Is it really low framerate, or animation stylistically choppy on purpose?

Yes, but at some point they always wind up involving their corporate lawyer droids in the decision making process.

TFA says it only self-balances at low speeds, so the only automation here besides adaptive cruise is self-parking. That is very much not self-driving on the street, but it's also potentially quite useful.

A Raspi with 1 core and 512MB can recognize ~500-2000 different objects. It's no longer expensive to build autonomous assassins. I've been saying for years here that the future of war is toy technology, and here we are.

It seems unfortunate not to get the advantage of imnprovements to gparted. Of course, for most systems of that age, it's reasonably simple to remove the storage device.

The promise of quantum computing is that it will make that cheap, though. I agree it may never come, or may not come for decades even if it does, but let's say it does. You know how big the first transistor was...

Simply put the additional debt with out tax increases that goes straight to the 1% is going to spook the bond market.

The government can borrow as much money as it wants as long as it's pouring it right back into the economy because it comes right back out.

The trouble with Trump is that he's going to borrow $5 trillion dollars and just hand it to the top 1%, who will use it too by a competitors and jack up prices.

The bond market rightfully understands that's a recipe for disaster so they will invert the yield curves and basically crash the bond market.

That will weaken the US dollar increasing the price of imports and The increased inflation coupled with high interest rates and the constant layoffs that plague our entire economic system will lead to a massive crash.

This is before we talk about all the deregulation that's going on that leaves Wall Street open to do pretty much anything they want.

I've said it before but half the people reading this or going to be home listen 4 years, maybe six depending on how much equity they have in their house before the bank takes it. They'll get you with the healthcare system. You'll lose your job and you'll need healthcare so you'll mortgage your house to pay for it. You won't be able to get Medicaid either and there won't be any work for somebody pushing 50. But the system will be designed to prevent you from accessing healthcare unless you have a job, which as I mentioned above you can't get. So you will mortgage your house to pay for the medicine that keeps you alive and then eventually fall behind until the bank takes it.

And that seizure of property is going to be how we get our first trillionaire.

Well, if Russia "already won", then there shouldn't be anything preventing Putin from declaring victory and going home. I await his proclamation and the parades of returning troops in Moscow. /s

The big mistake Firefox made was thinking that the way to compete with Chrome was to copy Chrome instead of continuing to do their own thing and be the browser for people who didn't want Chrome.

I use Firefox for a lot of my browsing (uBlock Origin is great for making YouTube actually usable...) and have no intention of installing Chrome on any PC I am in control of.

Agreed, that is a scenario straight out of a Terminator movie.

That said, it won't happen (much) until they get the energy budget of all that AI down to something that can be powered by a drone battery for a sufficient period of time.

In which sense?

We know he believes in vaccines, because his family is vaccinated. If he can believe in vaccines, he almost certainly believes in antibiotics.

Why attack the uneducated dipshits stating bullshit as if it were fact? YMBNH– Earth that is. That's part of how we got here, by which I mean, another globally rising ride of fascism.

Speaking of rising tides, you know what's spooky to see, even though it's not surprising? How little most people care for their children, and their children's children, as evinced by their unwillingness to allow positive changes to occur because they might lose their trivial privilege.

kenh's main schtick here is downplaying bad shit in defense of excessive capitalism.

It's never been a secret, they've been telling us they want to do all this stuff for decades. Literally for my whole life they have been saying they want to end social aid programs and reduce the size of the government and let businesses perform functions for profit, they wanted to end birthright citizenship, they wanted to make America white again... Most people have just been in denial about it, and what it means.

True, he was more of a Captain Cook, as he was a slaver and a rapist.