting if strategic buying and selling of just Tesla stock and bitcoin becomes a generation's mantra for investing, and just that focus out-performs other investments, or starting businesses.

The BBC is fairly protective of all of their IP regardless of what it is? I'm not sure the Internet Archive can store for a long time BBC documentaries about anything even if they are made by Sir David Attenborough about nature.

Is Jupiter the limit for how far out a mission can go fueled by rocket fuel and solar panels?

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice_factsheet

> Spacecraft: Three-axis stabilised with 10 solar panels and a 2.5-metre-long High Gain Antenna, with a dry mass of approximately 2400 kg and a wet mass (including fuel) of approximately 6000 kg. Each solar panel measures about 2.5 m x 3.5 m; with five on each side of the spacecraft deployed as two distinctive cross-shaped arrays, these total an area of about 85 square metres>

I have always wondered how the Norwegian team planned to announce to the world their excavation of a humongous extraterrestrial spacecraft, even if nothing had happened to them.

Amazon had doubled the number of people they employ from 2020 to now?

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/why-googles-high-turnover-rate-is-great-for-employees-and-possibly-even-for-google.html

> Yet a recent study conducted by Resume.io shows the average tenure of a Google employee is only 1.3 years, making them one of the top 10 companies where employees apparently don't want to stay.

> Granted, that's not unusual for tech and software companies. The average tenure at Zoom is also 1.3 years. Reddit's average tenure is 1.2 years. The Meta (Facebook) average is 1.7 years. Work for a big name, even for a short period of time, and it's a lot easier to get a great job at a smaller firm or startup.

Actually the Russians proved countries should keep their coal power plants ready to go.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-reactivates-coal-fired-power-plant-to-save-gas/a-62893497

> The Heyden plant in Petershagen, near Hanover in northern Germany, is scheduled to return into service from August 29 until the end of April, operator Uniper said on Monday.

> With a capacity of 875 megawatts, Heyden is one of the most powerful coal-fired power plants in Germany. It started operation in 1987.

> Germany plans to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2038 at the latest. However, the war in Ukraine and the resulting disruptions to the energy market are causing some plants to be temporary reactivated.

Germany plans to keep coal as a backup for more than 15 years into the future.

Stack ranking for eternal layoffs.

This sounds more like companies catching up to 2 years of the stack ranking firings they want to continuously do -- culling out a few percent of their workforce every year they deem to be lower performers.

Indeed, I suspect the most common reason people get such corticosteroid shots is for short-term ability to continue working. From my very limited personal experience, there was never any understanding this was good for the long-term.

150km would cover the entirety of Ukrainian territory currently occupied by Russia?

> The debate went on for more than a decade, but in the end, the GOTO went extinct, and no one today would argue for its return.

Has this person ever looked at Linux kernel code written in plain old C?

goto is used all over the place for cleanup after errors, and also frequently for restarting loops.

What can possibly go wrong if Japan launches a first strike against North Korea, Russia, or China?

Meanwhile is anyone noticing that Binance is basically carbon-copying everything FTX did, or maybe Binance was the original inspiration? They even have splashed a celebrity endorsement, Cristiano Ronaldo, on their frontpage now!

> Cristiano Ronaldo is Coming to Binance

> Gear up for Ronaldo’s first-ever NFT collection, available exclusively on Binance. Sign up with code RONALDO to get a special prize on launch day!

Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches:

> "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."

> "You horrify me!"

> "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at those lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser."

How does sourcing chips that were never made in China move the supply chain away from China?

Just have an AI trade crypto and then use the proceeds to buy itself improved hardware, networking bandwidth, and electricity.

That sort of AI in my opinion would be far more impressive than passing the Turing test, and would start to make an argument it is some sort of living being that deserves some legal protection.

At least one British tabloid claims he and his top lieutenants are plotting an escape to extradition-free Dubai.

Who could have possibly guessed that low income people might not be able to afford the land, building, solar roof, home battery backup system, and Tesla to become essentially independent from the electrical grid?