Many of the items people refer to as stolen were sold to the museum by the locals or even governments of the countries the items came from. If I sell you a sculpture my grandfather made, it would be false if my son accused you of theft because the sculpture had sentimental value.

Likewise it was often the case that the locals didn't care that items were taken. Some old half buried ruin held little value to them at the time so objections weren't raised. The museum has ensured those items have been preserved and studied instead of forgotten, ravaged by time, destroyed in wars, etc.

And some items were straight up taken. It's a mix of all the above but critics like to lump them all together and claim they were stolen. The situation is not as black and white as that.

Generally lots of smaller transactions takes longer to accomplish, allowing time for the competition to react and also for other players to enter the market to fill any opportunity that opens up through those transactions reducing choice to consumers. It is usually best for consumers that those takeovers don't happen at all, but when they do then it is preferable to have them spread over a longer period of time than completed in one hit.

The flip was too early, before MECO, too low and too slow. I believe that the rocket was underpowered due to the engines being out (possibly damaged from the destruction of the concrete pad below the launch mount), with asymmetric thrust. As the rocket emptied from fuel this moved the centre of gravity relative to the centre of pressure, which was in turn significant enough to spin the rocket due to it being lower in the atmosphere than planned when having that little fuel. With the lost engines and asymmetric thrust the rocket couldn’t gimbal enough to correct any more.

Still I reckon that was a successful flight for them. Subsequent rockets already have hundreds of design improvements, and will improve further over the 4 - 6 months it’ll take to repair the pad and prepare for the next test flight.

The best news is the production cadence of the rockets and engines. As they refine the design and operations Starship will obliterate the competition.

Add up all the deaths from nuclear power vs coal power or even air travel if you want to keep going with that comparison. Even Chernobyl only accounts for about 90 deaths from direct radiation exposure, with some reports suggesting 4,000 deaths amongst the exposed populace.

Since 1970 there have been over 83,000 deaths in aviation accidents.

And that's a rounding error compared to deaths from the air pollution from coal. On top of all the usual pollution you'd expect, coal and gas power plants have released orders of magnitude more radiation into the atmosphere than all the nuclear disasters combined.

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The problem with ChatGPT is that our has no concept of truth. It doesnâ(TM)t present truthful answers to you. Just statistically logical words that follow the word before. Itâ(TM)s a very impressive magic trick but a trick nonetheless.

Musk, for his part, has stated that part of the reason he stepped away from OpenAI is that it no longer adheres to those reasons it was set up. It is no longer a not for profit.

Your brain is built on the concept of discarding information and only focussing and processing that which is relevant. Discarding information is not inherently bad if that information holds less value than the compromise and cost of retaining it.

Saying "well that's just the way God made it" satisfies every single edge case, known and unknown. Yet as a model for how the universe works it has zero value. Satisfying edge cases isn't the only measure of the worth of a theory.

I'm a UK employer with around 50 employees in the business, with 6 in the dev team. The sales team are mostly remote and whilst my development team are office based I'm not that worried where they're based as long as they get the job done. Our head office is oop north and the dev team down south anyway so there is already an element of remote working involved.

However I've yet to see anyone make a truly compelling case for routine remote working. My developers tried it when we first started the business and really didn't like it. They missed being in an environment dedicated to work with no kids running around downstairs and also the social aspects of being part of a team physically sat in the same room.

I'm recruiting at the moment for a new web developer (good all round skills required in PHP and / or Node, general experience with SQL databases) so if someone can convince me they can do the job remotely then I'm all ears.

Because the campaigners always take it a step further and say it's more distracting to be on the phone than not even if you have a hands free kit. Usually their studies are in contrived circumstances and omit that doing anything other than focusing 100% on driving is going to increase the risk of mistakes, including just having a conversation with someone sat next to you. Are they going to campaign against car sharing lanes as they encourage people to be in the same car as each other which in turn promotes distracting conversations?

Of course not as that would be ridiculous. Likewise banning hands free mobile phones may improve accident rates slightly but doing so is absurd, and yet that is what people are campaigning for. Here in the UK we already have enough laws to cover this - using a non-hands free mobile phone whilst driving is illegal, and driving without due care and attention covers any other poor driving due to distraction of any kind, but requires you to actually be driving poorly. We're not all the same and there are plenty of god awful drivers out there who are quite oblivious to what's happening around them regardless of how much they are forced to concentrate on driving the car.

The reason is risk. When our backs are against the wall we take far greater risks, both financial and in risking human life. We'll try everything no matter what the cost and see what sticks. When things seem all peachy we lack the motivation to take that same level of risk, and are completely against anything that may involve personal risk to the humans involved.

It was the first processor I learned to write assembly for, back on the Acorn Archimedes. Brilliant computers, so far ahead of their time, and I wouldn't be half the programmer I am now were it not for learning on those machines.

Several journalists have made this mistake, such as the drivel posted here: Trusted Reviews

They seem to think that the register size being equal means that software written for them is somehow much more similar. In reality the CPUs and the software they run are no closer to each other than before. The main benefit of this move to the latest ARM CPU design is ironically much the same as the advantage brought by x86_64 - more registers are now available and some floating point operations are more efficient. This will translate into a small performance increase but it won't be night and day.

But equally there are thousands of really talented programmers who examine the source code very thoroughly, many of whom contribute back. If there were back doors then there is a high chance that they would have been detected. Plus anyone really paranoid about it CAN go and check the source code to make sure for themselves.

With propriety operating systems you do not have that luxury.

Component sales to Apple are a relatively small percentage of Samsung's profits from the mobile sector. They've probably calculated that the potential gain in market share, and related profits, easily outstrips any drop in component orders by Apple.