Also, a humid environment relies on large amounts of plants. If you have more extreme weather with long periods of drought followed by heavy rain, even if the rain was so heavy that the total longterm rain had increased, you'd have much less forest cover, and less humidity. You'd likely have a semi-arid region instead.

But this is your theory, vs my theory. We can't accurately predict what would become arid vs what would become a lush jungle again. There are some knowns, like we know where all the sinks and former lake beds are in the world, and we know that if there was enough rain those would fill up again. 1. Dead Sea, Jordan/Israel - 414 meters below sea level ... 2. Lake Assal, Djibouti - 155 meters below sea level ... 3. Turpan Pendi, China - 154 meters below sea level ... 4. Qattara Depression, Egypt - 133 meters below sea level ... 5. Vpadina Kaundy, Kazakhstan - 132 meters below sea level ... What we do know is a lot of these sinks (Dead sea especially) became more hostile to life as they dried up and salinity increased. All life, plants, aquatic and on land. If these basins were to refill and salinity diluted enough, there's a good chance that we could see life appearing in and around their shores again, which in turn could lead to a broader stabilization of flora/fauna as fauna tends to spread seed.

I've had a theory about global warming. Basically if most of the earths water is locked up in the poles, this would cause arid regions to form. Releasing the water in the poles would have the opposite effect, causing more rainfall than normal since a greater surface area of the earth would be covered in water, likely swamp like forests. If we look back at the start of the Carboniferous period, the earth was fairly warm, taken from this Berkeley publication.

The beginning of the Carboniferous generally had a more uniform, tropical, and humid climate than exists today. Seasons if any were indistinct. These observations are based on comparisons between fossil and modern-day plant morphology. The Carboniferous plants resemble those that live in tropical and mildly temperate areas today. Many of them lack growth rings, which suggests a uniform climate. This uniformity in climate may have been the result of the large expanse of ocean that covered the entire surface of the globe, except for a localized section where Pangea, the massive supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Triassic, was coming together.

What we do know of these arid regions today is they were once covered with water. The main difference though is as humans, we're the only species smart enough to do things like build storm walls, reservoirs, and flood control measures. It would be interesting if global warming took us to the start of the Carboniferous, where the majority of the planet was warm, humid, and frequently rainy.

I'm not talking about pirating content, to the contrary, work like a regular theatre would and give the studios their cut.

The only difference is more blinkenlights, smaller, and faster.

I'd make it more like Asian karaoke rooms. Give me a setup I can't afford at home, but not nearly the cost of a full theatre setup. Like a screen that's 32:9 superwide. Studio monitor speakers setup for surround. Have lots of rooms on hand that can accomidate 4-6 people, and fewer rooms for larger parties. To prevent shennanigans, all rooms have CCTV cameras. Give me a touch screen to order food or whatever. Flat price per 2 hour block, watch whatever I want. New stuff, old stuff, etc. Take it a bit beyond movies though. Earlier I said model it after karaoke rooms, so add karaoke. Add video games. It's been a long time since I've been to the theatre and seen it packed to the point people were sitting on the steps (Jurrasic Park comes to mind) but those days are over. People can get a passable quality at home, without all the annoyance. So cater to that, cater to the fact that people no longer want to be in a huge auditorium with strangers doing strange things.

At least you can get unaffordable insurance. State Farm is dropping people here in the SF Bay area and refusing to renew in many zip codes. https://www.sfchronicle.com/pr...

It's more than just taxes and regulations. Quality of life for employees. Being able to actually afford a house. I just peeked on Zillow, the neighborhood Apple is going into has 1.6 to 2million dollar homes, but within biking distance are plenty of 900k and under homes. By comparison the 1960's cookie cutter house I live in is about 12 miles to the spaceship, and is worth 1.7m. It takes over an hour to traverse that distance by car during commute hours. In order for a company to function you need all levels of housing, not just for the high salaried engineers and C level staff, but for your cooks and cleaners too. I hope other FAANG companies start following suit and spread the wealth around.

"You might like this too!" is about the only thing streaming offers these days. I have my easynews, RADARR/SONARR NZBgeek, etc along with my subscriptions. Lemme count what I have... Netflix HBOMax Amazon (but came with prime so...) Hulu Disney Peacock I might have some others, but at this point I'm really starting to not see the value of paying over $100@mo for streaming channels which at this point don't have much I want to watch, or in the case of Amazon/Hulu I have to pay an extra $5@mo to not have commercials. I can give my relatives access to my plex, so Disney can fsck off.

Not only that, some of the stuff they already did it before in C++ so now it's just a conversion, most of the logic, which takes considerable time to think of, had already been gone through before, artificially inflating the perception that C++ takes that much more effort. I'd argue the same thing would happen if it was the other way around. In fact I frequentou prototype stuff in a simpler language A before implementing the final product in the final language B (I have specific language combinations for each problem domain and final language requirements).

Now that we know how memories are formed, there is no magical "soul" that exits your body with all of your memories are intact. Your memories are something that can be written, or erased. It won't happen in my lifetime, but I'd love to be around to see where this goes. A persons entire brain backed up, reprinted and reinstalled. Bad memories erased entirely, the implications for how this can help deal with the worse of trauma's is nothing short of amazing.

Anyone outside of the US should review bomb them, and hope that the Streisand effect takes over from there. The Internet makes us a global community now, and this displeases me greatly, and hopefully displeases others.

Here in San Jose CA, we have a development called "Communications Hill" which is a big mound of asbestos. https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home... In our infinite wisdom we decided the best course of action would be to scrape the foliage and topsoil off to build homes! The dust and asbestos that's kicked up rains all over south San Jose.

I'm just a year younger than you. Come to the Federal government, specifically the VA. It's nice here, not nearly the grind, we do things slow and methodically for safety. Age is just a number. You would be shocked that we actually have WFH, and halfway decent pay in Silicon Valley with the new SSR tables. Someone of your caliber would probably come in as a GS-13. After spending a lifetime at startups I wish I would have made this move moons ago.

These guys are luddites up until the point where technology can make them have strength over other warlords in the region, then it's "Let's get an AI SAM system from China!"