And after shooting down your package, ask a refund from Amazon!

According to the New York Times it looks like this is a Russian story to begin with: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

You can watch the progress of the AGC restoration on YouTube. Here's the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It's on Marc Verdiell channel. They are upto 15 episodes now and SPOILER ALERT:



They pretty much succeeded
It's still an ongoing project. Go check it out. It's incredible to see a computer being debugged at the gate level using a scope an jumper wires.

Someone already built a replica AGC using FPGA: http://mikestewart.hcoop.net/ so it's doable

The weakening and chaos in Western Europe can only be good news for Putin. Another victory for him? https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

That sounds about right. It's true for about every food commodities. Relatively small shortages give rises to large prices increases. A shortage of 10% in produce can easily double the price.

This already existed in the 60's. There was a documentary series on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Those cars, to be competitive, were engineered to fall apart on the other side of the finish line. Without maintenance they would have failed. They are now engineered to last a few races instead of just one. Odds are they are slightly slower in one form or the other but it being a level playing field, it doesn't matter.