Lockdown isn't the right word. We haven't had a lockdown here for months.

The tourism situation isn't as bad as it might sound. Before the pandemic domestic tourism was already >50% of local tourism spend. Domestic tourism spending is increasing sharply because NZers don't want to travel overseas. A big part of the problem for tourism operators is simply that domestic spending is more bursty because of school holidays.

Yes, if there's no vaccine NZ will have some hard decisions to make. But it is much more likely that there will be a vaccine. Even a vaccine that's not very effective would still give us valuable options. E.g. if it only works for 80% of people, or only lasts for an average of three months, vaccinating everyone and then dropping border controls would still be much better than the kind of spread other countries have had to date; spread would be slower and cases less severe.

And yes, I know about their 2017 Russia release. That was weak sauce, clearly a controlled release. https://www.wired.com/story/wi...

That's the problem with Wikileaks --- it was always fighting against the Western establishment, and never against China, Russia and other non-Western bad actors. Which makes it all too likely that Assange is a Russian stooge, perhaps consciously, perhaps not.

Even in the 1920s people knew that it was wrong to chase women around a desk because you want to have sex with them.

You don't know me at all so no need to bother with the wild accusations.

I don't have a problem with the gender swaps. They'll need to change a lot more than just gender to make the characters more interesting than the plastic characters Asimov wrote.

There's a looming problem for this series, which is that Asimov was a sexually-harrassing creep who would totally be canceled today, and deserve it. Maybe the gender swaps will help them dodge that.

Orphan Black is awesome. I guess technically it's an "almost all female cast", but more accurately it's an "almost all Tatiana Maslany cast" :-).

No, in NZ the publicly declared goal shifted quickly to "eliminate the virus" so we can quickly get back to normal life. That has been achieved (for now). Yes, we are prepared if we get new cases.

> the medicine was worse than the cure.

This is a Trumpesque troll right?

The lockdown was definitely not worse than the disease. The "just get on with life" approach, let's call it "Sweden", kills and sickens a lot of people (not just old people), displaces other sick people from hospitals, and tanks the economy anyway because people are afraid to go out. In contrast, here in NZ after a short shock we have virtually no restrictions and no-one is afraid so normal life resumes.

If and when we have another case, we can reasonably hope for test+trace to contain the outbreak without having to lock down again. We shall see!

Because there is no C or C++ library even today that guarantees all memory safety bugs are prevented.

Chrome will soon remove FTP too. https://www.ghacks.net/2019/08...

In that book there's a character who's been transported many times --- and is haunted by the ghosts of his former selves.

Asimov was well-known to be a sexually-harrassing creep (see e.g. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/201...). This even made its way into his writing; his dirty-old-man wish-fulfillment stories (e.g. Janov and Bliss in Foundation's Edge, Hari and Dors in Prelude To Foundation) were just embarrassing.

He was also a pretty bad writer IMHO. I enjoyed reading his novels for the plot and ideas, but his characters and language are tissue-thin. There are many much better works by sci-fi writers who can actually write well.

Mozilla has taken essentially the same position. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/...

ETP massively improves performance for everyone. Also, improving privacy benefits people even if they don't care about it.

40% of US users use an ad blocker extension on desktop, so browser extensions on mobile aren't just for nerds.

Mozilla have done lots of good things Chrome hasn't done. Did you miss the announcement about Enhanced Tracking Protection being turned on by default, blocking tons of trackers? Or browser extensions supported on Android? Or all the devtools features Chrome doesn't have?