How can you have a democracy if those in power can spy on potential opponents and make public every little peccadillo? Here's your senator taking a dump. Here's your congressman picking his nose. Here's a dumb email she wrote when she was 18.

Lots of people don't really grow up until they are about 30. But that won't stop those in power from digging up the dirt on the silly things their opponents did in their twenties and showing them off for all to see. Lets face it, we all did dumb things in our twenties. No privacy, no democracy, it's that simple.

Possible the single best protection for children is an affluent functioning democracy. The US is throwing away democracy and the affluence will follow.

I don't think Fisher Random chess will achieve its goal for the following reason. If it ever replaced the standard game, an opening book would accumulate on each of the 960 possible starting positions. Then in order to become a world-class player, instead of memorising as much as is humanly possible about one starting position, you'd have to memorise about a thousandth as much on each of the 960 starting positions.

On the chess variants page there is a variation which is a simplification of the laws of chess:

https://www.chessvariants.com/...

In kick the king chess, the king is permitted to move into check and the object is simply to capture the king, not to bring about checkmate. Because it's simpler, it's quicker to teach beginners.

It's essentially the same as the "Stalemates are a win for the attacking side (rather than a draw)" variant mentioned in the TFA. The difference would be the rare stalemate where there isn't even a king move into check available to the defender. In kick the king chess, that is still a draw.

As well as simpler the article shows that, as one would expect, this variant is more decisive. Only hundreds of years of history stand against it.

I'll save you the math. According to macrotrends.net:

Amazon annual revenue for 2020 was $386.064B
Amazon annual revenue for 2019 was $280.522B.
Amazon annual revenue for 2018 was $232.887B.
Total for the three year period is close to $900B.

Suppose you are on a $100K annual salary. In proportion a $2.25M fine is, wait for it, 75 cents!

Like teachers, the world doesn't pay FOSS developers what they are worth. Nor will it ever. Not being paid enough is what you sign up for. If you want to be paid leave FOSS to those are independently wealthy or are prepared to live on a shoe string.

This article brought to mind the old joke that "95% of young males masturbate and the other 5% are liars"

Only someone who can't do either would list C and C++ together. It's time to ignore this report.

If you don't like iphone's you can buy an android. If you don't like the way Apple runs things, you can go elsewhere.

Every time someone forks out dollars for an iphone they are voting for Apple. By way of comparison how often and how effective is your vote in a democracy?

Epic should just pass on Apple's charges to their customers who use iphones.

How to get interest in "insert your weird new astronomical observation here":

Speculate that it might be aliens...

Well, actually according to Australians, it's the ones that aren't powers of two that are the really good ones. May be we will like this thing down here.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_100_Symphony/

I thought apple was concerned about privacy. They might not always have lived up to it, but at least they were saying the right things. I was considering making my next phone an iphone.

This technology will be misused. There's no question about it.

Now they aren't even saying the right things. I no longer have any desire to switch from android.

What form is the CO2 stored in? Compressed gas?
How much energy is used per tonne of CO2?
Does the plant stand idle if only fossil fuel energy is available?
How much CO2 can be stored before the available volume is full?
Could an earthquake cause the release of the stored CO2?

For some perhaps, but not others. You may watch "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and find it so bad that it's good. Or you may find it simply bad. A waste of time that you will never get back.

Well someone had to say it.

Young Aussie folk think nothing of driving 1000km for a week away. They need a battery that can power a car for the time it takes a bladder to fill and can charge in the time it takes a bladder to empty.

It looks like a car based on these batteries could just about do it. Many people who own such an electric would no longer feel the need to have a second car or to hire a car for the occasional long trip.

Bring 'em on. If the price was right Australia's woeful uptake in electric cars would then improve.