Agreed. Deliberate adding of surface roughness (and even multiple surfaces) have been used in racing yachts for many decades. I think they started doing this in the 90s.

Maybe. I don't think the EU should just allow US companies to buy limited resources up and prevent domestic companies from competing.

I suppose it depends if the EU has anything better to do with the spectrum. They will have to pay for it, and will be regulated by the EU, and pay tax there. They can always be cut off later if they don't behave.

The main thing is to make sure that it doesn't stifle EU rivals.

AI is different. When machines started to replace manual labour, people moved into clerical jobs where machines couldn't replicate human thinking. Computers came along and some of those went away, starting with low level accounting jobs like payroll processing. But there were always other jobs to move to, things that could not be automated.

We are now getting to the stage where AI can replace a lot of human thinking. At some point there just aren't going to be enough jobs that can't be automated left.

We have to decide. One option is we move to to low employment economy, ideally something like Star Trek's fully automated luxury communism where all the basics are provided and opportunities to develop one's self are abundant, rather than UBI and people with a lot of time and little to fill it with.

Another is that we just decide not to automate a lot of stuff, and have humans do it. That does mean a lot of pointless work, although arguably that's not so different to how things are today.

Depends on the exact wording, but Android Open Source Project (ASOP) is not shipped on many devices. Most ship with Android, which includes Google Play Services and a load of other proprietary, closed source stuff. So presumably they would need to implement these controls, and I'm sure Google will oblige by offering them to vendors. In fact even if they were not mandatory, I expect vendors will market it as a feature and want to include it anyway.

I wonder how practical this is. It appears that the surface features need to be so small that they couldn't be painted over, for example. Paint adds significant weight to an airliner, but is worth it for the protection and performance it provides.

On the basis that all major games get tested on their hardware extensively, because they have in excess of 90% of the market.

In unemployment figures don't show actual unemployment, but deliberately excludes groups for the purpose of keeping the figure low (and the UK was very explicit that this was the purpose when Thatcher's government sliced several million off the official figures, less sure if the US was as honest) then it's hard to call it anything else.

They have a card that is competitive with the most common gaming systems in use today. They are improving rapidly. They have a lot of pre-orders because it runs the games that are popular in China well enough, and is competitively priced.

The company that makes it isn't a genocidal totalitarian dictatorship. And even if it was, that isn't an excuse to let them take market share from Western companies.

Smokers are deprioritised on lung transplant lists. Foreigners have to pay. So we've already got differential service. We just say that sportsfolk who knowingly and deliberately inflict damage on themselves in such contests get lower priority on medical procedure lists as well.

Not removed - they've paid national insurance - but all procedures are on a prioritised queue already, just given them a low priority. (No, not in the UNIX sense.)

They'll get seen to, when service permits. Of course, there'd be more service if the rich paid more taxes, but that's between the sports stars and the rich. They can take care of that dispute between themselves.

Gamers Nexus will probably test it soon.

The issue tends to be compatibility with games that aren't popular in China. Basically everyone except Nvidia has compatibility problems to some extent.

News today that a Chinese company has released a GPU that benchmarks similarly to an Nvidia RTX 3060. Coincidentally, the 3060 is the most popular GPU in the Steam charts.

It's designed and manufactured domestically. The rate at which they are catching up is impressive.

And the same thing is true of space. Even disadvantaged by geography.

It's Musk though, so is just as likely to be an excuse for his hilariously optimistic claims about how easy and quick it would be to get to Mars.

He seems to have realized, over a decade later, and is now talking about a moon base. Wait till he discovers what a shit-show that is.

Well, technically that is the entire point of some of the major sports in the world, and it would be problematic to say that deliberately causing brain damage for competition is ok in one sport but not in another.

On the other hand, I am not altogether convinced it should be openly encouraged in any sport.

This is a tricky one, because I would also argue that I should have no say in what a person does to their own body for their own reasons, that my firm belief that people should have bodily autonomy when it causes no actual harm to others does not permit me to condemn others for doing stuff to their own body for their own reasons when it does no actual harm to others even if it's a context I don't agree with.

Given that (ethically) I cannot condone wilful irreversable damage but (ethically) cannot condemn personal choises that harm nobody else, the obvious conclusion is that I don't believe such sports should be actively promoted or encouraged, but that what individuals do in the privacy of a private sporting event should not concern those outside until or unless actual harm outside of those events occurs.

It's basically a toy commercial. If we are lucky we get a half decent movie out of it too. Reviews seem to be positive.