Don't think anyone was saying it should be finished. Just that this isn't as novel as the headline makes it sound.

Not to mention LinuxBIOS/CoreBoot, which has existed for years.

Windows' advantage over macos and linux is its rich fleet management software and its massive presence in large organizations. They've also got the fact that they're preinstalled on very nearly every laptop that isn't a mac or a chromebook. I wonder just what percentage of their userbase is gamers and whether it's north or south of 5%.

A much more feasible and shorter term option: prices that varied over the course of the day, that went up according to when Walmart's data showed people with more money were likely to be shopping. It could happen at predictable times and with a huge grace period, so that for an hour after shelf prices went up the old price was still being charged at the register ("you got a discount!"). But if you went shopping when it was convenient, there'd most likely be a price premium.

This could work in conjunction with a future "just walk out" checkout implementation. You see a price at the shelf, pick up the item, you're presented with a bill in your email. You can't claim the price changed on the way to the register, and they know what price they showed you.

Unless they're making a commitment *never* to do this, what they're doing is setting up the infrastructure they'll eventually claim to be *forced* to use for dynamic pricing by the market. They're big enough to claim they're not doing it right now, but their much smaller competitors need any edge they can get over Walmart and so will be less scrupulous. And eventually it will become the industry norm, and Walmart will "give in" and do what they intended to all along. "Our hands are tied!"

And of any other smaller websites (on any platform), because providing age verification is a hurdle only the large ones can clear.

Lots of people don't want to drive. What changed in the last century is we started requiring it of everyone (in the US) who wanted to be a part of society. That meant the people who didn't want to drive, couldn't drive, or were just bad it nonetheless *had* to share the road with the people who actually wanted to be there.

This is a (terrible) solution to that problem. A much, much better solution, which we've had for literal centuries, is significantly increased urban density serviced by trains.

Though often it's also a warning, that could not be worded any more clearly.

Musk and his ilk think it's aspirational.

Except that now, not providing the age bracket signal will itself be a signal. This could be the beginning of a new way of information on the web being specifically refused to people on open source operating systems.

On what planet are the bay area *or* new york *islamist* (neither of which has a Muslim population over 5%)? And how on earth is the glowing core of American capitalism, home of freaking *wall street*, marxist?

Go to places and experience them before you decide what they are.

Yes there has been.

In the last decade, education spending as a percentage of us GDP has dropped sharply.

The president doesn't rule by personal power alone --- he's not a supervillain.

The president has power because of all of the millions of people who've agreed to exert power on his behalf. These are the people wielding truncheons; these are the people cheering on the people wielding truncheons; these are the people who gleefully wallow in their privilege and ignorance and bully anyone they've decided they don't have to care about into silence.

These are the people who will actually do the ruling and exerting the power. And we are engaged in making sure they never have to learn to think critically, and never have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the past.

But they *do* create industrial pollution.

You can cast blame on individuals for their "carbon footprint", but don't forget that that concept was invented by the petroleum industry to take the heat off of them.

Yes, we who participate in society are all making the problem worse. But none of us individual consumers, by our own abstention, can meaningfully inflect the trajectory. To align all our actions enough to actually make a dent, we'd need to either all band together and refuse to buy this stuff *at the same time* (and what's that look like? A democratic government banning them!) Or, the few people with all the control over the companies making these products could simply decide to stop doing it. Personally. Out of the sort of sense of responsibility you're expecting 8 billion people to coordinate.

It's the fault of the people who could stop it, and don't. And that's not the consumers. That's the government, and the producers.

Seriously, though: we should get rid of college loans. The ability to go to college on credit and the fact that that debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy has allowed tuition to go through the stratosphere. If we want to increase access to college, we should just *pay* for college with our tax dollars. We want the next generation to be educated -- they will some day rule us. Our allergy to paying for it is beyond me.

And if the federal government is paying tuition, it can negotiate prices down. A bunch of individuals buying college on a credit card absolutely cannot.