The problem with Yandex, Biadu is that outsize of niche cases like image searches for Yandex... Is that it won't return better search results. And that is on top of the political angle.
Despite Google returning more and more aggregate sites each passing day, its still the king of searches by a rather wide margin.

Google despite being somewhat awful, will still return some search result when you try to figure out what a thing is called. It will still have the correct large forums in the first 2-3 pages of the search results.
But its also extremely awful since just like bing, yandex and Baidou it lacks a method to search for what it is given instead of what popular aggregate topic that has similar key words. If somebody manages to make a search engine that can do just that, and don't limit it to weird national bubbles, it will be immensely popular.
But to make such a thing, you need enough manpower and infrastructure to do a global web scrape. And that is currently something that is hideously expensive, and won't become cheaper as time goes on.

While all of that is technically true, we also have RL examples. Some interest group managed to build a refueling station within 500m of a main artery, resulting in a national media storm as the main artery was shut down following the explosion.
https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/eks...
I honestly wish there was a good resource to look up cases of Hydrogen facilities exploding, because they generally don't generate publicity if its far enough away from infrastructure or roads. Even the Wikipedia articles only cover major news events.

If looked at from a outsider perspective, one also need to remember that gasoline refueling stations are not designed like normal buildings or parking lots. They are by design desolate with a lot of air from the pumps to the next building. The track record of rarity of fires or explosions has also lead to the standard degrading, but the tell tale signs of a fire risk is there.
For Hydrogen I am not sure if I expect the same to be true, mostly because somebody will have to standardize it first.

This isn't uncommon. One of the goals of functional states is to make sure the currency is stable, and banks don't run out of deposits.
But what do happen if the state isn't functional? Currency might be pegged to trade or a resource, but if management of that resources fails, you risk extreme inflation or hyper inflation for the current possessors of the currency. Not to mention the possibility of bank runs. And the USD Is pegged to trading globally, while the RUB is for trading with Russia basically.
Now... Russia is in the situation where a lot of people remember 1997/1998 where the currency lost at the least 70% of its value over a short period of time. And in the last year the currency has experienced massive random surges, due sanctions and flaws of the Russian economy, but that is also true of 2008 and 2014.

Basically: If you can afford to, you would not store your currency in RUB. It do not store well. History has shown this too well.
Its not a good sign that a national fiat currency is too unstable compared to just using USD, EUR or some form of pyramid scheme e-currency.

As the West got more and more wealthy, the price of a basic car increased with the purchase power.
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Results in consequences that basic parts will be replaced with more luxurious and comfortable parts. So the suspension is more complex, crumble zones is more complex, and you get luxurious options for the interior like a actual AC system instead of some fans and a window. Safety also means more redundancy for all parts.
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All these luxury options and redundancy create more maintenance down the line.
So even if you remove the timing belt, double or triple the lifespan of the 12v battery, no oil change, no coolant, no fuel filter, no ad blue, no catalysator
There is still the matter of the complex suspension, the comfortable AC system, the technically advance wheels and rims, and more. In terms of maintenance cost, its not significant for the first 5-10 years of the cars lifespan. But that isn't the BEV "fewer moving parts" gamble. The gamble is that since there is fewer parts moving, the cars will decrepit slower in value, and as a result the initial fleet owners and first time buyers will rotate cars slower. It also means for the second hand market will experience products that lasts longer. For the European market, the bi yearly safety inspection will have more impact once you reach the 10-15 year mark, as cars reaching 200.000-300.000km will experience engine parts that has to be replaced to keep it road worthy, and a lot of these repairs crop up to the core engine parts or the exhaust system.

But this is all a gamble. We do know for a fact the BEVs without a AC system for the batteries wear significantly faster, but the battery replacement for the common models is cheap.It is however not known how much the technology will advance either, maybe the replacement rate for the initial buyers will keep up pace due large technology advancements.
Or maybe retrofitting solid state batteries will be cheaper down the line in 20-30 years than buying a new car.

Plastic in a landfill: Won't go away
Repeat it after me: After a thousand years is still there, its still leaking microplastics, and its still contaminating. Its just that it plastics are not particularly reactive, its inert.

Landfills is a idiots way to deal with waste. Either burn it or reclaim it.

No.
He is saying that the current corporations that is unintentionally keeping the worlds supply chains at a mechanical level, is unintentionally oil addicted.
I think China is best example: China is investing into green tech, for no reason other than the fact green tech requires a different supply chain than traditional oil/coal based infrastructure, which means at peak expansion you can still do more green tech because the traditional one has been bottlenecked by the extreme scope of the expansion.
But I don't see any efforts to get off petrol enriched fertilizers, or the waste amounts of mechanical machines that use some form of dinosaur juice to be operational and do the work for hundred if not thousand of men during harvesting or planting or maintenance of the fields. The same is true of infrastructure, which is important for global shipping. Or even just shipping inside of countries, as the area between ports are indeed landlocked.

What is happening at global political meetings is that taxes and tariffs are agreed upon. Not a whole lot else. The idea is that if something gets too pricy, the marked might do something. However because the problem is static taxes instead of a supply chain problem, the marked can ignore it by pushing the problem on to the next person in line to purchase the goods.
Taxes and tariffs do not produce new technology that do not exist yet. It does skew competitive of new emerging technologies, which sometimes means they got to enter the marked before they are production ready or proven. Its not a bad thing, but its a solution based on the idea of a drill and screws: Can't really do anything else when that is the given tool, despite the task being different.

