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Comment Re:U2 album fiasco all over again (Score 2) 76

Last I heard, Apple sales haven't plummeted and thrown them into bankruptcy, so it sounds like they learned the lesson just fine: it's fine to show people ads. People might complain a little bit, but they won't stop buying. Cost is $0 and ad revenue is presumably more than $0.

If someone is stuck with your proprietary software and you aren't showing them ads, then you're leaving money on the table. What're they gonna do, fork it out?

Comment Black hole maximum rotation speed (Score 1) 41

the outer edge of the mass exceeding the speed of light

That intuitively makes sense, but I thought part of the black hole cheat is that it doesn't have an edge. I thought they were literally singularities, with a circumference of zero. Apparently not the case?

How a thing with a circumference of zero could meaningfully "rotate" is beyond me, but I thought this (and many other suspected properties of rotating black holes) was supposed to be beyond my ignorant layman understanding!

Comment Choose protocol before choosing implementation (Score 2) 30

An adversary can coerce a proprietary software producer to compromise the code. That's what we're going to see here.

An adversary cannot time-travel to when a protocol was invented, and compromise the protocol. (Though I guess the NSA can come kind of close to that, by "helping" as it's being developed, w/out the time-travel part.) That's what we're not going to see here.

Ergo, proprietary apps will remain unable to provide secure messaging, but secure messaging will remain available to people who want it.

Comment Insurers just want more $$ for insurance (Score 2) 66

It's curious that they are talking about all the risks of extreme heat when the general consensus is that cold kills vastly more people.

Nearly all scientific surveys show that anywhere from 7x-20x people die from COLD than from HEAT.

Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/jour...
Cold : Heat 15:1 in US; 20:1 averaged across 13 countries.
SBN
https://www.sustainabilitybynu...
Cold:Heat 9:1

To be fair, NOAA's report had it at 1:4...but was based on MEDIA & WEB reports /nicescienceharharhar
https://journals.ametsoc.org/v...

Aren't we #followthescience on this one?

Why do you suppose the article and the insurers claims are about HEAT? It wouldn't be ideological ambulance chasing, would it?

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