The car manufacturers will produce whatever they can make money selling. EVs are significantly more expensive than equivalent gasoline-powered cars [...] The higher prices mean that most of the people who are going to buy EVs already have.

If that's how our automakers want to play it, then they don't need protectionism from China EV's. Let's see how much "significantly more expensive" EV's really are.

Mooks And Grifters of America?

Don meets his cellmate:

"Hi. They call me Little Pepe with the Big PeePee."

The judge who ruled it can't be copyrighted said only works with human authors can be copyrighted. That statement actually affirms that the author of the work is the AI, not the humans who wrote the innumerable inputs to its training corpus or programmed its learning algorithm. But since that author is not human, it isn't eligible. (I wonder if the same questions were ever raised about corporations owning copyrights).

In that case cell phones should be modular

In other IT-relevant news - their newest video is using the 300 ton press to make espresso...

...to mention that "Delta Emulator" is a Nintendo systems emulator for iOS?

There's that little known channel on YouTube that has a bit of experience with crushing things with a hydraulic press, and Lauri wasn't exactly thrilled by the ad either... :D

In my opinion the only reason for the case is to make up for the fact that it's too fragile for regular use.

Why would anyone trust a company named after a set of crystal balls cursed to mislead or corrupt the will of the user?

I see. It seems that is (mostly) so.

TikTok has said under oath that Americans' data has always been stored outside China. Now it's saying there are big exceptions for creators - who it claims it treats differently than "typical users."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...

It's a senseless claim either way. If the information is in China it's in China. The government doesn't have to "ask," they can "demand" or "confiscate." They could also tell TikTok to deny it. This would be true of anywhere the data resides, although some governments are more responsible about it than others.

If we're going to try to limit what bulk information can go where, the argument would have to be that the potential harm is small, or else that trying to restrict it is virtually impossible, like it or not. Tik-Tok pinky-swearing not to share it with their own government changes nothing.

My current phone (pixel 5) is 8.2mm thick (thin!) and has a plastic textured backside that won't slip out of my fingers, and won't shatter. Give me a 1cm thick phone that doesn't need a case, has a bigger battery, doesn't have a glass back. I have zero desire for anything thinner than 8mm. I don't want a 3mm sheet of glass.

But it surprised me too. I've only noticed it in the last couple years. Like "performant."

To me it feels like the fiber buildout of the 90's. The amount of fiber they laid turned out to be massive overkill because of gains in throughput per fiber:

During the dot-com bubble, a large number of telephone companies built optical-fibre networks, each with the business plan of cornering the market in telecommunications by providing a network with sufficient capacity to take all existing and forecast traffic for the entire region served. This was based on the assumption that telecoms traffic, particularly data traffic, would continue to grow exponentially for the foreseeable future. The advent of wavelength-division multiplexing reduced the demand for fibre by increasing the capacity of a single fibre by a factor of as much as 100. According to Gerry Butters, the former head of Lucent's Optical Networking Group at Bell Labs, the amount of data that could be carried by an optical fibre was doubling every nine months at the time. This progress in the ability to carry data over fibre reduced the need for more fibres. As a result, the wholesale price for data communications collapsed and a number of these companies filed for bankruptcy protection. Global Crossing[7] and Worldcom[8] are two high-profile examples in the United States.

Similar to the Railway Mania, the misfortune of one market sector became the good fortune of another, and this overcapacity created a new telecommunications sector.

NVidia an all the companies spending billions on their cards and data centers are hugely at risk of future algorithmic advances that might increase AI computation efficiency drastically. The human brain runs on 20 watts.