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Gun ownership there is very similar to the US.

Actually it is closer to Canada. Owners need a license requiring background checks and mandatory training for handguns and semi-auto rifles, which all have to be registered. Only "traditional" hunting weapons (non-SA rifles and shotguns) are basically unrestricted. CCW permits are possible, but uncommon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Indeed... the entire "cash is a part of Swiss soul" argument reeks of bullshit rationalization.
The fact is that the country is and was a financial hub for a LOT of shady transactions and deposits for at least a century.
It's not a part of their soul - it's their law.
Also, monetary policies are not determined by your average Joe's soul while "paying for coffee with a 100 CHF bill" - but by the combined interests of government and business.
And BOY do banks have them interests...

Also, if you're looking for "soul" - Swiss are notoriously xenophobic and conservative.
There's reason women didn't have full voting rights everywhere in Switzerland until 19-fuckin-91.
It's a country of grandpas and people living off of Nazi gold.
Of course they don't want it traceable.

And privacy my ass... They are STILL practicing conscription.
You know... the ability of the government to strip you of all of your possession and rights and shove you into a fenced off area in order to "train" you to defend the said government.
A notch away from prison.

A conscript is NOT your average Hollywood-depicted volunteer who gets to "wash out" and oh lordy what shame on family and clan...
They are drafted, removed from their civilian life, family and profession, stripped of personal identity and possessions and trained to be "soldiers".
And every single moron with a piece of brass on their shoulders gets to do with your body and personal information what ever the fuck they wand - and call it training.
Running laps as you watch a corporal rummage through your personal items is not torture or invasion of privacy - it's training and inspection for contraband.

And they love it!
Cause they are by and large xenophobic, right-wing and conservative up their Swiss ass.
"500 years of democracy and peace and only a cuckoo clock to show for" is not a failure of democracy and peace - but a strong indication that the Swiss are the gun-totin hillbillies of Europe.
Who just happened to have figured out that it is much more profitable to bank than to keep serving as hired thugs.
And who had the good fortune of geography which allowed them to maintain all that.

Indeed... the entire "cash is a part of Swiss soul" argument reeks of bullshit rationalization.
The fact is that the country is and was a financial hub for a LOT of shady transactions and deposits for at least a century.
It's not a part of their soul - it's their law.
Also, monetary policies are not determined by your average Joe's soul while "paying for coffee with a 100 CHF bill" - but by the combined interests of government and business.
And BOY do banks have them interests...

Also, if you're looking for "soul" - Swiss are notoriously xenophobic and conservative.
There's reason women didn't have full voting rights everywhere in Switzerland until 19-fuckin-91.
It's a country of grandpas and people living off of Nazi gold.
Of course they don't want it traceable.

And privacy my ass... They are STILL practicing conscription.
You know... the ability of the government to strip you of all of your possession and rights and shove you into a fenced off area in order to "train" you to defend the said government.
A notch away from prison.

A conscript is NOT your average Hollywood-depicted volunteer who gets to "wash out" and oh lordy what shame on family and clan...
They are drafted, removed from their civilian life, family and profession, stripped of personal identity and possessions and trained to be "soldiers".
And every single moron with a piece of brass on their shoulders gets to do with your body and personal information what ever the fuck they wand - and call it training.
Running laps as you watch a corporal rummage through your personal items is not torture or invasion of privacy - it's training and inspection for contraband.

And they love it!
Cause they are by and large xenophobic, right-wing and conservative up their Swiss ass.
"500 years of democracy and peace and only a cuckoo clock to show for" is not a failure of democracy and peace - but a strong indication that the Swiss are the gun-totin hillbillies of Europe.
Who just happened to have figured out that it is much more profitable to bank than to keep serving as hired thugs.
And who had the good fortune of geography which allowed them to maintain all that.

Indeed... the entire "cash is a part of Swiss soul" argument reeks of bullshit rationalization.
The fact is that the country is and was a financial hub for a LOT of shady transactions and deposits for at least a century.
It's not a part of their soul - it's their law.
Also, monetary policies are not determined by your average Joe's soul while "paying for coffee with a 100 CHF bill" - but by the combined interests of government and business.
And BOY do banks have them interests...

