If only that were true. At the moment Google seems to have a problem with people stealing Pixel phones during delivery.

The Model M is a membrane keyboard. It also has the famous bucking springs, but the key press detection is via a membrane.

People also claim that linear switches improve their typing accuracy, so it's not just the tactile response once the key has been registered.

My guess would be that it is down to the longer travel making key presses more deliberate and a little slower. Maybe less "bounce back" too, as I found when I tried a low profile keyboard that I'd bottom out and that feeling, that harder stop than you typically get with mechanical switches, seemed to make keeping my fingers in the right place a bit more difficult.

How so?

Then it is pointless to call something a "punishment", as deterrence is the key concept behind it.

Hence the life imprisonment.

Yes, it is very primitive and doesn't take a lot to understand it.

They are not big enough to get an exception. Google doesn't care about small companies or individuals at all so if the automated scripts don't cover what your trying to do, you're completely screwed.

Could you not get one that is supported by Lineage OS and use that Google-free?

13 million customers doesn't sound like squatting. Is there a legal definition of that?

Given that Starlink is one of the companies that stands to benefit from this, the default assumption would be that this is a favour to Elon Musk.

In the UK the majority of new cars are sold to lease companies and finance companies. Lease is particularly popular because you can take it as a job benefit, which basically means you don't pay any income tax on what goes into the lease payments.

The list prices are just made up nonsense to discourage cash buyers. They prefer lease or finance, and then after 2-3 years sell the car used at a more realistic price. Most cash buyers are getting those 2-3 year old models.

There are exceptions, some of the Chinese brands sell new vehicles at reasonable prices. I wonder how long for though. The Koreans used to be reasonable but eventually got just as expensive as everyone else.

They're exploiting the people who insist on having new cars.
They buy a new car for a year, take a huge hit on depreciation and then sell it off on the used market.
If you're price conscious, buy it after a year or two when the price has dropped.

Indeed, but governments also need to remember that companies exist only to make business decisions. The decision for a tech and digital advertising company to abandon a country where 60million people don't have access to even an electricity grid is easier than it would be to say abandon a major market of rich westerners like e.g. Europe.

Notice how Meta's share price barely moved? If they threaten to pull out of Europe, Canada, or any other actual *profitable* place that would look very different.

The problem is that won't cause Meta to pull out. This fundamentally is a game of mathematics. It's a very different question of whether to abandon a third world country where 60million people have no access to electricity, vs a country of 40million comparatively rich westerners.

Remember on a per capita basis the EU fined Meta far more than Nigeria did just now, and yet there was never even a consideration of pulling out of the EU.

Money talks.

Do you also think the current Tour de France record is held by an ebike? A 3x3 cube and a 4x4 cube are fundamentally different control problems. You can't hold them the same way.

Interaction with the cube is key here. The reason why a robot can obliterate a human in a standard 3x3 cube is you can fix the rotational axis on 6 fixed points on a 3x3 cube, then you're limited only by how quickly you can turn the 6 axis independently. Even ordered cubes like a 4x4 don't allow you to do this, there's no central stationary point meaning you don't just turn the cube face, you need to calculate how to hold the cube put the correct clamps in position on the cube, and remove the others in the way before actually making the turn.

Humans have the advantage here in that they can flip and rotate the cube and that our digits are a bit more flexible to move than those of a robot.

Well the current human record is held by a student as well so they are on equal footing.

Only by the legal definition of barbaric societies like Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, China, Zimbabwe, Botswana, the US, Japan.

It isn't a punishment, it is an act of revenge. If it were a punishment, it would need to be an effective deterrent and allow for rehabilitation.

Death sentence is an ineffective deterrent and precludes rehabilitation.

"All those security issues" have little to nothing to do with current intel woes. Easily visible in the fact that both it's main competitor AMD and it's secondary competitor ARM had similar issues, as all mainstream modern CPUs rely on complex branch prediction for performance.

Intel's main issue by far is that its current mainline architecture is just not competitive with AMD. It requires way more power for same level of performance, and it's performance is still lackluster in pretty much everything but very limited suite of single thread things. It wasn't helped by the fact that Intel pushed their last two CPU generations harder than they could be pushed in a desperate bid to compete with AMD was crushing it in gaming performance with 3D cache chips, and damaged quite a few CPUs permanently (see the recent Intel RMA brouhaha).

So in a nutshell, basically no one cares about branch predictor issue in a way that could hurt or help intel, because it's competition has those same problems. They're inherent to modern CPUs. It's the lack of performance, lack of efficiency and recent history of pushing CPUs into unreliability territory even more so than AMD with its near universal early AGESA microcode problems of the past with each new CPU generation that tanked it.

Most other national leaders just fly commercial. And if they die, well whoop de do, we elect another one. Why go to the expense of defending one person who America has shown in several occasions in the past can die in office without major implications.