Canada needs to negotiate because Trump doesn't care about Mutually Assured Destruction.

Unfortunately for the rest of the world, as long as you have meaningful exports to the US that aren't impossible (economically) for them to replace from somewhere else you simply don't have a good point of leverage. The US can't replace China... but there are very few other examples. If Canada were to impose an export tax on oil and lumber to the US then it simply causes short term pain for the US and long term pain for Canada.

Trump abandoning norms means gaming him is pretty hard. I don't think it is "genius," but it is sticking to a policy strategy. GHUA.

I would love a solid shell and command line utilities for dealing with the frequent bugs in Mail and Safari that are difficult to troubleshoot. I default to blaming my mail host or ads, but that does not get things resolved. There are also a few Mac apps that don't really have solid iPad equivalents that would be ice to have at times.

While going off-grid rarely makes economical sense if you already have service, for a system that big it really sounds like your home is an energy hog. A friend in Colorado has 8kW of PV and 30kWh of battery that nets them out annually with a F150 lightning and before the EV kept them net-exporters in the winter in an all-electric house.

Most opposition was actually formed around non-proliferation and concerns with waste. It is essentially a religion at this point and just adds arguments to support the case as new opportunities arise.

From an engineering perspective I like nuclear energy, but the logistics of new multi-GW scale plants is a losing proposition and the efficiency of SMRs (especially relative to waste) is disappointing. I will keep some hope going for NuScale and others in the SMR space, but so far their level of improvements over the status quo are far too limited to justify.

Special characters were never really designed for touch typing. Sure you might be able to reach them, but they are inherently low accuracy positions.

For writing notes and similar things sure, but not quite sure how I would consistently type a tilde or braces on my keyboard with touch typing. Even minus and equals are a bit tricky, but that is mostly a keyboard issue.

If you have a customized programming keyboard that works well with an IDE then heads-up, fingers on home row typing might make more sense.

So, how effective was the law in improving air quality in the affected areas? Did it do its job and is no longer necessary, or are the politicians just doing the popular thing?

Obviously AI in its current incarnation is incapable of existing with consideration for artists/authors rights.

In a few specific cases it is a huge improvement on productivity. A lot of the tools though are really just more like accounting automation than "AI". My accountant had switched to something new that streamlined tagging of data to clean up tagging of transactions, but I didn't get into the weeds about it as my taxes are pretty simple nowadays.

I do some stuff for a nonprofit which includes coordinating with the accountant for filing the 990s... which could use a lot of help from automation and even "AI" as there is a lot of detail that needs to be shared with the IRS and becomes public information, but isn't really part of their core accounting functions.

Those concerns are all slowly being addressed and in time will become an even bigger joke than they are today. BEVs won't work for all people in all places today. Much like a compact sedan won't fit the needs for all people in all places.

My old condo was going to need $20k to install two common-use chargers 5 years ago, and the prospect died on the vine when I moved out. Three years later they installed (IIRC) 12 stations for residents that were interested for about the same $20k. I think they have done another round of installations now and have 17-20 installed. This was a median priced condo in an expensive city, so cost was an issue. It would be nice if the cost were a bit lower, but it is not out of the realm of reason.

Apartment buildings with just surface lots can be more work to have dedicated chargers, but if there is a need they will be installed. Public chargers are also becoming more prevalent, although most non-BEV drivers aren't really aware of them.

That has pretty much been their history, and with about half of my net worth in AAPL stock I hope it continues. There are some real differences now though; they aren't the underdog anymore, and people like Eddie Cue have constantly pushed the company in bad directions. Apple can easily do another share repurchase to push up the stock price, but they haven't managed to keep evolving since Jobs... they just made purchases that brought in some innovation.

It will be interesting to see if the next five years produces more than the last five.

essential ingredients for industrial dominance: government backing, organizational alignment, relentless will to improve, and the systematic coordination needed to turn existing technologies into something entirely new.

Compare and contrast to the current plan to "rejuvinate" US manufacturing...

Full automation is workable for something that doesn't change much every year; unfortunately that isn't Apple's business model.

It is much more complicated than that. Some people have high liquid net worth and others have high total net worth. Even relatively modest retirement accounts are a pretty easy bullseye of liquid assets. Many things come down to the 2% hit rate of mail order marketing IMO. If you have easy access to data on 10,000 targets, crafting an attack that will make that 2% rate is trivial and can easily net the perpetrators $200 million.

I live on an island and still need >200 miles of [EPA] range, which is about double what driving around the island would be.

Honestly it is a good decision for Honda; if you can make a hybrid with 50+ mpg the battery offers almost nothing to most consumers. I would never go back to gas, but that is because I have a solar system that is paid for and can easily power my car and everything else without ever needing to go to gas station. It is a much easier sell for most people.

My 310-mile range car only gets 275 miles rated range after 5 years, and the actual efficiency is 50% worse than rated. You are also only supposed to charge to 80% normally. I also need a 40-mile buffer range for emergencies, which puts me at 100 miles of usable driving distance on a charge.

You missed the part of Gross Negligence. You can't EULA-away (or even a formal contract) liability for gross negligence.