Even if it can be made from animals that died naturally, are there enough natural deaths to meet demand if Apple starts using it?

Anyway, they want to appeal to the vegan crowd.

As ever, wait until a new Apple product has been out for a few years and on version 3 before buying it.

To play devil's advocate for a moment, most people don't know how to do more than use WhatsApp or iMessage, so whatever encryption they use is what they get.

Most criminals don't think about this stuff either. They don't plan their crimes and carefully manage their op-sec. Look at how often they openly discuss stuff on chat apps, or just send some random person a dick pic.

Which is the biggest argument against limiting E2EE. The data can be read off the sender or recipient's devices. They have other, more targeted ways to get the data, with judicial oversight. Getting rid of encryption is just avoiding necessary checks and balances through mass surveillance.

There have been proposals to have two groups of students per year, to make the difference between the youngest and oldest 6 months instead of 12.

It seems to be too difficult to administer though.

AI usually makes bias worse.

It's more than just the scores though. The study mentions that comments are harsher too.

In any case, it's an easy fix. Just randomize the order.

What DRM has it facilitated?

I don't have time to look into the costs, but it seems like petrol is insanely cheap if 17c/kWh is equivalent. In the UK at about 25c/kWh, it's 1/5th the price of petrol, and that still doesn't cover the true cost of burning the stuff.

Aren't conservatives blaming Biden for high gas prices?

Have a look at Bjorn Nyland's YouTube channel. He compares Chinese EVs, and also Teslas with US and Chinese batteries.

I haven't watched the video, but are you sure that are all EVs? There was a massive car fire in the UK last year, blamed on an EV, but it turned out to be a fossil SUV.

Investing now to save money over the next decade or two is the logical thing for any corporation looking beyond the next quarter.

Amazon can afford solar panels and batteries, so their electricity unit cost is going to be extremely low. Even when they need to pull from the grid, they can do it overnight when prices are lowest.

EVs cost a lot less than fossils to maintain. No engine oil or filters, no exhaust system, no spark plugs, no fuel pump or injectors, no water pump, no variable gearbox (on most), even the brakes hardly get used thanks to regen. For commercial operators with fleets of vehicles, those savings add up fast. You can bet that the vehicles Amazon uses are very simple, and the only complexities are things they would fit to a fossil like telematics so they can see where they are and how they are driving.

As for consumer EVs, there are loads of simple ones. The Nissan Leaf is a good example, one of the first and a very straightforward machine. It's easy to replace or upgrade the batteries, the BMS handles it without any reprogramming. It all works fine without the infotainment unit even being installed, and the base models didn't have telematics.

Might be worth looking at variable tariffs. For March-May the demand for electricity generation goes to zero in California on a regular basis, and even more often over the summer. While you might not pay $0 for it, the price should go way down.

Or get some solar panels and charge from those. Unfortunately it's the people who can't afford such things or shift their demand to cheaper times that end up paying the most as well, exacerbating inequality.

Maybe it's different in the US, but in the UK large consumers of electricity pay a variable rate based on demand. It's fairly predictable over a period of 48 hours, but it does vary. It's only retail customers that get a fixed rate, although with a tiny bit of effort you can save a lot of money by opting out of that.

Secure Boot ensures that the OS boot files have not been modified. One popular technique malware used was to replace ntfs.sys (the NTFS filesystem driver) or the SATA driver with one that hid the malware's own files. Virus scanners could tell you were infected, but couldn't remove the infection. The only way to get rid of it was to boot a Linux CD with anti-virus software from someone like Kaspersky, which used its own NTFS and SATA drivers. Or move the HDD to another machine for scanning etc.

That became impossible once Secure Boot was checking that those parts of the OS were not modified. To be honest, I would talk someone into installing Linux over the phone if they couldn't disable Secure Boot in the BIOS, chances are I'd be stuck doing tech support forever. Unless their PC shipped with it, you can guarantee something important will be broken.

Have you had even a cursory look at China's infrastructure projects? Two thirds of the entire world's high speed rail lines, with the project only starting in the mid 2000s. They are now upgrading some parts to maglev at 600 kph.

Same thing with metro systems and other light rail. Then you get to roads...

For all it's faults, China is undeniably the leader in infrastructure projects. No other country comes close. And I say that not as a fan, but as a warning that we need to get our shit together if we want to compete. China built all that high speed rail in the time the UK was talking about maybe doing one short line and then cancelling most of it.