No. It's not merely a matter of statistics - you're extrapolating from a sample size of one: Us. A sample that if it didn't exist means the result wouldn't be observed. This is the anthropic principle. While I believe there's life out there - not necessarily intelligent - it is just that: A belief.

The main issue is the infrastructure. In Sweden, at least the "last mile" of fibre is public. This means that ISPs all have access to it - so you can choose between many different providers. This enables free competition, unlike scenarios where you are free to select the one provider who owns the connection.

One suggestion I've seen by smaller artists is to change the revenue model. The idea is that to replace the model where you pool all the money from all the subscribers, divide that by the number of plays, and pay. The new model would be to split the revenue from each subscriber between the streams on that account instead. The rationale behind it being that the smaller artists - or artists catering to a more mature audience - have a listener base that listens to fewer tracks per month than those who just listen to top 40 in the background all the time. Thus, reaching more selective listeners would give a higher revenue per stream.

Indeed. Sure, finding your vinyl record, cleaning, starting to play, and looking at the cover art while playing the record from start to finish (and turning it!) is a different experience than just having Spotify on shuffle in the background. However, the sound itself is going to be worse than if you just played the same music from CD, Apple Music, or Tidal. And you can still hold the cover art.

All that aside, the music from the system in the article is probably going to sound absolutely wonderful. Speakers, amplifiers, and the room are much more important than the sound source unless you're really trying to get something bad, like an old, worn out music cassette - or hip hop. Modern Talking FTW!

Yes, but just a tiny problem - those rebellious communists are in temporary control of the other provinces while the legitimate government is stuck in just one. Seriously, for now, both parts think (mostly) it's one country. Although that is starting to change in Taiwan, and if they want to change, that should be supported. China proved with their behavior in Hong Kong that they are not to be trusted "one country, two systems" shenanigans.

AI (or rather, ML) upscaling can do wonders for old, low resolution material - some examples: Babylon 5, Star Trek Voyager, and Married with children. It's an often superior alternative to various pixel interpolation techniques.

There is little reason to believe reduced tax breaks would be passed in to the consumer in this particular case. Fossil fuels are part of a functioning, global market. For it to be passed on, so much of the total global production would shut down because of this that the global supply declined in a meaningful way.

Not necessarily. They want high prices, of course, but not so much as to further increase adoption of renewables or nuclear.

Because the government didn't allow them to tell that the method existed. “In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information and now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests.”

It's not the same leadership - the then-CEO is gone, and they got a new one from outside. The new CEO's CV includes being a former CEO of Red Hat.

It's also a problem of how US healthcare works. Every other developed country has public healthcare, and this seems to give better results and lower total costs as measured by share of GDP.

You need a verified, secure ID in many cases: to access some public services - including healthcare , deal with banks, sign contracts etc. I think most European countries already have their national digital ID, this is just making it work across the EU.

More interesting than the price in dollars would be how much of GDP is used for education for elementary and high school - or at a minimum, make sure the amounts are adjusted for purchasing power. That said, one of the major problems in US education - and US in general - is a war on science and facts. Facts have gotten politicized, which I'd see as pretty bad - you're entitled to your own opinions, not your own "facts". It started in backwards states, but e.g. attacks on evolution because the answer is in the Bible is something that should be laughed at, not taken into the curriculum. Same with attacks on vaccines.

I love it. I live to the north, and having daylight longer in the evenings - rather than wasting it when sleeping at e.g 4 a.m. - is great. And in winter, earlier light is beneficial too,

One of the benefits most creators give from a a Patreon membership is ad free video watching. If you watch it from their Patreon pages, that should work. Of course, you could also just pay YouTube and avoid their ads.