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Comment Why aren't they building nuclear? (Score 4, Interesting) 56

Nuclear seems to me like the logical choice for a country like China to be building. Doesn't pollute the way coal does, they have a well established nuclear power industry, they don't have all the red tape and anti-nuclear BS that western countries do (anyone who complains can be thrown in the Chinese version of a Gulag or whatever it is the Chinese government does to people they don't like these days) and they have plenty of places they could put the nukes that are away from populated areas and big cities.

Comment Forget the iPhone, bring a proper ilc... (Score 1) 96

Instead of taking a smartphone to the moon, they should've bringing a proper high end DSLR or mirrorless and some good glass. The cameras they used for Apollo were high end for the time, if we are going back it makes sense to use di.ilarlybhigh end cameras with full-frame sensors and good glass rather than a phone.

Comment It makse sense... (Score 2) 167

Charging ongoing money for features that have ongoing costs (such as costs for cellular data connectivity, costs for the work to keep maps up-to-date, costs for licensing media, costs to improve software etc) makes sense and I am OK with it.

Charging ongoing money for something that doesn't have ongoing costs (like the heating elements built into the car at the factory that should never need to be touched for the life of the car) does not.

Comment Re:Finally common sense (Score 1) 115

Here in Australia there is a big distinction between "motor vehicles" and "e-bikes". An e-bike is not allowed to travel faster than a certain speed, the motor can't be more than a certain power and it must be pedal-assist (i.e. there can't be a way to constantly run the motor without pedaling).

Anything outside of that criteria is treated like a motorbike with all that entails (motorbike drivers license, vehicle registration etc).

Comment I want to see a law passed... (Score 1, Interesting) 23

I want to see a law passed (in a jurisdiction that Apple can't ignore or stop.doung business in) that requires Apple to allow true sideloading. That is, apps installed on the iPhone without any requirement for Apple to even know the app exists (let alone have any approval or veto over it) or collect any money from that app (regardless of whether the app charges up front fees, in-app purchases or whatever).

Comment Does this include all the input data? (Score 1) 90

Does this include all the inputs to neural networks and other "AI" things that are being used to determine what you see in your feed?

If it doesn't include the inputs (or where the inputs are somehow derived from user-specific data associated with your account, show you how to actually get those same inputs from your account data) then it is useless.

Comment Re: Duh (Score 1) 74

I saw many movies at the cinema in 2025 that I really enjoyed including Captain America, Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four, Mission Impossible, Jurassic World, Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Tron Ares, the Springsteen biopic and more. The only reason I haven't seen avatar yet is that I am on holidays and plan to see it back home at the cheap cinema.

And I am old enough to have grey hairs in my beard...

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