I like how we have cool engineering and cool computer science posts today instead of just legal battles, doomer gloom, and political intrigue.

> They now embark on a new task...what's wrong with Google these days?

That's pretty much status quo. They do some stuff, get users, get bored with it, kill the project.

I have a Hisense TV that has Google TV as the OS. It actually works very, very well. Its basically like having a Chromecast built into the TV and no need for a standalone box.

(open source Android reader)

The more important anomaly is the JWST observation of galaxies that formed when the Universe was "too young for those galaxies to form".

If you push back the age of the Universe to allow those galaxies to form then you push on the coefficients of expansion and those need to agree with theory which they do not under current theory.

Some theories are compatible but lack a Big Bang which is taken as an article of faith by most and need more observations to consider.

Scientists not agreeing *is* science. If the schools fail to teach that in 13 years that's a massive indictment of the schools.

It's more like the System 7 icon, but still unnecessarily skeumorphic.

Who is going to buy a Macbook and think that's what their internal storage looks like?

Make Icons Icons Again

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That is called Double Secret Probation. Uh. Obscurity.

Alphabet can absorb way more fines than prison sentences.

Hopefully they won't be Evil.

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening which is measurable by the accelerating traversal of the magnetic poles. That's why a relatively small CME last year caused the same Northern Lights all the way down to Hawaii as the Carrington Event which was 10x stronger. The beauty is unquestionable but the impacts will cause us difficulty.

There was a recent solar storm which ionized the atmosphere more than we are used to as "normal" in our recent history, which sets up the conditions for lightning to travel further. The physics on it are pretty simple with all variables considered.

We're going to see more of these than we're used to as the pole shift continues to accelerate.

This happens every 6000 years or so and we're right on schedule but we're really unprepared to handle it. Preparing for this ought to be a planet-wide project for our species, and to help out the other species that rely on geomagnetic migration for their reproductive success.

As a kid in the 80's we only needed to update our compass calculations for variance to True North every 20 years or so; now it's yearly.

I wish Humanity could not plant their heads in the sand on this one but I'm planning like we will.

Yes, it's quite rare that a Congressman's constituents are his voters.

Maybe a dozen, max.

Yet incumbents win reelection 92 % of the time.

We also have the government we deserve.

Just for history's sake, it's obvious that mimicking these cavities on a nanoscale chip could be very useful in optical computing.

Hello, future archive.org viewer.

> It also has its own NIC.

Now the story makes sense.

Thank you for the important context.

Now we know the name of the reboot character.

and only Play Store can do background security updates due to special privileges.

For F-Droid you have to run a Magisk extension on a rooted phone. That's bad for security because most people can't or won't.

Detractors claim Epic just wanted Google to run the Play Store infrastructure at a loss to increase Epic's profits.

Nobody numerate believes that but they claim Epic did it for that reason which would be shitty except they didn't.

Somebody could probably make a good business out of running a store at 5% markup.