I was a big fan back in the day. But to be honest I've never used it since Wikipedia arrived.

We all know that "safe" in this context means silencing content that you, personally, disapprove of. How is that compatible with open source, where anyone can fork an "unsafe" version?

If alcohol had a material impact on life span, you'd expect Muslim communities to have a longer life span. Which they don't.

Other factors, such as obesity, exercise, genetics, and access to health care, drown out whatever impact alcohol might have. So I plan to keep drinking.

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2: Use the rare earth metals to make some magnets
3: Use the magnets to make some motors
4: Profit!

If the US bans Chinese drones, China will probably respond by banning the export of drone motors. So America won't have any American drones either.

Almost as stupid as the Nexperia seizure. Always consider how the other party will respond.

A good example ... except for the "EU regulates" bit. In this case it was US anti-trust regulations that knee-capped iRobot.
Although the EU may have regulated anyway if the Amazon deal progressed.

Bending Spoons now owns both Meetup and Eventbrite. I'm surprised it didn't raise an antitrust red flag.

I wonder if there's a noperthedron equivalent of a manhole cover

With these sorts of stories, it would be a good idea to specify which version of TikTok it refers to. As an Australian, I don't really care what happens to the US version.

It'll take at least 5 years for China to pull ahead in semiconductors and commercial airliners, but otherwise Krugman's thesis is basically correct. And I hate agreeing with Krugman ...

The US will never catch up in cars, drones, batteries, solar panels. nuclear power, shipbuilding, steel, copper, aluminium, rare earths, or electricity generation.

Bicarbonate ions are alkaline.

I've noticed that sometimes when playing loud music my computer will wake up. My best guess is that the vibrations are generating mouse movement events and deactivating the screen blanker. Annoying.

Personally, since Spotify gave me 15 hours of free audio books each month, I've read a lot less. Does that make me less literate?

45,000 delegates needs 100-200 plane-loads, and Belem only has one international airport. It'll be a crowded customs queue ...
I guess there'll be a lot of cheap airfares for outbound flights during the conference, because those planes will mostly be flying out empty.
But it's a 12-day event, and few people will stay the full 12 days, so I guess the load will be spread out a bit.

It'll take a few years for Chinese GPUs to catch up with NVIDIA. But if Chinese firms are locked into the CUDA stack they'll have to keep buying NVIDIA anyway.

So I suspect the Chinese government is encouraging tech firms to stop using CUDA, so they can switch to Huawei or Cambricon chips at a later date.