If YouTube hadn't bowed to pressure from an SJW who hates everything he disagrees with (seriously, look back at his videos and tweets and you'll see), YT would never have been in this situation in the first place. And if had only affected Crowder, it probably would not have been amplified like it was. However, it was another example of mass action across independent and conservative content creators (check #VoxAdpocalypse for e.g.). This was another round of censorship against those who do not subscribe to, or question, the Silicon Valley/SJW/Liberal Group Think.

Everyone disagrees with everyone else on something, but debate, civility, and etiquette are lacking across the spectrum on social sites (no duh, eh?)

Patents and IP.

But good luck and have an IP lawyer on speed-dial.

$500 and $400: maybe, but no for me.

$1,000+ and $500: strong pass.

That's a great actual vacuum cleaner and mop, bucket, & soap / Swiffer & pads.

I know its April Fools Day. But I think someone hit the wrong key. +20% sounds more like Whole Foods.

Is this like those furniture stores that will sell a dining table for $500 normal days. Then on holidays, they sell the same table as 50% off the 'MSRP' of $1500 for $750?

The MSM, like WaPo, are targeting 8chan because of the QAnon movement/conspiracy/nonsense (take your pick). Not because of terrorists, or trolls, or obnoxious and absurd posts. Q, that's it.
Q continues to drop bits of info that TPTB/Cabal would rather keep in the dark. They can't have that now. Take it with grains of salt, but too much has been proven true to fully dismiss it.

A "server configuration error" that prevents login and access issues happen to a small business with A rack of servers. NOT to one of the largest IT companies in the world. That would be an incredibly fast replication across how many globe-wide datacenters?

What happened? Who knows? The QAnon crowd has a DARPA / Lifelog / Building8 theory. Give that what credence you need to. Seems plausible to me (without too much tin-foil).

How often have you seen projects of this type come along, then the nearby residents, wealthy or otherwise, decry the proposal? They head to the city council meeting and petition to have the property rezoned to single-building, single-family. "NIMBY! My House's Value! Increase in neighborhood crime!"

Developers over the past 15-20y have expressed little interest in building "affordable" housing. The profit margins are just that much higher for McMansions in new or wealthy neighborhoods.

Short of the government (not MSFT) contracting specific affordable housing projects (that will come in over-budget and under-quality), the status quo will remain.

Virtual walls are expensive to buy and maintain. Its not like the cameras will be simple IR illuminated CCD style you buy at a big box store. They'll be high resolution with thermal imaging. They have to survive difficult environmental conditions. Hundreds of miles of fiber optics and fiber switchgear. Expensive servers and front-end clients. Federal contractors to maintain it all.

Versus a physical barrier CBP can drive by and inspect for damage on occasion.

Versus a Virtual Fence, they're not much of a deterrent. "Woooo, I'm so scared of being caught on video. OMG! What if they use facial recognition that isn't used in my home country?" vs "Hmm... 30ft wall, spikes and/or barbwire... Maybe I should just use an actual border crossing?"

If your donors include many defense contractors, which system are you going to pitch?

Here in Alaska, there is always concern over the fish stocks. The commercial boats want to catch as much as possible for as cheaply as possible. The sport fishers and charter boats want to catch a reasonable amount (relatively small) and have fun doing it. And the subsistence fishers just want to pack their freezers so they can survive.

From my sport fisher point-of-view, aside from the climate change bits, the problem is over-fishing by the commercial boats. Those trawlers just catch sooo many fish. 8y ago, our average halibut was 45-50 lbs, and keep 2 of any size. Now its

The salmon aren't any different. The return numbers and escapements continue to get lower. And I can't tell you the last time the US met its TREATY goals with Canada. If the commercial boats catch all the salmon in the ocean, they can't return to spawn to make more fish.

Many of these problems are man-made with straightforward solutions.

I still have a newspaper subscription to my house, plus their online edition. The bonuses: a finite amount to read, more local articles vs national, the big sports stat tables on one page, the comics, and the puzzles.

Social media is good for friends and family, independent news, and news from all corners of the world. But its infinite (essentially)! Easily distracting and the biggest time sink humanity has ever created.

Is the Pinterest API available publicly? If so, this is not a story.

If anything, it may be a violation of the TOS and FB would have otherwise been paid for commercial access to the same data.

But you know... The $bad_guys did it!! In this case, $bad_guys = Russians.

Would it surprise you if they did it just for the patents? Then they could "tin-foil hat" : keep the proles from using it. Then the elite could keep the energy costs high, and control the supply. Or protect the current interests from "free" energy.
Perhaps that's a bit tin-foil for me, but...

I miss my 12" Powerbook G4. That thing served me well for over a decade. Still have it on the shelf, and its definitely dated, but it still works.

Oh that keyboard! Equivalent to Thinkpads. No one else came close in that era.

I'd buy another one with modern hardware, a 4:3 screen, same dimensions, and a unibody machined chassis. The Macbook isn't a replacement, and neither is the MBA. And no thinner than my Late-2011 MBP.

Not sure what my next laptop will be. System76 Galago and Thinkpad T480 are my shortlist. The Dell XPS is nice too.

Don't forget weather. It snowed here in Fairbanks today. Combine that with the icy roads and slush. Can self-driving cars handle such conditions? Or a downhill stop on a slick surface. Or an uphill start in the snow? Or lanes where the stripes are not visible? Or gravel and dirt roads? Or GPS maps that have our roads 20 ft off-center?

Perhaps someday, but certainly not today, tomorrow, or anytime soon.

On my last visit to family in Michigan, deer were everywhere. And they are being pests. I say: larger quotas for hunting season. Same for this area. Venison jerky is very tasty. What say you Eco folks? Save the trees, or save the deer?