Also, if you're looking for "soul" - Swiss are notoriously xenophobic and conservative.
There's reason women didn't have full voting rights everywhere in Switzerland until 19-fuckin-91.
It's a country of grandpas and people living off of Nazi gold.
Of course they don't want it traceable.

And privacy my ass... They are STILL practicing conscription.
You know... the ability of the government to strip you of all of your possession and rights and shove you into a fenced off area in order to "train" you to defend the said government.
A notch away from prison.

A conscript is NOT your average Hollywood-depicted volunteer who gets to "wash out" and oh lordy what shame on family and clan...
They are drafted, removed from their civilian life, family and profession, stripped of personal identity and possessions and trained to be "soldiers".
And every single moron with a piece of brass on their shoulders gets to do with your body and personal information what ever the fuck they wand - and call it training.
Running laps as you watch a corporal rummage through your personal items is not torture or invasion of privacy - it's training and inspection for contraband.

And they love it!
Cause they are by and large xenophobic, right-wing and conservative up their Swiss ass.
"500 years of democracy and peace and only a cuckoo clock to show for" is not a failure of democracy and peace - but a strong indication that the Swiss are the gun-totin hillbillies of Europe.
Who just happened to have figured out that it is much more profitable to bank than to keep serving as hired thugs.
And who had the good fortune of geography which allowed them to maintain all that.

Even he wasn't the first.

Funny!

We already have a number of stories describing this phenomenon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Also, I recommend my favorite tag for this story: "whatcouldpossiblygowrong"

Yeah, I would have though H2 would be the first molecule.

The thinking is that by this time when such atoms could form, the universe was still in a state where molecules were hindered from forming as they do naturally today.

A search term for you is recombination era

I'm not going to pretend I understand the goings on, but a quick summary says the universe expanding caused a very low density of those atoms, and there was a lack of solid catalyzers to help form molecules.
Apparently the radiation came into play to conspire against molecules forming too.

So in that particular time and state HeH+ is predicted to be more common and likely than H2

You could be right, but I don't get this whole 'everything bad is because of money laundering' argument.

That's because you probably are a nice person who doesn't really spend much time thinking about how to screw your fellow human beings for monetary gain. Unfortunately enough people do spend time doing this that it's a VERY serious problem.

I have no doubt money laundering is widespread, but has it become any more widespread now compared to the days when drug dealers were hiding suitcases of cash around the place?

Accountant speaking here. TLDR version is yes it has become more common because technology has made it easier that ever. Why do you think technology like bitcoin is so popular for illegal goods transactions? Money laundering is nothing more than any series of transactions that makes it difficult to trace the origin of the cash. Think of it a bit like encryption - you can often crack it with enough time and resources but the point is to make it so much work that it isn't worth the bother in most cases. Cryptocurrencies are almost a wet dream for people wanting to launder money. You don't have to have untraceable transactions to launder money - you just need enough transactions of the right type to make tracing cash flows challenging.

The world did not fall apart then, as it will apparently do now if we don't crack down on all these money launderers.

I think you don't really understand the scope of the problems money laundering facilitates. Money laundering is critical to financing, among other things drug dealers, terrorist organizations, dictatorships, illegal trade, circumvention of sanctions, human trafficking (slavery), theft, fraud, extortion, racketeering, and the list goes on for some time. The drug dealers you use as an example are merely one case among many. It's quite clear that lack of controls for money laundering would result in substantially worse world to live in.

If they have made the money from a legitimate business trade, then since when did the west care about enforcing domestic CCP capital control laws?

Those statements have nothing to do with each other. First, there is a LOT of trade that looks like legitimate honest trade on the surface but really isn't. Ever heard of a front organization? Those are super common and they rarely exist for reasons positive to society as a whole. No the west doesn't care about Chinese capital controls except insofar as they affect the west but they don't need to to have a legitimate interest in combating money laundering. You can't stop money laundering completely but like many things it's not a good idea to just sit back and ignore it altogether either.

It has become ridiculously hard to deal with even smallish (10's thousand) sums of money internationally these days. I run an international business and have to regularly justify to my bank what I'm doing. Every time I deal with a professional or financial service I have to prove where my funds have come from.

