What are you talking about? The US navy protects the commercial shipment routes around the world.

Before the US Navy did that, the Royal Navy did. The work needs to be done, but it doesn't have to be the US doing it.

Likely soon corporate owned drones will protect commercial shipping routes I would think. Not sure if bad actors (pirates?!) will have their own drones.

Because pirates would never steal shipments of drones …

I’m sure that China would be happy to take over.

And it would be quite hard for China to protect anything that the US or private actors could just sink and enjoy the protection of the US government.

This is not like the Philippines where China can roll them over.

The gratuitous hostility undermines your point.

Hmm, there are rail routes across Eurasia.

They all watched the same movies or read the same books

I here to say... will it bend?

I would like to have the option to have chats without encrypting the media. It will nice to backup the media directly to a NAS.

It reminded me of avocado trees. They take a couple of years to produce avocados and still people plant those.

And, avocados are actually as radioactive as bananas (high potassium)

Is vscode the new electron?

Ha! That's ironic because VS Code is built on electron.

Could we do a crowdfunding campaign so we can keep paying them? The whole world is/will benefit from their work.

Sounds like the book is similar to the almost famous movie main idea.

Kevin Rose has talked about how important some of the power users (like Mr Babyman) was to Digg. He didn't say so explicitly (not that I recall), but I got the impression that there was definitely some kind of relationship between Digg and some users.

Isn't the internet for pr0n?