...that China has abandoned capitalism. The "owners" could at least collect money for the company with a sale. Funny that China should be so upset that the US is doing to China what China did to Jack Ma.

Could the midday solar power glut be used to spin up flywheels, then be used with generators to provide the late afternoon air conditioning power?

"muh misinformation"

get fucked

Nah, that website is hideous retro. Part of the business is designing/making Klein bottles to sell for a profit If he makes enough money to cover the entirety of his living expenses, he can probably charge a little extra to contract a web designer to revamp the appearance of the sales website every 4(?) years.

He's essentially trying to sell mathematical glass sculpture. You don't get the *wow* experience showcasing art in a shitty 2D photograph in a basement workshop.

Hard to believe your post got 4 upvotes. It's full of vaguery, incompleteness, jumps in conclusions, ignorance and just being wrong.

"Private rental markets drive up property prices for everyone & make rents unaffordable"
-Private rental markets can drive the property prices in both directions. If you reduce regulations, builders will build more housing resulting in more competitio and lower rental prices. So your vague statement is incomplete, jumps to conclusions and ultimately incorrect.

"It raises the prices of everything else in order to service the unreasonable demands of property owners."
-What? So the chocolate bars at my local gorcery store are going to go up in price to service property owners? Did you even read what you wrote?

"Basically, the "landed rich" sit back, do nothing, & watch the money roll in"
-Sit back and do nothing? They had to earn their investment money, they had to do work to identify the property/land they wanted to buy, think about how it might be profitable or not, risk their investment money, possibly make house & thus neighbourhood improvements, pay taxes, pay for all kinds of permits and abide by gov regulations, search for a tenant that isn't going to destroy all that, and then provide housing for somebody who otherwise couldn't afford to buy one. Sometimes the capitalists work much harder than you do, and nearly always risk their money in ways you're unwilling to. You're basically looking at a winner and claiming he just got there at the last second to cross the line and did nothing to deserve it. Check your ignorance!

"Most economists regard rent-seeking as a bad thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]. "
-Pretty sure that article doesn't cite "most economists" for starters. Secondly, the article is kind of a left leaning pile of garbage I don't even want to waste my time arguing against. It's imediately obvious in the first paragraph when they accuse "manipulation of social and political environment", "not creating new wealth", "reduced economic efficiency", lost government revnue (like What?!) ... 100% of the statements are fully counter arguably, but ultimately just WRONG. It's a laugh out loud article.

"What we're seeing now are the results of decades of deregulation & governments abandoning public housing responsibilities."
- Did you wake up in opposite land? What we're actually seeing is the results of decades of EXCESSIVE regulation, preventing more house building, which would solve a huge part of the high priced housing problem. What's happened is the government created so many rules, only the richest can afford to abide by them all and rule the land so to speak.

"Building more houses won't reduce prices because housing doesn't work that way"
- HahahahahahahahAHAHAEHHAhAhA How can anyone take you seriously after a ridiculous statement like that? The foundation of markets is exactly all about supply & demand. It's how price discovery happens. Did you even take Econ 101?

Utter nonsense. Go back to school.

Two years ago, with the skyrocketing inflation, the Fed felt the only way to properly address the economic situation was by jacking up interest rates. We were in an era of "free money", where cash was easily available for new tech like IPOs, SPACs, M&As, bitcoin, woke Marvel Phase IV movies, and stoopid level, streaming company content production, . Its an end of an era; no more free money available to throw at sketchy gambles. So yeah, I can't believe there are still investors with money to piss away.

There are still investors with money to burn on the next pets.com .

The ARM64 version of Windows 11 has emulators for both x86-32 and x86-64 applications, and it works for most programs.

Getting a player's game process to execute arbitrary code is "hacking the two players' computers directly", so their statement is BS.

We don't have suburban human children (under 12) wandering NYC as they please without some form of adult supervision. The smartphone is basically bringing the world to the child's doorstep. Most animal species with offspring that takes time to develop are somehow sequestered from the rest of their local environment. The only question is whether to cripple all internet access from a smart phone, or to allow access to specific apps. For example, I wouldn't think a wikipedia only app to be such a terrible thing. Would it be so terrible to add games to the phone that are legally/engineered not allowed to be accessible to the internet or allow data to be collected from an app vendor?

It's pretty easy to compress:

Integral from -1 to 1 of (1/sqrt(1 - x^2)) dx.

0.121121112111121111121111112... is irrational, but I can tell you with just some quick calculations that the 150,000,000,000,000th digit is 1. (The 150,000,007,349,285th digit is the next 2.)

The last part, the right to petition the Government for redress of grievances, is what this is about. You have a right to complain to government officials, though of course they don't have to care. Blocking someone on a social media account that is used for official government messaging is blocking such "petitions".

Exactly this. Unless you have some bespoke high end media production or engineering apps, the platform is mostly irrelevant now. it's almost all web.

Some of the more tech knowledgeable are relying on smartphones and tablets too, if they fit their needs. The days of needing a desktop or laptop for general purpose tasks are pretty much over. Unless you're an IT guy, gamer or need some high end engineering or media production apps - you could probably get by with a tablet with far less PC janitor work.