Internment of Japanese Americans by the greatest Democrat ever, FDR?

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.

"why (is) the U.S. government is so invested in the issue?"

Claiming it's 'perhaps' about the US wanting power to project US culture...as a way to deflect from Canada ACTUALLY OPENLY AND CLEARLY DOING THAT is propaganda-judo at Iraqi-information-minister level.

Even *asking* the question is hilariously obvious. So Canada is entitled to use its streaming channels to promulgate Brand Canada (and their obligatory Francophone appendix, always...) but the US is quasi imperialist - not for demanding the right to do so, just interfering with Canada's 'right' to do so.

And offering some sappy Ontario postdoc as the "quoted expert" instead of, say, an actual Canadian gov't official to defend their overt policy is even funnier.

And before the nabobs come chattering into the conversation, yes, OF COURSE the US promotes itself in media and indeed that is soft-power, but let's be clear here that the US isn't asking for the right to do so, just that Canada NOT do so. And oh, when's the last time you saw the majority of US media (incl Hollywood, to look at the bastion of American cultural power) saying /nice/ things about the US?

Ancient Rome made amazing aqueducts. One day they had built all the ones they really needed and with no new projects for a new generation to learn from, they quickly just forgot how to make aqueducts.

"Big Tech" is now entering this phase. In a generation all innovation will be gone.

900$ for a base model with 256GB SSD is pathetic.

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.

Except:
A) we are talking about sea temps 10m below the surface across a global data set. Some Enlightenment polymaths taking readings with their home made thermometers in Europe wouldn't impact that data set at all.
B) "guestimates" would be hilarious to include in a conclusion being reached based on HUNDREDTHS of a degree (0.10 vs 0.09)

My supposition would be this is modem data only, eg since the 1990s MAYBE.

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.

Then make it retroactive. Donate the proceeds to the victims of this program who had to train their replacements.