I'm Dutch, our only option for hydro is to dam off part of the North sea, pump out water, then let the water flow back in through turbines. It's probably not cost-effective. This is a variation on the old Lievense Plan (which had a large basin filled with pumps, and drained through turbines). Interestingly, the original plan was not just for storing cheap wind power, but also for storing and balancing cheap nuclear power.
Note that some nuclear power plants can run load-following (for instance some of the French ones).

Clearly, more research is needed... MORE!

Amazon's valuation was insane back then, their potential for growth was anything but certain (or even likely) at the time. And the SpaceX valuation seems to have been inflated by buying the similarly overvalued xAI company, and doing a stock swap to cement those valuations. I'm sure plenty of people will jump at the chance of owning SpaceX stock at whatever price (I would have when it was just SpaceX), but in the long run?
Well, maybe. Maybe lower launch costs will open up new markets for launches. Maybe they'll get their space-based data centers to work. Maybe xAI's AI will amount to something some day. Maybe there's a vast market for sat based cellular service. Not something I'm going to bet my money on... $1.75T seems high even if they manage to achieve one or all of those things.

Replace them with AI as well.

I love my e-ink reader. I can read anything anywhere, and when my last book is finished, the next read is just a tap away. But that's just for linear reading. When I'm studying, I might be flipping back and forth through a syllabus, or have several of them open side by side. That works poorly on a tablet. On the plus side, with a tablet or latop, students no longer have to carry an unhealthy amount of heavy books to school.

As for using a laptop for taking notes, I find that to be way more distracting than taking notes on paper, whether it's me taking the notes or someone next to me.

The interface in OnlyOffice more closely resembles the modern ribbon interface in MS Office. For some people, that's a reason to choose LibreOffice instead. OnlyOffice. LibreOffice works very well for me, but I don't work with complex documents, and I don't need collaboration or cloud stuff. The latter might be why they selected OnlyOffice, since that's more like Office365 than MS Office; a more modern paradigm.

Not yet but I’ll go see it soon What makes me really sad though is that being a “non franchise movie” is now enough of a thing for it to be pointed out specifically. All the big productions these days are in some “universe”, part of a franchise, a sequel or prequel or reboot. God forbid a studio dares to allot a blockbuster budget to an original work.

Once they come of age, they can verify their age by whatever means provided, and flip the adult flag.

The latter, I think. For instance, Philips was by no means a monopoly, but they had a similar long-term vision. Philips Research generated a similar number of patents, and their researchers were very much encouraged to publish papers and engage with the wider scientific community.

Why use a date field, which introduces all manner of privacy and anonymity issues? Instead, you could use flags: unverified, verified-minor, verified-adult. (and for further protection you could opt to leave minors at the unverified state). It might need some refinement since age restrictions vary with jurisdiction. But recording whether someone is at least over a certain age beats recording their exact date of birth.

And the fridge will be locked until you finished watching them. Resume viewing --- Resume viewing --- Resume viewing ---

With a working fusion rocket you won't have to coast most of the way, and the journey can be significantly shorter. It's right there in the summary: "from months to just a few weeks". Though I doubt that this company will build an actual fusion rocket motor anytime soon, if ever.

In the 70s and 80s, the threat from a handful of countries was: "We can destroy everything". With developments in Russia, Ukraine, Iran and now China, the new doctrine is: "We can destroy anything"... and that's not just from a few large states, but potentially other actors who are both willing to send these things, and do not greatly have to fear retaliation.

That is covered by the "providing false or misleading information" clause. In other countries it might be considered "destruction of or tampering with evidence". Around here, you can't be compelled to provide passwords to your personal devices, but providing a burn-down pin or otherwise deleting information after the police have asked for it, is a crime.

As for Touch ID or Face ID: in many places you can be compelled to unlock your phone with your fingerprint, or they can simply hold it up to your face in case of Face ID. Most phones have a shortcut to lock out biometrics and revert to password/PIN only, comes in handy if you're stopped by police and you suspect it's not just a traffic stop. (On iPhones it's 5 clicks of the side button. That also starts a call to 911 / 112 so make sure to cancel that).

One of the lessons we've had as the Federal, multi-branch nature of the US governmennt has frustrated Trump is that the government may be fucking us over, but it's not doing it in *unison*. It's doing it piecemiel, on the initiative of many interests working against each other, just as the framers intended. The motto on the Great Seal notwithstanding, there are myriad roadblocks to consolidating power in the hands of a single individual. It takes time and repeated failures. This is why the second Trump Adminsitration is worse than the first; they've figured out ways around things like Congressional power of the purse, put more of their henchmen in the judiciary, and normalized Congress lying down and letting the president walk all over them. It's a serious situation, although fortunately Trump isn't long for this world.