An argument repeated at nauseam without ever being true, given the current president of the Ukraine is a Russian speaking jew.

It's not about top talent, it's about top level access to the training recipes and architectures. That's what Meta is buying. Even if you try to compartmentalise, a lot of people need a high level overview to do architecture exploration. Once the exploration is finished, their knowledge of the results is worth a lot more than their talent.

Due to OpenAI and Anthropic wanting to portray a goody two shoes image, their means to keep that knowledge locked up as trade secrets is very limited.

Yep. They're a bit heavy handed with the enforcement but they really want to get the number of deaths down to a more reasonable amount. They're installing more solar and wind power each year than the rest of the planet combined. Not just for clean air, but also because they want to reduce oil and gas dependencies.

If you want to know why the Koch brothers don't like China, well, this is one reason.

The Hellenic Greeks (Alexander the Great and the Diadochs), the Romans and the Persians were famous for a) building really large empires and b) actually caring for the civilizations they conquered. After the Romans for instance conquered the last of the Greek Diadoch kingdoms, Greek became the language of choice for the Roman elite. Alexander the Great took over the Persian bureaucracy and even coopted the Persian court ceremonial for himself. Ptolemaios, despite being of Macedonian origin, became pharao of Egypt and started the longest lasting Egyptian dynasty of all, which existed for nearly 300 years. Persians took the cuneiform from the Assyrian and Babylonian cultures they conquered, and Babylon was the largest and most prosperous city of Ancient Persia.

So you are not exactly right with your assesment.

How do you protect your Bitwarden login? With some other 2FA system?

IMHO, password managers just merge all your logins to a single point of failure.

Oh, duh. Yeah, I was stooping low, but not that low. There's not a single ounce of critical thinking in that crowd, I fear.

Power and energy are not the same creature. Watts do not toast bread. The article meant KW-hours ... certainly.

Despite the very questionable judgement in California, it ain't over till the geriatric ladies and gentlemen on the federal supreme court have their say.

Apple offloads liability with this.

What about existing equipment? Will it be banned? Or will it just interfere the mobile carriers' use of the spectrum?

Where's the budget to compensate owners for this "taking" if the equipment is banned?

Until your phone dies and then you find that you don't have a backup, or if you did backup the authenticator app, it requires the same login, gated by the authenticator app that you just lost access to in order to recover from the backup.

Yes, if you plan things carefully, you can work around these issues, but most people don't have the knowledge and skills to do this.

While SMS may not be the most secure method, unless you think you are likely to be specifically targeted, it's probably secure enough.

Microsoft's historical strength in the consumer space has been incompetent competition.

Software can benefit immensely from a locked down hardware BOM, it allows far better QA and optimisation. Doesn't mean you have to go full first party though, can do it like Google does with Chromebooks.

Ahh, yes...because it was *top* priority for the Biden administration..or even got a mention on Harris's "four years of JOY!!!11" campaign trail that followed her four years of being VP where she could have attempted to get a subcommittee together in the Senate.

Or because Gavin Newsom or Kathy Hochul or Maura Healey have made it any level of a priority for businesses in their respective deep-blue states.

The Republicans certainly couldn't care less about the issue at all...but let's not pretend that the CFPB cracked the top 20 of priorities for Democrats.

20 years? Burning fossil fuels started a lot earlier. Think 200 years.

Cabin heating takes only a couple HP. It eats into EV range because it's continuous, but it makes pretty much no difference on the ability of the ICE in an EREV to keep up.

The average power consumption during towing is exactly what the EREV ice will be dimensioned for in the US. Again, some cabin heating matters nothing at that point.

Finding excuses to psychologically and legally exploit men isn't what I would call extreme feminism, more pop culture feminism.

There is no "the woman". A more old fashioned culture could beat one woman into accepting a traditional mother role and make them happy and it could beat another into holding together a miserable marriage with an abusive alcoholic husband. Shit happens.