How Xi can "manage" Kim when Pyongyang already is a telephone government? North Korea is a Chinese proxy.

When China wants to increase badness against US, JP, SK, it pushes forward its pawn, and orders Kim to do something to spook them.

The independence of NK regime when it completely existentially depends on China for everything is a myth.

It's individual Chinese companies being intimidated by American market denial who cut ties in Russia, not the other way around at all.

Chinese state companies continue to work with Russia as usual.

Change the headline.

1. Not completely. There are quite a few countries with fully independent judiciary, with judges appointing judges.

2. Courts with power to initiate, and prosecute a case by themselves also exist in other countries.

Battery cell energy density is not the same as the whole battery pack energy density.

Western battery cell manufacturers chased the specific energy density figure, and in the process they decided to save weight on the casing, and electrodes as much as possible, resulting in very fragile battery cells.

To avoid 18650 cells being crushed, you will need a lot of structural reinforcements added to the battery pack, consuming weight.

Even with all of that, tiny, individually 18650 cells waste a lot of weight on the cell casing, on things like welds, terminals, relief valves, thermal interface material etc.

Bigger cells invariably have better casing to active material ratio, but the casing mass is still "useless.

Blade battery reverses all of above, and intentionally uses very strong, and thermally conductive case, to make the casing weight to contribute to battery pack mechanical strength.

LFP cathode feels very well at high temperatures, and has very high resistance to mechanical expansion during charge. This allows to make LFP cells much bigger than cells with other chemistries, and removes the need for liquid cooling system inside the battery pack, greatly saving weight.

> The secret material can't just be stored on disk - that would allow anyone who had access to the disk to use that material to decrypt the keyring and get access to the passwords, defeating the object.

I'll provide a broader explanation: you cannot encrypt your key with a fingerprint.

A genuine "throw away the key" lock is only possible when the decryption key is completely erased from memory during the screen lock, and you cannot use your fingerprint or face image as a key by itself.

A screen lock using stored secret is inherently incapable of providing encryption at rest. It's like a password on a sticky note.

A "throw away the key" is only possible with a password, or a smartcard.

Maybe Israelis just went to the Elysee palace, and asked?

Because of USSR

> inserting ourselves into these volatile conflict zones?

Because America was protecting those nations/regimes who allied with America against USSR

> We keep doing that and then acting surprised when we get caught in the crossfire

Because American former allies started to fight against each other, and not USSR

Most of the West has bailed out of the electronics race so long ago, that the experience gap in between practice, and what is told in universities is like 20-30 years now.

No university in the world will teach you how to make a modern stepper. Most of research in this space been going behind closed doors from the beginning of the semiconductor industry, and nearly completely closed since around 2010.

Only places like IMEC and few others are semi-public windows to what happens behind closed doors.

In principle, physics behind the operation of a stepper is nothing secret, components not secret, manufacturing techniques not secret, but the experience of how to arrange all of above in a way it is known to work is only available to, I would say, less than 100 people worldwide.

Saudis used their nationals inside Twitter quite brazenly. Imagine how many other rouge nation nationals are there being used by their governments.

At this point you need to jump up and point to:

1. Ordinary banks are not sued for absolutely the same thing, which probably occurs to much bigger extent in major banks which pass many times more transactions than Binance

2. Forget about Russian darknets, Russian mafia lives in London, and New York in the open to complete disregard of the same financial regulators.

3. It's practically impossible to catch people who can fake, or buy a passport to do small scale money laundering, but forget about the small fish.

BILLIONS of Russian money gets laundered through biggest US banks every day completely legally, through schemes known to all big banks, and financial regulators for decades.

Take communism. There were many grassroots communist regimes in the 20th century, and certainly not all controlled by Moscow, but they all degraded into very tyrannical regimes, caste societies by following very similar paths.

Enlightenments EFL was exclusively software for a long time, but is buttery smooth despite largely using redraw most of the time.

Hardware acceleration does not compensate for the lack of hard computer science knowledge about efficient memory operations, caching, and such

And people who did the right decision, have to pay twice. One is the opportunity price, and another is the externality price.

That's more expensive than in UAE

The world is unravelling. American abrogation of its defence obligations in 2014 provoked a sequence of events which could lead to a number of countries vanishing off the map by the end of this decade.

I want to remind what complacency costed Ukraine when they snuffed at "what a few dozen Russians penetrating the border on pickups can do?" in 2014.

Of course, they themselves didn't do much, but their actions were only an opener to set up a much bigger gambit.

Underestimating genius is bad, but the underestimation of idiocy is truly lethal.

Absolute nonsense. There was a time when like half of all Russian mafia lived in London fully in the open, and they only vacated the place when they started being kicked out through visa cancellations, not fraud charges.

This change changes really nothing in the fact that first world country governments don't want to prosecute those guys.

At most, they don't give a fuck, at worst, they are actively conniving.

And it's not that they are hard to prosecute at all. Anybody who can read some Russian can get a completely damning charge sheet with a few minutes googling on most of them, let alone British MI-6 analysts.

The crazy theory that you can somehow increase prosecution chances with "Al Capon charge" makes little sense if criminals whose offences are provable in 5 minutes without that are walking around. like nothing.

There are many accounts in the press of banks employees saying they send hundreds of suspicious activity reports for absolutely clear cut cases without any reaction. And they can't do anything on their own, as their paperwork is completely impeccable from the reporting standpoint.

Thinking rationally, it makes sense that a mafioso who is going to launder few billion $, will ensure that his paperwork looks more full, and accurate than that of a legit company. Few percents of such sums will hire legions of top lawyers to do the reporting.

Mine's lived in a wooden hut by 1991.

There are far more obvious reasons for that. These drones are of enormous military value. By buying them, US consumers are funding an obvious foreign military hardware production. US money may well be funding production of drones which may once be used to correct artillery strikes on Los Angeles.

DJI are particular seem to work in concert with "military civilian fusion," and have hardware, and software to defeat both very serious jamming, and attempts to fry its radio with pulsed microwaves. Military jammers for 2.4g band seemingly have near 0 effect.