The risk is that if the US behaves that way, it gives other countries licence to do so as well. iPhone sales are down 19% in China, and the government hasn't even banned Apple for consumers, just government use.

It will be interpreted as naked protectionism and responded to in kind.

The only diamond ring worth owning is a cutting disc.

It's not new, Windows has pretty much always been like this. The default install of Windows 95 came with a load of crapware and offers for dial-up internet. Which was actually kind of funny, because Windows 95 didn't have a firewall so if you did dial-up, you were pretty much guaranteed to have your machine p0wned within seconds.

Lenovo used to make some Xeon laptops with ECC I think. The main issue is that mobile CPUs usually don't support it. I think that's true even of Ryzen ones, despite the desktop models having it.

We have had the problem solved in the UK for a while now. Chargers tie in to pricing data, which is predicted a day in advance, and then delay charging until it is cheapest. Often the price goes negative, i.e. you are paid to charge your vehicle, if you are on a variable tariff.

Have a look at this website showing prices: https://agileprices.co.uk/

You can see that for 7% of April, prices were negative, and for another ~30% they were extremely low.

The changes won't just be needed for EVs, they will be needed for domestic solar as well. People are going to keep adding solar and batteries, getting to the point where they barely need the grid for much of the year, or at all. If the grid doesn't adapt to much greater changes in demand and lower unit prices, the operators are going to go bust.

They will need to transition from centralized generation to becoming distributors and offering convenience services.

If you read the summary, it points out that Google is in fact ready, it's the UK Competitions and Markets Authority that is causing the delay. Google's already-deployed alternative doesn't allow them to track you, all data is local and the API sites can use to target ads is properly designed to prevent it being used for identification.

I recommend you turn off third party cookies manually. This is just for the default off setting. I haven't noticed it breaking anything.

Probably just a case of them not really thinking about it, like we didn't before Snowden.

People seem to forget that most sites didn't bother with HTTPS and most apps send data in the clear before Snowden's revelations. That was when the push really started to encrypt everything by default, and browsers started warning about non-HTTPS etc.

China just hasn't had their Snowden moment so is like we were 10 years ago.

The most popular route in Japan is Tokyo to Osaka, which is two hours on the high speed train. The new maglev will cut that down to 45 minutes.

I note that even in the US, those routes are covered by flights. With a train you could even take your car, like the Channel Tunnel does.

Shouldn't wide open areas make it even more suitable for trains? High speed rail is ideal for long distance cross-country. It is faster than flying for anything under about a 5 hour flight, sometimes more if the airport has traffic issues etc.

I think the bigger issue is that so much of the US is built around cars. But rail can help there too. In Japan they often build a new railway line in conjunction with new towns along it. They are ideal for commuters and people who want access to big cities without living in them. They are designed around the railway and public transport, and are relatively affordable.

Interesting, thanks. In Japan they had some legal issues with the new maglev line. First there was a big fight over the route it would take, because several smaller towns wanted stops that would massively boost their economies. Even without a stop, the route dictated where the construction would be, sure to be a benefit to local businesses.

They also had some issues with potential noise, which is partly why most of it is in tunnels.

Not all of it is resolved, but construction has already started anyway.

Seems like some of the NIMBY issues could be resolved with some incentives. Place solar along the line, maybe vertically oriented to help block noise, and give people living nearby some credits from the energy produced.

For the underground, China built over 10,000km of metro lines using tunnel boring machines. They built them faster than anyone else too, having perfected some new techniques to make it cheaper and quicker. It's possible, but for some reason not in the US or UK... Musk tried, but the Boring Company ended up just using conventional methods.

There is certainly an element of that in the UK, but even after they resolved it there were further issues.

For example, to protect the highly overrated "green belt", much of the High Speed 2 line was going to be underground. The tunnels needed air vents to the surface, but some local politicians insisted that they be disguised as barns using local materials like stone. The buildings themselves cost about 3 million, seemingly not huge in the scheme of things, but it also delayed the project and was one of a thousand cuts that ultimately doomed it.

That claim contradicts your earlier one.

Thunderf00t is a jackass, and I haven't seen the specific claims made in his video, but The Boring Company is actually a joke.

The tunnel is completely normal, nothing special about it at all. No magic low cost boring machine or special construction techniques. The Chinese dig them much, much faster for their metro systems.

The idea of using cars instead of trains is also dumb. Worse capacity, a lot more staff because Full Self Driving doesn't work even in a carefully controlled environment with one single file lane of traffic. As a novelty ride it's pretty mediocre.

Plausible deniability? You could claim you use it for the tasks they list, not a home defence system.

What's the legality of owning a flamethrower, and of using it on a suspected intruder? They seem to be readily available in the US, but would there be any issue with burning someone instead of shooting them?