But the company providing the technology also has some agency in the matter. How much it's reasonable to argue about,

It's worse than the halting problem, because different cpus will have different errors and error handling.

You mean just like lawyers and programmers?

Even on Xbox you can still buy the games. You only need the subscription if you want to play online, but you can buy the lowest tier service without all the games.

You don't need a subscription as every game offered is still available for purchase separately.

Or rather rent, since digital purchases are not quite purchases, just a long term rental.

And this is happening while the old guard decided to start an elective war without an endgame. Sending oil prices through the roof, at a time when China was uniquely positioning itself for.

China has no oil resources - they've had to import oil, and Iran is one of their biggest suppliers (and China is Iran's biggest customer).

But at the same time, China was developing its renewable energy supplies from wind and solar, as well as becoming one of the largest vendors of solar panels. This is for energy independence. And on the flip side, the biggest pusher of electric vehicles - because EVs don't run on oil.

Whose economy is thus best to weather this oil chaos? China. Despite being cut off from Iran's oil, they're not really panicking over it - China doesn't have oil, but they have electricity and EVs. Other countries are taking notice - do they want to be dependent on oil producing nations, or will they want to be able to break free? Every country on the planet gets sunlight sometime, meaning it's possible to not be so oil dependent.

In other words, China might be the real winner in this conflict.

(Incidentally, Russia sent oil to Cuba - in case you forgot about them since it seems POTUS has ADHD).

There already is surveillance pricivng. Rents is one thing. Going to a dealership is another - when you do that "test drive", many unscrupulous dealers run your driver's license information through various databases in order to figure out your financial situation. That information is then later used to impact the negotiations on price.

The funny thing is, surveillance prices at the physical store is the least likely place it will happen - digital price tags or not. Because it's going to be an extremely complex and messy thing to actually implement. If two people are looking at the same item - what price would you show on the tag?

And if the price changes, people are going to start taking photos of the price tags when they pick up their items to make sure they're charged the right price on checkout. And that can be anywhere from a few minutes to hours later (yes, some people spend hours shopping), making such a thing not just impractical, but leave shoppers in an uproar over changing prices.

It's most likely only going to happen where it can happen - where the shopper can be shown a price in private. Like online shopping where it goes under "dynamic pricing". Or dealerships where they use your driver's license information to get more information about you (including a soft pull of your credit). Or where AI pricing agents help set landlords up with their rental rates.

So are astronauts going to get free iPhones rather than free Corvettes? :-)

Sadly, they're just getting a free lifetime supply of those Smuckers Uncrustables.

But did anyone verify the GPS coordinates of the videos and photos to make sure it wasn't some soundstage in Hollywood? Anyone make sure the GPS says it was taken where they said it was taken? /s

(Yes, I know GPS doesn't work that way, but now every photos and video is GPS tagged so if it was a soundstage in Hollywood it would work...)

How about those people who intentionally buy American and hardly buy anything else? Should they be reimbursed?
Reimbursed on what?
They did not spent anything on tariffs ...

i.e. the costs of the tariffs were shared and prices weren't raised as much as the costs. Sorting this sort of thing out is just about impossible.
No it is not. It is a simple or complex as filing a tax report.
Have an extra line like VAT spent, and call it ... let me think:
"Tariffs: " - oh, that was easy.

Note: if you import something and pay a tariff, you get a tariff bill/invoice ... just like any other ordinary invoce.

Well as I said: just nitpicking.

There was once a civilian ship, but strange rigging. As in: not really a cargo vessel, not really a research vessel ... I mean it was to small to warrant a nuclear drive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Coal is not a replacement for gas.

That should be a no brainer.

They actually have since about 3 or 4 years optical AI inference chips, about 1000 times faster than GPUs and roughly 10,000 times more energy efficient.

Germany has some companies working in the same areas, I know about 2 ... not sure how many in total.
Then Asia is shifting to Gallium Nitrit semi conductors, at least in high voltage/power computing, chargers and similar things.

China is on the way to replace coal with renewables.
No idea what your problem is.

They will be probably 100% CO2 free before your farked up country is.

And then? It will again be Chinas fault ... because of *insert reason*.

Per Capita is the only correct meaning.
Especially if it is the PERSON doing the pollution, like YOU do, and not the country as a total.

YOU as a person has 2 times higher foot print than a typical European, and probably 10 times higher them ME.

YOU as a person has the 4 times higher foot print than an Chinese as a person.

Industry is completely irrelevant as long as you use 10kWh per day yourself, not even counting your car usage.

A typical Chinese uses 2 or 3kWh per day, in his household.

China as a country is just barely above USA in energy consumption or CO2 emissions.

Get a clue.

"The biggest problem with education in the US is the educators. There is no getting past that. Record spending per pupil"

Too bad you know nothing about anything. Educators are buying school supplies because they don't have enough budget to run their classes. If you actually knew any teachers you wouldn't talk this ignorant shit. It's administration and consultants that are eating up all of the funding.

Which explains bsky, what a bugfest.