I imagine it's because the ice locked up in the mountains was further from the center of the earth, so by melting and not being as much on the mountains, it's like pulling in the arms of a figure skater, speeds up.

Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia now, seems to be playing alright. The monthly charge to continue access to your games sucks and the selection of games isn't that great, but the controls seem to work pretty well. Have had a few instances where I lost control for a bit, but that isn't very frequent.

It worked for a while when HBO MAX was launched but they specifically turned off the ability to watch in a Linux browser, have to boot up window to watch in chrome.

As a poll, it's interesting, but what we really need to know is how Cowboy Neal is doing.

The latency numbers they are offering are better than most cable systems I have been on. Remember this is low earth orbit not Geo orbit. I think the numbers they were running were less than 20, it appears that it's the bandwidth that they have the trouble with in congested areas,

Citation please. I think you are making an assumption, I don't recall any such law.

It typically costs me more than $20.00 to go to the movies by myself with drink and snack, so overall not a bad deal. It would be nice if the trial run of this had any shows I actually would be interested in watching.

I'm pretty sure Slashdot started to attract a certain element in the late 90's, before that I never saw a non-technical or uninteresting article on Slashdot. Probably went downhill when they let CmdrTaco log into the site.

Last couple of times I've went in there the stock has continued to decrease. Long ago they changed the entire book section over to toys, perfume and other items but the signs at the end of the isles still claim to be books. I last went in there about a month ago to buy a new laptop, there were no demonstration models nor salespeople, so I guess I'll shop elsewhere for the laptop.
      It's pretty much a wasted trip to go there now, nothing to buy. They keep giving me different stories about why the shelves aren't stocked, I think the latest excuse was they are changing suppliers and waiting for new inventory, but yeah not too sure if that strategy is working if it leaves your shelves empty during the Christmas shopping season.

To me, the biggest issue here is that my conversation is going to be recorded and perhaps listened to by a third party. For something like calling for a pizza that might not be too bad, but even that call would have my name address phone number and credit card number. I suppose if I was just calling to get information it wouldn't be too bad; however, most of the places that I call that take a while to get through to are likely places that I will need to provide other personal information. Just seems like a lot of risk for a bit of convenience.

I lost your phone number. Shoot me the directions.

The IRS is responsible for errors, just make sure you get your tax advice from them in written form.

I guess I'm too old, I still listen to the radio

Well, again that seems simplistic to me. Keynes said you could just bury money in the ground and let people dig it up, and it'd have a stimulative effect, and I'm sure that's true. But I do think it makes a difference what you spend money on. The government should spend money on things like infrastructure that improve private sector productivity when the economy turns around.

That is pretty much Keynes' point. Digging up money in jars (an analogy to mining gold for money - a similarly pointless exercise) would be better than nothing because it would create a stimulatory result, but a much smarter use of that same labour would be to do something useful like, say, building houses.

What's bizzare is watching all these economists try to come up with theories about why wages aren't going up during full employment. A few are finally saying "Unions are dead so workers have no bargaining power" but _very_ few.

Well, if there really was full employment, the lack of unions wouldn't be particularly important.

The real reason is because the economy isn't anywhere close to full employment.