They already have that. The Youth Unemployment Rate is so high they've stopped even publishing fake numbers, because any number low enough to publish, would not be believable.

Yeah. The Chinese economy is facing some "challenges" at the moment.

I don't know if that's going to work, given that the youth unemployment rate has gotten so high they've stopped publishing numbers for it, because either they'd be too high to publish under Chinese law, or else no one would believe them. Granted, that's not tech-sector-specific, but a *lot* of those unemployed young people are college educated, and STEM fields are quite popular over there. Employers may in fact be in a stronger negotiating position than the prospective employees.

I didn't say possible. I said practical. Strong crypto is hard. Secure key exchange is hard.

Governments have been breaking codes for as long as we have had codes.

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Even the most professional of officers would be tempted if he was was cheating on him or if someone delivered a credible threat to the safety of his children.

The best way to prevent this kind of abuse is to make it impossible.

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Edward Snowden showed that this is not as true as you seem to think it is.

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Then, let them serve the warrant.

What is different is that for the first time in human history, it's not only possible but it's practical to have encrypted communications that no one can access except for the intended recipient.

All of "the most heinous of crimes" take place in the real world, there is some physical action that can be detected and punished. I don't care if this makes the job of law enforcement harder. I want law enforcement to be a difficult and time consuming job. Idle and bored cops tend to find ways to fill their time and it's never good.

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I've been thinking about adding solar panels to my house. I would love if I could get a federal subsidy to do it. However, just like with my student loan forgiveness, I'm NOT giving Biden my vote in exchange.

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Same here. I've had a Tesla 3 since early 2020. I've driven about 10k miles a year and in that time I've had the same experience. I rotated the tires a couple of times and just replaced them as they were worn out. I've also replaced the windshield wipers twice and added a few gallons of washer fluid.

And that's it. I charge mostly at home and with my local electric rates it costs me about $10 to drive 300 miles. This is easily the best car I've ever owned when it comes to the maintenance cost as well as the fastest (I have the performance version of the Model 3).

I can't see myself going back to a gas or diesel car for a daily driver.

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We don't even need that. Just have another major volcanic eruption at least on the scale of Mount Tambora (there are several volcanoes in Indonesia capable of this right now) and watch Earth's climate drop by over one degree Celsius and Europe wondering why it froze over in winter.

I think it's because greed trumps their desire to attack their nemesis. Without the US economy end point for their production, their own economic house of cards will quickly collapse.

the younger kids (college age) feel the need to rebel. that's universal.

however, they are extremely uninformed and are siding with the WRONG side.

islam has no ceasefires. they only have 'temporary reloading' periods. this is in their holy books, look it up. if you dare to find the truth about islam.

islam is not compatible with the west. the longer we keep putting off the big fight, the worse its going to be.

I have zero patience for so-called 'smart googlers' who cant even see that the islamic way of life is 100% counter to everything they VALUE in the west.

in short, they are idiots. how they got into google - that just means google has no clue about actual people's views and only cares about 'how fast can you code nested procedures?'.

again, I have very little respect for googlers. they are the most spoiled brats I've ever seen in my life.

let them lose their jobs. that would be some justice.

when they get 20 or 40 years older, they'll change their views. we all do. but for supposedly smart geniuses, they sure act like little clueless children.

Sure, that's the way it works if you hold the "correct" political views. Some of those folks that were in the US capitol during the Jan 6, 2021 protest were guilty of nothing more than trespassing and have effectively been detained for YEARS (some without even a trail yet) and others give remarkably stiff jail sentences.

That is the stuff that your average American thinks happens only in third world countries and now we have it here.

At worst, these entitled Google SJW's will lose their job.

On a recent vintage Macbook Air, you don't. It's not a user serviceable part. When the SSD fails, you throw it away and get a new Mac if it's out of warranty.

I have a recent vintage Mac and a thin notebook PC (running Linux). I use the PC a bit more, but I'm comfortable using both. If the Mac failed tomorrow, I wouldn't buy another one due to the inability to upgrade/service them after the fact. When most PC's are also not user serviceable, maybe I'll re-evaluate that stance. My kids are perfectly fine with Chromebooks. They are also not upgrade-able, but they are dirt cheap and I don't mind the disposable nature of them given the price point and the fact that Google manages to keep them patched for a few years. If they survive long enough to outlive Google's willingness to patch them, I throw them away and get another one (since they cost less than a high end phone these days).

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is at least trying to bring this to a legal head.

https://www.stopkillinggames.c...

1. Bare minimum, we should definitely hold Chinese vehicles (electric or otherwise) to the same safety-testing standards as domestic vehicles, and enforce it absolutely relentlessly (like we haven't been doing with Boeing until very recently, but we should have been). There will be huge pressure to relax this, but we dare not, because any loopholes will be abused in the worst possible way and people will die. This one shouldn't be negotiable at all.

2. Tariffs and sanctions remain an option, to be used correctively whenever a foreign company receives inherently unfair advantages resulting from things like government subsidies, currency manipulation, and so on. The details here are potentially negotiable, but...

3. There's no point negotiating *anything* with the CCP until the keep a few of the promises they've already made. Send them an open letter that says "Do some of the stuff you already said you were going to do. We'll wait." When they call to try to negotiate a better (for them) deal, have an intern put them on hold and go to lunch.