Ah, I see that now. Thanks! Agreed!

According to the NY Times detailed report on MTA problems there is plenty of blame for all. I can find absolutely no supporting evidence that "GOP Controlled Boards" are responsible and I trust the left-leaning NYT to have found them if they existed. Yes absolutely the Republican mayor and governor screwed the MTA but so did the Democratic legislatures back their proposals, and the Democratic mayors and governors did no better. Everyone in office treated the MTA as a piggybank and robbed it.

According to the article in Technology Review, the technical advisor to the UN says that opposition is simply lobbying to protect those countries with their own biotech industries. The assumption being (I think) that if Gates were to simply write a check to other countries or non-US industries for gene driver projects, it would be largely accepted. That aside, I was generalizing. You may be correct that some other UN policies are off-topic here.

Seems like the sole purpose of the UN is letting 192 nations vote on how much money the United States should pay each of them.

Technically every recorded mass that is not recorded to an infinite number of digits is wrong.

Did you hear about the homeopath that didnt take his pill and overdosed?

The problem here is that as a technical person you think the documentation is the end product. It's not. If anything over-reliance on patient history means less diagnostics and less informed decisions, not better ones. All in the name of saving money, which it doesn't.

I'm still amused that people think "Born in the USA" is a patriotic song, when it's really about the hypocrisy of patriotism, and how the blue collar class got screwed by having to fight Vietnam.

I think maybe there were people chanting that before the Trump administration. It was apparently popular right after the Revolutionary War to take pride in new-found self-sufficiency. Wikipedia has a photo of a Model-T hubcap stamped "Made in USA". Pretty popular saying during WWI and WW2. All the Democrat union workers" promote Made in USA pretty consistently.

I think you give Mr. Orange too much credit.

I dont know ... "Splendida anulum de sonic ericius" has a certain ring to it

You can get more when you auction off the naming rights after you get the permit.

Thanks for the info! So while Google may be better than others at this, and it probably isn't trivial, it sounds straightforward to implement. It's back-office stuff rather than infrastructure. It still seems as if T-Mobile could do this if they really wanted to? If so what's their downside to doing (or not doing) it?

I can't say where the disconnect is, but Google Fi *is* T-Mobile (and Sprint). How can Fi use T-Mobile towers with eSim, but T-Mobile can't use T-Mobile towers with eSim. Maybe I'm no expert here, but that doesn't sound like a strictly technical problem.

I'm entering this post on a Pixel 2 with no sim card, connected to a T-Mobile tower (LTE), so pretty sure it works.

Google Fi uses eSim to access T-Mobile and Sprint, starting with the ancient Nexus and xconttinuing through the Pixel. So, no, not T-Mobile's fault.

Diamond decomposes to graphite (slowly) since that is a lower energy state. But somehow De Beers' "Graphene Is Forever" ads didnt catch on.