No. It can't be properly expressive without understanding the story that it's reading. Punctuation is just not enough, it doesn't capture many different shades of meaning. E.g., an ironic statement should be read in a different tone than a factual statement, even with exactly the same punctuation. (That's one example out of MANY. Consider, e.g., the scene in "Alice in Wonderland" where she's talking about jumping off the top of the house.)

What was the title of my post? Perspective, that's all, picture that mount of billions in a different way. I also said it was 1 year of revenue but go off chief.

What is my conclusion? That there's an AI bubble?

It isn't really new information that the largest corporations in China are either directly involved with the Chinese government or implicitly involved with the Chinese government and if you are intertwined with the Chinese government then you are with their military, this separation that we are used to in the US simply doesn't and has never existed over there.

This is how it has always been and it's by design, it's a Loki's wager of private/public systems. This is feeling even more performative and desperate from the current admin who really have no concept of how to actually deal with China which is why Xi has been running roughshod over them and Xi isn't some master strategist either so it's all relative, he's just making obvious moves and playing off the fact this admin is too chickenshit to stand up to the big countries out there.

Thus we have 10% of our Navy off the coast of Venezuela instead of Taiwan because what we really need to fight China is a regionwide destabilizing civil war a couple thousand miles from our own shores.

All that can be true but it can still be a bubble and it can still be a stupid amount of money. This is also about 3x the entire military budget of Russia ($66B)

And if this is so crucial to the military then I would hope we could spare some of that free flowing money to Ukraine to you know, do the drone warfare they seem to have become experts at (at a much lower cost than all this) and provide us valuable field research and testing while also putting pressure of the geopolitical antagonists we are worried about having all this for the future.

I dunno, seems a little "sus" to me, as the kids say.

Well it's a problem or the US too. The last bastion of American industry is heavy equipment including construction and agricultural machines. Interestingly this is also a prime industry for Europe too. A lot of stuff is still made locally. But China is now making their own versions and just beginning to exporting them. And it's a double whammy. They can make them cheaper, but choose to just barely undercut western equivalent products (say by 20%), making a huge profit.

The Trump administration seems to think so. Increased government regulation through tariffs will fix it, along with bigger government. Ironic how the GOP has done a complete 180 over the years isn't it.

Just to realize how gobsmackingly stupid that amount of money for all the flack and conspiracies that US military industrial complex this is more money that the top 4 "MiC" classic military contractors earned in revenue for 2024. But bubbles aren't real right?

Lockheed: $66B
Northrop: $41B
Raytheon: $26B
Boeing: $66B

Forget $207 Billion, they should invest in me instead because I would keep losing money through 2030 even if you only gave me $1 billion!

To be fair, it depends on the altitude of the space station. If the ISS was kept at an altitude of 4000 km then the vessel making a quick trip would be more likely to be struck because most of Earth's orbital debris is found below an altitude of 2,000 km. However, the ISS is kept at 400 km and it only becomes more risky up to that altitude.

So, while you are incidentally correct, it is not a mere matter of logical thinking that you present it to be.

Well, I *do* want an "AI PC", but not anything currently on the market. I want one that will understand books in HTML format and read them to me in a reasonably expressive tone. I'd also like it to be able to pause and then answer questions about what was going on earlier if I missed a point.
OTOH, I'd also want it to be strictly segregated from most of what I do.

Except that in the case of Canada, there was a great deal of trade in both directions, in terms of commodities and also finished goods. It was a mutually beneficial trade arrangement too. It promoted the US' interests without ham-fisted authoritarian threats. This sort of trade made the US the powerhouse it was. In other words this was a sharp shift in US government attitude from one of friendship to one of an adversary (which is really how all relationships and business deals have ever been done in Trump's life). Sadly there's no going back. The damage is done and the US will never ever recover the good will and trade benefits it once had with its closest allies and trading partners, no matter what a future Democrat does to try to undo the damage, now that Trump's attitude has become the attitude of the GOP.

With China, though, there was no abrupt shift. China's goals have always been clear. The only thing they want from the west in terms of trade is raw commodities and foreign currencies. Whereas the west demands cheap goods, full stop. So China's domination of European industry and economies has been ongoing for years, and it's benefited by European policy and attitudes. China is happy to build high quality items and sell them for a premium, but there's no very little demand from the west. If there was demand, we wouldn't have seen local manufacturing capability disappear in the first place. Tariffs are not going to change these fact.

You're not wrong but there are other passive options that could be more structurally robust like using several optical fibers to create a composite image. You could also use optical elements to radically compress and magnify a larger area. Both of these options minimizes the size of the area needed to transmit the light from outside to inside the capsule using components that require no resources to operate and are more mechanically robust.

I don't know if port windows a generally problematic in space capsule design but there are other options than just having a big hole that are equally reliable. I can only figure that it's not considered to not be a major design challenge but then again, here we are.

That's the way the internet works on land these days, over any distance. Your multiple carriers all turn out to depend on the same infrastructure.

At this point I'd say there are just as many tweaks and modifiers for 11 today, it has been out awhile. If you want 11 to pretty much act like 10 you can do that if you've got that same level of Windows know how. StartAllBack, Winaero Tweaker, Rectify11, O+O Shutup. For as long as Windows has been around there has been large communities who make it do what they want.

That said people are flocking to alternatives but more and more that alternative is Apple.