... because everybody knows most will become unemployed at this age for various reasons anyway. The goal is quite simply to lower the amount of money paid out as pensions.

No, I absolutely do not ask about such gimmicks. I'd rather be interested in how easily replaceable the battery is.

Given that Apple sells its phones in China, mechanisms for governments to broadcast a "deny Bluetooth functionality"-signal have probably already been built into their devices. Maybe right along with those "presidential alert" mechanisms.

This would not be a show-stopper if enough people made use of it, where statistically some of them always change locations and thus data could be stored-and-forwarded at times.

But I see a different show-stopper: The tragedy of the commons. If such network attracted a lot of users, it would also attract the scum of the Internet - advertisers, for example, who would immediately try to abuse this network for molesting people with endless SPAM messages. It would really take some very clever mechanisms to build a "web of trust" that on one hand would not prevent people to communicate with each other for the first time, while on the other hand preventing that advertiser scum from abusing the network.

BTW, "Swift" is a strange choice if Jack wanted developers outside of the Apple walled garden to take notice. The average Apple user is about the last person to switch from being parented by Apple to some anarchic new network protocol.

... and more like some cheap scam. Wrong link?

I like Indiglo illumination - which depends on battery power, not sunlight.

Or they attack and sink your boat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I guess if they succeed in producing more Tritium while at the same time the demand for Tritium for the "fusion" purpose goes down for some reason (like investors no longer betting on "fusion" to become a competitive energy source, or fusion of other isotopes becoming more interesting to use), then the currently small market for Tritium might see some price decline.

I for one am fine with the electroluminescent illumination of my watch, and do not really miss Tritium for that purpose.

... the "15 years of runtime" of their "operational fusion reactor" never produced any net energy gain - they were just after the isotope production, right?

Which means there is still only that tiny little detail missing before fusion reactors will replace all the other sources of energy... that detail being "becoming net energy positive, at costs where with the surplus energy can be sold cheaper than from established sources of energy".

... then "Made in Malaysia" and "Made in Thailand" were way more common than "Made in USA". So... not sure what this is supposed to accomplish.

Working for a company that is almost obsessed in its attempts to utilize "coding agents", I have attempted time and again to delegate mundane sub-tasks to such agents - for easy things like reading configuration files of a given format. And the results I got, up until today, are so awful, that even in the rare cases when they were not just defunct, I ended up rewriting the code to not be the one signing a commit of inefficient slop code into the repository.

I can only image what terrible code must be the norm in the places where the "coding agents" available today are considered "good enough".

I guess he refers to the "Gates chip" that comes with every shot, which will receive the mind-controlling commands from the 5G towers... or similar.

That was not tested (or possible to test for) in that 2015 clinical trial, as it would have required a way larger tested population over a longer time and/or a larger geographical distribution.
It is plausible to assume that mRNA technology does, in theory, provide the option to more quickly adapt to new variants or to select target sequences that are known to be more common among the different strains. But as we have experienced already with the different Sars-Cov-2 variants, that does not mean it is feasible in practice and at scale to outpace viral evolution.
And it is important to remember that "inventing a flu shot that needs to be given only once, not every year" would damage the profits of pharmaceutical companies, so they have no incentive to really pursue this kind of research.

... with pretty good results in clinical trials, but they never entered the market for probably the same reason why they won't enter the market now: Because they are more expensive than the penny-pinched chicken-egg based flu vaccines. For the same reason, we see mRNA vaccines manufactured with cool new "RNA printers" only in clinical trials, while the stuff for the masses is then manufactured based on the usual bacterial GMO fermentation... resulting in much less pure products.

... when I have to pay for a movie. I assume others have similar expectations, and therefore don't visit the cinema, too.