Assuming for the sake of argument that that is true, then you are probably doing it wrong. Yes banks are required by law under know your customers laws to understand the nature of the transactions banking customers are conducting and this is entirely reasonable. That said, I'm among other things a certified accountant and I do a lot of international trade for the manufacturing company I work for today. It's not nearly as challenging as you are making it out to be. If you are being asked a lot about your business then you need to get a better relationship with your bank and learn how to actually do things properly. When I hear people complaining about it, it's almost always because they don't understand what they are doing adequately.

You could be right, but I don't get this whole 'everything bad is because of money laundering' argument.

That's because you probably are a nice person who doesn't really spend much time thinking about how to screw your fellow human beings for monetary gain. Unfortunately enough people do spend time doing this that it's a VERY serious problem.

I have no doubt money laundering is widespread, but has it become any more widespread now compared to the days when drug dealers were hiding suitcases of cash around the place?

Accountant speaking here. TLDR version is yes it has become more common because technology has made it easier that ever. Why do you think technology like bitcoin is so popular for illegal goods transactions? Money laundering is nothing more than any series of transactions that makes it difficult to trace the origin of the cash. Think of it a bit like encryption - you can often crack it with enough time and resources but the point is to make it so much work that it isn't worth the bother in most cases. Cryptocurrencies are almost a wet dream for people wanting to launder money. You don't have to have untraceable transactions to launder money - you just need enough transactions of the right type to make tracing cash flows challenging.

The world did not fall apart then, as it will apparently do now if we don't crack down on all these money launderers.

I think you don't really understand the scope of the problems money laundering facilitates. Money laundering is critical to financing, among other things drug dealers, terrorist organizations, dictatorships, illegal trade, circumvention of sanctions, human trafficking (slavery), theft, fraud, extortion, racketeering, and the list goes on for some time. The drug dealers you use as an example are merely one case among many. It's quite clear that lack of controls for money laundering would result in substantially worse world to live in.

If they have made the money from a legitimate business trade, then since when did the west care about enforcing domestic CCP capital control laws?

Those statements have nothing to do with each other. First, there is a LOT of trade that looks like legitimate honest trade on the surface but really isn't. Ever heard of a front organization? Those are super common and they rarely exist for reasons positive to society as a whole. No the west doesn't care about Chinese capital controls except insofar as they affect the west but they don't need to to have a legitimate interest in combating money laundering. You can't stop money laundering completely but like many things it's not a good idea to just sit back and ignore it altogether either.

It has become ridiculously hard to deal with even smallish (10's thousand) sums of money internationally these days. I run an international business and have to regularly justify to my bank what I'm doing. Every time I deal with a professional or financial service I have to prove where my funds have come from.

Assuming for the sake of argument that that is true, then you are probably doing it wrong. Yes banks are required by law under know your customers laws to understand the nature of the transactions banking customers are conducting and this is entirely reasonable. That said, I'm among other things a certified accountant and I do a lot of international trade for the manufacturing company I work for today. It's not nearly as challenging as you are making it out to be. If you are being asked a lot about your business then you need to get a better relationship with your bank and learn how to actually do things properly. When I hear people complaining about it, it's almost always because they don't understand what they are doing adequately.

this just in : Fractional-reserve banking means your bank, and the wider system, does not have enugh cash to for-fill demand if a significant portion of costumers do that, so instead of a few people draining the reserves they have limits. Another reason for limits is that today no one need that large an ammount of cash onléss the want to do large transaction below the radar (for whtever reason, that raises som flags). Your milage may wary, but the last tim i used cash was.. 3 years ago i think, my debit card on the other hand gets almost daly (often multiple times a day) use, I find it way more convinient than fddeleing around with cash) but then again my bank charges me 0 for card tranactions (ok 1,75% on top of the exchange rate when I use it abroad but that is actually visa so i can not fault them for that)

1. Get funds. A lot of money.
2. Talk to police, mil, property owners, and governments in Africa, Asia, South America about the advanced tech they can get for "free".
3. Install the hardware like with the Domain Awareness System in Lower Manhattan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
4. Work as a private, public, gov partnership in Africa, Asia, South America.
5. Gather the global math needed to detect all the variation in the human face globally.
6. At an airport, port, bus station, rail and on every car driver and passenger. Do passports match the face? Did the person return to their own nation after a set time?
7. Return to the USA with the wisdom and advance math to do really great facial recognition on all sections of the US community.
8 Support police in inner city areas with the new advanced math that now works perfectly.
9. Reduce crime and find illegal migrants all over the USA.
10. Gentrification slowly sets in as crime and illegal immigration is reduced.

