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It doesn't really say whether the jury can alter the fine, but I'm pretty sure that, if that is an option, the company would opt for a bench trial. There maybe you wouldn't be able to have a bench trail, no idea if there are rules about when you can do that in civil court...

The biggest new year/spring festival tv special in China, this year, featured a short robot martial arts sequence (including weapons). As it goes on, they also have children join in fairly close to the robots, which is scarry in a different way. I'm sure there was a lot of planning for the...

If we're talking data centers, you'd probably need chip fabs on the moon, to make that work. Maybe, you could ship some small portion of the mass from Earth, but the vast majority would have to be mass already on the moon for it to make any sense, so at least some major components would need to...

If you dramatically scale down your concept of data center from those bigger than ISS concept renders they throw out there to a 1u cube sat stuffed with a few chips and a laser to hook up with Starlink, and then lofted them to a graveyard orbit, where they would stay up there, you could probably...

Not to defend the oligarchs of the world, but I think that the "targeted personally" is exactly why they go along. Now that Trump has all the federal agencies competing to punish whoever catches his ire, Anyone that he even looks at is just throwing money in hopes that he will turn his gaze. If...

I always assumed that door closing controls was a normal thing you could install anywhere, but I wonder if maybe there is some safety regulation or some other reason that is not allowed in America It's hard to imagine that google can't figure out that such a thing exists, so there's got to be a...

Not sure, but I think the global entry does fingerprints, and I'm pretty sure you still don't need that for a passport. It might also might be worth noting that anyone without a US passport entering the US has their fingerprints scanned (at least at airports, not sure about the actual boarder...

I think the Chinese disinterest and/or lack of understanding of American politics is probably a big part of why people moved to the platform. I think the owners of the app are pretty apolitical, and that is more or less a legal necessity in China, as the politically correct position on most...

I think the problem is more with how reliable the code needs to be and how often it needs to be changed. If you're just building something to hand off, the decreased time to get the code out is a real boon, but if you're constantly being asked to change how existing code works (for whatever...

Do we know the mechanisms that various stimulants use, or know if they operate differently enough to be able to mix them safely? I know people have studied caffeine a fair amount, but are the rest of these stimulants studied enough to even know if it is safe to add them on top of what is...

I think the transformation is that, with AI, an executive might be able to use Excel to do something themselves. Odds of the spreadsheet accurately accomplishing anything may be low, but that's not a problem because nobody that understands any of the data (or Excel) will even see it.

It might be impractical as a private jet, but I'm sure there will be a few private buyers regardless of practicality. I suspect the main market would probably be commercial trans pacific routes. I'm sure there are quite a few trans pacific routes where you could charge 50k USD for a seat or...

Japan has some laws around loot boxes, buying a random chance at something you might want in a game, but I don't think there are rules around items you can get randomly inside the game without paying extra.

Can violations of the Hatch act be prosecuted by anyone outside of the executive branch?

That's probably after the execs can sell their stock options, so not a problem... /s

I wonder if there is really any money saved with cutting the safety reviews. It obviously costs money to review and mitigate safety concerns, but it probably isn't a huge factor in overall costs. Ideally, the reviews would find nothing, and then you would save money by not doing them, but if...

Economistic talk about an "inflationary mindset" that allows price increases to accepted and even expected by consumers, and then companies just start raising prices of any (or no) reason, all the time. I think we're getting there...

I wonder if there could be a way to cut the federal agencies out of the process of funding science all together. A lot of programs are more or less a passthrough to the states which each work out the details of how to spend the money within certain restrictions. I'm sure there are more research...

Sometimes fines can be directed to fund the agencies that issue them, but mostly, they just go to the treasury, like most taxes do, so reducing the amount the government needs to borrow ever so slightly. Money to consumers would tend to be through a class action lawsuit, but it would be...

The water is mostly from the power grid, mostly from coal plants (steam)