Capitalist economies give us roughly 99.999% of memory today. What alternative source do you suggest to meet demand?

Embrace stupidity, get tired of winning.

You could do a study in other countries and compare the results. They have the same gadgets, but not the increased hoods on their cars. Once you corrected for the gadget distraction, you will still find higher casualty rates.

People have passengers sometimes, and driving from the middle of a three-person bench seat is much more dangerous than from the side.

I've got the impression that blowing your nose hard would push mucus into the sinuses. But it's hard to avoid blowing altogether. If I'm badly blocked, I start with neti to get things flowing better. In fact I do Neti every morning anyway, but you can do it a few times a day if needed.

Clearly someone was boned to build an inference engine in 9 months. Training might take a while, but it'll be way more flexible than any GPU.

I recently watched a documentary on the British space program, and I recall someone saying something like "this project needs more engineers and fewer boffins". So "boffin" is specifically a scientist in an ivory tower, much like "egghead" in US slang.

I don't think Microsoft will let something as trivial as primality to get in the way of their quantum computing research. REAL men can roundhouse-kick any number into factors if they so desire.

"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (1995)

REAL men kept a web diary before the word "blog" was coined. OTOH, if "blog" means something where others can comment on posts, then to me Slashdot is the original "blog", again a couple of years before the word.

Shor's algorithm has been used to factor 21, not 29. 29 is prime, and people don't usually talk about factoring primes because the factors are trivial. But otherwise, yes.

The Digital Euro isn't just another payment network. It's money issued by the European Central Bank, and so private banks cannot inflate it via fractional reserve lending. This is one reason why private banks oppose it. To me, it sounds like a welcome step back from debt-based money.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

Differently than common belief, the EV market in Europe is dominated by domestic companies like Volkswagen, Stellantis and Renault, with Tesla and Hyundai/Kia thrown in. Chinese manufactures recently reached a new high with 4.5 percent EV market share. And EV itself is about 25% of total market share. There is not much experience with Chinese EVs so far.