The 2000s called and want you back.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

Solar panels are very profitable, even before with fixed feed-in tariffs, but especially now in Europe and elsewhere with high energy costs, where utilities sign long-term contracts with IPPs at very attractive rates. Renewable energy producers in general, but specifically solar producers are killing it. The only issue is financing the upfront cost but that is a gap easily filled with market-creating legislation such as this.

The original web novel was started back in 2002, with a prototype manga released in 2001 by who is widely considered to be Reki, the author of SAO, under another name. It's been a full 2 decades since SAO was imagined.

It remarkable how forward looking his ideas for VR were.

Not a problem for the average slashdotter. They can't even talk properly to their mom.

Chinese companies don't work like that. They have most of the heavy lifting done by the teams in China working crazy hours which equates to cheap plentiful labour. The result is often poor but they make up for it by sheer amount effort. They have very small operations in the target market.

For an etail outfit, that warehouse is going to be fully automated by systems developed and maintained from China, by Chinese engineers. All of the user data may be kept in the US or EU, but the engineers working on them will be based in China or the first generation Chinese immigrants that they hire, mainly on the cheap, in the US or EU. They'll have local teams handling marketing and customer support, but all reporting as directly back to China while presenting themselves with a local front.

That's how China-based (not just China-owned) companies work and how they compete. Everything is fake it till you make it.

>Oh, I can see the non-technical types then pointing at the AI and saying "Well, show us what's in that!" But that will be even worse. They will just get reams and reams of neuron weights and nothing of actual substance.

The way this will develop would be that claimants and their lawyers would then ask for the training data set, together with everything else that makes up the model. Explainability (and the lack thereof) isn't a way out of legal requirements, if anything, it makes the compliance more costly.

It's not that they don't believe it, but rather that they believe their authoritarian system can weather the blowback from it.

The CCP isn't dumb, but their core philosophy is that "might is right".

So is China. The difference is in China in additional to being corrupt with local businesses, politicians want to get promoted by delivering 'results' often inflated to impress the top brass. Whereas in America while corrupt politicians also funnel money into their campaigns, they don't have so much pressure to deliver results - the public is much more forgiving than an hierarchical organisation like the CCP.

There is a political element to this -

>pro-democracy campaigners are exposing online sensitive personal data of government officials and citizens

The subtext being that government officials want to hide behind anonymity. Government officials (and those funding or instructing them from the Liaison Office with edicts direct from Beijing) shouldn't be afforded anonymity.

Russian oil and gas used in Europe still counts as emissions. How we actually sidestep this is by outsourcing manufacturing to countries like China. This allows us to cut emissions within our borders but not actually shrinking our carbon footprint.

Not disputing that the US has made a lot of progress in shale production and was projected to reach sufficiency. But to use 2020 as the baseline to compare against is blatant distortion, probably worse than what the GP is accusing the article of.

Oh right, let's forget about the COVID lockdowns in 2020 and the crash in demand for fossil fuel that led to this 'independence'.

>This sort of dishonesty is NEVER accidental.

Let's be charitable and call this satire. I couldn't imagine seeing this much hypocrisy and projection on the Internet, no way.

That's a strawman and intentionally misconstruing my position. Free speech is about freedom from (government) persecution when saying things that offend the powerful. It is a negative freedom.

No. His fans should be complaining to Joe Rogan, who profits from spreading harmful misinformation, and Spotify, who are enabling it.

Free speech is not about being able to say what others disagree with. Free speech is about not having to worry about government persecution about political speech and personal opinions. It's not about forcing private companies to allow all types of speech, and it's not about companies hiding behind the banner of free speech and enabling people profiting off of harmful actions.

You're missing the OP's point, which is that all of these unifying theories are just bodges/hacks to make the maths work.

They probably had a tip of his new name and occupation, hence the investigation focused on those businesses. The street view image was probably a very small part of it, and they likely had warrants to see the original photos before the blur.