In the UK that would be judged based on psychological evaluation of the victim, and on evidence such as having received mental health support, been medically unfit to work, and witness statements. It certainly would not be one hour of earnings.

I thought all this had been common knowledge for decades. You never take your phone through customs without at least wiping it well in advance, and then restore it when you have arrived and are secure. Or even better, you take a burner with nothing of interest on it, because if you take your main phone it might get stolen or "damaged" at the border.

Same with laptops. Mine gets factory reset and restored from an image at the hotel.

You aren't allowed to set up booby traps in your home. But what constitutes a booby trap? If you simply arrange things so that a nasty accident is quite likely to happen to someone who doesn't know certain information before hand, you will probably have a hard time arguing that you didn't intentionally harm them.

The same will apply here. If you arrange things so that border staff are quite likely to unwittingly erase your phone, your defence lawyer will probably have a hard time arguing that it wasn't your fault. You knew what the agent was likely to do, you clearly planned to pin the blame on them.

I did some experiments with IR LEDs to try to screw up facial recognition cameras, but the issue is that you need a lot of power for them to be effective. At least people are making frames you can retrofit without them looking obviously home-made now.

If it's a Thinkpad you can just buy a replacement screen, or the entire assembly with the housing, and replace it using the service manual that Lenovo provides. It's 15 minutes of work if you are unfamiliar with laptop screen replacement.

The conclusion isn't supported by the premise. If wars are an example of a subsidy that they did not include, you will note that the US has been involved in a lot of wars, and China hasn't.

You want a specific example of something not happening?

That report doesn't seem to account for subsidies like wars and policies such as keeping healthcare expensive.

The Chinese government does do more to direct the economy than most, which is the real key to its success. Policy doesn't do a 180 every 4 years, and when the government says it wants to see investment in X, you can be sure there will be a huge growth market for it and investors will be lining up to pump money into the sector.

Lithium batteries were old when they started making those, and now they are the leading supplier. Better tech and chemistry, better manufacturing.

Would it help you to know that Men's Studies is a sub-field of Gender Studies?

We hear a lot about how young men are disaffected and forgotten by society. Shame nobody is looking into that or trying to understand it, or we could do something about it.

Have you see the subsidies we give out? Whole wars fought to prop up specific industries.

That's pretty depressing.

Well, we have LLMs now, they could review both submissions to look for this kind of error. Report back to clerical staff who can filter the crap and pass anything relevant to the judge. Although really the defence should be doing that themselves.

Japan has an interesting system where a panel of judges and lay judges decide guilt. The lay judges are basically a jury, but the professional judges work with them in their deliberations, rather than locking them in a room and letting whatever prejudices and idiocy they come up with be the deciding factor.

A lot of this RAM is HBM or server ECC chips that can't be used in consumer hardware. Most people probably don't want a server system at home either. They tend to be loud and power hungry.

Fortunately if you look at what Chinese recyclers are already doing, it seems likely that they will take those parts and remove the memory chips, and put them on consumer RAM modules. I'm not sure what they can do with HBM, maybe take some of the server GPUs and move them to new PCBs?