While the article did mention that Huawei is getting a large portion of market share, its purported "patriotic consumption" is just a bad attempt at trying to hide the real reason -- Huawei's new top end phones, Mate60 and Pura70, are great phones.

Some may recall the Mate60 and Mate X3 (also a foldable phone) released last year, did anything from Samsung can make satellite call yet? And then this month Huawei just released the Pura70. Is it any surprised that other high end phone makers will lose market share when one released a new flagship phone?

Did newspapers call it "patriotic consumption" when Americans queued up to buy new iPhones or new Tesla? Just call a spade a spade, Huawei's new top end phones dominated the China market because Samsung's current offerings are not good enough to compete head on.

If you think a Switzerland company can withstand the threat of sanctions from the US, you need to take a look at what happened to Swiss banks a few years ago.

It won't be that difficult to force all western companies to stop talking to any Chinese companies regarding RISC-V, how much that could accomplish is questionable though.

With the history of various US rail projects delaying and abandoned, I think we can wait until this one actually completes to get excited about.

By the time this one completes (if it does), the term "high-speed rail" elsewhere in the world could already have been redefined to something above 200 mph (and hence excluding this one).

This is pretty much the same thing for basically ALL Chinese (or Japanese, or Korean, or any non-American/European) characters in American movies and novels. Now you get to feel what most of the rest of the world have known for a long time, the weird feeling of reading a distorted stereotype of people from your own culture.

Human memory aren't 100% either, guess how things work with human witnesses? And why can't that applies to camera footages?

Exactly, this is just regulatory capture to make it difficult for new companies entering the field.

Almost anyone announcing a new website can get millions of VC money in the Dotcom era, this looks no different.

Get ready for the AI-bust coming in the next few years when most of these companies go bust.

Yes, but their competitors are doing it. Believe it or not, limited self-driving cars is coming. E.g. full automatic parking, with you dropping off at the door and the car driving itself to a preset parking space, summoning it from parking to the door, etc. There is a video of a demo showing a prototype driving itself from the entryway of a multilevel carpark to a designated parking spot a few levels up, and on the way automatically avoiding people and other cars, even backing up to let opposing car to pass on a narrow spot. To fully take advantage of that, close collaboration between your phone and your car is inevitable.

In 5-10 years time, phones that cannot work well with cars will be left behind.

So the choice for Americans is between paid lobbyists and unpaid lobbyists?

How about no lobbyists at all and taking money out of politics? E.g. start by putting back a limit on how much money politicians can take?

who would still be using it? US investigating crypto transactions will kill crypto more effectively than any bans.

Did Vultr have poison pill clauses in the ToS, such as, Vultr losing all rights to user data if they were bought by another company, or management changes, or going bankrupt, etc? Otherwise, how could anyone keep such promise that a company would not do something in the future?

The filthy rich who now already owned the politicians, and in future, most of the robots.

With robots carrying guns, the ruling class will save the UBI money for themselves and just have their robots shoot anyone daring to riot.

When that happened, companies will sell stuff for the robots (e.g. robot parts and maintenance services) and robot owners, rather than to the unemployed masses, that's the end game of capitalism and free market -- people without money is out of the market and hence not worth considering. Under Capitalism, penniless people starving on the streets is not a problem, but rich people not able to make more money is.

In that future, if you do not own some robots to serve you, you are penniless and worth nothing. We are going back to the slavery era where you are either a slave owner or you are a penniless nobody, only with robots replacing slaves, and penniless people don't even have to option of selling themselves into slavery to survive.

What use required the local time to be precisely synchronised with Earth's rotation down to the second?

What system would malfunction if the sun is not exactly at its highest point when the local time is precisely noon at that second? Actually, that would be the case anyway for 3599/3600 of each timezone anyway, so who cares? The difference is only which 1/3600 slice of a timezone see 12:00:00 on their clock when the sun reached the peak.

What's the problem of just waiting until the next leap second to cancel this? Why even leap every second? Why not do the leap only after accumulating 5-10 seconds of drift?