However, UKâ(TM)s GDP growth has been in line with the EU. Doing better than Germany and about the same as France.

The UK has many problems and Brexit is not the main one in my opinion. Itâ(TM)s a convenient scapegoat for a political class that is essentially Europhile. (All the main parties supported staying in the EU during the referendum.) The UKâ(TM)s problems are not caused by being in or out of the EU. They are fundamentally because there is a political class that does not have the wherewithal to come up with solutions to the challenges faced in the 21st century. There challenges are the rise of China (and India too), America, ageing populations etc. These manifest in de-industrialisation, high house prices, high migration etc. If in the EU, they will just point to the EU and say their hands are tied. If outside the EU they will say it is because they are not in the EU.

Our politicians (of all stripes) are not up to the job, and that will unfortunately result in their more opportunistic peers proposing simple sounding solutions (such as either Brexit or rejoining) that donâ(TM)t solve our problems but always conveniently, whatever happens, gives them a scapegoat for their failures.

Maybe Meta should include a wireless command that automatically shuts down the recording. Then anyone who does not wish to be recorded surreptitiously can have their device send this command to nearby Meta ray bans.

And anyone with Meta ray bans will have to ask for permission to record, and specifically ask people to turn off their blocking signals.

Appleâ(TM)s Lightning connector has some limitations, chief among which is that there is a maximum wattage they could safely pass through a connector that had naked contact points.

That connector was never going to be good enough for the range that USB-C is used for.

Perhaps, the solution is to begin to require that any code that is submitted is accompanied by comprehensive documentation and tests to demonstrate its appropriateness otherwise it will be ignored / sent to /dev/null. This would also be good for human created code.

Open source does need to embrace AI coding otherwise it will become irrelevant

That is so not true. There is no wind or solar installation anywhere in the world that can match actual demand (at scale) in the way that coal can for a competitive price. Wind/solar + natural gas can almost certainly, but not wind/solar and battery.

If that could happen, then why doesn't it happen now? There is nothing stopping anyone make movies that way today. The fact that it doesn't happen suggests it is not really viable.

I know that it is not front-running in the strictest sense. However, they are essentially using information about market dislocations, and their speed advantages to put themselves in a position to profit from trades they know are almost certain to happen. I do not see why exchanges couldn't just share information directly and fill orders with each others without having HFTers put themselves in the middle.

I donâ(TM)t think we need a tax on transactions.

I donâ(TM)t mind HFT if they are genuinely responding to what they observe to be asset misprints. Is the front running of othersâ(TM) orders that I think is most egregious.

Therefore my solution would be to timestamp all trades, and have a computer solve for the fairest price based on the order of the trades after a small delay. So if a HFT company sees a big order in one location, and they try to front run it, they will be put in the back of the line, and the orders will be filled after the big order they were trying to front run is executed.

To be clear, they would still be allowed to cancel their order, but that cancellation needs to be sent before someone else has accepted their order.

It may not erase your debt, but there is a cost to debt recovery, and the typical value of a phone means most companies do not want to bother with debt collection on such a small amount.

Sim locking is a "good" way to prevent a customer taking advantage of a discount to acquire a phone cheaply from one network provider and using the phone with a different network.

I don't have a problem with it if the company makes it clear that the phone will only be mine once I fulfil my contract.

Maybe the halfway house is that platforms keep their section 230 protections, but must identify any users that post illegal content, i.e. anonymity must remain an option for all users who are posting content that is not illegal.

If we needed to power the world on uranium fission, we could extract uranium from seawater. There is an estimated 4.5bn tonnes of uranium dissolved in seawater - if we extracted 10% of that, that would last 5,000 years at current consumption rates and without breeder reactors.

Breeder reactors can take us to millions of years, by which point, we may well have perfected other forms of energy production, population may have shrunk enough to make completely renewable energy sources more than adequate.

With nuclear, we could even contemplate actively scrubbing some CO2 from the atmosphere, converting it into oil, and pumping it underground, effectively reversing climate change. In fact, instead of sending money to poorer countries to help address future climate risk impacts, if richer countries actually put money into reversing their own contributions to climate change, that would actually be a worthwhile endeavour.

I can understand the reasons behind this, but what happens if two artists / singers sound very similar. Does one get to stop the other performing depending on who was born first (and therefore has their voice automatically copyrighted)?

And I can imagine a whole host of other unintended consequences of such legislation if not drafted very carefully.

On top of that, the use of software evolves, and software that might not have been expected to be internet facing may one day end up on the internet, security issues and all. So it is good practice to ensure software is secure by default, even if it is being used on an air-gapped computer in the middle of some remote desert.

China didnâ(TM)t expect their manufacturers to pivot because their car industry was then much smaller and less invested in ICE. A modern ICE engine is a remarkable feat of engineering, and a lot has gone into refining it into what it now is. Those were huge investments and a huge moat if you were a traditional car manufacturer or component supplier. China didnâ(TM)t have that much to protect so could leapfrog the ICE era.

Western government should have seen the writing on the wall and also helped their industries more directly.

I would not disagree that there are greedy corporates out there who want to maximise revenue while minimising investment.

However, if you turned it around, if there are 2 out of 300 customers per node who are causing issues, then why wouldn't the company just want to get rid of those two customers and not have to invest more and actually have 298 happy customers and however many happy executive and shareholders. I am sure they would rather not have the other 2 as customers.

That being said, I would expect a company providing, say, a gigabit internet connection to not have a data cap that you could hit in 3 hours. So a gigabit internet connection with a 1TB cap would be silly. But a 10TB cap might be justifiable.