Much of this defense tech is surveillance tech that will also be on Americans. Not particularly patriotic.

Hi worried should I be about my regular investments, 401K and money that's in Fidelity. If this stable coin tanks, will it take my account down with it? I'm thinking about companies such as Barings or Bear Stearns.

Honestly, Apple is a hardware vendor. They can't just put out stuff that's at the line of being embarrassing and then collect feedback. Apple has to live with the consequences of bad design for years. Facebook does not.

Except itâ(TM)s the other way around. Stores charge a high price by default (manufacturers suggested retail price) and add a variable discount.

You don't get to come back a year (or a century) later and say, "Hey, I just found out what that painting is actually worth. Give it back."

Actually... Why not? You said yourself you're in the wrong and you certainly acted in bad faith, so why shouldn't your victim have their demand to annul the deal enforced?

As opposed to people with nativist and inward looking views, companies like Apple HAVE to work overseas, and if you keep following the US govt kool-aid, then you will only be able to do business with Western Europe and other allies.

Try to understand that a big part of the world actually sees the US as the big bad empire that they portray China to be and it makes sense that they ask Stewart to tone it down a bit.

It's not that China is a big bad empire, it's that Xi is an emperor who's unable to placate his people with promises of a better tomorrow due to China's economy having caught up enough that the rubber band has gone slack and dictatorships being inherently incompatible with the rule of law which a strong economy requires, so his only hope for survival is to placate them with promises of glory which makes a confrontation with China and West pretty much inevitable, and Xi knows that. It's the same deal as with Russia, US is simply being wiser than EU was.

Basically, what's business to Apple is a weapon to China, and China is a fundamentally hostile nation to anyone who doesn't think Xi would make a great world leader, which he wouldn't judging by everything I know about life in China and also because he's a genocidal tyrant. That's not "nativist" or "inward looking", that's simply realism.

I recently saw a very insightful interview where dictatorships are defined by things you cannot criticize, like the CCP in China, Kim Jong-un in Korea, etc. In the US the thing that will absolutely get you canceled will be talking about the Israeli lobby and the influence such a small group holds over US culture in general.

Seriously? You're equating getting canceled with getting disappeared?

Note that such a system would also prevent Slashdot from leaning left and censoring conservatives, which they're doing now by institution an idiotic "karma". Slashdot karma is all about politics. And Slashdot is left leaning. One could express that cutely as "CowboyNeal is an imbecile".

But you're not being censored. Your comment is right here, readable for all who care to engage with users with bad reputation. That you have managed to earn a bad reputation through your own actions does not reflect badly on Slashdot or CowboyNeal, it reflects badly on you. It is the consequence of your actions, in other words, your karma.

That most people ignore you doesn't mean you're being censored, it just means that they think you and your opinions are not worth listening to. That your response to this is that the government should force them to pay attention just serves to demonstrate that their judgement is completely right. It's not a political judgement, it's a judgement about you as a person.

Given your vitriol here, I think you know that too, and judging by the fact that you keep posting on Slashdot despite hating the place I doubt you're more welcome elsewhere either. So perhaps you should reflect on the only common factor for a change, try to see your self from other people's eyes and maybe, just maybe accept that you might actually be the one who's in the wrong and needs to change? It's painful, but so is eternal bitterness, and there is no government big enough to make other people like you, so those are your options.

We were hoping so as well. It's amazing how much of our pipeline has hidden dependancies on Intel. Virtualization on M2 based Macbooks is very limited until new drivers come out. Our CICD pipeline only recently added support for ARM. Every step we take to try and get to ARM is met with months of delays.

(21.01Wh - 14.26Wh) = 6.75Wh more to wirelessly charge your phone once.
365 * 6.75Wh/1000 = 2.46 KWh more power used to wirelessly charge your phone all year.
2.46 * $0.32 $/KWH (power rate in the most expensive state in the US) = $0.79 cents more per year, to wirelessly charge your cell phone in Hawaii.

Cellphones are ridiculously low power.

Under the intense field the protons are going to oscillate back and forth under the optical electric field - note, the electrons will do this even more, as they are ~ 1/2000 as massive. With a beam, you only interact once, here the protons may interact for the lifetime of the pulse - which is very short. The question is the fusion yield vs the energy needed to drive the field. Muon catalyzed fusion worked very well - but the cost to create the muons was too high.

It could. Thats not what is happening. Actual live women are being inserted into porn without there awareness or consent.

If completely fictional women were being used in porn, then that may fine. I look forward to seeing that happen.

We have no idea whether we are improbable life on a perfect planet, or inevitable life on a sub-par planet - or something in between.

AFAIK we could currently detect a civilization at our technological level or higher from across the galaxy, yet haven't detected any, and that Milky Way contains some quarter trillion stars, so it would seem we are very improbable indeed.

Climate science has a vast oversupply of skeptics as it stands. It's highly counterproductive to hand them legitimate fuel for scornful dismissal of the legitimate science, just because some romantic nitwit on a poesy jag can't keep it in her pants ...

Climate "skeptics" are arguing in bad faith for a conclusion necessitated by their ideology or personal interest (or both), and will simply make shit up whenever needed. Any excuse will serve a tyrant. It's pointless to worry about it.

On the plus side we get to be the god kings of a future Universe if we don't blow ourselves up.

Judging by the entire human history and present that's not a plus for any being, human or otherwise, living in that future Universe.

The solution is a labor union strong enough to force a mandatory minimum wage sufficient to live on. Don't blame robber barons exploiting desperate people on those desperate people, blame it on the barons. Such attribution errors simply serve to divide and conquer the working class, and thus make you yourself easier prey.

Is anything worth saving if everyone's an asshole? Should we just hope for a giant meteor? Is that our new social religion?

Funny you would say so, seeing how the majority religion of the US is a literal doomsday cult wishing for the world to end since it's full of sinners.