Not sure why you are comparing traditional tiles to shingles. Tiles have a much longer lifespan than shingles as a roofing material. For comparison, Tesla tiles only come with a 10 year warranty, but what are you going to do when the electronics fail?

What do you mean? This was all over the news over a decade ago -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...Ãoerümqi_riots

China has always acted poorly with regards to treatment of ethnic minorities, and everybody that doesn't toe the party line, like in Hong Kong.

There is ample capacity with the rural population and automation to continue industrial growth domestically for the foreseeable future. There is close to zero appetite to off-shore those activities. There is a focus of moving up the value chain, but that doesn't mean off-shoring everything that's not high value. For manufacturers moving away from China , that's another matter, mainly to do with market forces, fear of IP theft and increasingly political considerations.

>I think Xi very much wants to send manufacturing out to the rest of third world while increasing domestic consumption and information / knowledge work at home - and the scope/standard of the welfare state along with it.

Why do you think that? China has a population of over 1.4 billion, and only a small proportion of that have living standards comparable to advanced economies. Further industralisation is imperative for them to continue growth so it make no sense to want to off-shore that generally. Only the most undesirable industries with the highest environmental and social cost would be on the list to off-shore.

Is it just me or does this smell suspiciously like money laundering?

TIL that Google and Apple are public sector entities that ultimately answer to us via the democratic process, like Medicare and Medicaid.

>Remove regulations and you unshackle companies, letting them actually compete and letting small companies naturally come to take over larger ossified ones.

Regulations are a tool to achieve policy. They can be used to entrench incumbents, but it can also be used to disrupt them and protect consumers. Thinking that all regulation is bad is one of the major problems in our free and democratic society. Things are so simplistic and treating them as such makes the voting public easy to manipulate.

N/T

>They log so much data that they were literally frying SSDs write endurance limits.

I believe the issue is poor write leveling and write amplification on the eMMC. So it's not how much it stores, but rather the size and frequency of writes.

>Limitations on individual rights in some EU nations have expanded to become limitations on individual rights in all EU nations.

This statement is completely contrary to how EU law works. EU directives start at the EU level and are transposed into national legislation. regulation have direct effect. There is no ability, from being in the EU, for civil rights restrictions in one member state to affect another member state. There is simply no legal basis for this. It has to be done on an EU level.

It's called a race to the bottom and it's a failure of regulation (both in China and in the importing markets).

Going to 100% is necessary in order to prevent meter drift, so that's a sane default. Not inferior at all.

Sony has had BatteryCare since forever. Does the same thing, but better, as it fully charges to 100% when you disconnect the phone in the morning. The phone can adjust to your schedule automatically, or you can set it manually now too.

Warp charge kills the battery by charging your battery at more than 2C, so they should do more to decrease battery degradation, not the bare minimum of a charging cap.

This prototype hasn't even been tested yet, while Japan has set the record back in 2015 with a test run reaching 603 km/h (375 mph) -

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/0...

The first long-distance intercity maglev railway is already being built between Tokyo to Nagoya, and likely on to Osaka.

Bridwatch is just garbage-in garbage-out. It just so happens the majority of contributors agrees with what your viewpoint here. It doesn't reflect whether it is in fact true.

And to you other point, removing the media gatekeepers doesn't mean it's replaces with a better system. In fact it being replaced with a much worse system as we have seen in the past decade or so.