I heard Linus of Linus Tech Tips talking about being required to buy 3 Chromebooks for his 3 kids. He lives in Canada.

On the other hand, they decided no more wood burning stoves around Bejing, and overnight they all went away.

Courts so have a lot of power in China, and rulings are generally not interfered with by the government unless there is a very specific reason to. An example I've been following is copyright, specifically the GPL. A court ruled that it was an enforceable contract, and more than one company had to scramble to come into compliance. Many seem to have taken the opportunity to leverage open source by publishing their own code, with some success stories.

I have not personally tried it, but I hear that if you just decline the EULA on LG TVs they work pretty well as dumb TVs. When it comes time to replace my Panasonic I'll have to do some research. Current one has some smart features but is not connected to the network, and behaves like a dumb TV.

I'm not saying it's acceptable or anything, but most countries are at least a bit like that. Look at how we treat travellers, or participate in the Israeli genocide.

What I'm saying is that it's not good just complaining about all the bad stuff China does, we can only win by proving ourselves and our ideology to be better. Also hoping that the Chinese people will wake up and overthrow their oppressors isn't going to work either. Not accusing you of either, just explaining the point I was making.

I have used it once. The main issue is that some events only allow you to apply if you have an address in Japan, a common issue with things like loyalty cards too. Fortunately I can get around that, but most people can't.

Hereâ(TM)s the problem with that scenario: court rulings donâ(TM)t mean much in a state ruled by one party. China has plenty of progressive looking laws that donâ(TM)t get enforced if it is inconvenient to the party. There are emission standards for trucks and cars that should help with their pollution problems, but there are no enforcement mechanisms and officials have no interest in creating any if it would interfere with their economic targets or their private interests.

China is a country of strict rules and lax enforcement, which suits authoritarian rulers very well. It means laws are flouted routinely by virtually everyone, which gives the party leverage. Displease the party, and they have plenty of material to punish you, under color of enforcing laws. It sounds so benign, at least theyâ(TM)re enforcing the law part of the time, right? Wrong. Laws selectively enforced donâ(TM)t serve any public purpose; theyâ(TM)re just instruments of personal power.

Americans often donâ(TM)t seem to understand the difference between rule of law and rule *by* law. Itâ(TM)s ironic because the American Revolution and constitution were historically important in establishing the practicality of rule of law, in which political leaders were not only expected to obey the laws themselves, but had a duty to enforce the law impartially regardless of their personal opinions or interests.

Rule *by* law isnâ(TM)t a Chinese innovation, it was the operating principle for every government before 1789. A government that rules *by* law is only as good as the men wielding power, and since power corrupts, itâ(TM)s never very good for long.

I *was* in the high 700s, I had a 790. I got there by just getting one card and keeping it paid off.

Then I got some more loans and paid them off and now my score is *lower*

You keep telling me things about how you think it work which are obviously incorrect and then you want to tell me more things and expect me to believe them. That's literally insane.

AMD has superior power management in their chip, in terms of being able to shut down functional units when not in use, so now that they are on the same or superior process technology they have an efficiency edge over Intel. Intel was only ahead of AMD in mobile because they had superior process tech. That is now over and there are no signs it's coming back (Intel having failed at getting acceptable yields with two process shrinks in a row now) so AMD has the clear edge for the time being.

What official statements, as if those were relevant? What evidence?

All of the low-hanging fruit has been picked there, pun intended. Crops which are easy to machine cultivate are already produced with machine cultivation.

The first thing can't happen or they would have done it already, and the second thing is the opposite of their mission.

Just ship with all the 32 bit libraries already, so we can stop needing multiarch for Steam.

At this point Masayoshi seems to be the anti-Midas. Everything he touches turns to shit. Every time he invests in something, it's a warning to get out of it while you can.

Now excuse me, I'm off to sell my AI investments.

Indeed, most oversubscribed events are by lottery in Japan. You sign up, and if you are lucky you get the opportunity to buy a ticket. The prices are flat, there is no demand pricing or any of that bullshit.

A lot of kids already have a Chromebook for school though. If they want to play Roblox their parents can spend an extra hundred or two on a premium model. It's going to be hard for Apple to break into that.

They published a paper, you can reproduce their results yourself if you want. Probably on a smaller scale if you aren't willing to able to throw that kind of money at it, but it's not really clear what more they could do to prove their claim. Except for not being Chinese, of course.