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As a parent of teens I fully endorse this. Social media is designed for adults to find and connect with people they may not know in real life. For kids we should want the exact opposite. Their posts should only be able to go to a private and known group of users; their friends. Messaging platforms like Meet and WhatsApp, though not perfect, fit the bill far better but good luck convincing your child to use those when all of their friends are already on Snapchat. This is a bold move by a govt, and instead of picking on the technical infeasibilities (of which there are many), focus on the bigger picture; the necessary conversations that it generates in society, and the shifting of the needle to place the onus where it belongs, on those platforms who willingly pull our children into their marketing model.

Say what you will about them, Chromebooks really excel for remote learning. You just bring 'em home, punch in your home wifi password and they work exactly as they do at school.

The clue is in the line "... or modification to an existing spacecraft". They're essentially asking Space X to quote for a couple of sacrificial Cargo Dragons to take up the necessary fuel and engines and bolt them on to the existing ISS.

I cancelled last month because I got tired of wading through the dross. It had reached the point that when Netflix presented me with a page of titles, I was typing every single name into a search on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes to find out if it was worth my time. Don't give me an ad-supported subscription Netflix - that just tells me that you value my time even less to force me to sit through ads after I've spent ages selecting a movie. Give me reviews and ratings. Give me better search and filtering capabilities.

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Netflix is littered with "1 season" wonders. I deliberately skip over any show that doesn't have at least 3 seasons under its belt.

HTC Magic - lasted 1 year 11 months.
Nexus S - lasted 1 year 9 months.
Nexus 4 - lasted 2 years 10 months.
Nexus 5x - lasted 1 year 4 months, had well-known boot loop issue, main board replaced under warranty. Screen died at 2 years 3 months.
Nokia 7 Plus - lasted 1 year 11 months, USB port stopped charging, whole phone replaced under warranty. Second phone is ~3 months old.

I have a Cochlear implant. The visual cortex implant is clearly following a very similar strategy to the CI (based on the article it looks roughly on par with where the CI was in 1977). For the CI, the 22 electrodes are inserted by a surgeon individually into the cochlear and are designed to curve around the cochlear as they are inserted. These electrodes have an active stimulation length of around 25mm and are typically expected to last decades - it is rare for them to require removal. In contrast the VCI, for the moment anyway, has an array of 100 x 1mm long electrodes simply pushed against the cortex. While I cannot be certain, I would speculate that their much shorter length means they lose contact more easily and hence require regular re-seating. I would anticipate that once all the theory and testing is worked out, these electrodes will be inserted more deeply and perhaps even individually, just as with the CI.

If you extrapolate using the current 50% pa growth rate, then in 2025 Tesla could deliver over 4 million cars, 12 million in total. That's still only 1% of the 1 billion cars in the world today. The world's biggest car makers (Toyota, VW etc) only deliver around 10 million cars a year each.

I don't remember Google complaining about the dominance of Altavista or Yahoo. They just went ahead and made a better search engine.

The manufacturers of rubber bullets and riot gear are rubbing their hands.

If only there was an option called something like "Avoid tolls", that would be amazing.

Who employs more degree-holders in the US?

• Amazon - 600K worldwide, but only about 60K it calls US corporate workers (likely to be degree holders) - the rest are low-wage fulfilment workers. Will pay tax on gross of 230 billion (2018).
• Microsoft - 130K worldwide, with 80K in the US, likely to be virtually all corporate workers. Would pay tax on gross of 110 billion (2018).

So Microsoft is likely to hire more degree holders than Amazon, yet forces Amazon to contribute twice as much to boosting the graduate pool.