Privatization seems like a really bad idea to me. Helium is non-renewable resource. Privatization is about being 'efficient' at maximising profits. Do you think the people / companies that own the helium reserves are going to be interested in keeping helium available for centuries in the future? I'd say probably not.

For a profit based company, the only motivation to preserve the helium for future use is that maybe it will be worth a lot more money in the future. But there are two big problems with that. Firstly, the timescale is likely to be too long for the profit to be of interest. And secondly, the main reason the price would go up is scarcity; and that scarcity will come sooner if the helium is wasted in the short term. (Unless one company actually has a monopoly on helium, in which case they can create artificial scarcity by just not selling it. But that would obviously be bad for other reasons.)

I'm not sure why you're saying its clocks that are wrong rather than the other stuff. Currently we have x = r cos(𝜃) and y = r sin(𝜃), and that's what makes anti-clockwise rotations mathematically natural. But if we instead just used x = r sin(𝜃) and y = r cos(𝜃) then clockwise would be the natural positive rotation. And in that case, the unit circle would start at the top and go around clockwise... like we do for compass bearing (and clocks of course). So perhaps that would be better than changing what clocks do.

I wouldn't say 'outperform'... Cell death is a deliberate and desirable feature. Without it, we'd be unable to repair damage.

There's no way hippos have the long-distance endurance of humans. Pretty much everything is faster than humans at sprinting, but for endurance running, humans are next level. (Not me of course, I'm not really fit enough to be called human in this context.)

Yeah. They've done a good job. Strategically its so that Steam can't easily be crushed under Microsoft's enormous boot. So it's a good forward-thinking commitment that everyone can benefit from. (Everyone except Microsoft, I suppose.)

Slowmo is me mocking Scomo.

Nar, I actually know. It's Albo. Slowmo was the previous guy. (And Bazza I just made up.)

'monetized'

Probably something like Bazza, or Albo, or Slowmo.

My latest favourite is missing: Note Taking Apps:

• xournal++

Joplin is good for organising text-based notes, so I'm not surprised to see that on your list. But xournal is a for mixed drawing / hand-writing / text, etc. So it's a different use-case to Joplin. (It would be perfect if Joplin supported xournal notes; so that you could write with xournal and then organise with Joplin. ... But that hasn't yet come to pass.)

No. Think of the number as representing how many levels you have to go up.

If you go one level up, then you're on the floor of level 1. etc.

A two-story home would mean you have to go two level up to get to the roof... So it has two floors. i.e. Level 0 and level 1.

I suppose the loss they are referring to is that they fumbled and dropped their cool mystique at a critical moment. How can you put a price on that? ...

Or perhaps they are talking about an accumulated loss. They're basically out there flipping and fumbling coins all day - and after the latest one they've lost the equivalent of $30000 in total.

That's what they said in The Matrix. I guess they called it right.

Free food, but confined to a tiny unchanging living space where your entire purpose is to be observed by others; vs no free food, but more person freedom. Which do you think is better?

Probably misinformation. I didn't think Proton was even around in 1896!

It was easy to predict a downward slide as soon as they merged with Activision.

The person is talking about the dating pool they are exposed to. I don't see this as a personal comment about any individual person. I certainly wouldn't take it as a personal attack, and I don't think anyone else should either.

I don't see it as a put-down.

Yeah... Civ 1, 2, 3, and 4 were all good - for different reasons. Civ 5 was where the design decisions stopped being about gameplay and started being about maximising profit. Making the game functional and fun was lower priority to making paid DLC. Players buy the buggy and unfinished game... then pay more to fix it piecemeal with the DLC. Such is the power of brands and advertising.

There is some misleading information in there. Probably better to just get straight to the point with the 'standard' https://joinmastodon.org/ link.