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This assumes the purpose of life is to do nothing, that sitting on a beach forever is somehow heaven. Not everyone sees life that way (interestingly such views of work = hell is probably negatively correlated with success).

For the life of me, I can't understand how neither IOS nor Android offers some type of "Simple UI" setting.

It should only consist of 4 Icons: Call, Email, Text, Web

It is a crazily under-served market.

when they started, you could get your results anonymously. I recommended several friends to try. Then they changed that policy...at which point I stopped recommending it.

I'm not saying this is the cause, but they had a chance to be good guys and decided against it.

>... if the manufacturer was willing to properly insure it,

Its not just the manufacturers, who is underwriting all that insurance?

Ford sells approximately 2.3M vehicles per year, imagine if 50% of self-driving...over a 5 year period that 5.5M cars...if each one needs to carry a potential 1M policy thats an incredible amount of liability on someone's balance sheet. (even if you say the policy is only 100K thats still $576B in liability)

Thats only for Ford, add in all vehicles manufacturers and extend that to 10-15 years into the future and thats an incredible amount.

However there is nothing to say that a new laws won't be passed to allow manufacturers to escape liability. Most likely this is what will happen (see vaccine courts, etc)

its not only lines on the road though:

Imagine you are following a pickup-truck and out of the back an obviously empty box floats out of the bed and lands directly in front of your car.

For a human its trivial to know the box is empty and its ok to hit it....does "AI" know that?

Multiply that case x1000 and you have the conditions self-driving cars will need to handle on a daily basis.

how do you see insurance working? why would drivers be responsible to have insurance when the car is completely controlled by bigcorp programmers?

Also, the the familial relations of MacOS and Linux made it possible to share code fairly seamlessly between both (providing not talking about hardware integration). In a world where we there was 3 separate universes: Windows, BeOS, and Linux it's possible Linux would've become more isolated.

>confusing government agencies

pretty dry humor

Seriously though, ATT was a government entity that got its huge advantage from being a monopoly. After they were forced to "split up" (wink wink nudge nudge) they then shed all their unprofitable business and recombined again as new "ATT".

At no point have they ever really become a customer-focused company and all their decisions are steeped in monopolistic style thinking.

Yes, who cares about the forced labor camps and suicide nets around factories. I want my cheap plastic consumer devices!!

then why stop at 2^128...why didn't they use 2^256?

>Isn't the whole point to have more address space than will ever by physically possible to need?

Is that not the definition of over-engineering?

Will any device made of matter / operating in polynomial time ever be able to hold the full 2^128 address space? It seems like we will forever be sub-netting into huge blocks simply because the entire space if mathematically infeasible to operate on. I think its fair to ask: Whats the point?

Not really. Western music is driven by harmonic progression, which is largely absent in most other cultures. The lack of "chord changes" is why its so easy to discern western vs eastern music.

I've lived in two developing countries in my life, and its interesting how CA is morphing back into that. Small enclaves of super-rich, very high price communities where everything works, surrounded by large swaths of shanty towns where nothing works.

Should "undocumented immigrants" be vaccinated? How could that be achieved?

This article is mainly pro-pharma propaganda. Not because its “pro-vaccine”, since vaccines themselves are very useful medical tools. It’s that it frames the issue that “any questioning of the 25 vaccine schedule orthodoxy means you are an anti-science religious whack job” It’s fine to be both pro-vaccine, without feeling the need to purchase the whole Merk lifetime subscription catalog.

Yes or the alternative:

All faxes pile up in copy room in huge disorganized piles (page 4 of this mixed in with page 2 of that) which no one can disentangle so they are eventually all ignored / thrown away.

Quote:

> The experiment described in the paper sampled randomly generated numbers produced through a specialized scenario involving quantum phenomena.

Why even write that sentence? It literally means nothing. From a tech perspective, it makes me completely doubt both the authors competency and googles supposed claim. It sounds alot like modern snake-oil salesmanship.

>would be the supposed quantum supremacy

True. Another way he could have responded is: We don't care if quantum computers actually do anything useful, only that we can use the PR to get positive stock price movement.

Strange that they haven't considered chemical reasons: Males have more iron / more hemoglobin...perhaps male bones are just more likely to fossilize for some chemical reason(s)?

Well, Brave started from nothing and seems to be growing. I use it now on all my devices and really like it as a daily driver.

Had Brendan been able to try these ideas with the firefox userbase it could've advanced the privacy conversation much further...

One of the hallmarks of a collapsing society is that "everything becomes a political statement". The newspaper you read is a political choice, as does the sneakers you wear, and where you eat for lunch.

As Harvard Professor Robert Putnam has pointed out: One of the effects of "increased diversity" is that there is a shift away from being a high-trust society. This causes, among other things, increased isolation and social disengagement.

No doubt this isn't the only cause of pubs / bars closing, but it is a real measurable effect.

1. sign up for new phone at heavily subsidized rate in exchange for 3 yr service

2. after month 1 cancel service / credit card

3. sell unlocked phone on ebay

Electric cars are really fun to drive from a sports perspective, its just a shame they have such huge carbon footprints. Singapore, who has some of best pollution regulations of any modern state, has rated electric cars as "super polluter" status.

Out of interest, are apps that help you break the law against iOS App Store guidelines?

Dont the chinese own grindr now? is it fully legal to use in china?

What you said is true, but Project DragonFly is a real thing and its quite likely DragonFly has state-sponsored spies working on it. (Possibly without google's knowledge)

There is a certain disconnect between "warning about antibiotic overuse" and ignoring that the same selection pressures are exerted by vaccine use.

The unspoken tragedy of this is how the IRS limits for "wealthy" were developed in 1913 when $250K as upper-limit was equivalent of several million dollars now.

They seem to have zero interest in re-calibrating those high brackets into something more meaningful to account for the 100 years of continually inflation.