1e6 kilogram per year from meteors equals about 1,000 tons per year. The OP research is saying that satellite decay is expected to contribute 10,000 tons of aluminum per year by 2040.

There are quite a few buildings in my city with wind turbines on their roofs. We also have the more sculpture-like turbines on some of our raised mass transit platforms.

But that wasn't my point. My point was that cities are already killing birds with their tall buildings on the plains, in the valleys, on the mountains, etc, but not in the oceans. It's a distinctly different environment with different bird species with different behaviors.

I agree. Tall glass buildings are a much bigger threat to birds than wind turbines, so the impact of wind turbines shouldn't have concerned people who are fine with the death toll from buildings. Putting the turbines in the ocean seems like a different situation though; We don't build cities in ocean. But maybe the ocean will come into our cities if we don't build enough wind tubines and solar panels.

I wonder how those rules will be impacted by the bladeless wind generators being developed, or wind harnessing faux trees that can be installed in cities.

I'm not familiar with the pushback against wind power in the UK, but in the US there are complaints about the noise, aesthetic, and danger to birds. The newer wind generators seem to solve those problems so the opposition may relent.

Did you know that coal power is subsidized?

Do people want to live closer to solar, wind or coal power plants? Maybe renewable energy reduces transmission costs because production can be located closer to customers.

Finally, on your point about backup energy sources. Tesla installed a multi-megawatt battery in Australia that more than pays for itself by leveling out energy production from coal, among other things: https://electrek.co/2018/01/23...

So I'm going to guess that backup capacity is not going to bring wind power up to 3x its current price in order to make it comparable to coal. It might in fact make it even cheaper as demonstrated in Australia.

Coal power is dead. It's a market failure, a health failure and climate failure.

Collective ownership is socialist. If you search for socialism online, the first five results or so refer to social ownership of production as socialism. If the customers of an ISP also work for the ISP, then that's a socialist enterprise. Worker owned businesses are also socialist. If big G Government owns and operates a business, it's socialist only if the government is beholden to the will of the people. The United States Post Office isa great example of a government run socialist enterprise.

Socialism and Communism are not the same thing, but Communism was an attempt to implement socialism at a grand scale. I think it failed on a key point though: the will of the people was silenced.

We had a community run mesh network called Personal Telco. It's mostly gone now because gigabit internet service is cheap and reliable from the major ISPs, whereas Personal Telco was basically free but slow and unreliable. We also have two non-profit ISPs providing mesh networks, one called StepHouse using legitimate commercial grade hardware to do it. I think they will succeed where most have failed because they're a legitimate business charging for access rather than relying on the good will of people.

Most of my friends are on Facebook, but I'm the only one who's willing to verify my identity or send payments through Facebook. Actually, I really don't trust the payment system.

So, I think the conversion rate is going to be much lower than the Libra investors expect it to be.

Ripple (XRP) on the other hand has banks as the transaction verifiers, and major investors. People will trust Ripple way more than LibraCoin.

Is it "truth" that's being spread? How do you define that?

Would it be difficult to find another remote job? Like I said, they're becoming more commonplace. Also, if you already worked remotely, a remote job is easier to get because they're already experienced in working remotely.

And no, you need a solid fast connection to work remotely. You need to be able to video conference, regularly download updates to packages and dev software that can be up to a gig for each download period. Then there's remotely debugging issues on a cloud hosted instance.

  I've tried working remotely on a slow connection and it was a miserable experience that took ten times as long to do most things.

You act like these bugs are easy to spot. They are not. There's no stupidity involved in missing a subtle bug that can be exploited by a hacker.

I agree with you that for the most part, the causal link is the opposite of what the headline mentioned. But I think you've also uncovered why a broadband company should invest in more rural communities. Remote jobs for affluent, skilled workers are becoming more commonplace, and a portion of those workers want to live in rural areas, but couldn't before because of the commute times. Now the only thing stopping them from moving into these rural communities is the broadband speeds. If ISPs invest in these communities, they'll attract affluent workers who will bring money into the communities, creating service jobs.

What about all the branch prediction exploits found in Intel CPUs, such as Spectre and Meltdown? How do we know that those weren't intentionally implemented, or undisclosed by state actors? They've been there for what, fifteen years?

Just add a complicated new feature or major patch with an "accidental" buffer overflow bug. It probably won't get noticed for a long time if it's added by an employee or friend of the repo maintainer, and if it is noticed then they claim it was an accident. Then they do it again using a different contributor.

For former students with federally subsidized student loans, they can live abroad paying $0 back each month for ten years and then be forgiven for their loans.