I would be so utterly disappointed and surprised if Napster had somehow grown up into a stable, solvent, law-abiding corporation.

Agreed, but people were allowed to indicate multiple sites (the sum is way over 100%) so you can just ignore the questionable ones without changing the rankings among the more social websites.

The fall of erstwhile-twitter is quite stunning.

Come on, corporations don't have the authority to decide arbitrarily where to site a nuclear plant, and I bet you know it.

They'll be all over that. Water tables, for one, only go so deep. Even for oil drilling they are pretty successful at avoiding ground water contamination and the site selection for this will be much, much more restrictive.

The only way would be if there were a true breakthrough in tunneling costs (which from what I can tell the Boring Company did not achieve.)

I dunno, I guess we can argue which possibility is more microscopically feasible than the others - a political surge of collectivism enabling eminent domain on a national scale, or devoting housing-boom scale resources to acquire and redevelop land on the surface, or a magical tunneling machine.

Pretty sure the answer is and will remain "put wings on each railroad car and make it fly over all the congestion." It does convert an awful lot of jet fuel into CO2 though.

I'm sure you're being sarcastic, but I'm not sure why.

I'll put my knowledge of this sphere up against that of anybody who isn't actively a student of the subject, and odds are pretty close good I do well.

Christian churches lag in moral evolution. They don't lead. And often they are antagonistic to moral change, until they have little choice.

Well, I know of exactly two who have hidden tats. One is a tramp stamp, the other is a leg snake. The reason I know is probably because although I do get in front of boards on occasion, I don't inhabit them. I know those folks personally. Were I their coworkers I probably would not know.

Reading the rest of your post, I'm inclined to walk away. The idea that your wife getting a tattoo means instant divorce tells me everything I need to know about you and your value system.

 

"As I have always tried to tell women, you don't see tattooed women in the board room."

As far as you know. Most women that get tattoos don't get them in places where business attire leaves them exposed.

What is fundamentally unfair is that a man with obvious tattoos can have them disregarded through brute competence and presentation. Women are usually not offered the same path to being judged independently.

But make no mistake. There are tramp stamps in the board rooms. Just like how Chappelle once joked, "I'm sure there are a lot of gay men here... with their wives."

I've downloaded Linux many times in my career. Sometimes it was at work on corporate pcs, sometimes it was to fire up VMs, other times it was to make installation media to build servers at home. Every single time since the mid nineties I've completed the downloads on Windows boxes. I don't think I've ever downloaded Linux using Linux.

That 2% recently becoming 3% is a far more honest measure. You can conclude bugger all from this observation.

You're drawing a causal line that cannot be substantiated. Saying Christian values led to these changes is just not reasonable. The best you can say is that in the last thousand years Christianity was around, and stuff happened during that same period.

To begin to presume a link you'd have to ignore the centuries where the church propagated violence, murder, greed, and corruption, and also ignore all of the trends towards those values from the millennia before the arrival of the church, and those trends that were concurrent in non- Christian societies.

And apparently the Christian job is incomplete. Child abandonment happens all the time, and boxers and MMA fighters die in the ring at paid events. And considering that capital punishment is still out there, nitpicking that crucifixion is not a thing anymore is pretty trivial. Hanging, the guillotine, and the electric chair all point towards papered over tendencies for blood spectacles as retribution. And although the guillotine has been retired, the last use was 1977.

But, you eventually will. Trust me, you will. Time catches up to all.

Best option is to write them down and put them in a bank vault, or similarly secure location. And include the bank identity in your will, which you entrust to a respected legal firm. Make sure that the bank knows what to do with the contents of the safe deposit box if they go belly-up.

This isn't even the dumbest idea of the last 90 seconds. Somewhere out there a guy is getting a tattoo with the name of a girl he met in the last five hours while coked out if his mind. Compared to getting rid of that, extracting an RFID implant will be a minor inconvenience.

I really don't think all these datacenters will ever be built. There are always more plans and announcements than what comes to fruition. The only way so many datacenters will be needed (i.e. economically viable) is if AI is so revolutionary to the economy that it would affect our power consumption in very unpredictable ways, likely offsetting a lot of activity in meatspace.

The opposition should not have mattered. This time around, you should have been able to put a pineapple with a hat on it in the ballot, and the people should have said, "well, at least it's not that guy." And we'd all be talking about the inaction of President Pineapple.