Anything else is an abnormality it only happens in .00000001 cases.

The rate of androgen insensitivity syndrome alone is higher than that.

60 years ago, Belgian comic writers Greg and Franquin imagined a prototypical megalomaniac mad scientist whose attempt to fame included advertizing Coca Cola on the moon by sending rockets with dyes to the moon : http://www.otakia.com/wp-conte...

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Secondly, the AVERAGE murder sentence is 40.6 years

Yet somehow the MEDIAN murder sentence (on the first page of your link) is less than 14 years, far closer to OP's estimate than your supposed statistic.

Sentences for particularly egregious murders tend to be tens or even hundreds of times longer than the murderer can be expected to live, which makes the concept of an "average" sentence fairly meaningless.

You might want to check your assumptions

Here is Mussolini's Doctrine of Fascism
http://www.worldfuturefund.org...

Here is Leninism excerpted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You also might want to ask on an operational level how were they different ?

Right; perhaps they learned it watching the New Coke campaign.

In modern vernacular usage, "begging the question" is often used to mean "raising the question"

In what way does it beg the question?

You kid but the irony is that TV broadcasts near pornographic content in the UK paid for, in part, by TV taxes.

People will go to great lengths to get an egg salad recipe.

• Sprint and T-Mobile merge and we have three reasonably strong cellular carriers.
• Or they block this merger, Sprint goes bankrupt a few years later. Verizon and AT&T (being in the financially stronger position) buy up most of what used to be Sprint. And we end up with two cellular behemoths and a struggling T-Mobile.

You do NOT want the second one. Most of the discount MVNOs are using Sprint's network (part of the reason why Sprint regularly finishes last in speed tests - Sprint went for quantity over quality). If Sprint goes bankrupt, all those MVNO network contracts will be invalidated. Prices on all those MVNOs will go up as they have to negotiate new contracts.with the remaining three carriers. With a merger, the new Sprint/T-Mobile will still be legally bound to honor those old MVNO contracts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

India also manufactures ICs and chips for electronics like TVs etc.

Not according to these guys or wikipedia (ISRO is more research than production, and at 180nm is like 20 year old Pentium 3 technology).

The poverty level depends on what you need to live a reasonable life in a given country, so of course it will be lower in China. $2/day is not enough in big cities, but in rural areas it is.

Back in 1981 some 88% of the population was living on less than the modern equivalent of $2/day (adjusted for inflation), so no matter how you frame it it's clear that the majority of people have seen a considerable increase in their income and quality of life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For the most part, Chinese government numbers are more trustworthy on a relative basis than an absolute basis. For example, estimates of economic growth are generally regarded outside of China as inflated, but they are nonetheless useful to indicate the movement of economic growth.

So, I agree that there has been obvious and dramatic improvements in the percentage of Chinese living in poverty. This is true by many measures. However, the specific absolute numbers for poverty are not trustworthy. $2/day is not enough to live in Chinese cities, where half the population lives. In fact, googling for prices in China, it's clear that $2/day is orders of magnitude less than what is necessary for basic necessities. It's harder to find costs of living in the countryside, so it's hard to gauge the hypothesis that $2/day is sufficient for the countryside. But it's hard to believe that the prices from the city to the countryside drop by orders of magnitude. I've never seen any country where that's true.

Clinton had her server wiped with bleach bit

One server was. Turns out it didn't hold the only copy of the data.

Here, lemme help you read up on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Specifically:

An FBI examination of Clinton's server found over 100 emails containing classified information, including 65 emails deemed "Secret" and 22 deemed "Top Secret". An additional 2,093 emails not marked classified were retroactively classified by the State Department.

How'd the FBI find those emails if the server was wiped? Golly, it's almost like

Datto, Inc., which provided data backup service for Clinton's email, agreed to give the FBI the hardware that stored the backups

Oh yeah...backups are a thing.

and then dropped the case against Trump despite finding 110 counts of criminal behavior

Storing a classified email in an unapproved server is actually not a crime in-and-of itself. You'd face "administrative punishment", which typically would mean suspension or removal of your security clearance.

To be a crime, you'd have to prove something like espionage, and there's no evidence that Clinton deliberately sent classified information to a foreign nation. Which takes espionage off the table.

