Who knows what rare materials will be discovered if we finally start mining.

Funny that after 4 years of Trump's presidency you still don't understand his approach to negotiation.
Leaving that aside, globalization in the name of cheaper consumer prices have cost Americans jobs in multiple industries. Get ready for a quite a few economic dogmas to be proven wrong.

of what the future brings. There was a lot of noise about his refusal to allow WP to endorse Kamala. Turned out his bet was the right one.

I'm still waiting for Slack to release an IDE. I mean, they've recently added lists. The next logical step is to follow Emacs route to keep developers confined.

It's great to see that Linux desktop movement continues to evolve. Perhaps, the goals are less ambitious than in the earlier days. But the niche is there and KDE is an important player.

Maybe this particular group of teens will pay the price, maybe they won't. The problem is that there's always another batch of fools ready to step in. Yes, it's an ancient story, but the scale of the internet and the ease of access makes it a new and very difficult problem to solve.

As someone who always believed in the possibility of building free and anonymous internet, it hurts me to accept the possibility that the cost of these security breaches will drive the world towards mass surveillance. Perhaps new machine learning tools can mitigate the problem, but the multi-year trend is not encouraging.

The fact that AWS is a very profitable business should tell you that there's a built in margin into the operation. Despite a competitive price obtained via production of scale, the main advantage of AWS is its flexibility. Meanwhile, a business with a specific need can optimize its operations by not wasting time on unnecessary features.

Well, it's 16kg which is 5-10x lighter than F1 engines. Assuming aluminum is used, the dimensions have to roughly 5-10x smaller. From the drawing it doesn't look like there's significantly more empty space in the new design.

"Clean" is a marketing term used to inspire consumers to pay the premium. It's a winner-take-all battle for the next kind of economy with the first mover advantage. "Economical" is a synonym for "commodity" -- a sizeable market for now, but one which will shrink as the global consumer eventually decides to upgrade.

Technically you are right about "destroying the US economy", but that's not the whole picture. The people in power decided to accelerate Schumpeter's "creative destruction" by forcing advanced economies to transition to clean energy and manufacturing. The high price of this transition and mistakes made in the progress are covered up by governmental spending and money printing. Public opinion is shaped via media propaganda.

In the meantime, all dirty manufacturing and energy is left for "the rest" of the world.

Western companies are delusional if they seek mass-market adoption of EV in India. Do you realize how many people live there on $1/day income? EV's are a status symbol, nothing more.

The world is splitting into two camps. Virtue signaling G7 and "the rest". Clean energy and advanced manufacturing for the first camp. Dirty power and 20th century mass production for the rest.

When government stays "keeps its nose out of things" businesses are free to abuse the marketplace and are reluctant to put limits on their actions. The end result are monopolization and various "externalities". Case in point, superfund sites.

Large companies have to be regulated more diligently than small players, and "AI" is just a new field that needs attention. Startup and small companies should have more freedom with experimentation.

Unfortunately, this isn't enough. Congress needs to act and international support is lacking

"The step is seen as a stopgap given that Congress has held discussions on potential AI legislation but little has been introduced and nothing significant has become law"

The early investors and key insiders will still have a great ROI. Employees and late investors just became "long-term investors". The general public, well, nobody was expecting them to make money IPO flipping in 2023. Considering the kind of recession that we are heading for this is still a very rich valuation for a commodity business.