If section 230 is repealed, the entire MAGA bubble on Twitter will be shut down, including Trump's account of course.

For how long have they been pursuing this effort? This whole "self driving car" enterprise is such a prime example of Apple not knowing what to do with all that money, lol.

You do know other respiratory coronaviruses almost like this one have existed for a long time. Most people get over them without problem.

Yeah they get over them without problems precisely BECAUSE those viruses have existed for a long time, and thus have become "endemic" in the population. The same thing will happen with SARS-CoV2 within the next decade for sure, but that doesn't help us much RIGHT NOW.

"Work on Black Holes" sounds quite dangerous. Don't get too close!

If Trump has a severe case of Covid-19, that will save a lot of lives because many more people will take this thing seriously. Unless they're led to believe (by Twitter, probably) that the Democrats secretly infected him with a deadly virus developed by Dr. Fauci or something.

Well, I'll just say this: Until yesterday Trump publicly announced that he was totally opposed to even a minor change of the debating rules -- namely, the possibility for the moderator to turn off each candidate's microphone in case they interrupted the other guy or exceeded their time budget. And now all of a sudden Biden is supposed to accept a remote debate where nobody can even control what each candidate is doing or who is helping him off-camera?

The initial retirement plan for the Hubble Telescope was to bring it back to earth with a shuttle. It was always one of my biggest regrets that they scratched that plan after (I think) the Columbia accident. That would be one of the greatest National Air and Space Museum exhibits of all time.

So this situation is another casualty of the electoral college.

I'm pretty sure you misinterpreted something. Asymptomatic spread is the single reason why Covid-19 is so contagious. If you took away the asymptomatic spread, you'd have SARS-CoV-1 (2003), which never became a global pandemic precisely because infected people only become infectious themselves when they already had symptoms.

There was this guy at a C++ conference a few years ago who wrote "Pong" for the C64 in C++17 with classes and STL (no containers, only algorithms and iterators over const arrays, so it ended up all being done at compile time). I think it compiled down to a few hundred bytes of code that used about 6 bytes of (mutable) ram (statically allocated at a few 0x000x addresses).

That's only because sheep don't get Covid.

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"maybe, but that doesn't mean every type of communication they choose to engage in needs to be accessible to the public."

Yeah but the type of communication where they announce laws, policies and executive orders to the public needs to be.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to hear, so if the Government bans all apps from China, they're infringing on U.S. citizen's rights. It's pretty clear also that if there's an app that millions of Americans use to communicate with each other, the Government can't just take that down without good reason. I purposefully talked about *blanket* bans, not bans of specific apps for specific reasons. Yeah, if you publish an app that exposes the nuclear codes or the names of CIA operatives, that'll get banned by the authorities. Even there the Government has to prove the legality of each individual ban in a court of law if push comes to shove -- which will be easy for an app that publishes the nuclear codes, but well-nigh impossible for a blanket ban on all apps coming from China. I don't know about you, but if I just look at this image of the US secretary of State standing in front of a big screen that advertises "CLEAN apps", "CLEAN store", "CLEAN cloud", "CLEAN network" etc., that's as chilling an image as I've ever seen. If I look at it and squint my eyes a little, I can almost see Pompeo morph into the Chinese President, defending his "Great Firewall".

The Government blanketly banning Chinese apps from an app store in the US is a violation of the first amendment, plain and simple. It doesn't matter in this context that the Chinese Government has been doing the same thing to US apps and western tech products in China for years, because China does not have freedom of speech. The whole point of the First Amendment is to establish freedom of speech in the US, so if the Government violates that law, it violates it no matter what other countries do or don't do.

Trump said he wanted to ban TikTok on Saturday.

It's Monday now, the site still works.

It's almost like President Trump is lying and bullsh*tting whenever he says anything.