If you drop your phone, and the screen or backside glass hits concrete or asphalt, it breaks. Its that simple. It doesn't need to be terribly high either, just below a meter is enough.
With the traditional phones of the late 90s and early 2000s, most of them came with the screen in a recess. And the phones casing doubling as a plastic screen on top of the LCD. As technology advanced, so did this change. Eventually we got the glass brick form factor, which has the entire front in exposed brittle glass, which the entire screen cracks if you manage to drop it on any hard surface, or even worse: Anything involving small pebbles.

It doesn't help that the basic protector do not create a recess in front of the screen, meaning you can still drop it with the glass straight to the gravel.
The wallet formfactor is slightly better, but that still lacks a recess once its opened, meaning it could still happen.
But the most likely factor most likely involves drunken rage, pants without proper pockets(horizontal opening or zipper) and general careless behavior.

Even with the file system you can still have this.
Like a lot of people, I regularly have to interact with software written for a spesific purpose in the late 90s or early 2000s, as hardware got good enough to do specific jobs and store that data digitally. Sure most of the hardware store the initial data in some standard format, but that data isn't any good for "work". You often need to add metadata and archives on top of it, and maybe merge data from multiple tools. And then the software can merge that and produce files that can be sent to the end user or even used in court via meeting ISO certificates.

The problem you might encounter, is that the software tosses random config files across the entire OS disk, and those config files is going to tell the software where and how all the data and metadata is stores, which allows you to store previous project files per legal requirements of longterm storage in case of things like later court cases or just legal requirements of storing costumer data for some periods of time.
So when the time comes, the PC was setup in a era of a somewhat juice HDD as the only disk, the software gets installed, which means any later migration will require you to figure HOW the fuck do you find the 3 billion files on the OS and pray to god they are configured in editable plaintext so a migration to a second HDD is possible. Or even a portable backup for archive purposes.

So "application vendor own your data and arbitrate any and all access to it" isn't a new thing.". The only new thing is that its more common to not let you get additional file access, even if quite a few software from the late 90s might have used compression and binary setup files for projects for the exact same purpose.

>What is the AI going to do if making a left turn if cars are coming, and a pedestrian leaps out?
You stop.
Main problem with left turns is poor visibility due pillars or driving into a straight 90 degree angle.
>Stopping means that the oncoming cars hit the AI car
No anon(looks at Anonymous Coward).
This is very simple.
If you STOP, and you are inside your own lane, you are no longer at fault.
There is a SINGLE exception: https://hirstsigns.co.uk/conte... And this sign is commonly used to avoid people stopping to let people on/off. Which is very different from dodging a dangerous situation by stopping.
Let me phrase it differently: A good AI system on a car should basically be impossible to brake check. It will require monitoring the current ground friction and always calculate stop distance vs speed, but its a trivial problem compared to the physics of trying to swerve past unpredictable objects and deadzones.

And as far as I remember from my drivers ed, the only thing you don't want to do, is to choke the car on a railroad crossing or similar.

I think this is a lot simpler of a issue.
The goal of the patent system is to force the inventor to disclose his industry secret via the patent form, in exchange for a licensable monopoly. The core reason why this happened is because industry secrets can last as long as they are maintained, and such as nobody can design a revised mechanism so long its a secret. Nor can anybody figure out the mechanics, and then license that as a part for a machine.
Fundamentally what we can gleam from this is that the core purpose of a patent is that it should be partially reproduceable. So refinement can be made, or usage can be found.

As for "applicant for a patent must be human" this stems from one of the problems with working for a corporation, and then submitting a in field patent: If there is no legal protection, you could risk corporation taking credit, which means they are essentially stealing the inventors monopoly.
So this is either a step to try and make it possible to steal the patents via claiming the gruntwork is done via a dumb neural net, which in itself is not that different from needing to employ a large workforce in order to build scale models.
So this isn't anything new, for the simple reason that dumb neural net is still dumb neural net. Its amazing how fast it can iterate a replicable process in software, but its still the same thing.
Which means the dumb neural net can not fundamentally invest anything, as its just legwork to go trough iteration to spot a process.

>Developed Nations heavily subsidized their electricity
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No.
They subsidize grid infrastructure to ensure they have a civilization, but they don't subsidized their electricity.

Libretro have had CRT Royale for a decade by now. Its not a intensive process so long the processing isn't bolted to compete for resources.
Its a solved issue, but not if your way to acquire effects is Reshade, which is a performance nightmare.
The other big problem is that you quickly need a 4k monitor to correctly display all the subpixel phosphors, and CRT royale is designed around that.

Trains won't be obsolete so long the issue is tonnage/distance. Where trains are still ahead of boats, and has stayed that way for 5 centuries now, at the least.
If the issue is distance/time, then that is a different issue, where cars are ineffective compared to spacecrafts, and we can't afford spacecraft commute for a number of reasons.

The entire reason one could want at the least a 240km/h bullet train for personal transport is for intercity commute.
Car is going to be stuck with speed limit outside of the Autobahn or magical night hours where traffic police act like ghosts.
And airplanes has this issue where you want the airport to be half an hour outside of the city, meaning you don't go to NY, you instead go to some far off airport, and pray its possible to commute from there.

Time will tell.
But because this is the more durable Lithium chemistry, it will differentiate between the cars who had a long initial range at purchase, and cars who can barely do commute. The former can still do commute at some distance, the latter is basically scrap waiting for battery prices to drop significantly.

The problem is that if you do buy a house, you can just sell it at a inflated rate down the line, and move.
Nothing more, and nothing less.
Easy.
Difference in price could even outscale the rent on the mortgage.