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Comment Re:USA shooting EU in foot (Score 4, Interesting) 55

What actually happened is embodiment of the meme: "America designs, China builds, EU regulates".

Here EU's regulatory supremacy made bureaucrats at all levels believe that it's the bureaucrats within every organization that matter, not the people being managed by bureaucracy that actually produce things. So when confiscating Nexperia... they confiscated the HQ. The place with the company bureaucracy.

Chinese took one look at this idiotic confiscation of bureaucracy that never touched any productive parts of the company, did a "are you really this fucking retarded" double take, concluded that yes, European bureaucratized leadership is in fact fucking retarded, and simply ordered the production facilities in PRC to... stop taking instructions from HQ.

Because bureaucracy is utterly worthless without someone to actually do things they order. It's not a producer of anything. It's a necessary evil. A symbiote at best, and a parasite at worst. Which can in fact be simply cut out and replaced rapidly, as long as productive parts of the company remain, because there's plenty of comparable symbiotic systems out there. But there are very few if any producers.

Comment Re:I have an idea... (Score 1) 55

We still make them for vintage/hobbyist things.

They're awful. You need to actually manually tune them every time you start, and change the setting as engine warms up to ensure approximately correct mix is fed to the engine and so it can generate power appropriately. Ever heard of a "choke"? As someone who had a car with manual choke, let me tell you about amazing adventures of starting it in the winter.

And by amazing adventures, I mean utter shit show.

Those engines are really easy to make. No one but classic collectors want them, because they're horrible from driver's perspective. You want an engine with proper ECM, that just makes it run for you, instead of having to manually adjust choke, being really careful with throttle depending on the current oil temperature, and not having a clue what's going on with the engine until it blows up.

Comment Re:AI = subscription (Score 0) 16

This is cool and all, but cellular networks have always been been B2B subscriptions. This isn't "mobile phone" Nokia, this is cellular infrastructure Nokia. Former Nokia Networks unit of Nokia.

It sells to telcos. With massive support contracts, because this sort of hardware needs constant support. There's no other way to get this hardware. So in this regard, this would change nothing. You're describing a status quo.

Comment What kind of AI integration? (Score 0) 16

The only thing I can think of with AI integration into cellular is better adaptation mechanism for things like avoiding congested ranges faster, or maybe adapting better to uncommon situations like large public gatherings and general load balancing.

Does nvidia even make anything suitable for that sort of work though? Other than chips for potentially training algorithms for this sort of a thing? Or are they just thinking of moving from algorithmic to inference?

Comment Answers to questions in OP: (Score 1) 189

>Who defines "expertise"?

Relevant agency within CCP, local or national branch, on case by case basis.

>What happens to independent creators who challenge official narratives but lack formal credentials?

Typical solution for undesired speech until now has been permanent ban from all social media. In more extreme cases, vanishing and likely involuntary organ donation.

>And how far can regulation go before it suppresses free thought?

There is no freedom of speech in PRC. It's a communist nation. Only sanctioned speech is allowed. If you attempt non-sanctioned speech, Party has all of the state's apparatus at its disposal to do whatever it sees as necessary.

And it is indeed "Party", and not "state", because in PRC state is actually a rather irrelevant bureaucratic structure. It doesn't even have the most basic thing a state needs to be considered sovereign, namely a military of its own to ensure soveregnty. The Party on the other hand is sovereign, and has its own military (People's Liberation Army).

Comment Re:Good idea. (Score 1) 189

That moment when you know nothing about the world, and only know how project your pet issues on it.

Hint: Official mainline medicine in China is TCM. Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Science based medicine, known as Western medicine in PRC, the one you're referring to with vaccines is a side show for urban elites. There's a credentialed TCM clinic in every small town. Not so much for Western medicine.

These are the people who are the reason why there are so many extinct species in Africa now. Because things like rhino's horn powder, when properly prepared obviously cures a lot of things. In TCM.

That's who's going to be talking about medicine on PRC's social media now.

Comment Re:An Experiment (Score 2) 139

White bleeds... it spreads out in a cone shape, like a flashlight. It will always look bigger than it is. If you used black, then it would not do this; however, it would be shrunk by the surrounding white. This is why white is bigger than black all other things being equal.

When you have less extreme situations; which is nearly all the time, the mixing makes it harder to detect. So if you didn't have it perfect in the extreme case, you won't have the same detectable amount of error in all the lesser combinations.

What surprises me is how few people think about this; back when 4k was new; so 8k will become the new thing as soon as the economics allows it--- because people don't think and a bigger number is better marketing unless people are mentally stimulated enough. It wasn't a huge trig problem to figure out the size of a pixel 3 meters away and realize how useless 4k was for many seating arrangements.

Comment Re:If you want the answer, don't ask people (Score 1) 176

We're actually observing a very complex multi-factoral pattern. For example, it's true that in recent past, was was poor who were having more children than rich. This is no longer true in most of them, as situation has flipped.

In many Western countries this pattern flipped in last half a decade or so. Rich are now having more children than poor. It gets even more interesting when you consider US and African American culture, its current obsession with single motherhood and having lots of kids by many different men so you can extract maximum child support and tax payer support.

All while black fertility in US also flipped this year to being below white fertility this year. There has been a small correction to the numbers since, suggesting that it's actually just a little bit higher than originally stated and may be the same as white fertility. But black trend is rapidly downwards, whereas white is only slowly downwards. I.e. if it's not this year that whites are having more children than blacks per capita, it will be next year.

If I were to meme on it, "Planned Parenthood has finally succeeded in doing what it was created to do".

But that's the reality of multi-factoral issues. We don't actually know why it is as it is. We can name some factors that played some role in changes we're seeing. But we have no clue how much relevance each factor has. But we can in fact observe how many babies are born to each group. And we know that everyone is having too few of them in our cultures to ensure that those cultures will continue into the long term future.

Comment Re:PE Vultures are at it again (Score 1) 112

So in your opinion, these are analogous things:

1. High pressure juicer aimed at rich people seeking status.
2. Revolutionary tool that already dramatically changed everything from all of high learning institutions to the way office work is done.

May I suggest that you're at least one if not multiple of the following:

1. Stupid.
2. Gullible.
3. Extremely emotionally invested to the point of becoming both 1 and 2.

Comment Re:PE Vultures are at it again (Score 1) 112

To add to my previous statement, as I suspect one omission I left out will be immediately screeched at as a norm considering your posting history:

People like this can be subject matter experts. What they cannot be is actual senior developers who's duty is to lead a developer team. When you hire a junior dev, you're not a teacher. You're an employer and a leader.

And what I'm referring to is that mindsets of those two are completely different. This is in fact the very difference that leads to the meme of "those who can't do, teach".

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