You can get permanent residence easily, this gives you access to the all-important Chinese ID card and all the rights of residents. Including an ability to register a business. Naturalization is possible and technically you don't need anything special for it, but it's exceedingly rare. You also need to renounce your other citizenship(s) for that.

China is now becoming a popular emigration destination for Russian scientists. It's now very hard for them to emigrate to Europe/US, but China is easy. It's also helpful if the emigrants still want to visit Russia from time to time.

With a president who solves an existential threat by finding the best expert he can find, and using his own formidable political skills and charisma to run interference for that expert.

Seriously, Comacho was a meathead, but Iâ(TM)d vote for him.

No, they don't. The competition in China is cut-throat and the exported cars are not any cheaper than the ones in China. That's really all there is to it.

I'm using Kagi these days. It still has it indexed.

So Google is shooting themselves even more in the foot. Their search is already questionable, and they keep making it worse.

I used to run analysis using the US road network and the list of charging stations. A year ago, the longest stretch of roads without high-speed chargers was Montana to North Dakota, with 220 miles. The next one was in Oregon, something around 180 miles. More than 99% of the named locations reachable by numbered US highways and freeways were within 100 miles of a fast charger.

So technically, if you did even a bit of planning, you could reach ANY point on the public US roads and still have energy to drive to the next charger with a car having around 350 miles of range. With just 20-30 carefully placed stations, you can cut that down to about 250 miles of range, well within the current capabilities of EVs.

I eyeballed the map, and it looked like around 200 additional fast DC stations would put _any_ reachable location in the lower 48 states within 50 miles of a charger. This is the endgame for the range anxiety. And even at $1m per charger, it would cost less than one day of funding the military. Heck, even at $10m per charger it would still be less!

Connected appliances are great, as long as the connection is completely local.

Duh. BMW and Toyota. They have squandered years of development time. BYD is producing solid-state batteries in small batches for engineering tests, and they're scaling up the production now. They are expecting production rollout around 2027, with gradual scaling over the next several years.

At the same time, CATL is already producing LFPs with 200Wh/kg system density, enough for a 400-mile range on a typical EV ( https://www.catl.com/en/news/6... ). And the sodium-ion cells are at around 140Wh/kg, comparable to Li-Ion batteries in Teslas just 10 years ago with 200Wh/kg cells announced this year!

We might end up not even _needing_ solid-state batteries for most needs. I actually expect them to be used only for devices that need high energy density, like wearables and phones.

Ha. The X-ray lithography needs a pretty giant particle accelerator to work. It's not something that can be small. That's because it needs monochromatic and highly parallel rays. Various companies have been contemplating this for decades.

Right, but as I just said obeying a disallow directive isn't legally mandatory, so it doesn't mean much.

The difference depends on context, of course.

Generally speaking there are several cases to consider:

(1) Site requires agreeing on terms of service before browser can access content. In this case, scraping is a clear violation.

(2) Site terms of service forbid scraping content, but human visitors can view content and ...
(2a) site takes technical measures to exclude bots. In this case scraping is a no-no, but for a different reason: it violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
(2b) site takes no technical measures to exclude bots. In this case, the answer is unclear, and may depend on the specific jurisdiction (e.g. circuit court).

(3) Site has a robots.txt file and ...
(3a) robots.txt allows scraping. In this case, even if the terms of service forbid scraping, the permission given here helps the scraper's defense.
(3b) robots.txt forbids scraping. In this case obeying robots.txt isn't in itself legally mandatory, but it may affect your case if the site takes other anti-scraping measures.

Advising customers, providing discounted traffic and instances, defaulting to us-east-2 in the console for new accounts, etc.

It's not the question of redundancy. It's the problem with customers just building everything in us-east-1, so it now dwarfs everything else.

The push is still there, it's just that us-east-1 has so much inertia that they _have_ to keep expanding it.

Not *explicitly*. Offering such a database would be an invitation for people to look at the whole data broker industry. So what you, as a databroker who tracks and piegeonholes every human being who uses the Internet to a fare-the-well, do to tap into the market for lists of gullible yokels? You offer your customer, literally anyone with money, the ability to zero in on the gullible by choosing appropriate proxies.

For example, you can get a list of everyone who has searched for "purchasing real estate with no money down". Sad people who buy colloidal silver and herbal male enhancement products. People who buy terrible crypto assets like NFTs and memecoins. Nutters who spend a lot of time on conspiracy theory sites.

It's kind of like doxxing someone. You might not be able to find out directly that John Doe lives on Maple St and works for ACME services, but you can piece it together by the traces he leaves online. Only you do it to populations wholesale.

The replacement for us-east-1 is us-east-2. Amazon has been pushing companies to use it for quite a while. They even have discounted traffic between us-east-1 and us-east-2, it costs exactly the same as traffic within the us-east-1.