That depends on the country's takings law. I'm more familiar with the United States Constitution, which provides: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." Canada's Expropriation Act (fact sheet) likewise guarantees market value to the property owner.

It will also stop working in short time. Trump's businesses have a habit of failing - his casinos, airlines, hotels and other ventures aren't doing so well. Within a year or two that phone will be a hunk of e-waste as the company behind it goes bankrupt as will the service.

Even his memcoin dropped after the buying spree to get a whitehouse invitation.

Whenever you rewrite a product in a new stack you pretty much create it from scratch. You do things right and don't bring all the patchwork and tech debt with you. That's what caused this speed-up. No the change of the language.

Rewriting usually only works on small projects. Projects where tech debt can't really accumulate because they're relatively small and self contained and making modifications is relatively trivial.

Larger projects accumulate tech debt because it's large, unwieldy to the point where making a change has to be done with care. Such systems are generally not able to be re-written without problems because of the legacy of many hidden requirements. It's why big IT projects generally fail - like the IRS trying to replace their 1960s era computer systems with something more modern failing multiple times with millions of dollars in overruns and still having missing features, bad performance or bugs. Any other large scale computing project has failed in similar manners.

Joel on Software has basically summarized the entire problem - https://www.joelonsoftware.com...

Rewrites seem cool, but you're bound to embody bugs, performance issues and other things and by the time you've got those sorted, the code has become the monster you were trying to avoid when you started rewriting it.

Here, the problem looks like it was relatively self-contained and small, and likely had very little tech debt to begin with being likely something can easily have refactored.

On the other hand, at the very least, Facewatch actually followed up and looked into her claims of innocence and admitted their error -- though they could do better than an "anonymous spokesperson." Some (many? most?) companies might have simply blown her off or perpetually routed her through automated systems (like I've heard Google, Facebook, etc... do) until she gave up and perhaps actually sued. Not defending their tech or the store's proactive use of it, but their follow-up could have been worse.

They didn't own up. They were asked about it by the media.

Trust me, if she didn't go to the media, she'd just have turned away like 99% of the other people mistakenly identified as shoplifters.

She went to the media, now the company behind it has a huge PR problem that they need to control - because once the media starts announcing the company behind it, as well as the store, people start getting turned off. The store identifies the company responsible as an attempt to deflect blame ("It wasn't us, we use Facewatch!"). Facewatch needs to own up because other stores using their technology might see a similar backlash.

A customer has choices when it comes to stores, and an article like this can get them to choose alternatives to avoid accidentally being detained. Especially with the media spotlight on AI things this could turn what was an accidental misidentification into a full blown boycott that does worse damage than the shoplifting ever did.

Companies admit to wrongdoing all the time if you read the news - some consumer gets shafted for months, contacts the media, the issue is magically resolved in 24 hours. company admits a mistake was made. Of course, no explanation why it took so long to actually do something, or what about the other people going through the exact same issue.

In the awesome movie Contact (based on Carl Sagan’s novel), the ultra-rich Hadden lives out the remainder of his life on a space station to prolong it because he has cancer.

The problem with China is basically they are well known for cheap crap. That is crap. The only reason it exists is because it's cheap. AliExpress, Temu, Shein, etc. are all purveyors of cheap Chinese crap.

However, China can build quality stuff - if you ask for it, they can build very high quality products. But it will also cost more.

Of course, the Chinese also have the belief that Western products, because they haven't gone through the Chinese "cut corners to save pennies" thing, are better. Or generally better, because those western products have powerful regulators. Food regulations in China are basically nothing - given the availability of sewer oil (there are people who scoop oil out of the sewers and sell it as cooking oil). Thus, the Chinese flock to western brands where there is some regulation of the product they want (at higher costs).

But you can buy a product made in China that confirms to the local electrical code, or you can get that product made to the electrical code of the EU, US, etc.. The former probably won't pass UL certification, but the latter, which can even be made in the same factory by the same people, will easily pass.

China builds to the quality you want. However, a big problem in China is a lack of basic consumer protection laws and enforcement thereof. Thus it allows products made to conform to local laws to be horrendously deficient and unsafe.

Except the AI hype cycle pretty much demanded Apple talk about it. They were one of the last to join the AI bandwagon, and everyone roasted Apple for that.

So it's pretty much if Apple doesn't announce something, they believe Apple isn't working on it and thus going to be left behind in the AI hype.

Even when they announced the stuff, they got roasted for their late AI entry.

Apparently 8 lanes is sufficient. But it doesn't really matter anyways since Nvidia is likely not caring too much about the GPU crowd, given persistent shortages and well above MSRP pricing. Their moneymaker is datacenter cards, gaming cards is just a little cream on the top.

It's why their 5000 series midrange cards required reviewers to turn on AI frame generation in order to get review samples. Because just like the 5090 needs AI fake frames to show FPS gains, so do the 5000 series midrange cards.

No, the playable ads were just HTML5 ads that had an interactive element. Most ads are HTML these days, so it doesn't take much to add a little javascript to make them interactive.

Of course, it also raises the question of why there are so many fake ads for apps out there - since those ads already contain most of the game people were expecting.

Finally a movie that could be worth watching.

And it's a sequel.

(Everyone who complains about nothing Hollywood puts out is worth watching complains about the sequels, prequels, remakes and such...).

You're a little bit ahead of things here, considering that is not slated for completion until 2040.

https://www.nationalobserver.c...

This will be the nail in the coffin for coal plants, and probably a fair number of natural gas plants as well. Once this AI bubble bursts, coupled with the ability to process AI demands much more efficiently (on silicone designed specifically for this purpose, instead of using much less efficient GPUs and the like), there will be a huge surplus of power. The shiny new, and extremely expensive to build, nuclear power plants certainly won't be the things shutting down when there is too much energy.

The environment will be much better off for this.

Recalls are safety issues, and it doesn't matter if the product is out of warranty or not - if the product is still out there and a safety issue a recall is issued.

Though rare, they can be issued long after a product has be obsoleted on the market if they still pose a safety hazard. Cars can have recalls years after discontinuation if some issue comes up later on.

You must be new to this. This kind of sentiment has existed since computers have become prominent around the globe.

There was a good chance of 23andme being able to make full-genome sequencing (which they weren't yet scaled up to) a commoditized service with the privacy protections that need to be ensured for all customers. However the business model collapsed along the way.

Now we see the most predictable outcome - someone who knows they can profit from the data is buying the remains of the company (with the data).

Only in the USA is the genomic data that valuable, and there is one sector of the economy who can benefit from it more than any other. Regeneron knows which industry that is, and while they aren't a direct part of it themselves they know they need to serve it.

Regeneron bought the data to eventually sell it to the Health Insurance Cartel. The Cartel was granted effective license to print money with the passage of the ACA, but they want more power. They still own an overwhelming majority of congress - on both sides of the aisle - but they want more power. With the genomic data they can start rewriting the rules on pre-existing conditions. As all other plans go up in price they can start offering plans that are less expensive if you consent to DNA testing, which will lead to treatment for some conditions being denied.

We can't win as long as the system is set up this way. We can't change it when the people who benefit from it control the people who set the rules.