By that line of reasoning, this proposal is great because not only the first but also the second and third candidate are elected, making an even later portion of the voters happy
>A potential patent applies to any implementation. Even if you write a clean-room clone of React, if it uses the same patent, Facebook has a patent claim.
Sure, but that only rules out a reimplementation of React. The question most people face is "React or existing alternative X?". If your chosen alternative is still actively developed, it's probably notably different from React in concept and implementation (why else would it still exist).
Now if Facebook owns any react-related patents, you use all of them by using react, your alternative has a good chance to be sufficiently different to not be infringing.
In terms of your chances of using Facebook patents, any alternative is strictly better than React itself.
A self-sufficient Mars colony isn't easy, but it doesn't seem impossible. And the lack of FTL doesn't really limit us to this solar system either: generational starships with nuclear pulse propulsion [1] could get us to the next star with around 100 years travel time. Not exactly something we want to start tomorrow, but fairly feasable.
The biggest issue I can think of is oil running out, but we're on a good trajectory to solving that. Other resources seem either abundant or replaceable. The threat of global nuclear war is problematic but not really solvable by throwing more people at the problem. Overpopulation isn't projected to be a problem. Climate change will be a major inconvenience and costly, but unlikely to be an existential issue.
Of course there's lots of injustice, hunger, disease, murder and torture that would be nice to resolve, but it's not an existential issue for humanity.
In any scenario where society or technology breaks down enough for these skills to be useful, the majority of the population still won't miss them. Without industrialised fishing and farming (which relies on oil and huge production chains) we don't have nearly enough fish for people to filet or grain for people to make bread (let alone beer). And statically speaking you will be starved before your vegetables are grown.
I agree that throwing away the physical books would be stupid, but the index is ready enough to rebuild if we ever need it again. And in a post-computer world search times in the order of days or even weeks would be acceptable: when looking up crop rotations a few days more or less won't make or break your harvest
Punishing CAs for bad behavior (ie Security Problems) has more collateral damage the bigger a CA is. Right now, if a CA is bad enough browsers just stop accepting their certificates. After a certain size that becomes unfeasible, removing a lot of pressure from that CA
You totally can. Technically sometimes you need a certain conjugation or a linking "s", but usually you just combine the words.
I guess they meant that not every compound word is one that Germans actually use (as you would expect when somebody claims "it's a German word"). But you can totally make up words on the spot that every German will understand
In a way a dishwasher is storing energy in the form of clean dishes. Now instead of storing electricity to run the dishwasher whenever, you simply run the dishwasher when there's an electricity surplus
Today's washing machines already have timers to start in X hours (at least mine has, and it's not exactly top of the line). Once consumer electricity prices reflect the actual electricity price at that moment new models would quickly contain internet-connected logic to start the washing cycle at the point in the next 24h with the lowest predicted electricity price.
If you integrate washing machine and dryer into one mashine, the cost-savings from electricity would be even bigger with very little convenience lost.
all-you-can eat buffets work because each person has to pay seperately and the amount any person can eat in one setting has hard physical limits that are fairly low.
Unlimited in the computing world usually has practical limits many orders of magnitude above normal usage, making outliers much, much more expensive. But you can't substantially increase the price because you can't afford to lose your normal customers and be left with only outliers.
I meant that more in terms of "widely deployed in sizes exceeding the most common paper size (A4/legal)". At the size of a smartphone you have to exceed the resolution of paper by a considerable margin to show the same amount of detail.
https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/242