What practical utility does that perspective have? The precise intention of the creators of a scheme does not have any distinct impact on anyone else, and is incredibly difficult to verify.
It doesn't really matter what the intent of the government and medical establishment is; In fact, it may not even be coherent to attribute intent to such an entity. What matters is what the system does, and the evidence clearly indicates that the MAiD system is resulting in the deaths of the socially marginalised.
They can't peak independently, but their reliability and low marginal cost means that they can are well suited to providing peaking capacity in conjunction with storage. Excess power from the reactor can be used to place energy in the storage source, which is then discharged during peak load. Due to the reliability of the nuclear generator, the amount of storage required can be relatively small.
You can use a keepass file synchronised with syncthing or a similar peer-to-peer sync system. To securely share credentials, you can share a separate password file with a unique password. There might be issue with file conflicts, but I find these can usually be managed manually; You might also be able to use a crontab.
Is it progress? I don't think the time required to fly over an ocean is really a major problem. Time-sensitive clients can simply book an overnight flight during time they would be sleeping, and those who would be rich enough to afford supersonic flights can already afford comfortable accommodations on such flights. The benefits would be minimal and would be overwhelmed by the environmental damage and/or waste caused by the high fuel burn.
Would this actually have any effect on Russian civilians? I would guess that this jamming doesn't prevent operation of GLONASS, and most Russian civilians would primarily use GLONASS.
Abstractly? No, we don't. But we do need entertainment and leisure, and we do need to communicate with each other. In the modern age, those essential needs are most practically met by using advanced digital technologies, and not having them would result in a deficiency that would negatively affect one's sense of happiness.
I don't really mind this. I don't believe it's appropriate for the government to prohibit the use of a psychoactive substance, but this law doesn't do that. It just bans a particular delivery mechanism which is known to be particularly harmful. That seems reasonable.
I find it odd that the creator of Action Office 2 apologised for it. Having grown up watching the media of the 90's and 00's, and then working in open spaces, I look at office cubicles with a fond anemoia. I would very much appreciate having my own space at work.
Even if humans would continue to attempt to gain social status by training to become buff pole-vaulters, I think it would be a massive improvement if that status seeking was decoupled from the economic system.
Or, if you're concerned with the climate impact of using fossil fuels, you can consider the economics of shifting to a technology that cab use the energy more directly; I.e, replacing aviation with electric railways.
I don't think that behaviour is an attempt to mimic Steve Jobs, or any kind of signalling strategy. It's an effective strategy for minimising cognitive load and energy.
That seems quite similar to allowing developers to SSH into a development server. That option is highly mature, allows users to use a variety of tools, and is not very expensive. How does your product improve on that?
I don't see why demographics would be regarded as so important to industrialised societies. The bulk of labour power in those societies comes from machines, not physically fit young people. In such a society, an older population is not a downside, and can in fact be an upside, as older people often have more technical expertise for developing and maintaining those machines.
The only reason it's considered bad is because the system of socially-subsidised retirement leads to older people being artificially unproductive, but that's just one way of supporting the elderly; It would be feasible to institute a new system where aging people are given stronger labour protections, and are provided with support to change their patterns of work in response to changes to their physical and mental capabilities. Many would even see this as a positive thing, since work can provide a sense of meaning and retirement can be a major stressor.
That would be true when purchasing a phone now, but not at the time the SE launched. At that time, the Mini had not launched, and it was not clear that any such device would launch. Since most of the people in the market for a small phone would have been using relatively old devices, most of them purchased the SE. Already having the SE would mean that few of them would want to upgrade to the Mini.
Also, it is worth noting the desire for small phones is mostly due to a desire for easier one-handed use, and the SE is as easy to use as the Mini in that regard, since the user does not need to reach the top of the device and the home button is centrally located, and thus easier to reach.
I find the claim that Ukraine is a "democracy" questionable considering the handling of the conflict in Donbas. Rather than allowing devolution of powers to the region, so that the predominantly Russian-speaking people of those regions can make local laws that reflect their interests, they have pursued a devastating 8 year long war. During the cause of this war, they have repeatedly reneged on promises made in treaties and deployed large neo-nazi militias, who view their activity in Donbas as part of an anti-slav race war. I do not think such actions are compatible with democracy.
That's true, but we do have an environmental and climate problem driven by human activity, and a reduction in human population would help in solving it.
It might be the case that endocrine disruptors may be increasing the likelihood a person is trans, but what you are proposing is almost certainly incorrect and would not work. Using sex-aligned hormones to cause a person to become cisgender is sometimes tried and does not appear to be effective, and I am not aware of any evidence that transgender people's pre-transition hormone levels are substantially lower than their cisgender peers. Also, this theory would suggest that eunuchs, self-identified men who voluntarily undergo gonad removal, would generally come to identify as women, but this is not the case; Similarly for men who have their testosterone suppressed as part of cancer treatment.
It may be economically efficient, but it's materially inefficient. You're increasing the amount of materials and labour required in order to reduce the utility of manufactured products. This indicates an error in the economic system.
I find the current use of the word "terrorist" to be very strange. It seems to be little more than special pleading; The western powers apply it liberally to their enemies, essentially to label them as evil, while not applying it to allied actors. For instance, the ongoing conflict in Yemen is causing massive harm to civilian populations, but the Saudian Arabian state has not been designated as "Terrorist". I am completely in favour of the establishment of tribunal to prosecute war crimes, but these should be based upon the well-defined and recognised principles of international law, not arbitrary labels like "Terrorist".
I don't think adding general purpose and/or secure telecommunications functionality is going to help a microblogging service to be more profitable. There are already more mature tools for that, it's expensive, and people don't want that from twitter. It's particularly ill-advised when you've lost a large number of staff in an uncoordinated way and seriously alienated advertisers. The company needs to focus on making sure the service is in a position to be stable, and then work on repairing relations with advertisers.
The issues with aviation are two-fold: First, the amounts of emissions are very high relative to total passenger throughput. Second, the issue is very difficult to address meaningfully, because heavier-than-air aircraft have inherently high energy requirements that must be fulfilled by very dense, high-quality fuel, which we have no way to sustainably produce in sufficient quantities.