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Zero chance of that happening unfortunately. The current Supreme Court would consider restrictions on corporate media ownership a violation of the first amendment, much like restrictions against unlimited campaign donations and restrictions on discriminating against non-Christians.

Trees did not evolve with bountiful access to titanium, but it would be interesting to ponder how they would have evolved on a metal planet

That sounds equivalent to writing an unconstitutional law and tacking on “btw, you can’t rule that this law is unconstitutional”.

Which is actually possible to do by amending the US Constitution, but good luck with that.

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The idea is that if the TV does not have WiFI or microphone capabilities, none of these are security issues.

I'm guessing it's more difficult to contract a respiratory illness if your lungs are already damaged, malfunctioning, and covered in tar.

Plus, smokers are not exactly the pinnacle of health. They would be less likely to voluntarily test for COVID and would be less concerned with coughing and wheezing, since those are more normal occurrences.

Smokers are also more likely to be in the same political mindset as people who would ignore or lie about positive test results, intentionally do a bad job of testing, etc.

I think it's because friendship-level connections are a lot easier to make when you are in uncomfortably close physical proximity with each other and/or when you need to rely on others and they need to rely on you.

In upper middle class society, more and more people live alone and have access to everything they need without needing to rely on neighbors.

Having 24/7 access to the Internet and communication tools gives the sensation that you have all the necessary tools at your disposal, but in reality those tools do nothing and you're just sitting at home by yourself, ignoring the people who are physically around you.

This is only true in an environment where nobody from any company travels.

However in a world where one company travels for conferences, lunches, in-person events, then that company will clearly have an advantage over the company that did none of those things.

SPAC seems preferable for companies with an inexperienced board or who are trying to hide something from the public before listing their stock.

I imagine SpaceX will eventually go public via more traditional means and there's a good chance it's the first trillion dollar IPO IMHO.

Assume there are seven billion people on the planet. One of them knows the location of a specific hidden treasure. I know who it is and I ask you to guess who it is, but you have no possible way of knowing or even getting a hint about it.

You pick some random person. I then bring in another stranger and tell you that the person who knows where the hidden treasure is is either the random person you chose or the one I brought in.

At this point, there are only two possibilities:

1. You happened to randomly choose the right person on Earth and in my surprise, I had to pick some other random stranger to pretend they knew the secret.

2. You chose a total rando who has no idea what's going on and the person I brought in is in fact the one who knows where the treasure is

I recently discovered that on iOS, you can press on the scrollbar to get direct control of the scroll knob. That allows you to quickly jump to any part of the document without having to thumb scroll through it page by page.

They should be able to obtain a new certificate based on the same private/public key, in which case I don’t think any add-ons would need to be updated.

Yes, but unfortunately the executable bit would be preserved if the file was delivered by way of a .tar.gz bundle. A reasonable user expectation would be to double-click on the .tar.gz to unravel it and then double click on the pdf to open it.