Degrees aren’t a metric unit, actually. Gradians were an attempt to make a metric unit for angles, but nobody uses those so it didn’t really work.

The people who designed and will use this telescope will be using “steredians”, which is square radians. That’s the unit which astrophysicists use for describing an area of the sky

What are you talking about? That isn’t what they said, and a ball doesn’t have a widest point. That’s more or less the definition of a ball.

The distance between the two poles is smaller than the distance from one side to the other following the equator. The earth isn’t quite a ball, it’s a bit squashed because of way it spins

Putting aside the question of whether the leadership of those countries actually wanted to arrest him, it’s not obvious to me what they could actually do.

When an aircraft is passing through, and not actually landing, they could order it to land (which it would refuse to do, presumably), then they could resort to some posturing with fighter aircraft, then they would either have to give up or shoot down a foreign head of state.

Unless they’re willing to immediately go to war with Israel and the US, and likely a bunch of other countries, there’s really nothing they can do about it

That’s not strictly true, because online shops for tradespeople often have a toggle to control whether VAT is included (and switch it off by default).

That’s a special case though, because VAT is handled differently between businesses

A VPN can absolutely protect you from hostile software elsewhere on the network, so long as you don’t accept traffic from any source other than the VPN. Doing that correctly is a fairly sophisticated thing to do though, and a sufficiently sophisticated threat might find a way to attack you still.

It all depends on your own technical ability and whether you’re protecting yourself from a script kiddie or palantir.

DNA is like a blueprint which describes how to make a person, but it doesn’t actually describe the person. There are a whole bunch of things which are slightly random, and will come out differently every time.

Also, there are a lot of things which change over your lifetime because of things you experience. Since your DNA doesn’t change*, a clone has to start from scratch and would change differently unless it experiences the same things, including things like the food they eat.

*Strictly speaking DNA can kind-of change, but nowhere near enough to store the kinds of things you’re talking about

It sounds like the only person we know was using LLMs was the plaintiff. He believes the court was as well, but I’m not aware of any reason to believe his accusation

Who said anything about overthrowing the whole system? There are plenty of examples of people who got what they wanted by violence, like the suffragettes or the IRA

No, the wires do not become less dense.

There is a virtual force acting to separate each part of the chain from each other part, but locally that force is orders of magnitude less than the bonding forces holding it together. The structure and density of the chain is therefore dominated by electromagnetic forces, rather than the expansion of space.

At large enough scale the expansion force will grow to become comparable to, or exceed, exceed the binding forces. That will cause the chain to stretch, but the electromagnetic forces will still exist and still be applying a restorative force trying to contract the chain again.

I’m pretty sure this requires many light-years of chain though, unless the acceleration of the universe is accelerating (in which case this same principle will eventually tear apart all matter, of any size), and I very much doubt that physics allows a material with the necessary properties

You probably saw something which said the key can’t be remapped, which is likely to be true but only because windows won’t let you, rather than being any kind of technical problem

That’s nonsense. To do what it does, it sends a signal to the operating system. It’s entirely within the operating system’s power to do something different when it gets that signal

Not the radio spectrum, by definition. Visible light and radio are different parts of the spectrum

I can’t see how they’d do it, proton gets installed by the steam client. That client doesn’t run with root privilege, so at the very least they’d have to trigger a password dialog which would be highly obvious.

It does matter, because that Google integration didn’t happen by magic. Whatever the site is, they chose to do things that way.

The only way Google stops things like this is if they get actual pushback, and the only realistic way to achieve that is to make the people using their service reconsider.

I feel like you’re getting a lot of partial answers, so I’ll try and fill in the gaps.

Palestine action are a protest group who believe that Palestinians are being mistreated by Israel, and that the UK shouldn’t support Israel in doing that. They e been around for a while, but obviously they’ve gotten a lot more active recently.

The key thing is that when they say “action”, that’s exactly what they mean. They aren’t about the usual things like protest marches, although I imagine they take part in those as well. Their approach is to do things like shut down roads leading to companies supplying the Israeli military or police by physically blocking the road.

The significant thing they did which brought them to the center of attention was to break into a military airfield, and throw paint into the engines of aircraft which they believed (and were likely correct to believe) were about to go to Israel to provide reconnaissance over Palestine to support military operations there. A lot of the news called that “vandalism”, but in reality a bucket of paint in the intake for a modern jet engine means the engine needs to be partially dismantled and thoroughly cleaned before it can run again. That costs a lot of time, and a huge amount of money, so really it amounts to sabotage.

That seriously angered the government, who used certain powers they were given by parliament years ago to declare that Palestine Action weren’t just criminal, they were terrorists. Those powers allow them to deny all sorts of fundamental legal rights, so much so that they can’t really be said to have been given fair trials. These are powers which were intended for people planting bombs in public places, and they’re alarmingly authoritarian even for that.

Among other things, declaring them terrorists has made it illegal for anyone to support them in any way. As a result, the overwhelming majority of people who have ever been arrested under the terrorism laws are now people who’s only crime was to say that Palestine Action did nothing wrong. Police were rounding up whole crowds of protestors, including harmless elderly people, and arresting them all for “supporting terrorists”

The party has the ability to kick them out, which they’d rather do as far as possible from a general election so that the new leader can be in a position to carry out a successful campaign.

When they resign between elections, it’s usually a matter of leaving before they’re kicked out, to minimise the damage of a public power struggle

My understanding is there was little to no actual science in that data.

To be science, the data would need to be systematic and care would need to be taken to exclude confounding factors. What that unit did doesn’t become science simply because they made notes.

If you’re sure it’s the same day, then I’ll bet they take far more photos than they actually use. Those photos go into some database somewhere, and they have a program which goes through them all and picks the ones it needs to generate street view.

What must have happened is that they’ve made a change to that software for some reason, or possibly they’ve gotten new photos somewhere nearby, so they’ve run it again and it’s picked different photos to use this time

Pretty sure that would be advertising from space, rather than in space, which would definitely make a difference in this case

Yes, and they have a plan for what happens if the rocket explodes. It wouldn’t be completely safe against an explosion this intense, but the dragon capsule (like all manned vehicles, aside from the very notable exception of the space shuttle) can eject itself from the rocket to protect the crew from explosions