So the solution is... more money? If $5000 a year for a median Chinese person gets as much as $63000 a year in America, who is really ahead? By your logic quantitative easing has made America massively wealthy through inflation. High income and high prices don't necessarily mean someone is rich. And the opposite doesn't mean they are "poor."

If we all must be renters to motivate us to work, that is a pretty bleak future for America.

Of course they are. But doesn't mean the home-grown rage isn't real. They probably are egging on the AI companies to build more data centers and waste resources and get into further debt.

Except that it was CCP policy of one child per couple that got their society into the situation they are now in where men between the ages of 18 and 40 outnumber women. And especially in the rural areas the problem is much worse. The CCP is largely responsible for this and also the lack of education and opportunities in the rural areas. While the cities boom, the rural areas are left to decay, although that's where the food comes from.

You bet. There are a lot of Make America Great Again rednecks in Alberta (Danielle Smith is only pretending to support Carney in this trade debacle). They went to Washington to meet with Trump to tell him how great he is. Maybe if he gives them guns (more guns since they already are quite well armed) they can take Alberta for him.

Yes. And no. AI is here to stay. Demand for hardware isn't going away. Companies and consumers are starting to dial in how they actually use and leverage the technology. Companies built on the hype around AI including hedge funds are going to definitely get a painful correction. AI is simply a tool and the faster companies see that, and learn how to use it correctly, the faster they will be able to profit from its use. It's not magic but it is powerful and useful.

Off topic but kind of funny to see the comments on here from people who've never seriously used it (in software development). And then the people who do use it and have realistic things to say about it, good and bad.

Sure you can withhold your password and they cannot keep a US citizen from entering. But they will take the phone and send it off to Israeli hackers to get your data. Theoretically after they don't find anything they will return your property to you, perhaps in several years. But I doubt they do that anymore.

And boy do they work hard at trying to make #3 stick when they decide they want to get rid of a person.

What he means is ARM boards and the SoCs that power them are in their own individual and incompatible worlds, intended for being embedded into a product. They were never intended to become PCs and run generic operating systems. Apple might use what is technically a SoC, but they have defined a complete platform for themselves from the boot loader on up to the peripheral hardware to support their OS. If Pine64 were to design a chip, a boot loader, a chipset, and an operating system to match with full hardware support and firmware from top to bottom, then they too would more like a complete, general-purpose computing platform rather than a vendor of various embedded (and largely incompatible) ARM SoCs. Because Pine64 cannot do this, their products remain interesting but not fully use-able, and that will never change.

Had Microsoft required UEFI and allowed the same user control over the secure boot process that they do on Intel, then you'd have something there.

Apple, well they are their own proprietary world, so no different from any proprietary ARM system as far as Linux is concerned. Asahi Linux notwithstanding. I had hoped at one time that Asahi Linux would actually fully support the hardware and make Apple products viable for Linux, but I've long since given up on that idea.

Intel and AMD battery life is pretty good now and I feel like ARM will soon have no advantage over them in terms of power and performance.

Meanwhile I also own a Tesla, and am using a CarPlay adapter with it. Maps is better, particularly lane guidance and actually telling me which motorway junction number I'm coming off at. I can share an ETA with my contacts. I can listen to subscriber-only (paid) Podcasts. I can use WhatsApp (via voice of course), something sadly essential in the UK as the vast majority use that. I can listen to audiobooks from other than Audible. I can use the BBC Sounds app. I can...

You get the idea. I agree with you about integration - the time I will use the built-in map is if I'm on a longer journey that needs charging on the way, or if the journey is so short that none of the above really matters.

Personally I hope the rumours about CarPlay integration being worked on by Tesla are true, although I'd be surprised I must admit. But for me - works well.

Apparently some cars come with always listening AI assistants now. I wish that was a bad joke but it's not.

No one is going to visit a website they can't even pronounce let alone spell.

I'd guess, but stressing guess and agree would need to be studied, that your bias would be correct. I'm not necessarily a fan of the every single person's study plan is different school of thought, and think there's a lot to be gained from structure.

On the socialising I'm not quite so sure though - it's definitely changed the nature of it though. My 'kids' (now all adults, youngest about to enter final year of university) socialising all the time on-line. Voice chats with friends, Discord is how they organise meeting up etc.. They've also all three kept a healthy in-person socialisation side too, which is the part I was initially worried by when I saw this panning out over several years. I think that last bit is key - if you can balance both, then you get the benefits of going out with your friends with also the benefits of having a wider geographical friend base and the ability to stay in touch more easily.

Perhaps read the actual comment? I am agreeing with the study - quoted directly: ""The findings suggest that screen time can support children's and adolescents' cognitive processing. Presumably, the essential point here is what kind of things they do in their screen time. Teachers and parents should encourage children to use devices and screens in such ways that promote active thinking, problem-solving, creativity and learning," states Doctoral Researcher Petri Jalanko from the University of Jyvaskyla.".

The RAM crisis is but just one sign of the cracks in the system.

That's hilarious that the country was established in 1776 to counter communism.