If Clinton was part of the military, you could charge her since the UCMJ treats mishandling classified information as a crime. But Clinton was a civilian and civilian laws are remarkably lax given the subject matter.

OTOH, ordering the IRS to not follow the law and hide your tax returns from Congress is a crime.

It ended with West Germany.
The generation that gave people in West Germany the "economic miracle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is long past.
Now its just another nation in the EU looking for the lowest cost of workers globally.

Only old people use fossil fuel vehicles anymore.

Yeah, because the non-"old people" population is 0.45%?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Hardly an insightful comment since it's flat out wrong.

The poverty level depends on what you need to live a reasonable life in a given country, so of course it will be lower in China. $2/day is not enough in big cities, but in rural areas it is.

Back in 1981 some 88% of the population was living on less than the modern equivalent of $2/day (adjusted for inflation), so no matter how you frame it it's clear that the majority of people have seen a considerable increase in their income and quality of life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Exactly, he isnt a real person. much less a single person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Checking his kickstarter, one of the people portraying him is a scammer too.

If the news sites just want to stop Google from indexing their sites, why can't they just use robots.txt?

User-agent: *
Disallow: *

My great great grandfather was a serf, a cottager.

Perhaps alternate phrasing next time? https://www.urbandictionary.co...

Cottager is one of the levels of serfdom in feudal societies, I can't help it that your mind is a sewer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Actually 2.5% of the population is below 70. Mental disability is currently recognized at around 70-75. Fully 1/6 of the population is below 85. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Maybe 80 is reasonably a bit much to be expected to navigate the finer points of our society without assistance, I don't know well enough to say. But I don't think it's unreasonable to say that if you're in the middle 2/3rds of the population, you should be able to get ahead in life through hard work, and be materially and influentially invested in the product of your labor a.k.a. the company you're an integral part of building and maintaining.

Security isn't a "solvable problem"

This is no single solution that will solve all security problems.

But there are solutions that will solve many security problems.

SQL injection attacks are far less successful today than a decade ago, mostly because of better APIs.

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities are also less common, because common libraries incorporate solutions such as Stack Canaries, and non-executable pages used for stacks and heaps.

The key is to not only develop better techniques, but to wrap them up in widely used APIs, frameworks, and libraries, so that even poorly trained coders end up using them, often without even realizing it.

The numbers aren't staggering, but often the exponential growth from last to bottom tenth, sixth, or third is a more important improvement threshold than the move from 70 t0 80, or, 80 t0 90 percentile.

The radicle comes before the tree.

doesnt make it moral.

Same here - i dont give a single fuck that the usa has laws on books to hide their illegal activities.

If you can throw the book at a non-usa civilian for breaking the law, then the USA bureaucrats should be held to same, if not higher standard.

For example, this thing called FOIA exists for a reason Mrs. Hillary Clinton.

It is illegal to spy on american people (or was). It is also illegal (and still is) to lie to Congress Mr. Clapper.

When you perpetrate a war crime Mr Gates you should be rotting away in a prison.

And this is but a few of what I believe are clear crimes perpetrated by those within the USA government.

Not one of these ass clowns was ever even charged. The political class protects their own. Anyone else - and that means you - are fucked if you ever take a stand. So take notice american public - the Political Class is sending an explicit message that if you speak out or expose them, they will fuck you into next year and beyond.

Until we have equal protection under the law, I will stand with the little guy - and this case, its Mr. Assange.

The whole series of charges stinks like fresh political dog-shit to distract, while innocent lives are destroyed.

If even a quarter of us spineless tech dweeb arm chair quarterbacks had 1/10th the balls of Assange, Manning or Snowden maybe the USA would be a different place.

Instead we continue to lose the republic, and it seems the pace it slips away is increasing.

doesnt make it moral.

Same here - i dont give a single fuck that the usa has laws on books to hide their illegal activities.

If you can throw the book at a non-usa civilian for breaking the law, then the USA bureaucrats should be held to same, if not higher standard.

For example, this thing called FOIA exists for a reason Mrs. Hillary Clinton.

It is illegal to spy on american people (or was). It is also illegal (and still is) to lie to Congress Mr. Clapper.

When you perpetrate a war crime Mr Gates you should be rotting away in a prison.

And this is but a few of what I believe are clear crimes perpetrated by those within the USA government.

