As long as it comes with a stick shift.

They may understand perfectly well.

From TFS:

They fear an unknowing investment community. Who will demand, "Do AI or else." The Googles and Microsofts have figured out how to run a protection racket. "That's a nice little pile of stock options ya' got there, buddy. Either do business with us or it would be a shame if something happened to them."

... when someone makes a pitch to the VC people: The company will be just me, my executive secretary and an AI in a rack in the basement. It'll be cheap compared to a bunch of employees and expensive office space. So, invest accordingly.

In reality, everyone knows that not every job will go. So this is just a threat to lower your demands or we'll put you on the chopping block. The first half to sign up for the cuts can stay. Everyone else, get out.

Great! Hand all the right-wingers hypodermic dart rifles loaded with this stuff. Tell them to go hunt LGBTQ+ people and addicts. Everyone is happy.

It's very, very thin. Maybe on the order of an atom or so per cubic meter. So, it may be hot. But there's not much to see.

Temperature is kinetic energy. Which is ~ velocity^2. If the probability that an atom will lose energy via collisions is very low and the distances are very large, it has a long time to accelerate due to gravity or some other effect*.

*Just a moment while I re-read those web pages about the electric universe

... if ever they extend this to the posting of articles.

Seattle is trying that. And the inner city grocery stores are closing. And the urbanists are wringing their hands.

As someone else pointed out: The people in NYC living below the congestion pricing boundary are wealthy. They can afford delivery. So this just pushes the traffic into the poor neighborhoods. Thanks to NYCs geography, this is made simple. Cordoning off one end of the island is relatively easy.

If the Parental Controls have been set to "No Ads", then yes.

Microsoft doesn't have access to Chrome's internals like they do Windows components. The only thing they could do is block it.

... Hedy Lamarr when we need her?

Back in the last century, New York politicians were decrying the fact that the city was becoming a "food desert". You can't support much more than corner bodegas, with their beer, cigarettes and chips based on walk-in traffic. The city decided to relent on some development regulations and allow big box grocery stores with parking garages, fresh produce and better product selections.

We'll see how this turns out. It will, of course take years. In the interim, politicians will declare success.

When Covid hit and companies allowed WFH, where did the people go? When they were forced back to the office, they were also forced back to the cities and the empty office buildings. Over many people's objections.

Perhaps Microsoft recognizes Chrome for what it is: An advertising portal that shouldn't be in the hands of kids.

... since The Guardian's article on San Serriffe

We don't know. The CCA revenue breakdowns and fund allocations are unauditable. That was a part of the law. Because as one of the supporting legislators testified, "The public just wouldn't understand."