And those noise problems don't matter if you're using digital audio connections, say over HDMI or TOSLINK or S/PDIF. In fact, if you're doing digital audio over HDMI, you're not even using your onboard sound, you're using your videocard's sound output.

Even then, the signal-to-noise ratios of onboard has been good enough for years now. Sure, you might notice a slight difference with a good pair of headphones, but in practice, not so much.

That's because you're on an interleaved profile rather than fastpath. Your ISP has, on your line, sacrificed latency for improved error correction.

First-hop latency on VDSL2 is less than one third that...

My first-hop latency is 12ms, and that includes a 600 kilometer journey from my DSLAM to my ISP's closest PoP in another province.

Did you look at the video I linked to? "Get ready to print 10x faster" is definitely a claim made in the video.

I will quote the kid's own video on the subject (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Clhn9t-u8)

"The most advanced, the most reliable, the fastest 3D printer ever created"

The distance travel thing is perhaps not ideal now, but that's a problem that will be solved in time: Tesla alone is building a ludicrous number of such stations along highways in US/Canada/Europe, and their recent patent moves indicates that they'd like to improve on that even more by having other car companies build their own compatible stations and everybody shares all of them. They can probably never share the swap stations (just because the requirements on the car side of things for that would be way too specific), but just getting more charging stations would help a lot.

In terms of not wanting to miss a charging station, that shouldn't really be an issue, as you can have the car's satnav automatically hit up the charging stations along your route, so that you don't need to think about it.

You don't need as many supercharger stations, though, because they're not a direct replacement for gas stations. Mainly, the expectation is that you will charge your electric car at home overnight, starting each day with a full charge. Public charging stations, then, are only required if you will be driving a great distance.

Gas stations, on the other hand, are effectively the only way to refuel your gas car, so there needs to be a larger number of them.

If you get enough supercharger/swap stations to cover any likely long distance routes, electrics end up more convenient, because you'll always start each day charged and never need to stop anywhere during daily commuting and use.

They still have gender-specific tournaments. They've changed their policy, but they haven't fixed it.

They changed their stance slightly, they're still going for gender-segregated tournaments. They'll have "mixed" and "female-only" tournaments. That isn't an improvement.

We expected the new rules to increase the use of devices during takeoff/landing from 0% to not-0%... not increase the use of devices in general.

In eurocents, my local power company (37 GW installed capacity) charges 3.83 ct/kWh, and they are highly profitable.

Of course, our power company is owned by the government, the rates are set by the government (at levels that are still very profitable), and all their power generation capacity is renewable with plants lasting for many decades (hydro). I realize that not everywhere has anything like the hydro capacity available, but nuclear plants can last similar amounts of time, and solar prices can be much lower than what power costs in Germany (perhaps why solar is becoming so popular there). Unsubsidized solar costs less than half those prices you're quoting for Germany.

Yes, because the idea of harnessing a supervolcano to build a 3900 mile long tornado-killing wall sounds so much more reasonable ;)

Yes. I bet you could get a sweet deal on that 3.4 trillion cubic feet of concrete, because any company would love to have your ten trillion dollar concrete contract.

No need to mention that the wall alone would require doubling the world production of concrete for 12 years just to produce enough...

Yeah, but he's talking about a wall that is about 3.4 trillion cubic feet of concrete. Doesn't matter what the purpose is, that's an insurmountably high cost. Some googling shows that concrete costs roughly $3 per cubic foot. So... you're looking at a bill of materials for this wall of about ten trillion dollars for concrete alone, before the cost of labour and equipment...

Nobody says "it's too expensive to build hydro plants" here, because all of our power is from hydro, and it's quite profitable for the government (who owns the power company)...

If the Hoover Dam would have cost $10 billion today, that would only serve to bump up my cost estimate by an order of magnitude. I don't think that there's much of a difference between a $15 trillion and $150 trillion public works project, both are effectively "infinity dollars".