Samsung is run by the most short sited, greedy people. Not surprising they abandoned NJ for an immediate benefit. I love their products, but they are literally destroying South Korea.

They created an internconnected network ownership system (company A owns 50% of company B that owns 50 of company A) that controls 15-23% of South Korean economy. They do so with a strong company-first culture, where the employees go out with their boss drinking on Friday night. At one point all night sessions were mandatory.

For some reason, people that go out drinking with their boss every Friday night never get married or have children. (Wow, who could figure that out....)

While South Korea does have mandatory child leave rules, no one USES them because if you do, you are seen as disloyal to the company and do not get promoted.

Their population is expected to be cut in half over the next 60 years. This will also mean that they will not have enough working young people to support the older generation, all within a decade.

Good news is that real estate prices should drop like a stone.

The main cause appears to be the idea of loyalty to the company and not to the family. Everyone puts their work first to the point that they do not have children.

(Note, the expense of raising a child does affect this trend as well, but the statistics show the problem is not married people refusing to have kids but instead people NOT getting married).

Samsung does make good products, but their culture is destroying their country.

Let's be clear: Attempting to prevent the customers that 'bought' your product from repairing them is NOT capitalism.

Capitalism is all about the free market. When you try to enslave your 'customers', forcing them to come to you to repair rather than competing on the open market for repair work, you are not a capitalist. You are at best a plutocrat.

People want freedom, not to be owned by the company they thought they were buying stuff from.

In my opinion, the reason why phones abandoned replaceable batteries was at least partially because phones were being replaced so often.

If your batteries last 4-6 years, depending on useage, and most people are replacing phones every 5 years because the new ones did more, then most people stopped replacing batteries. The phone companies saw the numbers and just stopped making replaceable batteries.

Yes this did screw over financially wise people that thought replacing a perfectly good phone was stupid even if a new model was out. So what? The phone companies did not want to cater to people that were their worst customers.

Instead they catered to the replacing idiots and started up the planned obsolence path.

Because all western smart phones are spy devices.

I would be shocked, shocked to hear that russian phones were not already spy devices.

This sounds like someone made minute, non-revolutionary advances on standard de-salination and described it as if they were the first person to invent evaporative desalination. People have been doing sun powered desalination for thousands of years.

Desalination, even by sunlight, is a power intensive process. The reason why it typically creates brine is not because we are too stupid to complete the process. The original method of pure, unaided solar took about 4 hours to take cups of sea water to make one cup of fresh water ( leaving about 1 cup of brine). If you use a standard fire based distillation you can make a gallon and a half by boiling 3 gallons of sea water and collecting the steam. in ONE hour, with no brine.

Instead, we create brine because:
1) It takes more power to evaporate the last bit of water from a brine solution than it takes to remove the first bit of water from regular salt water.

2) Moving the salt is much easier when it has a bit of water in it. It sticks to the container. (This appears to be the only thing they may have advanced on.)

3) The brine is not just table salt, but a mix of everything that was in the water. Mostly Sodium Chloride, but also any living things in the water, and some bromine, magnesium, calcium, sulfates, strontium, fluoride and yes, some lithium. This will be all mixed up, not nicely separated out. A lot of work to get anything useful from it.

This comments looks like it was written by an AI. It is one long line with a single period, is not quite a full understandable sentence, and has 3 lines after the main part of text that is not connected to anything.

When your power plants are non-existent or unreliable, a power source you can purchase and maintain becomes a wonderful choice.

Similarly, people living in a homestead situation do the same thing. Alaska cabins almost all have solar and often have wind or a water turbine.

For centuries panicky fools have spread alarm about things affecting the mind. Comics, D&D, porn, sugar, etc.

Real effects tend to be strong enough to easily detect within a year. Often immediately or at least within a day. One dose of LSD instantly affects you and some times some of those effects are permanent. Rabies takes no more than a year, usually 3 months or less.

Things that are not detectable in a couple of years tend to have minimum effects and are often reversible. Diabetes for example takes decades and if you see a doctor regularly you are told you have 'prediabetes' before then. (Exceptions for things like pregnancy related diabetes and transplant medication induced diabetes).

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The AI human drones continue to overestimate how AI is going to affect jobs. They will not be firing more than 5% and they will be generating more than that number of jobs in hardware production. Just ask Dell about how many chips they are selling to the AI people.

Humans brains are expensive (approximately 1/2 a million to raise to 18 years old) but the equivalent in chips costs multiple millions.

We are cheaper than the machines.

Is this because Caltech failed to manage it appropriately or because Trump wants to take money from Caltech and give it to a more Trump friendly group

This is a great new feature - what MAGA citizen does not want the government to have his information? Don't you trust them?

Can I patent insulting someone on the internet?

Because I think it could become really BIG.