The summary says people have to pay $129 up front but that's not what I understand. As I read the news that $129 is only for a founder's sort of package with the Stadia controller. If you don't care about the special package just pay the $10/month fee or wait till next year to use the service for free (but having to purchase the games.)

Slight alteration. You must APPEAR to be in the appropriate BTA or you can not use the Locast from that area. Which will put the service at additional risk since it's trivial to change your apparent location on the Internet.

That depends on where you are located. In California I don't think that "employment at will" applies and since the majority of Google's employees are in California they have the option. Though I can't see them ganging up to form a union.

Which is why you will typically find a person that runs the register while other people handle the food. It's a good answer to your observation.

Where money is concerned there is no such thing as good enough. Though anything new must be significantly better such as cheaper or faster. In the case of video codecs companies like Netflix are looking at the speed to encode and the size of the encoded files (for equivalent video quality.) If something new comes along that reduces file size at equivalent quality by half at the same or close to the same cost (both in $$ and speed) you can bet that Netflix would be moving to the new codec.

I don't think you have considered just what the US has. The US government can't come in and shut someone down just because they are engaging in what some call hate speech. That doesn't mean that person is free from all consequences. People have lost jobs over things that they've said. So while there is a tolerance for all forms of speech (except speech about violent overthrow of the government) that doesn't mean that the citizens/businesses are tolerant of all forms of speech.

Unless we are going to see sea levels rise by a multiple feet in a year I don't see the problem. The sea is rising slowly so there will be plenty of warning before any termination point goes underwater so there is plenty of time to move the termination point to further inland so it's safe(ish) from hurricanes and other issues associated with rising sea levels. Moving the people is going to be a much bigger issue.

I remember hearing long ago how adding pumice to concrete made it better able to resist water damage. Supposedly that was the reason that aqueducts and other Roman structures exposed to water survived for centuries. I don't suppose pumice has the CO2 benefits but it's also something just needs to be mined and not made.

Though I doubt either one is available in the quantities needed to be really useful. Also wasn't there some report on us running out of the sand needed for concrete at our current rate of use?

I would hope that there's a way to upgrade the locks so that they can prevent this attack. Though then the question is how difficult would that be (do you have to upgrade each lock one at a time?) and how many hotels would go through the process.

Ah, yes. I remember that video. I was quite surprised that drives could be impacted that easily just by the human voice.

he would be even more depressed if he was in prison. He also might be a free man if he only left the embassy so it's hard to see how him having depression (if he really does) is an issue

I didn't hate the movie. Just had to treat it as something that took a few ideas from the book and ran off in a totally different direction. If you went into the movie expecting to see something that tied into the book you were going to be sorely disappointed.

Supply can be an issue, but there are other factors that come into play that I've heard about. Apparently DRAM had a rather large increase in price recently which is creating an issue for board manufacturers.

Then there is the issue that AMD/Nvidia remember what happened last time there was a big increase in the price of crypto currencies and then a huge drop off. So they are rightly fearful of such a thing happening this time because they have to place orders for more GPU chips months in advance. So they would have to feel confident that the current high demand for cards will still be there six months from now in order to place a larger order for chips from TSMC/Global Foundries. I can't see any reason for them to be that confident.

It was also a short and long term benefit of their customers. Are you willing to pay Intel back for the extra performance they provided by their same decision that you are deriding today?