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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Ford’s CEO is honest enough to admit that they are facing down the barrel of the gun .. “The way we compete with them is .. use our .. intimacy with the customer to beat them globally,” and BYD sold 4.27 million cars in 2024, approaching
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
They do have a private sector, and that should be lauded. But we also have to be honest and concede that while the others may have usable rule of law to varying degrees, Nigeria has a looong way to go in this regard. Uganda could use a bi
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I think the example would have been better if they had put Ghana in the place of Nigeria. I have no idea how anyone did an analysis of the stability of African nations, and came out of it thinking Nigeria was an example to hold up as some k
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
but heart disease is a bigger killer Can't blame Mexico and China for heart disease. So it's of little political value. A government will take on public health challenges whose root causes can be used to confer political value.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Well now to be fair, total surveillance and suppression of any content they don't like is worth a whole lot more than rare earth deposits to a government.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
You've just reiterated what I was saying. They know they have a run of the mill model. Maybe even not as good as Gemini or ChatGPT. (or even DeepSeek? Who knows?) So they leverage other business to force use of the models onto the ma
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
That's what Amazon (basically) did and they're about to ship Ship what? Will what they ship be anything better than just using ChatGPT? Right now companies don't need to buy anything, because everyone has what is essentiall
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
In all honesty, statistically, that person's assertions are highly likely not to be fact. It's like the man who has happened on "several" three-alarm fires in his life. How many times does a person happen on even one thr
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
If they had access to internet, you weren't in the parts of Africa I'm talking about. There is a difference between undeveloped, developing and developed. You go to an undeveloped place, you wouldn't be worried about phones o
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Imagine people all over planet Earth talking to each other in real life, in passing.. "Did you hear Internet access is cut off in ____"? The issue is that no one would care. There are children being sold into sexual slavery and
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
A lot of these people talk about Starlink like they never heard of RF engineering. It's like, "Um, guy, Starlink can be shut down too."
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Um. Yeah. The internet is important. But if you go some places in this world you learn in a very swift fashion that it is not as important as housing, food, and water. There's parts of the world that are not a fairy tale. Places where
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
All the profit and none of the liability is Coward Capitalism While I agree with you in principle, there's little that can be done because the current crop of crony capitalists will likely support the idea of no liability for tech co
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Which speaks to why the law enforcement types prefer multiple surveillance and tracking channels. A hacker group compromising one may be possible, but to get away with a crime, it would be necessary to compromise the feeds coming from all o
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Keep in mind that being able to demonstrate your innocence to the government is also just an individual change in behavior. A person might not necessarily care if you use the tracking technologies or submit yourself to all the cameras in
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I don't know man? We're already at a place where most people don't care what other people think of them. Issue is, as long as the government has the big guns, what the government thinks of you will still matter in a major w
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Meh. Let's all be honest here. At the end of the day, what China wants is for everyone to shut the F up and buy a big screen TV. Preferably on credit. Anything that moves the world towards that goal will receive China's tacit supp
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Hmm. Academics I could see being tried and hanged. Minorities you'd simply eliminate as everyone in every nation has done throughout history. There is no need to give a trial or hanging to minorities. You just off them. (But, I guess,
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Haven't spent much time outside of the West have you? If you had, you would know that this practice is not West specific. Heck, spend more than a day in any African or Asian nation and they'll tell you all about how the rich and p
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Oh, ye of unbounded belief in fair play. These people are typically the true believers in the Republic. They also believe they are taking down existential threats to the republic. Finally, they believe in defense in layers. You know what th
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
They’re a bit confused and not comparing the same compute. Pretty sure they’re comparing Nvidia’s gpu to Apple’s npu.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This is just untrue. But hey, if you believe it, my pointing out the flaws in the arguments is not likely to change your mind. So I’ll just politely disagree with you. You have a good evening sir or ma’am.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Between WWI and WWII, the US didn't get in any "hot practice". (Which is what I think you're talking about?) That didn't stop us from learning what we needed to know. Nor did it stop us from fielding a formidable
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
You either fight far away or you fight at home. That's just the sort of macho thinking that has caused so many military endeavors to fail throughout history. Maybe the politics is about soundbites like that one? I don't know? I&
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And that wasn't a terrible idea. I don't necessarily believe maintaining a ludicrously strong military for the purposes of defending our homeland is a bad idea. Maybe I'm just being silly, but like, why would you not want t
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I suspect there are not many outside your own acquaintances willing to have their children drafted to defend Taiwan. Just being realistic. Americans were committed to these things because leadership committed us to these things and would ma
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Not trying to be flip or anything, but why can't it just be to defend the US? From anyone who may come. Serious question.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'm not sure I'd count on these sorts of Chinese technologies being widely available in the US. If the politicians haven't gotten around to banning your particular favorite technology just yet, I'd be willing to wager an
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Maybe you didn't read the part where I said we don't care? We, as a people, don't care. We don't even care about the problems we have. It's not gonna be easy to make us care about the problem some other people h
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
If the 50% of people voting for Harris show up, that would be maybe 30% of the US. Probably, not, but I feel like being generous. And that's assuming they all show up. Which we both know they won't. I think people severely under

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