With literally zero immigrants since 2010, California's population would have shrunk by one tenth of one percent per year. Significant only if you're trying to make some political point about the state.
It depends on which one tenth of one percent is leaving.
For example China largely has control through predatory pricing. For example a rare earth mining operation in California shut down due to China offering rare earths below their costs. With no rare earth exports from China, mining in California will now be profitable. This may also be the case in many other areas.
Control via predatory pricing requires that you keep shipping products, stop shipping and that control is lost.
We've seen such behavior before, with oil for example. Increase the price and various exploration and acquisition operations becomes viable. Ex offshore oil drilling becoming a viable option with higher prices.
Sourcing the ore will not be the problem, but processing will. China purchased the US processing companies many years ago and shipped them to China. Restarting the processing will take years.
California had a chance to buy them in the past but declined figuring their immediate need could produce them on demand.
I expect the PHEV to make the "pure" ICEV obsolete. Clearly you see otherwise. We shall see which proves more popular.
It sure will not do that if it only lasts 10 years.
What I don't like with PHEV is that you get a small battery, yes sure enough for daily commutes, but you have to recharge it every day.
While for the same price you can usually get a real EV with 400 km of range that you could only plug once a week.
I used to like the concept of the PHEV until I started seeing them become worthless at 10 years because the small batteries which are destroyed after 10 years cannot be replaced, and the vehicle will not operate with a bad battery.
Hydrogen may well take off or not, but PHEVs seem to have taken off nicely already. Most of the new cars in my neighborhood are PHEVs now. Excellent choice if you ask me - it covers about 80% of my driving on electricity and I can still go on a longer trip and not worry about chargers and batteries.
PHEVs are going to be rich people cars because none of them appear to last more than 10 years. Auctions are filling up with worthless 10 year old PHEVs where the only thing wrong with them is the irreplaceable battery, and somehow they cannot operate without the battery even with an internal combustion battery.
Maybe the resale value of zero does not matter for a PHEV.
Broadcom doesn’t develop new products. They buy companies, lay off 50% of the workforce, cancel all R&D projects, and increase product prices by 10 times. They lose 80% of their customers, but the 20% that cant easily dump the product pays 10x the cost, and that amounts to a 4x increase in revenue if you do the math. Currently, they’re making money hand over fist and the stock market loves them.
But, with a tiny, pissed-off customer base and zero r&d, each broadcom business is coasting on profit from a dead product line. It’s where companies go to die and be scavenged for resources. This is fine and all - efficient capitalism requires recycling of corporate resources. But companies don’t like 10x price hikes. Pretty soon, companies will flee a product if there’s even a hint that it might be bought by broadcom.
Just to add emphasis, that is exactly what Broadcom does.
In addition, Broadcom, as it is known now, has killed several profitable but small product lines leading to an exodus of people and industries from the US. There are many cutting edge technical products which can no longer be designed and manufactured in the US because of Broadcom's actions, and these represent technologies which cannot be supported in the US any longer.
Dec Alpha was a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) that was "really" reduced and 64-bit. Alpha could not even load a single byte. String operations needed to load 8 bytes and the shift bits to extract individual bytes. The transistors Alpha saved by not decoding complex instructions were used to supply lots of registers. If I recall correctly, Alpha processors were not pipelined.
The original Alpha was pipelined with in-order execution. Later out-of-order execution was implemented.
Out-of-order execution is more complicated but *allows* higher clock speeds because it increases the allowable load-to-use delay, meaning that the first level cache does not have to be as fast for a given clock speed. Clock speed is limited by latency to the first level cache.
The lack of smaller than 32-bit operands ended up being a mistake, so later models added byte and word operands.
Transistors are more plentiful today but the waste of so many transistors delayed the Intel move to 64-bit by a decade and still hampers the architecture to this day.
Intel chose not to make a 64-bit x86 instruction set available in favor of their 64-bit Itanium processor. Their intention was to replace x86 with their IP protected Itanium, but AMD released AMD64 forcing Intel's hand.
1. In the US, one is not considered a "convicted felon" until after sentencing (I know, it sounds odd, but it's part of an incomplete process) and Trump has not yet been sentenced.
I thought this oddity might be because otherwise a defendant could suffer the consequences of the conviction, and be held in custody indefinitely, while the court delays sentencing because the defendant cannot appeal until after sentencing.
Now the "new" bottle deposit is so low that hardly anyone will return their used bottles.
Yes, that's a big fail.
Several states stopped returning the deposit for recycling but still collect it.
In the real world, does anyone find their current phone too slow?
I mean, yeah, you wait for the network, but a faster CPU won't fix that. Other than *maybe* some games, I don't think much is CPU bound.
I often have to wait for the interface, so yes, my phone is too slow, however I doubt the problem is CPU speed.
Non series hybrids accomplish the same thing without having to have a separate generator.
But non-series hybrids have a complex mechanical transmission.
At least a true series hybrid would do away with the mechanical transmission, like a diesel-electric locomotive does, but it comes at a significant weight penalty which does not matter for a diesel-electric locomotive. In that respect the range extending hybrid is not such a bad deal except for trading complexity and a heavy battery for a lighter generator and engine.
To me, plugin hybrids clearly seem to be the way to go here, in the immediate and medium term. They effectively eliminate most of the reasons that most people are wary of buying a full electric car. Somewhat surprisingly, they don't even seem to be any more expensive than full electrics!
The problem with plug-in hybrids is that they cost more initially and are more complicated making them less reliable and more expensive to repair. Their traction batteries are also smaller so wear out faster.
... before the WWW. This is a tech site, stop conflating the web and the internet. Before browsers we had (as well as IP compuserve) MUDs, IRCs, miscellanious talk servers (eg NUTS systems, Cheeseplants House), gopher, archie, FTP etc.
Sure, the things you mentioned existed, but they were only available to you if you were on a university campus or worked in a limited number of positions in the military or at a very small number of companies.
No, at that time subscription dial-up access to Unix shell accounts was readily available; the only barrier was knowing that it existed. Later TIA became available so a shell account could provide SLIP access so you could do your processing locally. The largest group of customers was students who had free access before they graduated, but anybody could subscribe.
I had such a shell account for years, and even after I started using TIA, it was to access services other than the web which was still a joke.
Nothing needs to happen for the TSMC fabs to become inoperable after China invades Taiwan. The advanced machinery depends on support contracts from ASML and others and without those it becomes unusable in short order.
In the sciences, we are now uniquely priviledged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton
