Fame, fortune, book deals, interviews, etc. He might also claim that since he created BTC he should have control over it.

There is no voice actor to name. It's like an amalgamation of, say, everything on youtube, with a different nudge for each of the different voices you can choose.

After some more googling, about 6% (or 270,000) of the German-branded cars sold in China are made in Germany. That's more than just an individual car here or there, but I agree 94% made in China is still an overwhelming fraction.

https://www.vda.de/en/news/art...

We can't advance if we retain too much "knowledge" of history and keep looking back to it.

To advance we need to know where we came from. If people are offended that we can look back into history and see the many, many, many wrongs we did in the name of religion or how science showed previously "known" ideas were utterly wrong, they are no better than the Catholic Church suppressing science because it contradicted "the word of god". That does nothing except to retard our growth and keep us ignorant.

While it is debatable if every single web page which ever existed needs retained, it is not debatable that we can retain too much knowledge. One need only look back at all the knowledge lost at the Library at Alexandria or all the other papers/scrolls/books which have been deliberately destroyed in an attempt to hide that knowledge.

Having spent 18 months getting a rolling HIPAA and SOC-2 compliant release pipeline setup I'll say that if security is an actual priority, you need to figure out how to do rolling releases. I spent a couple weeks getting the pipeline working and over a year getting the QA in shape so we could do rolling releases.

The biggest problem in security is the grossly inadequate QA tools and tests. Finding new issues and fixing them is meaningless if you can't deploy the fix.

Yes, if you commit cross-border crime, you very much are subject to the laws of the state in which the crime occurred, regardless of whether you were physically there at the time.

Now, whether you'll actually get extradited is a much more complicated question.

Yes, that's what extradition law is about. This isn't surrender as per a EAW. Extradition requires principles such as dual criminality, where what they're charged with has to be a crime in both the sending and receiving state, and speciality, where the subject can only be charged with the pre-agreed-upon list of charges. Extradition involves a high degree of sovereignty of the sending state, vs. EAW which is more like handing off a criminal in the US who fled across state lines.

If the US attempts to kidnap Assange from a British prison, the British might have rather more to say than a few cross words. There is an election coming up, and 52% of the population is convinced of Rule Britannia and absolute unequivocal sovereign rights.

I'm not suggesting physical conflict, but it will enrage the nationalists and they're more than capable of stirring up trouble of some sort.

It would also hand Trump an easy victory, which Biden won't want.

No, nobody is going to seriously consider that, at least not this side of Jan 20th.

Technically, that would be the literal reading of 1A. The Constitution governs the government, it doesn't impose any restrictions on who the government is acting on or where.

The Constitution is NOT, and never has been, about the American people. It is about what the American people decided the government should be able to do.

Teslas are not aluminum monocoque. Thanks for playing.

Like all cars, they're made from a mix of metals. I can only assume that you're thinking of the gigacastings, which are deep interior components, and if you're damaging one beyond usage, you've utterly obliterated your car already. They're not crush structures; the crush structures are mounted to them. They're also not the only main structural elements. The pillars for example are UHSS (ultra-high strength steel). But you're generally not going to be replacing or welding UHSS either. Once again, Tesla is not at all unique in this regard.

And technically you could fix mangled gigacastings, with body pulling. But body pulling isn't recommended on any monocoque car, only body-on-frame, as force transfer in monocoques is unpredictable.

As for "impinging on battery components", again, the battery is nestled between the gigacastings, making it even more internal. If you're penetrating that deep into the car, you're already talking about a writeoff.

People seem to have these weird images in their head of cars that are utterly mangled just being fixed for a practical price. That doesn't happen. Cars have outer panels and crush structures that are designed to be repaired / replaced. If you're penetrating deeper than that into primary structural members, the insurance is just going to write the car off.

Lastly: I have a Tesla. There is no "high cost of insurance". It's perfectly reasonably priced for a car of its price.

Meanwhile the entire Model 3 rear drive unit and suspension can be removed with just four bolts and a couple connectors, but you tell yourself whatever you want. And there were parts shortages in the first like 6-12 months as production ramped, but haven't been in a long time. The only thing you might have a shortage on is something new like the Cybertruck.

Batteries are not consumables. They're designed to last similar lifespans to engines + transmissions. They're warrantied for 8 years / 200k km, and you don't warranty something that you expect to die the day after warranty, or half the failures will be under the warranty period. And if you replaced an engine and a transmission, at a dealership, with a brand new one, that wouldn't exactly be cheap either. You get a better deal with third parties and salvage parts, and the same applies to EVs.

The main source of depreciation of EVs is simply how much better EVs keep getting and how quickly it's happening.

Insurance companies do not "insist that even a small ding in battery cover should lead to a total battery replacement". This is entirely made up. Nor are EV premiums "insane levels".

Just utter tripe.

you are not allowed to import cars into China en mass

Your link says, "Germany's car industry relies on China for a large proportion of its sales revenue and has long advocated keeping trade doors open."

Exactly. I would argue that it is a general incompetence at the senior levels of the company that is causing this issue.

Audit trail paperwork can be completely automated. The problem is they built their processes around a "golden release" instead of understanding that the software was going to be forever in a state of flux and creating security and compliance processes around the assumption that there will be thousands of releases in a year and they all have to be fully documented, trusted, and known, at that point in time.

It is really a IT management failing

OpenBSD has a reputation for being more secure than Linux. But, most of that "security" is done by having no services run by default.

OpenBSD is more of a research lab for security features than it is an actually secure operating system.