Not entirely true. Encrypted chats are not migrated over to the new device.

Current natural gas generation in the UK is around 28GW (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_gas_power_stations_in_the_United_Kingdom). The rest of the calculations are way off. Current installed solar and wind generation in the UK are each in the 20-25GW range, depending on what numbers you use. It isn't too much of a stretch to imagine some combination of 5x for wind and 10x for solar to replace the existing gas generation. Its not going to happen this year, but it is well within the realm of possibility.

I think its closer to: take other factors into account, besides just last quarter's earnings report. It is recognizing that external factors could influence long term profit and growth of certain companies or whole sectors. The predictions may be right or wrong, but they are attempting to read a longer term market, much like many investors already do.

I can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic, or is simply ill-informed. From the summary though: "Firefox removes tracking parameters from web addresses automatically, but only in private browsing mode or when the browser's Tracking Protection feature is set to strict." So a user has to specifically request no tracking in order to cause this behavior in Firefox.

That's not entirely correct. As you say, Twitter displays the original link, so it is trivial to copy and paste it from the tweet if you wish to avoid the t.co shortening. More critically though, everyone is given the same t.co link, and directed through the same path, so if you wish to block analytics and tracking locally, you stand some chance. If I correctly understand what Facebook is doing, each user is being given a customized, encrypted link, so even if you were to block all tracking locally, Facebook will still know exactly who you are, and where you came from when you followed the link.

It took 3 seconds to find: "Account Inactivity Google may reclaim your Google Voice number (if you have one) if you have not placed or received calls, sent or received text messages for a period of 6 months. We will not reclaim numbers that have been ported in to Google Voice or made permanent."

I would argue that the Steam number is closer to accurate for this case. If I'm developing a game, I don't care about total desktop market, I want to see the percentage of self-selected gamers. They are the ones who will potentially be interested in my product. Perhaps I can lure in a few other users from outside the gamer world, but this is not my target audience. Tom, you even say yourself in a previous post that Mac makes up about 5% of your players. So somewhere between 2.6% and 5% is going to be the most useful number for this discussion.

Exactly this! Also, just like the media is a collection of thousands of organizations and millions of people, so is the election system. Each state, each county, each precinct is run by people who do this once every year or every few years. There are bound to be mistakes here and there, humans are not robots and are not perfect. That is exactly where there is so much oversight and auditing going on, to find and fix errors in the process.

Don't know if this even warrants a response, but don't you think, in the last 60 years, maybe they've come up with more security for mail in ballots, such that it would be a LOT harder nowadays to get away with anything that was done back in 1960?

Not saying the guy doing the shooting is right in any sense, but even in this case it sounds like the guys in the truck started it and he responded, albeit with a lot more force than most would find necessary.

A lot of people don't fucking well vote, because our votes really don't matter. Not even going into the whole electoral college mess, neither choice is going to make much difference to me. Both parties are filled with scummy politicians who only look out for themselves and their reelection chances. Maybe we get healthcare, but its so watered down and filled with garbage that I'm still on my employer's plan, which oh by the way got more expensive, not less. I might have slightly higher taxes, or slightly higher emissions from a car I buy in 5 years, but the reality is that neither side will step up and actually get things done that matter to me, or make my life significantly better. So yeah, I'll vote because I can hope for changes, but I know that in reality nothing will be different in ways that matter.

I wouldn't say its an American opinion. The majority of Americans would not consider him to be in good health. It is more of a Donald Trump opinion.

They are forced to do that, because if a line goes down due to bad weather and starts a wildfire, they get sued off their ass for it. They probably can't afford that risk anymore, so its easier to just shut it down.

From the summary: Facebook released an image showing what the message would look like in the app. The planned message on Android was expected to read "Facebook doesn't take a fee from this purchase." I think that qualifies as any of the above!

US GDP is around $21 trillion annually. Apple's revenue in 2019 was $260 billion. That is more like 1%, not 10%. While not a perfect comparison, revenue is much closer to GDP than market capitalization is. So yeah, still a big company, but not quite on the level implied above.