America doesn't want to be dependent on China, and China doesn't want to be dependent on America. We took a swat at them for steel price fixing, they hit back with rare earth metals, we came back and cut off their semiconductor supplies, and now they are hitting back.

They are betting on hard times in America. They've offloaded a bunch of our bond exposure and are actively insourcing technologies. Simultaneously, we're spending like drunken sailors and actively trying to find the "next China" somewhere else in Asia.

Globally the only continents not looking at a population shortage in 2050 are Africa and Antarctica, so something is going to give. We live in interesting times.

"how confident can one be that hypervisors will be solid security boundaries?"

As a data point, Microsoft has a substantial bug bounty program for Hyper-V, [up to...] a quarter of a million USD for a working/well documented RCE. That's a non-trivial bet on Hypervisor security.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

I find it beneficial for making videos. Recording with OBS works objectively better with Android on Windows apps vs. inside e.g. BlueStacks.

most of the PHEV problems they get are with the ICE power trains because people drive PHEVs around on electric all the time and don't run the ICE power train regularly

Talking to Chevy Volt owners, this was anecdotally the case as well. It would automatically engage the ICE powertrain at intervals to keep it alive or e.g. if you wanted to run the heat, but the majority of daily driving was EV-only.

Bias warning, I work for Microsoft, but I'm ignorant of this area generally.

The vast majority of Microsoft's data centers are for Azure cloud services. These replace capacity in customer data centers. If that's correct, shouldn't we include a comparison to water and power usage in those facilities? My intuition is profit motive and economies of scale would drive cloud DCs to be significantly more efficient than enterprise DCs.

I read the headline at least three times trying to figure out how one determines the ionization state of a human being.

Please be gentle; I'm asking in ignorance.

If Thwaites lost contact with the sea floor a half-century ago, does that mean it's no longer supported by a land mass? I.e. Has the corresponding sea level rise has already occurred?

..."Car 3D printable complete Left-hand Drive no DRM.zip" is stuck at 93% complete with 0 seeds. Please guys, I'm so close. I just that last little bit; Can someone re-seed this?

Social issues and politics swing like pendulums. I hope it doesn't take two generations for this one to start swinging back.

If you visit the (admittedly aging) space and rocket center in Huntsville, AL they have one of the ?Jupiter? spacecraft used for sending monkeys into space. It has a wooden heat shield, though I can't recall if it was orbital or suborbital.

IIRC, evacuated tube collectors are mostly made from glass and have a very long service life.

You already have a digital assistant brand, Siri. Just make it smarter.

It's what Microsoft should have done with Cortana and Amazon should do with Alexa. Neither of these two have the strong positive brand association that Siri does though.

24,354 "Trackers per minute" can't be right. The user doesn't generate data at 7 Hertz. I'd like to see the underlying methodology or data used for that.

I respect California's autonomy and am glad they feel empowered to run this experiment.

That said, I expect this to be useless and with near zero retention for > 98% of students, putting it roughly on par with mandatory foreign language requirements.