Not doing this has already resulted in the violation of the privacy of billions of people.

I guess it is a compromise choice between:
1. Let the government track you only, with the hope that you can pry back or limit the scope of that information by petitioning your representives (for those of you in a functioning democracy)
2. Let silicon valley tech firms track you. Sell your data on the open market. Limit what you can even find out about the private data they have leaked. And when you go to petition your legislature, have them spend hundreds of millions or billions in lobbying against the best interests of typical voters.

Collectively all the AI data centers represent about a trillion in capital expenditure. Rather than the plural form meaning there are multiple data centers each other over a trillion dollars.

(also, I think someone edited the trillion-dollar part out. I didn't see it in the summary. but I believe you that it was probably worded that way earlier today)

They already consume the worst of our content. Let Canada have this one, in practice it does not really alter much for either side.

Most sites don't actually need to know my screen size, since they render to a window and not to my full screen.

Sites can know if I support a baseline WebGL, but don't need to know about any driver version or extensions. I can grant permission to a game site that is actually using WebGL to see extensions (e.g. EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic). While hidden, the extensions should be disabled so sites can't just go around the permissions.

If a site asks for my microphone or camera, I click "no" except for the very specific exceptions where I actually need it (like for a Zoom/Teams/Discord/Slack call). And even then, it's sometimes easier to just install the app and not make exceptions in my browser.

Aliexpress likes to show weird random beauty products mixed in with my electronics components. Whatever algorithm they are using for suggestions for customers that are logged in seems pretty useless, I doubt their tracking algorithms are any more effective.

That's right, borrowing money doesn't count. That's what we were taught in economics school right?

3.44% of $40T is about $1.4T ... every year.

It's shoveled into a $40T pit.

The vast majority of tech workers are able to work remotely. There's really no reason to pay a huge fee for an H1-B when you can hire an outsourcing company. Probably not a great idea to open a branch office in India, you aren't going to save much money since the tax is so high there (40%+)

Great for China, but the North American economy is weighed down by escalating tariffs. We're on track to look a bit like Brazil in the 1980's with different root causes to our economic woes.

Bad news. the so-called free market does not care, if your devices are too expensive then demand will fall.

There will be a reckoning with the bungling of the memory component supply chain. Too many industries have staked their business on a handful of manufacturers and went for spot pricing and low inventory overhead over hedging through contracts and second source warehousing on the components they need to build devices.

Because consumer electronics margins have been so bad, we're seeing multiple parallel failures across OEMs, and compounded by a tightening of many whitebox foreign imports into the US that would help in the lower tier pricing that dampens the demand for mid tier products.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Playing the lawsuit lotto, the hope is they eventually win big. I hope they win a tiny award that settles the matter while also never covering their decades of legal costs.

You're right. My numbers are a bit off. For someone average and not great shape they could perhaps sustain 100 W, and would have a speed of around 15 mph on a 100 m run. If someone was a decent athlete, perhaps an amateur that races some times, they might be able to sustain 350 W, which gets them up to 25 mph on 100 m run.

I usually cruise around 20 mph (more like 40 mph down the hills, where I am keeping up with country road traffic). Just big heavy bike, no toe clips, no e-bike, etc. I'm not in particularly good shape. But I'm a big guy with a fair bit of stamina so I can go slow and steady for a few miles at a decent pace. Purely to get from point A to point B, not my preferred form of exercise.

So I'll revise:

24 mph is almost as fast as someone on a bicycle with moderately training.

Paper airplanes have almost hit the 100 meter mark for flight (98.43 meters by Liu Liwen). I'm not sure how fast such a paper airplane flies, but that's also an impressive bit of trivia.

24 mph is almost as fast as someone moderately out of shape on a bicycle.

Collapse generally takes decades or centuries. For the current global interconnected civilization it will likely take longer, as this civilizatoin has been quite stable since the Great Divergence of the 15th or 16th century.

Reliable accounts of people during a civilization collapse are essentially nonexistent, and the retelling likely benefits from hindsight. That said, it seems unlikely that anyone living through it would have been able to confidently identity a collapse that was due to systemic human-caused problems. And I think that is the case today, we might want to jump to conclusions and go "ah ha! this is the thing that will destroy us!" but actually providing a convincing argument backed by evidence is difficult if not impossible.

So what do we do? I think there are two categories of approaches. Either assume that since society has been stable in the past, that it will continue to be stable in the future. That AI is just another small contribution that society has to adapt to, and we'll do so like we always have. Or, we act a little more defensively. We argue that while we don't know that a collapse is coming, we act cautiously and with purpose to avoid triggering scenarios that have in the past led to a collapse. So don't have massive famines, don't have social upheavels that leave people without jobs or homes. Etc. Basically, if you detect that strife is on the horizon, take steps to avoid it.

We would have to require manufactures to include safe and simple recovery processes.

And regulating businesses is filthy Communism, so maybe that will fly in the UK and EU, but never in the good old USofA.