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Not sure “thankless” really applies here. She enjoyed a sort of celebrity status for the past 40-50 years and was universally loved.

Ball spin would be trivial to simulate. The only way I could see the physics getting at all expensive is if they went overboard with fluid dynamics

What is the significance of the article/post title...?

AWS has a denied party screening team and absolutely restricts access to services based on the BIS entity list and other sanctioned parties.

I believe Musk was wealthy basically from birth…

Whether MS deserves credit or not, he's a very senior SW engineer at Microsoft so this should at least provide some reassurance that the company has technical leaders who are looking out for these sorts of security risks...

> TIL that car fatalities were declining until 2019, and then reversed and are getting worse.

Per your link, fatalities per mile drive bottomed out in 2014 and barely dropped after 2010. There's been some speculation that this reversal in safety was tied to the rise of smartphones and a corresponding increase of distracted driving.

How so? The submission you linked is a different article?

Speech to text is often wrong too. So is autocorrect. And object detection. Computers don't have to be 100% correct in order to be useful, as long as we don't put too much faith in them.

This seems like a non sequitur -- the parent was just pointing out that the article's use of "browser" was probably a typo. In addition to being more correct using "search engine" or just "search" in place of "browser" would have made that sentence more accessible to the "rest of the population" you're describing.

That seems like a leap -- there's other foods that can provide sufficient iodine (e.g. fish, eggs, milk)...

You didn't really make a comment -- you just dropped in an Asimov quote. And xNeil's interpretation of the relevance of that comment matched my intuition. If you had some other intent with that comment, maybe you should clarify?

The USG isn't setting out to make money on major ventures. Publicly traded companies are.

Can you share the palindrome?

A Google search suggests that person may have been talking about the Black Dahlia killer, not the Zodiac killer