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Comment Re:corrupt (Score 1) 164

How about those people who intentionally buy American and hardly buy anything else? Should they be reimbursed?
Reimbursed on what?
They did not spent anything on tariffs ...

i.e. the costs of the tariffs were shared and prices weren't raised as much as the costs. Sorting this sort of thing out is just about impossible.
No it is not. It is a simple or complex as filing a tax report.
Have an extra line like VAT spent, and call it ... let me think:
"Tariffs: " - oh, that was easy.

Note: if you import something and pay a tariff, you get a tariff bill/invoice ... just like any other ordinary invoce.

Comment Re:"China is evil" (Score 1) 97

They actually have since about 3 or 4 years optical AI inference chips, about 1000 times faster than GPUs and roughly 10,000 times more energy efficient.

Germany has some companies working in the same areas, I know about 2 ... not sure how many in total.
Then Asia is shifting to Gallium Nitrit semi conductors, at least in high voltage/power computing, chargers and similar things.

Comment Re:Renewables are not replacing coal in China (Score 2) 97

Per Capita is the only correct meaning.
Especially if it is the PERSON doing the pollution, like YOU do, and not the country as a total.

YOU as a person has 2 times higher foot print than a typical European, and probably 10 times higher them ME.

YOU as a person has the 4 times higher foot print than an Chinese as a person.

Industry is completely irrelevant as long as you use 10kWh per day yourself, not even counting your car usage.

A typical Chinese uses 2 or 3kWh per day, in his household.

China as a country is just barely above USA in energy consumption or CO2 emissions.

Get a clue.

Comment Re:Fake Issue (Score 1) 360

240 trains is 120 in each direction.

Assuming they operate 18h a day, that would be 6 trains per hour in each direction. One train every 10 minutes. That is not plausible. They would be in to close order to do anything if a train in front has a problem.

If you check the train schedule, it is roughly one train per hour with up to 3 trains in peak times.

Note that many of these trains from Paris might not stop in Lyon, if they follow to Marseilles, Milan, Geneva, from any of the several companies operating on the line (TrenItalia, Lyria, Eurostars).

If they do not stop there, they show not up on the Paris - Lyon schedule. That would make sense, somewhat. I do not remember the regulations how close trains can be sent one after the other.

Comment Re:Good for many reasons (Score 2) 123

You know, there are stories about some countries being "laid back", in Europe.

Occupied during WWII by Germans was for example Greece.

In Germany Greeks had a bad reputation for being lazy.

That was basically anecdotical spread of word of mouth by returning soldiers and officers.

The occupied areas had a curfew till roughly 7:00 in the morning. Around 9:00 the officers visited the coffee shops for breakfast around the central plaza, called Plakka, in Greek.

All the farmers and fishermen were sitting there and playing with their prayer necklaces. So the officers thought: why is that lazy pack not out working? They saw them sitting around, or going to sleep after lunch and only work from 5PM to 8PM.

Well, the Greek ignored the curfew, and went working in the morning at 4AM, so at 8AM they had done half days work already and started to gather on the Plakka.

The attitude that Philippinos or Thai are "super laid back", is just idiotic.

Comment Re:Is this the way the bubble bursts? (Score 1) 23

There is no AI bubble.

We are in the 6th Kondratieff.

No idea the /. crowd insists not to grasp that.

This is the 6th mega revolution in technology for mankind.

And you insist it is a bubble.

How stupid are you?

You have the chance to be part of it, ride it, be the Shockwave rider.

But you neglect to learn the simplest things about this technology.

You are so absurd, it is unbelievable.

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