This is a silly and short-sighted blanket statement. People used to love getting catalogs, which are just big books full of ads. In the right context, people appreciate being informed of products that can help improve their lives.
>but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones.
Why does it mean that? They could have been building compact phones already and they weren't. Not sure why they're going to start now when Apple is clearly signalling to the industry that people don't want to buy small smartphones.
Context here matters. Why are you trying to increase your typing speed?
Do you hunt and peck, and you want to type faster? Do you feel you "don't type very fast," compared to some kind of standard? Are you competing in typing competitions?
If you hunt and peck, your best course of action is to break your habit and learn to type on homerow keys.
If you feel you don't type fast enough using homerow keys, your best bet is just to type more. Perhaps think out a sentence, then test yourself for how fast you can type it versus just typing things off the cuff. I find that when I know what I want to type (e.g. I know a sentence I want to say), I can type blazingly fast, versus typing words as they come out of my brain, which is much slower.
Trying to explain simple bad decision making with some kind of grand marketing strategy that involves incredible amounts of wasted work and huge amounts of coordination and the silence of hundreds of people is the most reddit thing ever.
A sunshade is not just a temporary band aid for global warming. It will likely be a necessary addition to our planet to manage the heat we will continue generating.
Our energy consumption and production continues increasing as society keeps advancing, and it will continue to do so as we unlock more diverse ways of harvesting and storing energy and using it. A mark of a technological civilization is the conversion of starlight into heat energy - the civilization converts the energy from the star into useful work which produces heat. The heat has to go somewhere.
Up until now, it's been fine just letting earth manage it (but we're obviously running into the limits of that with global warming), but as we start approaching planetary levels of energy consumption, we're going to start producing planetary levels of heat, and we're going to need to do something about it. The simplest and most straightforward way is by putting sunshades into orbit to limit the amount of sunlight that comes in to cool the planet. This works especially well if the sunshades are solar panes that can collect energy while they shield heat. It's attractive because it doesn't involve changing delicately balanced atmospheric composition, and they can be moved or rotated to adjust the amount of light coming in on demand.
This is a silly and short-sighted blanket statement. People used to love getting catalogs, which are just big books full of ads. In the right context, people appreciate being informed of products that can help improve their lives.