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by blackoil 1y ago
China doesn't uses Google services. Am sure they can type in Chinese.
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by blackoil 1y ago
As long as domain control isn't lost, he can quickly move from Github to Gitlab/gitee/self hosted and from CloudFlare to Netlify/DO/AWS.
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by blackoil 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/ Don't think old Androids will get this update.
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by blackoil 2y ago
You are assuming manufacturing trade as only income. Services export and IP export are other where USA leads. When Apple sells iPhone in India and China, it gets to bring back the profits to the USA. Same goes for EU paying for Netflix and
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by blackoil 2y ago
Nations.
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by blackoil 2y ago
VC investments are for private solutions to build likes of Alipay in India. These are govt. initiatives to ensure no one party gets monopoly on core infrastructure of the nation.
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by blackoil 2y ago
I think more than cost; it is more a desire for sovereignty and also making everything trackable. As happened in Russia, US govt can block Mastercard/Visa from the country or can block a company like Huawei and local govt has no say in
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by blackoil 2y ago
> Payment systems take huge fees That is the monopoly cost. UPI is free for both payee and payer. Whatever it costs banks to operate it is covered by reduced cost of dealing with cash/consumer.
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by blackoil 2y ago
In UPI (similar Indian system), govt backed system acts as a central conduit between apps, banks, payment service system. So, the user can easily switch apps/banks. This prevents any hard monopoly but ensures competition and innovation
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by blackoil 2y ago
By then, China and hopefully US shall have observation satellites revolving moon and a scientific base. If it happens, we will be getting tonnes of data otherwise nearly impossible to get.
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by blackoil 2y ago
It's simple, the labour cost for repair is lower than the replacement cost, we also have people scavenging for valuables in landfills. As/When India will become rich enough, this will become uneconomical. Long term solution is to
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by blackoil 2y ago
As per your 1st document (page 15). Kerala has risen from 84.6 to 152 (~80%) while Haryana from 106.9 to 176.8 (~65%) in addition to the fact that most of the Haryana's growth has come from being in proximity of New Delhi. Same for Tam
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by blackoil 2y ago
Poor education at K-12 level. People from Bihar go outside but within India, to big cities like Delhi/Mumbai or farms of Punjab/Haryana.
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by blackoil 2y ago
My father/grandfather were avid fans of international broadcasts. VoA, Radio Nippon, Deutsche Weller, BBC. By our childhood, TV came with 2 channels and in adolescence 60. My son has access to YouTube, Netflix...
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by blackoil 2y ago
What is a good alternative, if I want to stick to React. Does any other framework support server/client hybrid rendering.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Valuing it like a regular car company will bring share price below 50. Anything above requires faith that it will transform to some AI, energy, fsd transport company.
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by blackoil 2y ago
I think primary concern is will DucDb pull something like RedisLabs. Wherein they are open source till it gets enough traction and after that pull the rug.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Is the model Open Source/Weight? Else the cost is for the model, not GPU.
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by blackoil 2y ago
CIA has to get funds beyond what is approved by US govt to fund unapproved missions. China doesn't have these problems.
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by blackoil 2y ago
China is better at free market capitalism. While in US markets quickly gravitate towards monopoly or duopoly, China has multiple companies in each sector.
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by blackoil 2y ago
In previous thread, I made same comment and got same response. So maybe time to stop worrying about forests and look into my memory.
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by blackoil 2y ago
"natural latex rubber" Worldwide switch-over will destroy forest ecosystems in Malaysia, Indonesia and Africa and more to replace it with Rubber tree plantations.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Many Indian movies are available on YouTube. Particularly old movies or dubbed from South Indian languages to Hindi. Some of them of 100s of millions of views. Considering home video market is more or less dead. YouTube is the best pay per
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by blackoil 2y ago
> Read the room Microsoft, you can't have it both ways. What??? That's entirety of US foreign policy.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Funny, how such a small company wiped off more than half a trillion from the valuations. Hopefully, it shall motivate other small orgs/academic institutions to do research in LLM++.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Unless you are using self hosted llm, you can assume all the code is being sent to the server. This is true for all similar services.
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by blackoil 2y ago
It's funny how a pro china news is quickly flagged into oblivion.
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by blackoil 2y ago
"American Israel Public Affairs Committee""
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by blackoil 2y ago
Nazi Germany was a democratically elected govt, which decided opposing propoganda must be blocked for the better of the nation. So irony?
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by blackoil 2y ago
While I agree with your argument partially, I still find it ironic. It assumes that we must prevent public from accessing some thoughts/propoganda as they may not be able to make right decision themselves. This is rhyming with 1930s Ge

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