Well, they know Trump wouldn't condemn it or come to Taiwan's aid, considering he has his own territorial expansion plans. If they're going to do it, the next four years would be the best time.

within the U.S., including Washington, DC

Gee, I didn't realize Washington, DC is in the U.S. Good thing they clarified this.

The problem is that until it can be used everywhere I'll still have to carry the physical card, just as I have to carry my credit card (thank you, Home Depot!).

I assume you can double-click to bring it up in Wallet, like I do for my IKEA card. No full unlocking necessary.

We have to at the US border

Not according to a recent court ruling, we don't.

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Could Affect 'Almost Every Apple Device'

Almost every Apple device that runs some software (CocoaPods?) that I and most of the world has never heard of.

I don't think there's much they can do about languages that don't use pronouns (like Japanese) or use them as they do in Vietnamese. There is no way for the translation engine to figure out who is talking about whom.

The ads Facebook shows me are almost always something I'm interested in. I don't think I've ever seen an ad on Reddit that interested me in the slightest. They should be able to figure out my interests based on what I read on their site, but for some reason they haven't figured out how to do that in 16 years.

Well, at least they saved some money.

Get an iPhone. All iPhones sold worldwide support FeliCa out of the box. Android manufacturers save the royalty fee by only paying to enable it on phones sold in Japan.

Yes, by necessity the satellite channels are horribly compressed. I usually listen to Sirius XM over the internet and the channels sound fine there.

Socialism for the rich. Capitalism for the rest of us.

Another problem was their lack of repair services. When your $1000 unit died on its 366th day, they told you 'tough luck, buy a new one'.

Note that is the "Initial Quality Survey". It doesn't measure how well the car holds up over time.

Most people in Korea live in high-rise apartment blocks. Nowhere to put a dish. And going up to a satellite and back down will not provide better ping times. Starlink is designed for rural areas. If all of Seoul got on Starlink, the speed would be like 1200 bps dialup.