Some of the satellite constellations are already devoted to earth imaging. Planet Labs has a dozen SkySats and a few hundred Dove satellites that deliver multiple images per day of the entire earth surface.

Technically, SpaceX’s Tesla was launched much further, but it stopped transmitting before it got too far.

The unfortunate thing is, there’s just not enough surface area on a car to make a meaningful dent in recharging more than a mile or two each day. Using a structure over that parking lot space would have double or more the efficiency, and a quarter of the cost, of trying to put little panels all over the car.

No. You can’t gain more energy from the airflow than you lose from making the airflow go through the turbines.

In September of 2011, while living in Yemen, Hellfire missiles from a U.S. Predator drone struck the convoy the 25-year-old blogger was traveling in, killing him.

C3PO had two whole movies before the Ewoks.

To grow anything on the moon, you need artificial light, because the site will be dark for more than two weeks at a time, every month.

From the article, it started with a dealer installed update for some earlier vehicles, but was also factory installed for a period of time on newer vehicles. So it sounds like you just never got that update, and should wait for the new update. 

because the robots in all the movies I’ve seen are either homicidal or very depressed.

Not the Roadster, I guess.

They are not talking about copyright. (Where “transformative work” has legal meaning.) Here they are only talking about Section 230's protection against lawsuits. He’s saying that you CAN sue the company behind an AI if it creates and publishes defamatory or otherwise illegal info.

Yes. Without 230's protections, if you want to make a video channel, you would need to host your own server, and write your own website. Because Youtube wouldn’t do it any more, and neither would any website hosting companies. And if you got more popular than a few simultaneous viewers, then you’d need huge upgrades…

But the thing he maybe influenced isn’t even in game yet, so the claim is still invalid. (Even if an “idea” could be copyrightable, which it is not.)

This is not like the “DMCA lite” takedowns that YouTube has. This was an actual DMCA request, which legally mandated certain action by Valve. They didn’t have a choice. It's a bad law, but it is the law right now.

I think an important part of the experiment is that the pitcher is also being accelerated in the X axis, while the droplets are accelerating in the Y. For some values of pitcher acceleration, it should form a straight line through the droplets, at least to the precision of such movement.

Like why does the library system have anything to do with city hall, from a network perspective?

It’s the other way around. Every Tesla comes with the adaptor to use other charger types. But the Superchargers can only charge a Tesla. But Tesla has already been working on changing that, and had opened pilot Superchargers stations which support both connections as early as 2021. So this isn’t really new.

Most of the current panic is self inflicted.

If they are basing this on a 2009 law which was only passed in 2011, then doesn’t applying it to earlier models make it “ex-post facto”?

Andrei Sergey, you’ve lost another coolant system submarine?