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micwagon EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones

Say Samsung releases a new TV that has a HDMI 2.1 Port that support crisp 4K HDR, but only if you use a Samsung certified cable. If you use a third party HMDI 2.1 cable your resolution drops to SD DESPITE the HMDI 2.1 Standard supporting 4K HDR.

micwagon Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile Network

The cost for the subway could also be reduced the same way as the loop by the way. Here in Switzerland a km of train tunnel costs around 50-200M per km.

The 4,000 passenger number is afair only for the current section, the planned expansion will have a capacity of 2,000 passenger per hour.

The Las Vegas Loop makes sense as a vanity project.

micwagon Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile Network

Currently living in Switzerland, here they just use railroad switches. So express trains can run uninterrupted while e.g. another train is on a separate track in the station.

micwagon Mercedes is the first automaker to offer Level 3 self-driving in the US

Didn't find anything, but I imagine it's similar to normal car insurance. In Germany most insurances are capped at 100m (legal minimum is 7.7m). Most expensive accident in history was 32m.

micwagon Switzerland Plans to Restrict the Use of Electric Cars During the Energy Crisis

Yes, this is the penultimate step before blackouts. Other steps in the same category are: Heating limited to 18C, maximum washing machine temperature of 40C, restrictions on opening hours for business, etc..

micwagon Life in the slow lane: how the slow cooker changed the world

As an ESL speaker I always incorrectly assumed "dutch oven" referred to clay pots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_pot_cooking#In_European_c...

micwagon Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere

There are already many self driving trains operating around the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_system...

micwagon Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages

To quote the state owned russian news agency:

> "Repeated case of interference of the Bank of Russia into implementation of the budget rule in terms of foreign currency purchases means that the floating currency rate regime existed from the end of 2014 until early 2018 is ‘only on paper now’ and is actually substituted by regulation of the currency market by the Bank for Russia for the purpose of eliminating threats for financial stability, jeopardized by the budget rule effect,"

https://tass.com/economy/1026029

This was 4 years ago, and is even more so true now. The ruble at the moment is NOT free floating.

micwagon Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages

> We also have to remember that Europe seized Russian euros and broke contracts in other ways

First point is true, but the second ist not. Germany went out its way to ensure all contracts are fulfilled to avoid this claim.

> it's not really obvious if Russia would even want to go back to selling to Europe.

Russia very much wants to go back to selling gas and oil to europe, they have after all no other relevant industries and pipelines to China/India don't have the capacity to replace european delivery.

> Europe is buying their gas anyway due to arbitrage so it looks like a winner for Russia unfortunately.

Even chinese and indian experts see russia as the loser of this conflict and to be relegated to a possible chinese puppet state in the future.

micwagon Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

Usually bigger super markets in europe have shopping cart stations scattered around the parking lot:

https://www.thomas-clemens-photography.de/blog/es-gibt-eine-...

micwagon Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

Try h264fy: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify-firefox It forces h264 on youtube, which is HW-accelerated