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2015: The Chinese hack of the records of 22.5m Americans, including every government employee, is a disaster that must never be repeated!

2019: Let's put all our classified war planning data in the cloud!
For what it's worth the same goes for China. I'm sure western intelligence agencies are working very hard at this moment to crack those mass-surveillance/social credit databases.
It's either a testament to the tremendous advantages of cloud-based big data, or people's myopic overconfidence, or both.
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Interesting thread but I think it vastly overstates the length and depth of the (very real) revolution wrought by fossil fuels:

1. The world didn't switch to fossil fuels when Watt's steam engine was invented in 1774.
Hydro power and horsepower remained *at least* as important as power sources until well into the 20th century in most of the world.

Hydro was a bigger share than coal in most early electricity grids, though coal was still very important.
2. There were multiple "revolutions". The UK, unusually, switched from biomass to coal as early as 1600 because its trees were all used up as fuel or timber for ships. Then you have Watt's steam engine in 1774.
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"What powers your space manufacturing?"

For "solar panels", press 1!
For "liquid fuels", press 2!
For "nuclear", press 3!

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1: Why not just do it on Earth where all your other raw materials are and you don't need to achieve escape velocity all the time?
2. How do you produce your liquid fuels without polluting your residential-zoned Earth?
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What a disgrace.

What a betrayal of Ken Wyatt, one day after he was sent out to make the case for a referendum on genuine change.
What @JasonVScott says:

On what other issue could you imagine sending out a minister to make the case for a referendum on a long-established, much-discussed issue, and then shoot it down off-record to the Oz the next day?
Political bastardry of the highest order.

I wasn't expecting a referendum from this government, so why raise and dash hopes of one in a single news cycle. The Indigenous affairs portfolio is the only one I could imagine being treated with such insouciance.
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