The Chinese government warned the quants that they're dangerously close to being parasites and that they better start to produce stuff. One of the quants got really lucky when they gave back by hiring what turned out to be the DeepSeek guys.

at my workplace - IBM with OS2, MS with whatever version of Windows first used VGA resolutions (or maybe it was extended file naming). The IBM rep talked TCO stats, the MS rep played a colourful animated cartoon. Management actually applauded the hi-res MS pitch. Unix guys sat at the back in stony silence knowing that we were doomed regardless of whether IBM or MS won the contract.

I watched one of those robot-dog-with-wheels-for-feet videos and a guy was riding one sitting on it like a horse. Chinese guy though, so he probably weighed half as much as a burger fed western guy.

• Register domain name
• Rent cheap VPS
• Serve some targeted ads - pet food, worming, cat toys etc
• User does data entry
• Profit

China has mandatory employer contributions for employee:

• Pension
• Medical insurance
• Work related injury
• Maternity
• Unemployment

There's also another mandatory employer contribution that doesn't have a direct analogue in the west - basically a contribution toward an employee's home loan.

because it was too expensive to manufacture and the tech had been leapfrogged by the Chinese brands. VW recently licensed BYD's EV powertrain and I'm guessing that'll be the one used to compete in Europe against [checks notes] BYD.

Contestants bid for an unopened shipping container fresh off the boat from China. Winners are on the hook for the bid price + the taxes on whatever is inside.

.cpp??? That sounds suspiciously like CCP!!!!

BAN ALL .CPP FILES

Probably a western investment company trying to short AI stocks.

Oh....

I don't think you're under any legal obligation to help law enforcement. For instance, the householder can say, "I don't talk to police without my lawyer. Better get a warrant too". Not allowed to obstruct, but that's different.

Essentially, what he's proposing is a non-proliferation treaty where only China and the US are allowed AI. Essentially, they'll become the only two sellers of remotely controlled machines driven by an ai located in China or the US. They'll take the majority of the profits flowing from the next industrial revolution.

I'm not sure China would agree as they're still steeped in Marxism and anti-imperialism. That said, money talks.

Plus, countries like Russia will submit to no-one regardless of the pain. Though they don't have the data sources currently needed to feed the ai, so maybe they won't be a player outside of their own country.

Exactly. It's not a production problem, it's a distribution problem.

China is also all-in on the industry version of the IoT. That's all about remote control of industrial plant and equipment, sensors, actuators, robotics etc. To scale that they need tons of cheap silicon, but not necessarily high density silicon.

It's also why their GPS-equivalent has 10cm2 resolution in civilian mode plus capacity for high density data packet transmissions - ideal for control of roaming robotic equipment.

yep, the CPC initials are derived from the traditional format of "Communist Party" + [country name]. It's kind of similar to the naming scheme used to identify branch offices.

So, "Communist Party, China branch