Not one of these ass clowns was ever even charged. The political class protects their own. Anyone else - and that means you - are fucked if you ever take a stand. So take notice american public - the Political Class is sending an explicit message that if you speak out or expose them, they will fuck you into next year and beyond.

Until we have equal protection under the law, I will stand with the little guy - and this case, its Mr. Assange.

The whole series of charges stinks like fresh political dog-shit to distract, while innocent lives are destroyed.

If even a quarter of us spineless tech dweeb arm chair quarterbacks had 1/10th the balls of Assange, Manning or Snowden maybe the USA would be a different place.

Instead we continue to lose the republic, and it seems the pace it slips away is increasing.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not that either approach is 'good' or anything less than sheer evil; but if a government is going to actively snoop on its citizens, is it better to do what the rooskies are doing, or what the NSA did (15 odd years ago I might add.)

case in point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A modern nuclear reactor using proven 3rd generation technology costs upwards of $16billion dollars to build. A 4th gen reactor or experimental design will likely cost significantly more.

Now ask yourself why it costs so much. In 2002, the cost of building a third-generation plant was only $2 billion. I can pretty much guarantee the actual cost of construction hasn't gone up by almost an order of magnitude in 17 years. And the design hasn't changed significantly, either. So where did that extra $14B go? Mostly defending against frivolous lawsuits by NIMBY groups and other bureaucratic red tape that has no basis in safety.

Don't get me wrong, asking questions is good, and demanding improvements to safety standards (and even upgrades to existing plants) as new threats are discovered is also good. But there's a right way to go about it, and the right way involves pushing the NRC (or the equivalent group in whatever country you live in) to raise standards and require compliance upgrades. Tying up construction in court for years just results in skyrocketing costs and results in bringing power plants online that are based on outdated technology, and doing so decades after they should have been decommissioned.

Is there a worldwide list of reactors that are at risk, and that need to be replaced by newer designs ? And was the Fukushima reactor on that list prior to the incident ?

Yes. Every Generation I or II reactor (everything built before 1996) should be replaced by or upgraded in place to being a Generation III reactor as soon as it is practical to do so. The last Generation I reactor was still online for about four years after Fukushima happened. Fukushima was generation II.

In some sports gender doesn't or shouldn't matter, in others gender is really just a bad way of creating divisions, little different to different weight categories in sports like boxing. In the best sports such things are unnecessary

>>Goes to Google
>>Spends 10 seconds looking up male vs female records
>> Realizes women would basically hold no world records if there was no male/female division in sports

Lazy source

From TFS: "shrinking a transistor measurement to ... 5 nm -- from 7nm."

These node names have long lost their correspondence to actual dimensions on a chip. For 7 nm (easier to find data on than 5 nm) the transistor density is 60-80 transistors per square m, about 120 nm for a square transistors.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

If it's caused by the immune system is it still a cavity, or is it tooth resorption?

At the end of the day if the user has full control over their device (which they don't with Apple), there isn't anything that advertisers can attempt to do that the user can't thwart in some way.

Add in a VPN or some other service that obfuscates your IP / location and there's not a lot that they can do.

True in theory.

Devilishly difficult to implement in practice, because what you are proposing is the elimination of all side channel information leakage from the browser to the web host. And all those tiny bits of information that can add up (user-agents, DOM support) to a pretty good identifier. Check out the EFF's Panopticlick site, which details all the tiny information leakages and sums them up.

Add to that canvas fingerprinting and other skullduggery, and even with full control over a device, it's an uphill battle to thwart all the ways an advertiser can assign you a unique stable identifier.

Here's a fairly famous mainstream Cooperative that operates in the UK. It's a supermarket chain. There's a Wikipedia article on it too.

A supermarket chain isn't that radical in some ways, after all in the US Publix Supermarkets, while not a cooperative, is employee owned. But, hold on to your hat, because the UK also did have until fairly recently... a cooperative bank. The bank still exists but is no longer a cooperative, but it lasted several decades as one.

In all these instances, employees are paid even during unprofitable periods. There's nothing odd about that - most businesses will dip into lines of credit or savings during bad months to pay wages, even the wages of the owner if the owner works there, which for most businesses is the case. One of the first rules about starting a new business is to ensure there's enough money from initial investments to pay yourself for as long as it'll take before the company starts showing a profit. It helps nobody if you lose your house a few months after your business is started because you've refused to pay yourself, and thus the mortgage, until the numbers turn green.

