In Chernobyl all three of those groups were fine and trustworthy. They weren't the source of the problem. Bureaucrats in the soviet union were.

You're relying on a very loose interpretation there. France is not energy independent. They have a lot of local storage to ride them through troubles but they are 100% dependent on other countries even in their nuclear energy sector. Most of France's uranium for example comes from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Namibia which represent 50% of total uranium supplies.

They did. And that industry exists today due entirely to a massive government bail out of the sector which went bankrupt years ago. It's easy to say you have employment when it's socialised.

I agree with you on waste though - the concerns there are stupidly overblown. I'd just wish that nuclear was financially viable instead of being the single most expensive way to produce energy (yes even in China, this is not a western problem).

In the world of dynamically assigned resourcing there's always an ability to shutdown everything everywhere at once. Not one major tech company has to date not had a major global outage (typically short) caused by some configuration snafu which replicated across the globe.

Because American tech giants keep coming in and buying out any European tech initiative and shutting it down to eliminate competition.

Why aren't you a member of the billionaire ruling class yet? Hint: it's because they are stacking the deck against you, just like any tech giant does to a not giant regardless of where they are from.

Posted from my Finish made OS,

What has an update broken for you recently? What "workflow" do you have on your phone that is breaking? I'm genuinely curious here, because 99% of the time I apply an update and can't even figure out if anything has changed at all (mainly because I hit the skip button when the popup asks if I would like a tour of new features).

Except that isn't solved by a wired connection. The context switching problem remains using wires as well. The OP postulates a scenario where a Bluetooth device being on doesn't mean it should be used, the same scenario exists for a wired device, cable in but doesn't mean it should be used.

In fact it's clear that Bluetooth here is copying the previous behaviour of the wired devices.

That is a very strange situation. The number of times I've wanted to switch to Bluetooth is exactly 100%, because my headphones and earbuds aren't on unless they are on my head and I find auto-switching a godsend.

Not that I'm gaslighting, I fully support the idea of this being a toggle feature so it can accommodate everyone. But really I find your complaint perplexing.

So deny a right to education? Look someone will always benefit from something more than you, does that mean you should be locked out of doing said thing through an insurmountable paywall?

You're almost right there. Scholarships are a great idea, we should give them to *everyone*. Education should be available to *everyone* who wishes to pursue it without financially crippling them.

It's not up to a college to make you money. It's up to a college to get you a degree. If that degree renders you unemployable that has nothing to do with the college or quality of education you received.

False. Given that student loans can't be discharged through bankruptcy it's one of the lowest risk loans out there. It's a loan that follows the person for life and turns into a nice paycheck.

That's a good one. Though even if you do argue that students need to go into debt, the question is why this has anything to do with private lending. Why isn't this a standard government loan, indexed purely to inflation and recovered via taxation of income like in many other countries?

You can say what you want, but your conditions of employment depend on what you say. Say baby-killing Satanists are bad and expect to get fired if you work for a Satanist. It's really as simple as that.

The company I currently work for make it clear I could get fired for expressing any opinion about the company publicly (good or bad), beyond directing people to official press releases. I am still allowed to say what I want, and my company is allowed to fire me for it. It's as easy as that.

Revenues have nothing to do with engineering effort. For example: it is far more complex to design a train, and its a far lower volume production than a car. The fact that the revenue is tiny doesn't change how many people are involved in R&D.

That's funny. You just lumped together two of the things I pointed out were separate. Why did you do that? BYD's battery division is far bigger than their car division, always has been, and it's a division that has nothing to do with cars (historically their cars were gasoline vehicles, despite what the west thinks BYD is).

There was no woosh there. Just the air moving between your ears.

Many things in history turned out to not have a functioning business model when all costs were included. You just don't remember them because they died out. That doesn't change the foundation of the business strategy. The AI strategy was banking on scaleup not just of their customer base, but the product itself.

For all the shit we heap on AI, in a year it's come an insanely long way, maybe not long enough, but that doesn't change the viability of their expansion strategy. In AI especially economies of scale are a thing. It takes a fuckton of money to create a model compare to using it.

I cannot name one single American Slashdotter who doesn't default to blaming everything wrong in the world on India and China either, even when there's precisely zero evidence that outsourcing either exists in this case (it probably does) or has anything to do with this case.

Guess what, fuckups exist the world over.