Why disallow requiring thermal energy? Electric hair dryers are common in Europe.

Here's a PBS Space Time episode [1], "Dark Forest: Should We NOT Contact Aliens?", that takes a look at this from a game theory point of view

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYf47euE3U

That link for Apple reverse-engineering Microsoft formats is talking about before Microsoft OOXML existed.

Correct. I simply placed it for historical context on Microsoft being hostile to competition, interoperability and free software for much longer than OOXML has existed.

> Sane approaches require the government provide a service which 3rd parties can query age with (indirectly, via anonymizing proxy)

The problem with that is that the government obtained logs from the 3rd parties they might be able to compare timestamps with the timestamps of the anonymous age queries and figure out what sites some people were logging into.

> Are you okay with private and intimate conversations and moments (including of underage family members) being saved for replaying later?

Maybe I missed it but I didn't see anything there that said it saved conversations. It sounds like it processes them as they happen and then takes actions that it thinks will help you achieve whatever goals of your it can infer from the conversation.

It would probably be mostly the same, except maybe not suggesting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Except for that most of the kinds of things it gave as examples are close to the kind of things you'd find your local PBS or NPR station.

If you aren't trying to completely get rid of ultraprocessed foods, high fiber breakfast cereals can help with fiber. General Mills Fiber One Original or Kellog's All Bran Buds for example. The former has less sugar and slightly more fiber, but the latter has a better mix of soluble and insoluble fiber. Fiber One is 17 g insoluble/1 g soluble, and All Bran Buds is 12 g insoluble/5 g soluble.

Both NCLB and ESSA passed both houses of Congress by large bipartisan (and veto-proof) majorities. Did Bush and Obama actually have a lot to do with them?

I'm far out of my depth here, sorry for veering it politically. I thought it was interesting is all.

It's obviously Obama's fault that W. signed the NCLB act.

For mathematics Europe is an obvious alternative. The US and Europe produce about the same level of high level mathematics research per year.

> Just as an example Europe had a few years of exporting the best GLP-1 drugs (finally something in which Europe was leader in science), Eli Lily quickly took it over

You make it sound like Europe was not a leader in any area of science until this one thing which they led in for a few years.

> Terrence Tao was a good example of what happens when an exceptionally smart person stops getting funded by an American University: not moving to another country, but got VC money and created a new company

No, he's an example of what can happen when a Fields medalist gets funding cut. 99% of exceptionally smart university mathematicians and scientists will not be able to get VC money.

With the US both cutting research funding and becoming unfriendly to foreign students many future Tao's that would have chosen a US school for grad school will likely look elsewhere.