Mr Putin, is that you?

Every fact checker out there declares this one false and bogus. While corruption happens under all parties, this story is false. Repeating it as fact is dishonest. Please stop.

The current crass state of political discourse seems to use this sort of lie to justify one's own political team's increasingly lewd, illegal, and unconstitutional behavior. If you think we're bad, you should see those awful, evil, Democrats! Or, if you think we're bad thank your lucky stars the Republicans aren't in.

It stinks.

that yummy koolaid

I've often thought it would be nice to simply replace the smart TV motherboard with a generic screen panel driver that only has HDMI. Unfortunately 4K really complicates things over the older LVDS interface standard. It's still possible, but not easy.

Yes I'm one of them! I don't see any contradiction there. Like I said an efficient EV shouldn't need full dash screens, always-on data, always-on navigation.

You're lucky then. Because in a lot of jurisdictions in North America, the used market is barely there. Looking for a used car for a college student recently in a western US state and there was nothing under $20k. Cash for Clunkers really destroyed the American used market, honestly.

Where I live used vehicle prices 80% of new cost often.

And how is the US government and companies different from everything you just described? The trump administration is perfectly happy to do all those same things you ascribe to the CCP. There really is no "good" side anymore.

Regardless of the effects of subsidization, Chinese companies (even after many disappear from over supply) have tremendous knowledge and experience now making EVs and batteries which will place them a huge advantage over American companies. It's unreal that the US government seems to want American companies to be at a disadvantage globally, and just complain about how they are treated so unfairly.

Indeed the biggest turn off for me for any electric vehicle and most ICE vehicles now is the need for lots of computers, stupid large screens, and always-on data connections. Do not want any of that. There's no reason an efficient EV can't operate without all that intrusive technology. I don't want or need a big screen. I don't want to have to use GPS navigation for every drive (and to condition the battery for fast charge, Kia).

Good luck with that. By the time they are actually in mass production I'd be very surprised if they sell for less than $50k. They definitely won't hit their original goal of $20k. Not even close.

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I was far too early on the reddit train and left after the APIs were locked down. I acknowledge that it's a hard problem, but I came to wonder if it's a problem that we need solved. Maybe we just need a lot of smaller communities that take a slightly higher barrier of entry. (I acknowledge the irony of saying this on /.)

Wait what? The Falcon 9 has an impressive track record for recovery and reuse. Turn around time is about two weeks and the cost to refurbish the rocket is far less than building a new one. They have been so successful that other companies and countries are now following suit and moving in that direction.

Starship, on the other hand... that remains to be seen.

What? Tesla FSD works best in an urban and suburban environment where the roads are well mapped. It very much can pull out of your driveway, go down the street, enter a multi-lane road, handle stop lights, turning lanes, etc. It can enter a freeway on its own, and take an exit. Seriously, it is good. Not perfect obviously, and has glaring flaws. I would think FSD would perform the most poorly in rural areas where road markings are lacking and the maps are not as precise. The 8-Bit Guy posted a complete video a while back on youtube showing an entire journey with FSD from his house in the suburbs to a downtown destination (Dallas I think) where FSD did everything including backing out of the driveway. Funny that trolls have said his video is faked.

As for inclement weather, yes there are limitations. Tesla's lack of LiDAR, or any other kind of non-optical sensor such as RADAR, is a glaring omission that limits what FSD can do under such circumstances.

I always thought the quickest way, and also one of the more robust options, to achieve a space station was to use inflatable modules. Bigalow tested a couple of modules out and I thought it went rather well. They had plans to attach a module to the ISS at one time. But even still it was expensive work, and the pandemic killed them, unfortunately. But I understand the technology demonstration missions were quite successful.

The cynic in me feels like now that we've past the ten thousandth satellite in just the StarLink constellation with thousands more planned to launch in the next couple of years, that Kessler syndrome will start well before 2030.

Yeah, as noted above .. people read stuff like this like it's his money. It'd be nice if they taught how screwed up this level of wealth disparity is in schools.

At his wealth, you can put tons of others people's money where ever you damn well want, for any reason, just because you have a hunch (or for vested other interests)

Its deeply part of their culture to be hostile to their users

Sounds like a lot of open source projects including Gnome and Firefox. So it's not just a Microsoft thing. Android and macOS are also user hostile on many ways. Or at least extremely patronizing.