Here's a fairly famous mainstream Cooperative that operates in the UK. It's a supermarket chain. There's a Wikipedia article on it too.

A supermarket chain isn't that radical in some ways, after all in the US Publix Supermarkets, while not a cooperative, is employee owned. But, hold on to your hat, because the UK also did have until fairly recently... a cooperative bank. The bank still exists but is no longer a cooperative, but it lasted several decades as one.

In all these instances, employees are paid even during unprofitable periods. There's nothing odd about that - most businesses will dip into lines of credit or savings during bad months to pay wages, even the wages of the owner if the owner works there, which for most businesses is the case. One of the first rules about starting a new business is to ensure there's enough money from initial investments to pay yourself for as long as it'll take before the company starts showing a profit. It helps nobody if you lose your house a few months after your business is started because you've refused to pay yourself, and thus the mortgage, until the numbers turn green.

They finally finished copying all the multitasking features that Palm's webOS introduced a decade ago.

You may think an i3 is ugly. I may think an i3 is ugly. But they're pretty successful cars -- a slow burn but it's now selling in reasonable numbers in Europe.

BMW sold 24,432 units last year across all of Europe and 34,829 units globally. For reference Tesla sold 139,782 Model 3s in the same period. But that isn't really the point. The point is that BMW and other companies making these EV hatchbacks probably are leaving money on the table by making their cars needlessly ugly. Yes that matters. Make no mistake that a significant part of Tesla's success has been that the cars they make are attractive to look at. It makes NO sense to design a car that is unattractive unless the point is intentionally to dampen sales because the car is nothing but a compliance car.

You missed my point about range anxiety and the difference between the US and European markets.

No I did not. I'm saying you (and others) are wrong about that point. Sure there are some EV enthusiasts who don't actually care (we have them here too) and are rational about their driving habits, but most people simply won't buy a vehicle with limited range. Not gas nor electric. It's not just range anxiety, it's value for money. Would you spend more money for a car with less range even if you weren't sure you really needed it? Most won't. If it really wasn't a problem you would see gasoline powered cars with sub-200 mile ranges too and you don't. (yes I understand the economic differences in what I'm saying) After all, if they really only drive 20 miles per day that means they would only need to visit the fuel station occasionally which shouldn't be much of an imposition. Most people are clearly not EV enthusiasts like (presumably) you and (definitely) me. The argument that people "don't really need longer range" is objectively mostly true but buying cars is not an entirely rational decision for most people.

I know you're an automotive engineer, which is why your statement about "marketing bullshit" comes across as just weirdly naive. Surely you understand that building a new platform takes multiple years?

Of course it takes years - and VW has HAD years to build an EV platform and they have failed to do so. They were busy lying about their diesel emissions until 2014-15. They could have even adapted an existing platform into a passably decent EV if they needed a stopgap. The Chevy Bolt design was started in 2012 and went on sale by 2017 and it runs down the same assembly line as the Chevy Sonic at the Lake Orion assembly plant (about 20 miles from where I sit).

They only did their pivot to high-volume EV in 2015, and only started designing the MEB in 2016. So it's pretty fast for a legacy automaker.

I'm aware of this. A ground up platform can be designed in 3-5 years depending on how motivated they are. The Chevy Volt was shown as a concept car in January 2007 and the first factory built Volt rolled off the assembly line in March 2010. The Chevy Bolt EV platform started design in 2012 and the first units started production in late 2016. VW should be rolling out new vehicles this year and the news seems to corroborate that as likely. But until they do I'm reserving any judgement. Furthermore if they weren't working on EVs seriously prior to 2015 then I have very little sympathy. It wasn't like EVs were some tightly kept secret so they should have been working on them looooong before 2015. (and realistically they probably were but how much is unclear)

I mean: do you believe they haven't spent billions?

They have PROMISED to spend billions. While they undoubtedly have spent significant sums already (see Audi and Porsche for evidence of that), their promises so far are manifestly mostly just that - promises. The distinction is important. Until they actually spend the money and it re

No no no! Access to space is too important to allow it to become a wild west of shooting down satellites. The 3 that have been done is already 3 too many, Kessler Syndrome is a very real risk!