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Comment Re:Marketing Hype (Score 1) 187

Are there Chinese cars that are junk? Yes. But there are a number of Chinese brands (BYD and MG for example) that are actually making decent cars (EV and otherwise) now. No they aren't as good as a Toyota but they are better/more reliable/etc than many things sold here in Australia by western auto companies...

I have family that bought an MG EV and they LOVE it.

Comment This should absolutely be a thing... (Score 1) 46

Google should not be allowed to put messages on its websites saying "switch to Chrome instead" when you access them with a competing browser.

Apple should not be allowed to deny approval for your app store app because it competes too closely with something apple sells.

Amazon should not be able to artificially push people towards its own products (Amazon Basics etc) over other products.

Comment Good luck... (Score 1) 123

TSMC has had all kinds of problems getting it's US fab going (and that doesn't even do the entire process of making a finished chip) and Intel with its decades of experience in chipmaking has had many problems with its newest stuff.

It would be great to see Musk build his own chips but it's not as simple as buying a bunch of stuff from the ASML catalog...

Comment Re: About damn time (Score 2) 65

For a traditional bookmaker, you win if the thing you bet on happens and the bookie wins if it doesn't happen.

But for these prediction markets, the other side of the bet is some other punter, not the house. The prediction markets should in theory not care which outcome occurs since they should make the same money either way.

Comment There are no "computer problems"... (Score 1) 166

There are no "computer problems", the system was never built with the ability to process tariff refunds in the first place (or so claims someone on Twitter who claims to have been involved with building it).
So in order to process the refunds that have been ordered by the court, they need to write a totally new feature into the system that was never intended and that no-one is paying to have written (because obviously the government isn't going to pay for something that is only required because they lost in court)

Comment Re:The biggest problem is us (Score 1) 59

You are never going to get enough people interested (signing petitions, writing their elected representatives, protesting in the streets, whatever) to overcome lobbying, campaign contributions (i.e. bribes) and other pressure and convince the current US federal administration to say no to mergers like this.

Comment How would this work exactly? (Score 3, Insightful) 28

The game Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight by EA requires logging in in order to play the single player (campaign and skirmish). Would this "stop killing games" mean that if EA ever shuts down the login servers, they would have to patch the game to remove the login requirement?

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