Oh dear lord. Is there no stopping US hegemony?

Carney has some ideas

...but I think this is more the news media ecosystem turning an online molehill into an ad click mountain. Some random former admin person said something ridiculous online, not really news worthy imo

This guy was a senior national security advisor in the White House. This isn't some nut.

It looks like everybody in this business reaches similar levels of performance within a few months of each other. Who gets to some level first isn't a big deal any more.

There are nuts at that level in the Trump administration, RFK and Hegseth are two glaring examples. Trump's natsec council is largely empty, not where near the number and expertise of people as other admins or his first time round

He was a national security adviser under Biden.

not a plague sent by god.

yup, everywhere except the USA.

Really, it isn't the make believe land you imagine.

As someone who did blue sky chemistry research decades ago: is this completely pointless?

How could anybody really know? You might need to travel pretty far into the future to say for sure.

From a position of naivety, anything relating to electron dissociation sounds potentially useful for nano-components to use for computation, or for superconductivity?

Honestly, no. These weird states of matter have extremely different properties to ordinary matter. Weird properties is how we get things like superconductors, magnets, semiconductors, photovoltaics.. so strange state of matter with weird properties could very well produce some magic

It doesn't take into consideration changing borders. For example on 1800 much of the World belonged to Britain (eg, the biggest example India). Switzerland didn't exist in 1800, so how could you have population data for it? Only in 1861 was Italy unified.

yeah good point and that probably would have warranted a note. it tries to calculate back what the population was for the countries as they are today. there's some questionable interpolation going on.

I would like the alternative, but that would require having a geojson of all historic borders and their populations. and then you'd still have to make a judgement call on Britain -- yes it ruled India, but should India not still show up as its own thing?

On a Mac, if you join the beta program of whatever OS you have pre-Tahoe, you will no longer be nagged to update to Tahoe.

NAZIs here we come.

Where are these billions of € coming from? The end user, obviously. So what is the gain?

The billions will come from being able to continue using products instead of having to toss them and lose their economic value.

Value preservation by law.

gaming as an access drug to hacking???? Give me a break.