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4y ago
>doesn't really make much of a case nutritionally. Aquired taste aside, it's decent diet food. Good for satiety. Interesting texture, tedious to eat and pretty filling for marginal amount of protein. Kind of like Shirataki Nood
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dirtyid
4y ago
Fantastic. Is there a breakdown on storage used by year? A long time ago, I was going through the 5.25 & 3/4 floppy collection of someone who use to run a computer shop and kept a copy of everything, and was amused at the idea they
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dirtyid
4y ago
My compute intensive tablet activities involves a cheap chromebook duet remote desktopping into an actual desktop already efficiently setup for my workflows. I'd rather wait for reliable remote work solutions / infra than try to c
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dirtyid
4y ago
IMO this was introduced so UK security architecture is more in line with US/AU when it come to PRC as pre-req for getting piece of multibillion AUKUS nuclear sub deal.
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dirtyid
4y ago
Except, PRC "Final Warnings" has preluded actual war or near actual war with every NPT nuclear state, a few times when PRC wasn't (or not meaningfully) a nuclear power herself, on issues much less important than TW, when PRC
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dirtyid
4y ago
PRC is essentially calorically food secure (with huge waste / room to optimize), has large energy reserves, and unlike island nations, massive domestic raw resource supplies. PRC is NOT Japan during WW2. Hence PRC is much more autarkic
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dirtyid
4y ago
>The disclaimer sentence It's a manufacturing consent piece to setup this: >Anyone working in the UK for “hostile” states like Russia and China who fails to register their role will face up to five years in jail, Suella Braverman
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dirtyid
4y ago
Depends on how Sino-US competition veers. As important as TW is to rejuvenation narrative, it's ultimately the consolation prize versus dismantling US east asian security architecture and securing regional+ hegemony. That's the g
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4y ago
Samsung is concerned Google is losing customers to Apple.
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dirtyid
4y ago
>snubbed their noses The PCA "rulings" aren't international law because UN (which PRC accept as international system) has no formal position on them / has not adopted any parts of the decision. Ergo, PRC's SCS po
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dirtyid
4y ago
Seems like this kind of work, if deemed neccessary, should at least be done somewhere remote.
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dirtyid
4y ago
I think ~700,000s of thousands as per PRC own IC white paper is good start and number is relevant because few if any countries have population pool / institutional / systemic capacity to train that many specialist in one sector in
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dirtyid
4y ago
Thanks for taking the time, some roughly structured thoughts: First some PRC numbers to contexualize actual cost of current PRC demographics, 600M undereducated stuck in informal economy, ~20% (200M+) farmers most of whom who could be repla
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dirtyid
4y ago
>energy expenditure and timescales that are the problem Feels like that's anthropomorphizing human motivations (which Q at at some level was written to embody). IMO even for humans, not really an issue, wealthy countries spends frac
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dirtyid
4y ago
>people claim he invented it. IMO Liu steelmaned the argument with respect to game theory, relativistic diplomacy / suspicion chains, tech explosion etc. He elevated it from commentary to hypothesis.
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dirtyid
4y ago
Basically, YMTC is on unverified list with presumption of denial. But as we saw with Huawei, many parties will try to lawyer / lobby way into exemptions, so the only sure fire way is also export controls that prevents YMTC from making
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dirtyid
4y ago
Long history with great ups and downs, institutions enduring doesn't equate to current relevance / power. Papal state is gone, so is the papal military and navy... back when Papacy had ACTUAL divisions. Modern papacy can't e
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4y ago
YMTC unable to guarantee delivery of chips medium/long term due to new US sanctions. Like how most countries didn't ditch Huawei until sanctions made future delivery impossible. TLDR is companies won't ditch increasingly high
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dirtyid
4y ago
>plan that requires at this point quadrillions of individuals to be dedicated to multiple 100,000 year plans I viewed it as more like developed nations funding WHO to erdicate outbreaks in developing back waters. Dedicating fraction of a
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4y ago
If we're going by chaos theory handwaving, i.e. IIRC, CIA funnelled cash via Vatican 40 years after Stalin's death, then still around zero, but on par with the power of a flapping butterfly. Vatican as an institution has instrume
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4y ago
How many divisions has the Pope? etc etc
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4y ago
Good thing PRC isn't India and has the infra and institutions to move up value chain, which it has consistently over the past decade, from capturing 8$ in iphone assembing fees to 25%/~100$ by iPhoneX to YMTC and other suppliers c
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dirtyid
4y ago
> not like other manufacturing And PRC is not like any other country. At the end of the day semi is just a niche industry iterated by combined talent from US/TW/SKR/JP/NE (maybe DE). PRC now produce more STEM talent t
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4y ago
>it’s an interesting move. It was an US unilateral move after CHIPS4 couldn't agree on export controls that basically killed 1/3 of their semi revenue, i.e. it seems more like US desperation after being unable to get East Asian
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dirtyid
4y ago
>one major factor is that the one child policy was very successful and lead to a drastic hollowing out of their younger workforce and consumer base IMO just the opposite. One child policy was also "very successful" in concentra
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dirtyid
4y ago
>literal requirements. I'm pretty sure I've seen urban planning software that use building codes / parametric parameters to to do this. But architecture / construction has poor history of adopting leading edge tech (c
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dirtyid
4y ago
The nightmode streetview is very cool.
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dirtyid
4y ago
US likely didn't have the leverage. US couldn't convince other CHIP4 partners (TW/SKR/JP) to seppuku their semi industry by losing ~1/3 of revenue from cutting off PRC, especially with coming semi crash. Ergo US had
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4y ago
Wonder what US strategist are thinking. After recent moves to hobble PRC semi industry who will find less and less access to TW semi, destroying TSMC disproportionately benefits PRC by setting/destroying back US high tech and cost tril
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4y ago
>Prosecutors charged him with leading a conspiracy that washed at least $30 million, a number backed by direct evidence. The full amount was likely in the hundreds of millions, according to law enforcement documents and interviews. ... &
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