that sucks. Fortunately they never pulled that with me even on the few occasions when there were some connectivity stability issues. (and more fortunately i seemed to be on a pretty good "port" and things were reasonably stable for the Internet side.)

On the TV side it was more a mixed bag. unexplained hours long outages a few times a year. support would want to schedule a tech.... I'd defer.... service would be back the next day. this was the same through like 3 STB's over years so I suspect it was all serve side but no idea what specifically.

I'm no fan of Xfinity, but i had them for about 15 years until about 4 years ago and bringing a modem wasn't an issue. First i had some "Surfboard" and later bought a Netgear DOCSIS 3 from Costco. They were both fine. (only issue was that you had to call them to provision because they lock to the first MAC address they see).

My main problems with them:
a) very asymmetric. slow upstream. even at 1+Gbps down it's like 30mbps or 40mbps up. It's _mostly_ fine but if you have a number of people in the house it can get saturated esp. in these days of video streaming and uploads. DOCSIS 4.0 will fix that ... "sometime". (deployment has been slow).
b) Their ads are basically lies. like telling you to upgrade to "10G wifi" (by which they mean their 1-2 Gbps down cable service on their network that has a 10Gbps backbone... and w/ a wifi gateway) ... and saying that you should do this because it'll make your SuperBowl watching experience better somehow.
And this has been going on for YEARS. idk why the FTC or FCC doesn't smack them down.
c) pricing is high for what you get... esp. if renting equipment. and esp. if you JUST want internet.

My impression is that EV technology is maturing and stabilizing somewhat. e.g. near 400V-800V battery packs, Heat-pump based cooling and heating of cabin and battery. battery preconditioning for fast-charge... 15%-80% in 20-30min for roadtrips...
The formula and main approaches have been identified. Whatever battery improvements happen will just get incorporated as they come.

So now it's just like another drivetrain option and most people care more about like roominess, comfort, materials, fit and finish, price, dealer experience, service, parts availability, and the rest of normal car stuff. So i think Toyota will keep its relative rank vs existing players in the medium term.

Barring geo-political issues (*), the Chinese brands will probably be in the mix the same way Koreans are...
i mean they still have a cheaper labor advantage and government support so they MAY end up dominating over everyone. But like idk there's much special sauce in the drivetrains anymore. (one advantage of the Chinese new cos is that, like Tesla, Rivian etc they don't have to perfect ICE performance and reliability which is much more finicky and niche than motors/batteries/inverters)

*) i admit i'd be a little concerned to have a Chinese car on the off chance of remote monitoring and kill switches... and depending on a Chinese company for support and spares. Though like... i like Lenovo laptops so...

The basic claim is correct. This article is more in depth and it has a graph with the trends. BEV and Petrol (aka gas) HAVE met. at 22.5% of registration (though Diesel is still 7% and is separate. HEV at 33% and PHEV at 10.7% rounding out their categories.). Plain ICE, gas and diesel are def going down.

But if you count HEV as "gas" well... HEV+plain-ICE is 62% vs BEV at 22.5% so...

https://autovista24.autovistag...

anyway, more power to them.

I think it's just an article written by a generalist so I think he means to say "special refrigerant"
as in different from what's used in normal HVAC and is probably unfamiliar that, as you say, it's existing technology
e.g. https://www.scmfrigo.com/en/bl...

the only new thing mentioned is maybe using some snake faster compressors... but it's not mentioned of those are more efficient somehow.

they use the heat of evaporation of water to cool the hot refrigerant and release that to the atmosphere, because it's more efficient than just air cooling.

it's somewhat like setting up a small water sprayer on your AC condenser outside. (they actually sell kits... and iirc they're cost effective, though I've never tried one).

what interdependencies do you have in mind? it's not something I've thought deeply about, but I can't think of any dependency on the init system beyond don't interface to shutdown and reboot stuff. maybe some sleep related things?

This isn't primarily about American pharma companies, but about the market.
  afaik even foreign companies make a lot of profit in the US, like bayer (ger), novartis ( swiss) etc.

eh. i think the global brain drain is more to "finance", tech, "business", medicine, and law, in general than to American pharma... but there certainly is some.

Well previously i just printed it but pen and paper is ok too.

USB drives have surprisingly short data retention lifetimes. i haven't used them enough to experience bitrot myself, but don't count on them for more than a couple of years for stuff you'll be sorry to lose. so ALSO write it/print it or you may have a bad time.

If activists and commentators are doing this kind of thing... or putting it on campaign posters then MAYBE (but still not editing a picture and passing it off as real).

But "the government" AS the state has to show some damn restraint. As optics this level of punching down by high officials is demeaning: it's literally "ha ha ha, look we made her cry!" i mean ... come on!

But even more this is in a situation where they're literally wielding the state monopoly on force against citizens. It's a right/duty that has to be taken and exercised seriously and soberly. it's a big f'in deal... esp for the Right.

There's a lot of hyperbole (imo) about Trump and adjacent stuff.

But this one strikes me as particularly Orwellian / post-truth / straight out of Idiocracy etc

The government running public disinformation campaigns against individual defendants ... and modifying pictures... idk.

Too close to Soviet times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

well Hopefully the Fifth Amendment keeps the government from keeping you in jail until you unlock your PW manager for then

and also print them out on a piece of paper and stick it in a safe or safe deposit box , of that's how you roll. would still be susceptible to subpoena and warrant, but little worry about remote exploit

because most "delete me" type requests already have a carve out for backups. And deleting just might break in that someone may forget to wipe all the places it's been stored.

So even outside of malfeasance, it's more likely the "don't send" is safer than counting on a delete.

Without getting into the whole UK NHS and Canadian health systems' "waiting times" and all that... what the sentiment in TFA and in this comment thread so far is that the rest of the world's drug development has been underwritten by the United States for decades.

What the article is saying is that because the US (rightly or wrongly) doesn't want to pay for this class of drugs... then they won't be developed.

Is that what you want across all drugs ?