Assume 100% it's real. Now what?

All of the methods proposed to reduce carbon emissions require fundamental restructuring of the global economy. For some reason, Western countries are supposed to shoulder a larger burden than developing countries. Based in some kind of political get-evenism for historical wrongs, I suspect. And never spoken about is advancing our nuclear generation technology, which is ridiculously clean compared to green technologies that require huge battery stores.

This is the real argument. One side talks about denialism, and the other side talks about fake science, but the actual debate is about what to do. If you present people with a solution that is more or less equal to current standards, only more efficient, only the very ideologically purblind will reject it. If you present a solution that doesn't even touch nuclear, people know that something else is going on that has little to nothing to do with the climate.

Found my next band name, and the name of the first album

Agreed. It holds up surprisingly well considering most sci-fi ages like fish.

It bombed like hell in the theaters, which was a shame. I saw it in the theater, and the opening scene was freaking amazing. It's well worth watching, unlike Hackers which is a crime against man and God.

"I'm Julius Sumner Miller, and physics is my business!"

Thirty minutes of that guy freestyling with a workbench and a blackboard taught me more physics than my one year of physics in HS. We have the ability now to put the best teachers in front of as many students who are eager to learn as necessary.

Yes, we are. Why?

We don't trust the corporations. We don't trust the government that's supposed to regulate the corporations. And we don't trust the technology or the technologists behind the contact tracing.

Sure, the contact tracing technology would be used, at first, to keep a pandemic under control. What happens after? Once that power is in place, do you think it won't be used for other things? Do you think it won't be abused? Today we keep tabs on the infected to prevent them from spreading a virus. Tomorrow, we keep tabs on people who once liked a Facebook post by Tommy Robinson to prevent them from spreading "racism".

I'm constantly surprised by the number of people who, once, were distrustful of big corporations now cheering them on because they're using their power to stick it to people they don't like. Andrew Torba, the Gab founder, has, personally, been banned from using Visa. For the crime of allowing legal speech on his platform. That's egregious enough, but now mix in the power of a near universal contact tracing application, only this time its power is leveraged to stamp out the spread of ideas that are considered dangerous. Do you doubt for one second that it wouldn't be used? Do you doubt for one second that a significant number of people will support it because it goes after the other people they don't like?

Twenty years ago I would have made fun of myself for even suggesting such a thing. Dismissed the whole thing with "conspiracy theorist!" and left it at that. But I've been paying attention over the last twenty years.

So you're angry about an incompetent dictator and are worried that the incompetent dictator is going to take over and enact absolute rule. Incompetently, I guess.

Not gonna lie, that sounds pretty ridiculous. Are you also worried that Wile E. Coyote is going to catch that pesky Roadrunner and devour him in front of innocent children?

While true, I don't need the full NSA SCIF treatment to access a Pokemon forum.

I wish OAuth2/OpenID wasn't such a shitshow. No, I don't want to use Facebook, Google, LinkedIn or any of these other craptastic privacy invading services to login. And I sure as hell don't want to have to implement some other byzantine horror on my sites that requires my users have a degree in cryptography and a crappy USB key to access a web site.

This is like the spam problem all over again. Rather than deal with the problem directly, we layer new and more complicated technology on top to cover up the problem.

It would lend a lot more credence to the descriptor "dictator".

It would also help if he was able to enact everything he promised as a candidate and not spend his first four years under constant legal assault, leading to actual impeachment. So you pick--either he's crap at being a dictator or you don't know what the word means.

It's important to remember that they used to call themselves "social justice warriors." The name wasn't invented for them, it was invented BY them. Tumblr was infested with them.

Their over-the-top screetching about every microaggression imaginable made them ridiculous, and when formerly normal people start acting like SJWs, calling them SJWs isn't a dog whistle or a sekret Internet code. It's accurate, and descriptive.

You may be too young to remember, but at one time anybody who said something like "man, modern pop music is pretty degenerate" would be called a member of the Moral Majority. This was an actual thing whose members got agitated if Prince sang about how he liked to bone women. It got turned into an insult because of how crazy the organization was. I can only assume that if you got zapped back to 1984 you would be angry about misusing the Moral Majority label too.

It's a pretty poor dictator that doesn't control the media.

I'm concerned that you actually think Trump is a dictator. Either you're exaggerating, which makes you untrustworthy, or you actually believe it, which makes you a moron, or mentally unstable, or both.

We all know the iOS compatibility is mostly for games, not productivity apps.

I upgraded from a 7 Plus to the new SE. It's really astonishing how good the SE is. The form factor is exactly right, I like having a home button, the screen is big enough, and AppleCare for the SE was only $90. There was a glut of cases for it (any case for the 8 will fit), most of them on sale for cheap.

There's been some reports that the SE's ARM 11 was throttled, but I don't notice. It is a really good phone at a really good price. I really hope Apple takes a lesson from the success of the SE and drops an ARM Macbook Air at like $800 or something. If they spec it right, they will own the education and home market.

If that's a problem, don't update to the OS version that takes it away. I use Transmit, and they removed mounting an SFTP disk via FUSE with the last version update. So I didn't update because I still use that.

If you have a program that doesn't work well, or at all, under Windows 10, you don't upgrade that machine. I used to have a couple of Windows 98 boxes as plotter servers because the spooling software didn't work on anything newer.

Your complaints are vaguely valid, but they're completely unserious. NetBSD is debating whether to stop supporting VAXes. Are you storming their ramparts to make sure your basement mainframe can still compile NetBSD?

Because if you run iOS apps on your Mac you want them to look like they function more or less the same. It's not a terrible idea.

If they knew it was running at a crazy framerate, they would mention it. That they didn't tells you what you need to know: it's running around 30fps, which is good enough for a video demonstration. Still, that's not too shabby.

I'm actually pretty excited about this move. It would be nice if this translated into cheaper products, or at least products at the same price with better default specs for RAM and disk, but I'm not a fool. Apple will most likely pocket the difference.