A significant fraction of sea level rise is thermal expansion. Warmer water is less dense (above 4C anyway). So it's not all extra mass.

You're thinking of "bombe" machines.

after 2016, when we had our last leap second. The next leap second might need to be negative. I wonder if that's related. I'm talking about the rotation of the crust, but conservation of angular momentum would suggest that a change in the core's would require an equal and opposite change in the rotation of some other part of the earth.

taking out a heap of pad infrastructure, so that's not good. Anticipate something like a year's delay to plans involving their rockets. This was Blue Origin's only launch pad.

But member countries don't have to extend the same copyright protections as the US. Just because Anna's Archive is infringing copyright doesn't mean that the .se registrar is. Sure, a .se DNS record assists Anna's Archive in its activities, but different countries disagree on whether that's grounds for forcing the registrar to take the record down.

And maintaining a DNS record doesn't meet that standard; it's just a directory listing telling people how to obtain infringing copies.

This isn't the burn they want you to think it is. It's like saying that a bar isn't a good place to find alcoholics that need help because you might increase the bar's profits. On the other hand, bars have every right to tell people from AA to take a hike, just don't expect us to respect them for doing so.

But one of the major improvements in recent TVs is HDR with its associated high brightness. Projectors are far behind in those specs. But I agree that it would be great to be able to buy dumb TVs again.

People are going to move away from Reddit if too many of the posts and comments are made by bots. They're caught in a Catch 22 situation.

Extradition treaties require that the alleged offence be a crime in both countries. If the UK tried for extradition in this case, 4Chan's lawyers would have it laughed out of the US court which has to decide whether to allow the extradition.

Another important reason to sue the city rather than the individuals is that the city has a much greater capacity to pay.

Software does require on-going effort to remain in the market, even if no new features are added: security vulnerabilities come to light; bugs are fixed; support for new or updated operating systems and other software and hardware is added; etc. In fact I'd prefer that developers spent more time fixing existing issues rather than adding new features because, inevitably, adding new features adds new bugs, often faster than they can fix the old ones. It sounds great to say software shouldn't have any vulternabilities or bugs, so the vendors should fix these for free, but let's be realisitic.

So I don't see software subscriptions models as being inherently bad. The problem with Adobe is that the price is so extremely high. It seems like they're trading on their dominant market position to extract all they can from their customers, rather than charging what it costs to maintain their products plus a fair margin. They're breeding competitors and eventually it will bite them.

Projected cinema is incapable of matching the high dynamic range of modern TVs and modern movies. Most cinemas are still only 2K, but their lack of HDR is much more obvious and important than their lack of 4K. The home viewing experience is substantially better in every way but screen size, and this is reducing the incentive to patronise cinemas. Apparently there are a very few cinemas with huge, direct-view LED screens which are expensive, even by the standards of commercial cinemas. There needs to be a faster shift in this direction if cinemas are to survive.

One of the big problems is that the live action was filmed at 24fps but the CGI was created at 30fps. This makes it very hard to merge the two without one or the other stuttering. It didn't look so bad on TV when everyone (in NTSC countries) was used to films being shown with 3:2 pull-down but the Blu-ray version instead badly converts the original CGI to 24fps.

My TV has several different images of paintings and it cycles between them, presumably to reduce this issue. They also seem to be displayed with relatively low brightness, which greatly reduces the potential for burn-in. But, yes, there's no way I want to burn electricity and wear out my expensive TV to display images constantly when people mostly aren't even watching it. I guess LG doesn't mind, and having me buy a new model sooner is a plus for them.

There's plenty of evidence that they're lying or, most charitably, deluded. They say it in the present tense but it seems clear that the US military was only in the country for hours. If they were still there, there would be ongoing fighting, unless you claim some conspiracy and cover-up involving the current Venezuelan government to hide the fact that they're under US control. Are you really surprised that Trump is lying about this?

It's true that the US government is in a good position to know the truth on this but, equally, they're also the ones with the strongest motives to lie about it. Seek independent sources of information.