I was watching a video about this recently, and it's not just Brazil. China has their own, of course, but also Europe is developing one, and so is the UK. Basically everyone wants to get away from Visa and Mastercard.

I think what really pissed off the US is that the Brazilian system only charges 0.33% per transaction, compared to 1-2% for Visa and Mastercard.

Maybe the game box should have a list of when all the licences expire, since apparently a licence is what you are "buying".

Optimius won't do any of that stuff because Musk consistently overestimates how good AI is at vision. He can't even get his cars to stop crashing into stationary objects. A decade ago he promised they would be fully self driving within months, no driver oversight required, and he's still assuming that the huge breakthrough that makes vision actually work is just around the corner and he will be the one to make it.

The method that Musk is attempting has been tried many times before, always ending in failure. You can't just teach an AI to recognize more and more objects until it becomes competent. You can't just teach it more and more facts until it understands the world. The kind of intelligence needed to do seemingly simple tasks like folding clothes is much more general than that.

Seems like an industry problem. It's ridiculous to license a car for a fixed amount of time. Back in the day, a licensed car would be in the game forever, and there was no way to turn it off. The terms have got worse for the consumer, but that was not made clear when buying the game.

For online games they could release the source code of the decade old server, and a patch to allow the use of third party ones. Or a patch to let you play the game offline.

Also remember that this is Europe, so the law on things like this is generally biased towards the weaker party, the consumer. Norms and reasonable expectations count for a lot. Having a button that says "buy" when it's actually just a temporary licence isn't very responsible.

I wonder if it's already happened. I can imagine a law firm creating an LLM based on the writings and court transcripts of a particular judge, and then using it to test out different strategies to see which is likely to be most effective with them.

It's the name of a specific technology that they call "isolates". A lightweight container system designed for this kind of application.

And then the savings can be used to bring down the cost of healthcare, right? Right?!?

It's similar to Apollo 8. Fly around the moon and return on a free return.

They don't have the lander to test, like Apollo 10 did. Presumably there will be another non-landing mission for that, which also includes insertion into lunar orbit, and then leaving again.

This time there may be an unmanned landing first though, as the two landers being developed are going to be capable of fully automated landings and take off. In fact, in the case of Starship, the landing probably has to be automated for the most part.

I'm sure Miller thinks that any qualifications they have were just the result of DEI and not hard work.

You can't reason with people like that. It's like religion, they just invent another story to explain why anything contradictory to their belief is actually confirmation of it.

Not the end of the world in terms of human access to space, but it would be doubleplus ungood for SpaceX. The lawsuits would be astronomical, not to mention the knock on effect of regulation of the industry in future. It would affect Ukraine and doubtless a lot of other things.

TFA doesn't mention the batteries either. Are they moving battery production to the US as well, or will those still be imported?

It's probably a combination of factors, including that. As well as OnlyOffice having a more modern UI, LibreOffice's support for a web version has been on and off over the years. It's also quite old and got a fair bit of legacy code and technical debt that makes it somewhat hard to add new features to.

Collabora is owed by a UK company, outside the EU. OnlyOffice is EU based and already adopted by the French government.

Cue the whining about not having enough people in the office to learn from and bounce ideas off.

Maybe an anti-satellite missile test.

But probably just a bog standard bit of debris hitting it.