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Comment Re:Name recognition (Score 1) 144

We've gotten to the point where name recognition, such as the name of his foundation, is harmful to their goals. There are just too many ignorant people out there believing the most insane conspiracy theories now.

In a section of the population widely viewed as hilariously paranoid. Don't let your tin foil hat bump the door on your way out.

Comment Re:No more accounts. They want your identity. (Score 1) 185

> I can't get new vein patterns or a new face.
Just suffer a small stroke after an auto accident.

> What they're saying is that 2021 is the year of the internet going "real name".
OK, there are only 18 people with my name (or at least used to be, 25 years ago, when we were sent a book with everybody in the world sharing my surname) in the country, so how to disambiguate us? SSN only works in the USA

I wouldn't care, but they bought Mojang, and Minecraft keeps threatening to shift logins to M$.

Comment Re:Youâ(TM)re Holding it wrong (Score 1) 445

A hotter planet will make life harder but how hard and how soon are the models able to guesstimate?

Tell that to the Eocene and the Miocene. You are just too adapted to the Ice Age of the Pleistocene/Holocene, and cannot compete against the European monkeys and lions that will be moving back.

Comment Re: Interesting times (Score 1) 171

They survived the last interglacial, and almost-humans thrived before we entered an Ice Age at the Pleistocene boundary. Different types living in different ecological niches, even.

Since the Pre-Cambrian Explosion, 80% of the time there is no evidence for polar caps, vs. 20% with them. "Global Warming" is just going back to normal. Of course, if you have some swampland in Florida that you need to sell, it sucks to be you.

Comment Premised On A Lie (Score 5, Informative) 658

and even contacted the man who invented the Caps Lock key (Doug Kerr, who had been a Bell Labs telephone engineer in the 1960s):

I have in my possession a 1940s vintage manual typewriter, and it has a Caps Lock key, so either someone else invented a time machine to reach out to the then-future to steal it, Doug Kerr lied and claimed credit for common art, or medium.com lied about talking to someone about this.

At best, Kerr might have introduced it on card writers for the Labs. Perhaps a software driven one that did not also shift the digits row, as well.

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