Yes it's very interesting how quickly we have learned that the Constitution is simply a piece a paper with no inherent power, except as people honor it. Once that honor is gone, the constitution is gone. Congress and the courts also have no real power, except that which is granted voluntarily. Courts can rule until they are blue in the face but when a president just says, "so what" everything is lost. We all got extremely complacent, thinking that all people, especially presidents, ultimately uphold the constitution as we do individually. Despite generations of talking about freedom, it's astounding how quickly so many just don't care about it actually, and are happy to have a king.

I agree with John V. Last: It's worth fighting for, even if I'm not hopeful about winning. At least you can tell you kids you stood up for the constitution and freedom, even though you lost. The next 10 years will be very interesting.

Manufacturing didn't move to China because the Chinese were cheating and undercutting American companies. Rather it was a deliberate decision on the part of American companies to kill local manufacturing and eliminate jobs (employees are simply costs to reduce), in order to maximize short-term quarterly gains. No amount of tariff and government banning will fix that.

If Apple's RAM is on the cpu die, then they aren't beholden to any RAM supplier! As long as they have fab slots to make their M cpus, they have RAM too. So if demand for RAM is hurting their ability to get fabs to make their M series CPUs, then they are hurting way more than just for high RAM prices.

This is true. And if you don't use any Google services with an alternate firmware, you still can.

Developer verification is enforced through Google Play Services, even for apps that are installed from other sources. It's a pretty neat way of allowing third-party app stores while still guaranteeing their cut.

Google is not allowed to do business at all in sanctioned nations, so devs there can't even access Google Play Services in the first place, which is where the developer verification takes places. No Google services, no Google Play, no Play Services, no developer verification. So there's no "exemption" at play. Surely Google never said any such thing as the headline and summary imply. By this logic, LineageOS or Android OSP without gapps installed is exempted from Google's developer verification program too.

Meant to say "interstate overpasses."

This German bridge costs millions of dollars too. And the speed with which it will be installed belies the time and money spent building it prefab, and in preparation for the install. Definitely an engineering feat to do the actual building in just six months, and install in four days without major disruptions.

The US builds interstate bridges in a similar way, to minimize disruption. Certainly costs more than traditional, in-place bridge construction.

I'm not sure they do work, though. All they seem to do is cement an unfriendly regime's power and make us out to be enemies in the eyes of their people.

AI tied itself in knots trying to explain how that happened, but I figured that we flew far enough north that at 35,000 feet we flew briefly where we could just barely see the midnight sun (the "sunrise"), and then flew back south into the dark, where eventually the sun caught up to us. I thought the experience was kind of cool.

I'm not sure how it happened exactly but I experienced a double sunrise on a June flight from Tel Aviv to JFK. Flight departed at or 4 in the morning. Flew northwest and saw the sunrise then outran it and it was dark again. By the time we were ready to land in NY the sun was just rising again.

Still if you don't think Chinese companies can eventually replicate EUV technology, you are mistaken. It may take a while, but that suits the CCP just fine. ASML has brilliant physicists but so has China.

Of those nations you list, only China is anywhere credible as a threat in the AI race. But even if China won, they are perfectly happy to sell us the models along with the hardware to run them on. China seems quite content to dominate economically, but has zero interest in any kind of military conquest and direct rule of those they consider non-Chinese, at least of the same kind the US has regularly demonstrated in the past.

Putin may talk big, but Russia is in no position to develop any kind of home-grown AI technology.

As for Iran, they are only a pariah nation because we've made them so, and it suits our purposes to have them be that. This goes all the way back to the 1953 CIA coup that is the primary cause of the problems we have today with Iranian leadership. Trump's current ware is just yet another perpetuation of those earlier mistakes.

Always the talk of a race. And the whole world are the enemies. Seems like the US is treating everything like a zero sum game where winning at all costs is necessary. Is this a cold war relic? Will this actually benefit American citizens?

In the age of llms you'd think Google's Android keyboard could do more context analyst and stop sucking so badly but apparently not. Should have been "Internet" not "interview."

Nearly all power inverters of the type they are targeting are always connected to the interview for reporting and logging purposes. Of course you don't have to connect them but it's helpful if they are. Many can be integrated with third party dash boards. I don't know if anyone with home solar that doesn't look at their inverter dashboard regularly to see how they are doing with power generation and consumption.