That's not even remotely true. Right now, though, the U.S. stands at only around 12% of annual GHG emissions. And even if you use cumulative numbers since the 1700s (most of which is not still in the atmosphere), the U.S. still only produced something like 20% of cumulative CO2 emissions.

The current largest CO2 emitter is China, and by a very large margin, coming in at about 35% of all world CO2 emissions, or almost three times the next worst (the United States).

Per capita, of course, the U.S. is worse than China, though not be a lot. But by that metric, the U.S. goes from being the second worst all the way down to the #16 slot. Per capita, the top ten biggest CO2 emitters are all either in the Middle East or are islands or other tiny territories. Even if you ignore the tiny countries, the U.S. *barely* makes the top 10, behind Australia, Russia, Canada, and six countries in the Middle East.

I assume these are the ones who don't really care what Trump does, as long as he "drains the swamp", "tears down the establishment", and "sticks it to the libs". They don't like his changes, but they like that something is changing, because something has to change, and this is something, so this has to change.

That's certainly true for the OS, because the OS releases are tied to hardware releases. But features do sometimes get pulled. Apple Maps is a feature. So IMO, that's not a great argument for Apple Maps shipping in the state that it did.

Frankly, I'm of the opinion that the internal divide between iOS engineering (Forstall's fiefdom) and OS X engineering (everybody else) was probably a big part of why Maps didn't work as well as it should have initially (less internal testing). Forstall's departure tore down a lot of those walls, and IMO the company is better off for that change.

Here, it's $2.87 per therm, 41 cents per kWh once you hit a certain usage threshold, and most households are above that threshold already. So adding a heat pump (e.g. to replace a gas water heater) means that new usage would be billed at that higher per-kWh rate.

Plugging those numbers into Maine's calculator, it says electric is cheaper. So that has I guess improved since I last did the math a year or two ago. Tankless natural gas is still cheaper than heat pumps with tanks, though. No idea about tankless electric, but the power consumption makes them infeasible unless you already have 200A service, and maybe even then.

With compilers, it does, or at least it can.

When you build GCC for the first time on a new architecture, it builds a limited miniature version of GCC using the system compiler, and uses that to compile the actual version of GCC, so that it is always compiled with itself, not with the system compiler, both to minimize the risk of system compiler bugs causing bugs in GCC and to minimize the risk of someone using a malicious compiler to create a modified GCC that introduces security bugs in code compiled with GCC or whatever.

After that, you can at least ostensibly delete the system compiler, because you'll never need it anymore to build future versions of GCC or anything that GCC can compile.

Could we bring back core memory? Having our phones come back instantly when you plug it back in after the battery dying would be awesome. :-D

To a very limited extent, their tax breaks, ignoring that they help the wealthy far more than the poor. But that's about the only thing, and even that is helping the poor at the expense of their kids having a country with deeper debt that they will eventually have to pay, or at the expense of the government not having the money to do various things, likely some of which help the poor (or at the very least are designed to help the poor).

Sorry, let me clarify what I was trying to say there.

Advertising battery capacity or gas tank capacity in miles is an entirely reasonable metric for a car, because a car is the complete package. You'll have some variation depending on how fast you drive, how much you use regenerative braking, how much you have to use the heater, headwinds versus tailwinds, hills, whether you're towing (where applicable), etc., but there are standards for how to calculate MPG in a reproducible way, and as long as everyone follows those standards, you can use the MPG numbers to compare one car against another and have some confidence that the more efficient car will be more efficient for you.

And because the tank and/or battery capacity is also a known quantity, you can multiply the number of gallons times the EPA MPG rating (or equivalent numbers from your choice of country) and get a number of miles that you can also use to compare the expected range of two vehicles. And while you might get more or less range than the rated number, if one car has a higher stated range, chances are it will have a higher actual range for you (unless the numbers are very close).

Range in miles is an entirely unreasonable metric for a battery, because a battery is not a complete package, and a battery in one vehicle could last an order of magnitude longer than the same battery in a different vehicle (e.g. Prius versus Tesla semi). Without normalizing the range numbers to a specific vehicle, comparing two battery packs using miles as a metric tells you approximately nothing other than that the stated numbers are different numbers. It's a nonsensical comparison.

And even if you do normalize it to a specific car, it would be an arbitrary normalization that doesn't reflect the real world, making the numbers far less useful than just giving kWh or gallons, which everyone who owns an EV or an ICE car can pretty much instantly understand relative to their own vehicles' capabilities.

Epstein has been given quite a bad time in the press recently, but he was in reality a nice guy. Look at Peter Mandelson, Peter had never heard of Epstein, let alone had any contact with him, yet Epstein kindly let Peter stay in one of his houses while he was away.
Epstein also organised parties to cheer people up in these troubled times, but because he was shy, never attended them himself. Most of the people, even well-connected royalty and billionaires, attending the parties had also never met or even heard of Epstein. Bill Gates probably had no dealings with Epstein at all, it is all just wild speculation intended to sell newspapers.

BusinessBros would continue to throw money at Microsoft for genuine Windows. It is like a cargo cult or something to them, other companies used microsoft and exploited their workers and polluted everything and became rich so they must use microsoft and exploit their workers and pollute everything in the hope that they become rich. Insane, but if they had thinking skills or ethics they wouldn't be BusinessBros.

Either way, miles isn't, because it's an arbitrary metric. Is that Prius miles (as little as 180 Wh per mile) or Cybertruck miles (800 Wh per mile while towing)?

Try a different USB-C cable. Either that or you have one of the dodgy models of Sandisk SSD that's about to die. Maybe a good time to buy a new one.

Not always. Grown-ups had been able to purchase games with a debit card, which does not prove age, or with a PlayStation Store gift card purchased with cash.

where nobody knows how to do anything, and thus doesn't know if the AI is right or wrong. If someone doesn't know, how can they "guide the AI"? I, for one, like knowing stuff. I like using my brain. I like working stuff out. And that helps me to understand stuff better. With AIs, everyone is going to be stupid.

I wouldn't call that "supporting". He plays the game by donating to both sides, so that whoever wins, they see him as an ally. And in particular, Trump responds to obsequiousness. There is a perception that by giving money, businesses can curry favor. Not saying that doing so is a good thing, but it definitely should not be interpreted as evidence that the business leaders are necessarily in favor of Trump's policies.