Apple has already released Darwin for M1 Macs on their https://opensource.apple.com/ page. This includes their Mach microkernel and almost all of the userland. I downloaded the XNU kernel and a bit of grepping found a lot of USB code in there. But I suspect it would be a lot of work to extract it all to Linux, and why would you bother? You already have an entire UNIX available in MacOS itself.

If the company had done all that, there wouldn't be a problem.

Excess deaths are an increasingly closely tracked statistic. In the US, excess deaths over what we would normally see are way, way up in many age groups. In many countries in Europe, excess deaths are way up for the elderly, but more like a bad flu season for all other ages. Demographics are certainly going to play a role in case outcomes and mortality, but âoenot deadâ is also a pretty low bar for recovery. Health care systems are going to be impacted my various COVID syndromes for a generation (and Iâ(TM)m sure the snake oil salesman are already firing up their advertising printing presses.)

Determining whether you might be contagious is not about you.

(And this isn't "Big Data". What's with the over-use of that buzzword? The Apple Watch is just a watch that connects to your phone and stores the data there. Or did you mean Big Brother? Because since it's all kept local, it's not that either. It's just a tool, use it how you want, or don't.)

Except that early indications are that the South African variant bypasses the immunity from the original variant. And then there will be another such variety beyond that unless people start taking it seriously and reducing the virus population to the point that these variants are less likely to arise. Current vaccines seem to still work for both, and masks and hand-washing are still effective. But assuming things will be over once everyoneâ(TM)s gotten it doesnâ(TM)t seem likely.

You're referring to the President that just a year ago launched a cruise missile attack, killing a top Iranian general and bringing us to the brink of war for no apparent reason? And who doesn't know how to build a coalition to save his life? Wars aren't avoided by withdrawing some troops or singing some political theater "peace deal", they're avoided by making strong ties with other countries and building trade and connections such that going to war hurts them more than not going to war.

Nest CEO Tony Fadell told The Verge.... While the founder wouldn’t say that Nest’s privacy policy would “never” change, he did maintain that “our privacy policy stays exactly our privacy policy, that doesn’t change” and that “at this point, there are no changes to our terms of service.”

“We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is all about. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.

“You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can’t let that happen. These are the facts that you won’t hear from the fake news media. It’s all part of the suppression effort. They don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to talk about it.

“We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

"Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. We are going to the Capitol, and we are going to try and give — the Democrats are hopeless, they are never voting for anything, not even one vote, but we are going to try — give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re try — going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”

Since 1975, the US has gone quite a bit backwards in metric-ification of the transportation system. Many major US highways have, since then, renumbered all their exits to match the mile markers of the highway. And people have become very aware of miles per gallon.

Of course, temperature, weight, height, and most practical everyday measurements are all also non-metric. About the only metric thing a typical American buys is a 2-liter bottle, and those come in 2 or 3 liter variants-- both referred to as "2-liter bottles." (No joke. "2 Liter" is like a brand name for a big bottle of carbonated beverage.)

Which is about the same length as a European football pitch, for the purposes of giving someone a practical idea about how big this is... so... what's the problem again?

Thatâ(TM)s why Trump personally is @realDonaldTrump and the office of the President is @potus. Itâ(TM)s irresponsible to unsubscribe people from the potus account, especially during a pandemic and handover of power.

Tim Cook has been an amazing CEO for Apple, and Elon Musk has been a great CEO for Tesla. I'm not sure either one would have been very good as the leader of the other company. Apple would probably not have gotten Tesla to its current valuation, so basically, I think Cook was a lot smarter than Musk in not taking this call. If Apple does a car, they'll do it their own way, and everyone-- Apple, Tesla, and customers-- will be better for it.

The New York Times has a valuation of $7B and makes about $175M in profit a year on revenues of $1.8B. The two companies are actually somewhat comparable in their current financials. We'll see about the future financials or credibility of CoinBase, but those of the New York Times have been tested for a century and a half, and remain intact.

Up until MacOS 10.13 they published their entire XNU kernel and core OS as open source (BSD style) code. MacOS 11.0 with M1 support hasnâ(TM)t shown up yet on the site. People wanting more openness should probably specifically push for that.

And the Mir space station...

(This is starting to sound like a Life of Brian sketch.)