But what if how the world really works differs from the intention of the policy?

Foxconn renames two factories in Zhengzhou to "Vietnam" and "India". Chinese government confirms by assigning territorial sovereignty of the loading docks to the respective countries.

Solar+battery means not having to participate in expensive old dirty energy. The grid can adapt or become nonviable.

When we terminated our Comcast cable internet service we took our mandatory leased equipment to their office and like everyone else took a selfie of us turning it in to the clerk because that's how trustworthy they are. When we terminated CenturyLink it was more fun. You're fired. Why? We got Starlink so you're fired. Hahahahaha.

LOL. When Russia invaded Ukraine they effortlessly hacked and disabled the other Satellite Internet providers (hard bricking the hardware) in the hours before. They also jammed the cellular links and cut the external cables. The only network left standing in the conflict zone was Starlink, and without it we wouldn't know about the Russian atrocities that took place under the cover of that communication blockade. Which led the relevant Ukrainian secretary to reach out to Elon on Twitter and request assistance. Starlink had been waiting for government approval to enable wide availability and interpreted the request as such approval. Within a day semi trucks full of free Starlink ground stations were en route.

Russia has had their top electronic warfare people on the Starlink problem ever since. The only impact they have had was for Elon to thank them for the help on hardening the network against attack.

The goal is to pay for Mars. And they're getting it done.

Don't let your children take career advice from people who sold themselves into slavery.

I do wonder if these will fundamentally be different OS's or just track each other forever.

Nuclear power is expensive and reliant on external fuels. It takes over a decade to build. It makes a mess we can't clean up. And they lie about all these things.

If you started today you could have a nuclear reactor built by probably 2040. But only if you're lucky because 19 times in 20 they spend a bunch of time and money and then cancel. It would cost many times what solar wind and battery are going for at that time. But the renewables you have online in a year. The reactor doesn't fire up until you have been paying compound interest on the price and overruns for a decade or more.

We don't need it. Which is good because like I said it takes forever to build. We need solutions now, not empty promises that never turn out 15 years from now.

Oh, that's all, is it.

Yep, you're right 1 hour max /s.

Browsers are the most insecure attack surface of any aspect of modern computers. Apple's s/w is built using standard engineering decision-making - can we rely on X being there ? Why yes we can, so we can delegate this function to that system framework which we've tested is all secure.

Except that all breaks down when someone installs a 3rd party browser. Now the security model of the system depends on the security model of the installed browser, and that's just not acceptable. It may be the user's fault that they installed but you can guarantee that Apple will be holding the can at the end of any argument over why their nudes are now all over the internet.

We used to have this back in the day.

We called it books. There was a list, actually, and everyone was expected to understand them.

To say that the "publication claims" is to say that the issue is asserted as editorial policy. That didn't happen anymore than "goto considered harmful". It's a scholarly publication that publishes scholarly articles without editorial endorsement.

"Blood on its hands": you can neither spend nor give away a billion dollars without ending a human life by commission or omission. Big numbers always mean somebody gets hurt. So anything or anyone on that scale has blood on their hands one way or the other.

Social media: it's almost exclusively antisocial media. You can dismiss the 90% of the content generated by bots because it's modeled to fit in with and pass for human generated content of the worst sort, amplifying disinformation and bitterness. So what's left? Organic content posted by narcissists that is hateful, vile, despicable and violent. In short, we suck. We are the problem.

Sigh. We don't teach history anymore.

Those Great Plains you refer to were called the Dust Bowl a century ago.

Not gonna cry for US owners of oceanfront property. Sorry not sorry. You fenced off the ocean.

Dozens of feet? What will we do without Florida? Oh, yeah. Florida swampland has been a real estate joke since the 1920's. You can't be affected unless you spent your life accelerating climate change. I'm sure it will make a nice SCUBA park.

Other countries where they park their slums on the beach I might worry about. If the land goes down and the ocean goes up it's important to teach your children how to swim.

They're an older less reliable model that can't be refurbished to the current level. That's part of why the no recovery attempt. It was either drop them in the ocean or slag them.

Obviously they wanted as many to reach cutoff as possible and not have so many on one side. So six out isn't ideal. But unless that caused the failure (unlikely) it's acceptable.

Note that each engine generates as much energy as a fission reactor in the volume of your car's engine compartment. 33 of them in a 9 meter diameter circle is a lot of thermal.