Jimius @ Jimius @discuss.tchncs.de Posts 0Comments 62Joined 3 days ago
They have these values tied to their identity, their ego. It's hard to change that. Hard to admit you were wrong if being wrong means having to become someone else.
This is also a problem on the left though.
Taiwan will never join in, even if they wanted to. It would stir the pot too much with China.
But Japan's presence also means it hopes to gain aid for when China invades Japan. That may sound silly, but China claims a lot of Japanese islands as theirs. Some of which are very close to Taiwan.
Long long time ago someone wrote on Reddit that the best post-apocalyptic place to stay would just be a small town. With a dentist, a doctor, farmers and builders. Where everybody knows each other. The interdependence of skill and need for cooperation would keep the peace.
And for some strange reason when they park in 2 spots, it's somehow the fault of the parking space being too small for their oversized truck.
Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
https://www.hetregentbijnanooit.nl/site/totaaloverzicht-van-10-meetjaren-het-is-volbracht/
Though it seems I've got my numbers mixed. Must've read 7% before instead of 7 times.
Why? All the reviews I've seen so far are bad. It's barely scoring 5/10.
Asymmetric warfare has been a game changer. It's all about "mass" on target. It's more effective (and possible) to build and fire a 100 rockets that cost a 1000 dollars to make. Than fire a single 100.000 dollar one.
Back in 2002 the US navy found out that just overwhelming defences with a large amount of projectiles could sink an aircraft carrier. In this case a in a wargame which led to some controversy after they covered it up.
None of the countries is going to back down. Because the all know the minute they do, the more shit Trump is going to pull. At this point it's basically extortion.
Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
But it only rains about 7 times a year during normal commuting hours. Most rain the Netherlands falls at night.
English is too engrained. Even if the US falls down to some impoverished dictatorship. English will remain. The cost of switching now is just too great.
Other examples are drone deliveries. Was supposed to be the next big thing, but even more than 15 years later most companies are gone. And mainstream drone delivery is not a thing.
Or take AR/VR glasses. Supposed to revolutionize how we work. But in practice it's mostly used to play games. First Google Glass and then the Apple Vision Pro gathered quite some attention but is already mostly forgotten. The VR space is still thriving, it's just not the paradigm shifting technology the early investors wanted it to be. Facebook's Metaverse cost 36 billion dollars and was a complete flop.
My feeling is that it's an AI bubble right now. The value seems apparent and money is being trucked in. But the uptake is lagging. Humans don't need a piece of software that can write an essay for them. I want an AI that can find this obscure comic I read 10 years ago. That can order tickets for me. Find me the cheapest flights/connections to get from A to B. Summarize a text for me. My feeling is that it's generative features are the least important.
It's very telling that smart speakers are also in a very different place now. They were supposed to make shopping easier. That was how they were going to make money. But people just used them for music, asking for the weather and setting timers.
Wait, isn't this just extortion? Smashing in a shop's windows and telling the owner if he wants to put in new ones he needs to pay the guy with the bat first.
The most fascinating thing I heard a while ago was that like 60% of readers will stop reading a text if they suspect or discover it's written by AI.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
Though looking a bit deeper just now it does seem he has backpedalled his stance after the backlash. So who know what the current state is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyPeWSLbdjw
I think this video is very telling. It looks all very ceremonial, but presidents of other nations are dropped off and have to hoof it along the empty red carpet by themselves surrounded by Chinese soldiers.
The cybertruck doesn't pass a multitude of safety regulations. And is therefore not street legal in the EU. But there are ways around that by directly importing it from the US. The Dodge Ram is not street legal in the EU either but has been making use of an importing loophole to get on the streets.
Tesla stock was enormously overpriced anyway. The product is not that good or worth that much. In the very beginning there was a lot of disrupting the incumbents. For better or worse. Now it's all worse.
2 ways to get superglue out of a lock, acetone or heating it up with a torch and make it melt. So make sure not to put some solder inside the lock before you put the superglue in. The solder would melt and get stuck inside everywhere and be impossible to remove.
China is looking to replace the Pax Americana with the Pax Sinica. But where the US and Europe at least had cultural and ideological overlaps. This doesn't exist between China and Europe.
Just make a list of allies of the US or the EU, it's massive. A list of China's allies... North Korea maybe? China doesn't want equal partnerships, it wants to lead and the others to follow.