Why bother worrying about the downturn if the world bends over backwards to stop you hitting the ground?

It is basically impossible for Visa to go bankrupt, for example. The moment the threat looms, governments are going to leap in and save them. They’re too big to fail.

I thought they got put together like a tapestry?

That’s why they have looms or something to knit them up.

People are just like that in academic spaces.

Just rock up to any Edgar Allan Poe discussion forum and ask about the Orangutan.

At the same time, the lack of virality may hurt it since it feels much more like a burgeoning project. One of the draws for someone coming off of Twitter would be feature parity, and Mastodon feeling less complete and much smaller wouldn’t help.

Even if I had wanted to upgrade, I wouldn’t be able to, since Microsoft needs hardware mg computer doesn’t have. I can’t imagine most people would care enough to even think about that. They’d just keep using the computer until it no longer worked, and in the modern day, that will take a lot longer than it would have a decade or two ago.

Not necessarily. It might just be quietly buried.

I don’t think so. It’s more a side effect of the fact that the disaster was successfully prevented that makes it seem like there was no disaster at all to begin with, and that it was all fearmongering.

Like with acid rain, or Y2K.

People worked very hard in the background to prevent bad things from happening, but because they did so, and the effects weren’t outwardly public, it didn’t seem like very much happened at all.

Especially since discoverability has pretty much gone down the toilet, between SEO and spam sites.

You’re not going to as easily find a new and interesting website, when the first few results are just computer generated regurgitated text, stuffed with ads by the gill.

You mentioned diverse weather conditions in your grant application, and we can’t have that.

But sure, some bones on your ass I guess.

Exactly. Why live?

Complexity? You either need a drain, or a supply of water, that can’t be easy to work with, and unlike with a refrigerant loop, you can’t just reverse it to dry/wet things.

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They also don’t have good, compelling reasons to stay with the current system. They’re not getting much out of it, and the “oh, but the computer you’re making this on was created under capitalism” isn’t that compelling of an argument, especially when the alternative is choosing between eating, and buying the medication that stops your blood turning into acid.

The whole “system of true opportunity, where the best and brightest can shine” rings hollow when you’re working multiple jobs to survive, no matter how smart you are, and it feels like you’re extorted at every opportunity.

In fairness, it does seem like the kind of extreme that would come up in a video game. You’d at least expect some subtlety in real life, rather than outright drapes with the guy’s face on, and a positive word slapped on.

Like putting his business logo up.

The article has this to say about it:

Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it’s a certified device. If you have a non-Google build of Android on your phone, none of this applies. However, that’s a vanishingly small fraction of the Android ecosystem outside of China.

Which does suggest that it applies to everyone, as opposed to being something that only applies to Play Protect.

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Could you not just get an eGPU dock, and do it that way?

Assuming this effect existed, wouldn’t the memory of the water be polluted with all kind of things (as water is recycled all the time)?

Yes.

If longer exposure makes the memory stronger, you should be getting a lethal dose of salt quite easily

No, it would be the reverse. The water would magnetise to the salt, and draw it out of you, making you very dead.

Sure, but there’s a good argument that that should be an end-user issue, and not something that the OS/Phone manufacturer should be trying to mitigate. It’s a risk you take when owning a device, that you can also break it, or get it infected.

Otherwise, why bother selling the phone in the first place, rather than contracting it out under a rental agreement?

The supposed science behind homeopathy was already known, though. It was never a mystery.

It basically worked around the pseudoscientific principle that water remembered what used to be in it, so if you diluted out water concentrated with the thing you had, it would somehow “remember” what was in it, and when taken, would draw it from the body through some principle of magnetism.

It’s not like it magically somehow worked, and everyone was in amazement or anything quite like that. The only real reasons it did anything at all was that its contemporary treatments were things like bloodletting, which were worse for most things than not doing anything at all, or as a result of placebo.