I disagree with your sentiments here. I think being involved in your Childs schooling is a good thing, and I wish everyone would do it. Maybe not everyone can afford to homeschool, but just by statistics; sending your kids to public schools in the US should qualify for child abuse. 3000 child schools should not be the norm. We plan to co-home school with a few other likeminded parents in our neighborhood, with some of the mothers teaching various subjects, and probably some high school level education from some college students we plan to hire. Our kids go on field trips with us all the time, and they love the aquarium of the pacific, the California Science center, especially the shuttle display, and the SD Safari Park and Zoo. We take them to various activities, sometimes I peruse AirBnb just to see what's out there. They learned to tend a garden at one. It doesn't cost that much, and it's way better education. I take them to the firing range at 14, for some gun safety and handling. They are so much more well rounded this way. I am no Zuckerberg fan, but kudos for this.

They were never legally constrained from keeping blu-rays from being rented. Technically if you buy a movie you can legally rent it out all you want, as long as you dont copy it. Netflix just got its hands on a lot of DVDs and BluRays. Towards the end when they ended up with more people paying for streaming (which was cheaper than mail), they agreed to stop some movies from being on their platform in exchange for favorable streaming deals.

Many in the tech industry know HOW to build moreso than WHAT to build.

Just wait until banks no longer have to go through the App Store approval process to audit their apps. You are going to have them tracking every move you make and what you say into the microphone, to determine your credit score. Apple was the damn in the meme about the lake and the town, between the shit surveillance state and the people. Mark my words. It didnt happen on Android because Apple was the alternative, that had to have feature parity. This is going to be gone now, because again: Government wanted to fix something that wasn't broken. We had millions of app choices, at excellent value parity, with awesome distribution, making a lot of money for a lot of people.

You cant ask a rhetorical question and then simultaneously steal the only funny answer!!

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AI will program faster, drive safer, analyze medical information, argue better, reference more data, and out-engineer any human being in almost no time. A long time ago, the best way to get somewhere was to run. Then someone invented the saddle and it was to ride. Now, you can get in a car and cross a continent in a weekend. AI is the car, our brain is the legs. Sure, it's the patent motor wagon or thereabouts right now, maybe a 1920s vehicle. But in a decade or two it will be a Bugatti veyron or a 18 wheeler semi truck (depending on the analogy). AI is a mechanized brain, and it will best our own. In many ways it has already. The country that yields it will be the new dominant superpower, and we keep raising our electricity costs to cope with demand while china builds more solar in a year than we have deployed in our existence. Our leadership is dumb, it was the one thing Trump was right about.

Dark Matter is the "extra" matter needed in galaxies that make them orbit the way they do. The Solar system orbits with inward planets completing orbits of the sun faster than outer planets. That causes the solar system to seem chaotic and not coherent. This is to say the planets follow Kepler's laws. Galaxies on the other hand dont do this for the most part. The Milky Way arms are coherent structures that despite their varying distance from the galactic center, remain intact over billions of years. This only works if the galaxy breaks Kepler's laws. This only works if mass in the galaxy is more evenly distributed than it is in the solar system. 99% of the solar system mass concentrated in the sun. If the galaxy only had the mass we can see (which we term baryonic mass), then the inner parts would orbit much faster and the outer parts much slower. However that is not the case. Everything is rotating pretty much at the same speed irrespective of its distance from the central galactic bulge (200-250 km/s). Dark Matter is how we account for the necessary matter throughout the galaxy for it to orbit the way it does. The dark part just means we dont see it, and its multiple times the accounted for matter in the galaxy today. We know it is there because one of the properties it shares with baryonic matter is its gravitational effect. We can see the dark matter's effect on light using techniques like gravitational lensing of light from objects behind galaxies bending to an extent as if there was far more mass than there is.

My TVs and my cameras, my wall switches, my light bulbs, my pool equipment, nothing is connected to the cloud. As the article suggests, create an IoT VLAN in your house if you can, and put everything there. I use HomeKit because Apple mandates that these devices can be controlled by a local hub offline, no MITM with a cloud server that will go under. Occasionally I let them talk to the internet for firmware updates, but even then, it's only if I happen to come across a feature release. I dont update firmware for update's sake because I have learned sometimes they make it worse. If its good enough for me to use, I leave it be.

The leading theory is that dark energy is a weak and finite force of repulsion that is a property of space (or spacetime) itself. The initial exponential expansion was caused by inflaton particles that only existed in the early universe and take tremendous more energy to produce (and thus prove) than a Higgs boson. But since then, dark energy expands the universe by applying a negative pressure to space itself. The more space there is, the more negative pressure, pushing more and more, and so on and so forth. This article flies in the face of that.

What problems do you foresee? If you can keep the chip cool, I donâ(TM)t see why it would really couldnt work.

I STILL have 11â 2014 laptops because I love the form factor. I just use them for SSH and RDP, with Wireguard. I keep one by my bed. I keep another one in my kitchen. So convenient when someone asks for a server change. A new cheap tiny Mac would be awesome. And yes, I have considered windows laptops. I dont like how any of them feel.

I ripped apart a HomePod (first gen), and buried a raspberry pi into it, and used Grok to automate HomeKit tasks, with some prompt engineering and a home bridge server, it is awesome. It also answers like, any question you can ask it. Its awesome

It is really easy to turn the Google off on Sony TVs. You just enable the inputs you want and thats it. For me, it's one input that takes my receiver in, and my receiver goes from Apple TV to Playstation to Xbox and thats it. The problem is becoming all the streaming apps have commercials now, which is why I am the biggest pirate in my town. I have a 12 disk array on ZFS with a BitTorrent client, connected via long range wifi to a public wifi near by (directional antennas FTW). I download what I want by throwing a .torrent file into a folder. I have scripts that will add subtitles etc from subler. I also have an external blu-ray drive that I used to run with Netflix's Blu-Ray by mail program that ended a few years ago. I red box'ed a bit after that. Couple that with a VPN and voi la, home theatre experience galore. I have about 60tb of content. Never gets old. Some family contribute to it / vpn to it.

I do get connected devices, but I have an IoT network in my home that is not connected to the Internet. It only connects to my Apple TVs which is my home hub, and those are explicitly allowed to connect to the internet. I also have a home bridge server running on a Lenovo Tiny. Together, I can remote control my home but none of my devices can connect to the internet. My TVs cant download the latest ads, and my devices are all under my control. I spend a little more for HomeKit enabled devices when I can find them, or I see if home bridge can connect to them without an internet server. Sometimes it can, because the devices have local control points / APIs, sometimes they cant and mimic it with the internet API. I reject those completely. I dont need my home to stop functioning because a company got purchased or went bankrupt.

This is why I value HomeKit over Alexa / Google. No server to rely on. I also trust Apple to make it privacy focused.