If so many people hate the time change so much that they really want to get up in the dark and drive to work in the dark all winter, why don't they just go with permanent standard time (which Congress allows) and adjust their schedules to do everything an hour earlier? If you want to always start your day exactly 6 hours before noon year-round (even when it's pitch dark outside), what does it matter if you call that 6 o'clock or 5 o'clock? Do they think DST will actually give them more daylight? Also note that the American Academy of Medicine specifically wants permanent standard time because they think children are already having to wake up too early for school, which is the exact opposite of what state legislators want, that is, to have permanent DST so there will be more light in the evening and more people will go shopping. No solution is without problems, but personally I think having more consistent light in the morning is worth the few days of disruption in Spring and Fall.

Using Mozilla 92.0, supposedly "up to date", on a Windows 10 Lenovo T420. Many sites get stuck, take a minute or more to load. Do a Google search, then click "images", it regularly stalls, minutes later gives a blank page. Reload, then sometimes it works. Many e-commerce sites simply don't work, get hung up indefinitely at checkout or payment step. Other browsers (Edge, Chrome, Brave) don't have these problems. Also, block autoplay audio, video and animations doesn't do anything on most sites. Useless!

The study suggests that environmental effects don't affect longevity that much. That doesn't mean ageing is "unstoppable". What about specific pharmacological or even genetic (CRISPR) manipulation of the ageing process - maybe not possible and maybe not even desirable, but quite a few people are working on it. When you get to a certain age (as I did quite a while ago) it becomes abundantly clear this ageing business isn't just a question of the body wearing out, it is programmed disintegration, something that in principle you ought to be able to slow down (again, not that I would want to). Plus what about all those studies showing mice live much longer with grown with simple caloric restriction, as well as studies showing the affluent live longer than the poor?

That's the only "innovation" I care about. In the early versions of Opera, you could flip a "play animations" switch to "No", and it actually worked, a page would load and then you could read it in peace No browser, as far as I know, does that now. Why? How hard can it be? Do they just fear the wrath of advertisers? None of the other proposed features impress me at all, and some are worse than useless. A "personalized news feed"? Seriously? Isn't that precisely what has divided the country into warring camps, each with its own media echo chamber?

The fact is, it takes a lot of effort and big money to review, format, and enforce the quality of scientific papers and to maintain and secure an online database of articles. When I went to graduate school in 1973, they were already talking about publication methods that bypassed profiteering publishers, where authors would just be charged a nominal fee to archive their work in a form freely accessible to all. But in practice the "nominal" fee turns out to be thousands of dollars. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals, for example, charge ~$2500, a pretty serious burden for an average size laboratory. The other, traditional model is for publishers to charge users/subscribers of the journals. If you eliminate that revenue stream by instituting a free database that can't be taken down, that is only going to force publishers, whether for-profit or nonprofit, to charge authors instead.

After making a few Youtube videos I checked the auto closed captioning just for fun. I just use a cell phone so the audio is not that great plus I tend to mumble anyway, but the speech recognition almost always gets it right, even pretty obscure, obsolete technical terms. Really it already does much better than the average human.

Unlike CVS or Kroger, with Walgreens you have to enter personal information and identification before you can even search whether vaccination slots are available.

I seriously considered buying Ford's Focus Electric EV until I found out it ran on Microsoft software.

EU, US and others should have made owning Bitcoin illegal, when they had the chance. Too late now, too many powerful people have too much invested in it. In due time, money laundering will be the least of the central bankers' problems. Just wait till the world's billionaires start keeping their wealth in crypto instead of euros and dollars, and governments can no longer finance their deficits by printing money.

Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas but it doesn't "last much longer in the atmosphere". Methane persists for about a decade vs. hundreds of years for CO2. See US EPA: https://www.epa.gov/climatelea...

One can appreciate his craft - the intricate plotlines, the revealing descriptions, the clever turns of phrase. But in the end, about all I remember is how profoundly depressing his novels were. The characters, even the good guys, are so relentlessly mercenary and cynical, they stretch the limits of credulity. So many of them, and after a while they just don't seem like real people. Perhaps that's what spycraft does to a person and perhaps that is the whole point. But what a downer.

Seriously? At present, Bitcoin is what makes ransomware possible. Hackers halfway around the world can't credibly demand delivery of cash, but with Bitcoin, it's a cinch. In theory, you can make all payments traceable, but that hasn't been the case so far, and if it came to be, hackers would simply invent a new crypto that wasn't. And it won't "make the management of monetary policy easier" either. In the 21st century, the main function of monetary policy has been for governments (having substantially lost their ability to tax) to finance their deficits with quantitative easing (AKA printing money). But they can only do that if they control the currency. If the world's movers and shakers switch to cryptocurrency, governments are out of the picture and out of luck, and no one will need government bonds as a store of value either.

Once I wanted to know the distance, roughly, from a distant city to my hometown, so I just entered the city and town names into Google Maps. Then, just for fun, I looked at what Maps had chosen as the exact destination. The center of town? No. The meandering route took a turn off the main highway onto a side road. It passed my grandfather's house where I lived until age 5. Then passed within a block of my parents' house, and ended at a now-vacant lot where we used to play baseball. And I wasn't logged in, didn't even have a Google account at the time. Creepy.

Ordinary ad blockers were perfectly adequate until everyone started using them and web sites deployed ad blocker detectors and ad blocker blockers, to the point that ad blockers now are basically useless. I'm told it is pretty much impossible to create an undetectable ad blocker. Surely web sites can find some means of detecting that Brave is being used and to block it. It's just that up till now the user base is too tiny to bother with.

Can you stop auto-playing videos and animations?