Canada should join the EU. Or at least do a really good trade deal with it, maybe even a customs union. Single Market access and freedom of movement.

A thing that everyone relies on, and some idiot is just giving it away for free!

Like your cancer, like the clean water you need to live, that's a huge missed opportunity for someone to make a big pile of cash!

Next you are going to be telling me that the government just builds roads and lets anyone drive on them for free, like a bunch of chumps.

I don't know but I'd imagine that a lot of it is the cost of shutting down parts of the system to install gear and test it, running two systems in parallel until confidence is reached. Re-training and up-skilling to operate it, and maybe some redundancy money if they are reducing or replacing staff.

I used to know someone who worked on the British railways, and it was service suspensions and delays that cost the most money.

Why can't they make their own wireless communication equipment?

Look at the Flipper Zero and how many wireless protocols that thing can interact with, using just a single, flexible radio chip (Texas Instruments CC1101).

These wireless things are not magic, and replacing them with compatible but modern parts is well within the realms of possibility. They should be specifying that the protocol is made available to them anyway, on condition that it only be used once the manufacturer discontinues or the contract ends.

I just hope it can be repaired. History suggests that it takes some pretty drastic measures to recover from this, often resulting in the country breaking up or no longer existing.

It's usually a good idea to just hold off on updates for a week or two at least, to see if they are botched.

The main reason is that some companies are trying to spread the Trump tariff tax costs over Europe as well, and we are not happy about that. The US voted to pay more for stuff, not us.

Companies that jack up prices for us must be boycotted.

I certainly think that some people experience these things worse than others. I'm not an expert though so I defer to them.

It's an umbrella term for many different conditions, so it's entirely possible for the majority to have one of them, but no single condition to be a majority of the population.

I think the more likely explanation here is that people aren't diagnosing themselves correctly. I see posts on social media sometimes from people talking about feeling anxious in situations that would make most people feel that way, or getting hung up on mistakes made long ago that probably nobody else remembers. Those are just normal things, but there are some conditions that make them *much* worse to the point where they interfere with your life in very detrimental ways. It's that degree of severity that I think a lot of people under-estimate when self diagnosing.

It's not just the US, the UK is the same. Many people have no idea, they don't see it, and even get upset when someone says it exists - mostly because they are not subject to it themselves. People with darker skin, a "non-native" sounding name... This is no surprise to them.

They look like bifacial panels in the video too. Solar cells on both sides, so that they can catch the direct sunlight and the reflected light off the ground.

3,000 actually seems like a low estimate. Starlink could be 20,000 in orbit by itself, and with a 5 year lifespan that would be 4,000/year coming down. And of course Starlink isn't the only mega constellation going up. Amazon wants one, China is building one, the EU is doing one, and doubtless others will join sooner or later.

On what do you base that claim? TFA doesn't even give any figures for speed, so how have you compared it to other transistors?

I'm reminded of the scepticism that other Chinese technological advances were met with. LLMs and automotive battery technology being two recent ones. The derision soon turns to claims it was stolen (with that damn time machine of theirs), and finally import bans because somehow that will fix our lack of investment in R&D.

Could be a game changer for rapidly building solar farms anywhere with minimal manpower and skill needed.

Could also be useful for exploring the moon and Mars.

Electricity should be treated like roads and other infrastructure.

There will be plenty of demand due to electricity replacing fossil fuels in all sorts of applications. It just needs to be very flexible and able to be transmitted over long distances.

Fortunately renewables cost near zero to run in many cases. Wind turbines and solar panels have a lifespan that doesn't really change with how much they are used, so energy prices going to zero are not a big deal. The reason they go negative is because of fossil and nuclear sources that don't want to ramp down. Nuclear is probably dead but fossil fuels will probably remain for occasional coverage.