OK. What about "Don't use Telnet"?

I'm pleased to see that Voyager has recovered from its damage, and can now begin fulfilling its revised prime directive: seeking out and sterilizing imperfect biological infestations.

But it's not like the leather is going to be thrown away and Apple is pulling cowskin out of dumps.

Wrong

The global leather industry creates four billion pounds of scrap leather waste every year. Currently, thatâ(TM)s mainly sent to landfills or incinerated

Crashes, even if extremely rare, are likely too risky from a legal perspective.

On the other hand, that Amazon delivery van could run over your child or dog out on the street, or veer out of control and smash into your living room. Even if such things are extremely rare, using multi-ton vehicles to deliver Amazon packages is likely too risky from a legal perspective.

Or, maybe Amazon can purchase this thing called "insurance" ...

There's a reason that there is a saying that goes "Wears like leather." Leather is an excellent material to make durable stuff out of if it can't be made out of metal or needs some give.

Even if you can't bring yourself to use real leather from any animal (a waste Native Americans would chide you for given how much leather is produced as a bi-product from raising cattle for food), there are plenty go fake leathers that feel great and wear really well!

The "fine woven" stuff was crazy bad. I upgraded my phone this year and waited to look at the cases in person, and wanted no part of what I could tell was a terrible material just by touching it. You could tell just from sample cases in the store it would not wear well...

Generally though for me, third party cases have been simply better for a number of years now, and first party Apple cases have just not been as good. But they could at least get back to making soemthing that felt and looked premium.

Almost, as today, being an idiot is mandatory and fellow idiots will take you down if you don't agree to their idiotic worldviews.

"Politicized science" is the keyword here. We have the smartest people on the planet deliberately and voluntarily goring their brains out to complete today's uni.

Because it costs trillions of dollars to retrofit a city?

Source? Billions at worst. Like I said, this is a solved problem, and places like Amsterdam have solved this for way less than "Trillions".

And if the Chinese government tells Apple: Sell to Chinese buyers or be banned?
Same for Tesla. Microsoft. Boeing. Etc.
All these companies collect massive amounts of data inside China.

Funny thing is, the police are constantly ticketing and arresting people driving with suspended or revoked licenses where I live. Somehow I don't think that's going to solve the problem.

Self-driving automotive technology continues to improve, but human drivers hit their limits about a century ago. If anything, the trends are going backwards for human drivers, as U.S. highway fatalities have ticked upwards in recent years.

The politicians in British Columbia can rail against progress in the short term, but 20 years from now everyone will be looking back on arguments against autonomous vehicles and wondering what all the fuss was about.

How much more inefficient is it? Because on my budget smartphone I can easily last two days with heavy use. So now I will only get 1.5 days?

If you play a long AV1 wide with CPU only decoding you are more than likely to get only two HOURS instead of days.

Vastly less useful than Teslas also driverless miles driven in MANY other states and conditions than Waymo drives in.

Tesla has a far broader range of conditions to train with.

How exactly has a non-profit helped women get jobs in tech fields?

Just recently I ran into a woman having trouble finding coding work despite a solid background and resume, some people had suggested to her she try Women Who Code to get some connections that could help her find some job opportunities.

I had contributed to them in the past as they also held women only coding camps for teenagers, that is I think the key way you actually get more women into coding as opposed to simply juggling the few professional woman coders in a sightly different mix across existing companies.

I had kind of lost track of them though and hadn't contributed for a few years, I think the coding camps were shut down... maybe the organization just lost track of the core mission.

Lots of the Netherlands sits below sea level.

So why should we be concerned even slightly about cities subsiding when we already can easily deal with places that exist many meters below sea level?

Nobody is laughing about the movie "Idiocracy" now, as it has become the most accurate piece of science fiction that was ever published.

It is almost a documentary now.

And you will find that in the most diverse cities of the West, Spotify will list the simplest possible songs as popular in the area. Imagine Maslow's pyramid. And you're at the bottom, forever.

Depending on what state you're in, a third party vote may 1) have absolutely zero chance of any impact whatsoever on the results, and 2) will show dissatisfaction with both of the "major party" candidates offered to us.

California, for instance, is a winner-take-all state, and so heavily Democrat that Biden (or anyone whatsoever with a "D" after their name on the ballot) could put on devil horns, paint his face red, and affect a Bela Lugosi laugh, and he'd still get over 60% of the vote.

I always threatened to write in Cthulhu as "the lesser evil", but usually ended up voting Libertarian as a "plague on both your parties" vote. (Yeah, the LP is ... problematic ... in several respects. Still, it registers a "neither of those turkeys" vote.)

Now, in a state somewhat more plausibly in play... My voting will probably look a lot like Dick's in that "Third Rock from the Sun" episode.