Kazumara

Probably like 30 out of the 200. It really is a ridiculously common name.

Edit: I just looked it up, 20% of South Koreans are called Kim.

I must have a weird sample then. My uncle specifically wants that because he doesn't want to have a separate phone. So he has a Galaxy Tablet. And a colleague at work recently inquired how she would log in to the phone company website to charge the prepaid plan if she can't get the login SMS.

MacBooks are pretty practical. ARM laptops like MacBooks have genuinely ridiculously good battery life; I was genuinely shocked the first time I used one.

Yeah agreed, have one at work. I just really dislike their software.

iPads cant even send SMS or make calls. The most gimped of tablets.

The rest of your list seems reasonable

"drauf" fehlt noch :-)

Bavaria gives a shit about climate protecting iniatives

"giving a shit" means "caring about", I think you meant the opposite

Yeah I don't know why anyone entertains the idea.

Lifting things to LEO still costs around 2000 USD per kg, even with modern cheaper prices thanks to reusable rockets. For a datacenter presumably you'd have to go higher where you have less drag, because you can't keep doing burns for repositioning. So that sounds like it would already make everything so much more cost prohibitive. And the vibrations of a start are probably also not trivial, if your components are all hardened instead of off the shelf that will cost you more too. I see no world where that's more economical than buying some cheap land in flyover USA and have truckers drive things there.

Regarding maintenance there are some approaches where you build more redundancy ahead of time and then let broken things rest in place. At least that was the spiel an Azure evangelist gave us once when I was an intern at a webdev shop (in 2012). But still, once enough breaks down (I think it was a third of components) they would usually then exchange an entire container. So yeah still not great for space.

The energy I don't know about really, but at least it doesn't sound impossible that it could be decent for solar, as long as you can deal with more and more holes in your solar sails over time. At least you wont have to deal with diurnal cycles I guess. But the heating is really the killer issue imho. You'd have to radiate off heat in a massive scale. Heat management for the ISS is fairly complex already. I don't see how they would efficiently do this on a 5 GW scale. And once again a component level issue: all your cooling from the rack out has to be set up for it. No more fans local to systems, everything is heatpipes that need to connect to the entire spacecraft somehow.

Haha does this mean they removed only the BypassNRO script, but not the underlying regkey?

I realise you have to be somewhat off the rocker to be a billionaire CEO, but Pat is showing more of that than I expected here.

No, 27,38 years

He seems to be in limbo regarding that... From the article:

An Arizona school district has barred a teenage boy from boys’ sports teams, gym classes, and facilities

She said that the district also removed Laker from an all-boys gym class and have mandated that he use a separate restroom.

Sounds to me like he gets to use neither.

It's worth reading the entire article by the way. The fuckery in the details makes it worse.

Hokkaidō ist die nord-östliche grosse Insel von Japan, die zweitgrösste, aber weniger dicht besiedelt weils da echt kalt wird.

Da gibts bestimmt neben den Kürbissen noch eine Menge Sachen die den Namen der Insal als Namensbestandteil tragen. Zum Beispiel die Hunderasse, oder die Hokkaidomilch. Ich denke da musst du dich dran gewöhnen :-)