Facial recognition technology being used for surveillance is awful, I agree, but I don't think that's what's happening here? It seems like they're just pointing a camera at fireworks, and identifying the property they came from.
Cops with camera drones are also a problem, but it's not like they'd need anything special you can't already get off the shelf to do this.
the curing process introduces carcinogenic nitrates, which is a similar risk factor, if I understand correctly
If you're going to say anything other than unconditionally legal, you need some really clear legal definitions on something, but you certainly can. Like you could define viability as if you delivered it on the spot, you'd have a fully-formed baby with lungs that are ready to breathe, and otherwise unlikely to need life support. You could define the first 6 months of pregnancy as inviable.
You could define the burden of proof in a way that protects doctors, maybe someone trying to already wrongdoing needs to prove that no reasonable physician would agree with their judgement. You could even limit who has standing to take legal action, because some random person on the street isn't party to it at all.
I'm not saying that "if the doctor and pregnant person agree, it's legal" is bad, but there are certainly other reasonable options, that I think would play out similarly in practice. Like I'm assuming a doctor about to deliver a baby wouldn't likely entertain a request for an abortion instead, nor would they likely get one.
The field of artificial intelligence has also made incredible strides in the last decade, and the decade before that. The field of artificial general intelligence has been around for something like 70 years, and has made a really modest amount of progress in that time, on the scale of what they're trying to do.
Watching the commentary would be hilarious.
Not only were there 6 mirror matches in the bracket, prearranging the finals matchup, but plenty of people showed up with decks that weren't red, and some even had favorable matchups against one of these archetypes.
Yet somehow, wotc will look at this and make a ban announcement next week like "We hear you; sheoldred the apocalypse is banned from standard, but we're watching cori steel cutter closely"
Agreeing with this, expanding a RAID array is not necessarily impossible, with something like RAID 5, and the right RAID setup, you could theoretically add an identical disk without wiping it all in the rebuild. RAID 1, you'll 100% need to copy the data somewhere that isn't the 2/4 disks in the meantime. In an environment where storage is expensive, RAID 1 is not suitable imo.
ZFS makes it so easy though. Throw a mismatched disk in? No big deal, it's in your pool now. Want double parity for extra peace of mind? You can do that. It self-heals so you don't need fsck, its maximum limits are too big to realistically matter on human scales, and the documentation on it is pretty good.
At this point, they certainly shouldn't be counting on it
How to avoid Nazis: if you find yourself surrounded by losers, leave.
Fun fact, due to the power difference in the US, kettles are much slower here than some other places. You can run a 3kW kettle on the grid in the UK, and boil a single cup's worth of tea water in about 45 seconds. In the US, most outlets won't allow more than 1800W, or 1.8kW, so the best kettles will take almost twice as long.
Certainly, some interesting developments have happened, and we've realized our old models/thinking about progress towards AGI needed improvement.. and that's real. I think there's a serious conversation to be had about what AGI would be, and how we can know we're approaching it, and when it has arrived.
But anybody telling you it is close either has something to sell you, or has themselves bought it.
Some games also use the rarity system to funnel mechanically simpler cards into more common rarities, which works well in a draft environment, since those are often the cards you want to have come up more. Which is really the point of the system, ideally it would be a system to support draft environments that work well, without artificial scarcity that hurts constructed players.
But you can also make a constructed format that only allows "simpler" cards that have been printed at common, which is neat. Or one that only allows higher rarities.