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Comment Re:Are there people in the government (Score 1) 77

Sounds like the precise argument why governments shouldn't be the ones regulating these things. Maybe private industry consortiums

"These things"? You mean the government shouldn't be drafting regulations for government, which is what we're talking about here? Instead, private industry should be telling the government what to do?

Comment Re:Dictators (Score 3, Informative) 55

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 2, Informative) 122

Also I would point out that there's nothing socialist about modern American fascism, considering that there's very little flirtation with collective ownership of the means of production going on (other than Sam Altman getting Trump to consider having the US government buy the gigantic economic black-hole-bomb he's built), but they do enact deals that look a good bit like socialism for corporations the regime favors...

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 5, Insightful) 122

The vast majority of voters in any party want the opposite of that but are told to vote for "the lesser of two evils" which admits to an inherently evil system.

This is only possible because the US has first-past-the-post elections, a clunky and primitive voting method that can enable this situation. Moving to more advanced voting methods like ranked choice or STAR voting prevents a two-party stranglehold from forming.

Comment Re:Bye Chrome... (Score 1) 161

I'm a little surprised no one has tried to bring Manifest v2 back in a Chromium fork. It's supposedly open source after all. If it's too complicated to do practically, then really what's the point in Chromium being open source at all.

See also: Android and the ever-increasing difficulty, impracticality, and necessity of getting root access.

Comment Re: shit world (Score 1) 180

How can this be seen as a victory?

The "victory" is literally "pwning the libs." The thought process is, "Anything that denies them something that they want makes them weaker and us stronger." The base rallies and cheers, and meanwhile Trump and his cronies go back to extracting ungodly amounts of wealth from the entire world's resources.

Comment Re: D.o.g.e. (Score 1) 180

If they leave them there, the next administration might be able to switch them back on and start gathering woke climate science data again.

Kinda unlikely. If you leave anything sitting under the ocean, it's going to experience significant wear and tear. If there's no budget even to monitor the status of the monitors, let alone conduct routine maintenance, they're likely to be as good as junk by the time they're switched back on.

Comment Re:D.o.g.e. (Score 1) 180

Literally hundreds of scientific papers have been published using data from the OOI

Not to mention that the data is also used in industry, particularly in farming and fishing, where it is used to predict climate-related events. And this aren't just long-term events we're talking about. "Where are the fish likely to be this year" is a question this data can help answer.

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