Depending on what you define as a small car, this is absolutely not true. There are well over 1 million Toyota Corolla class cars sold annually in the US. Not a single one of these cars is made by an American company. They are mostly Japanese and Korean.

Why does this happen? Executive bonuses. That's why. Compact cars have 5-8% gross margins, but bigger cars like SUVs and trucks have far greater gross margins in the 15-25% range. American companies have myopia. They want to maximize profits now and don't care about or don't understand future profits. They completely believe that the innovator's dilemma is fake news. Yet, Japanese and Korean companies have 40-45% of the US SUV market, and some of this is due to follow-on sales from those 1 million compact cars sold every year.

The biggest problem in AI architecture is data movement. That's why the GPU memory subsystem takes so much chip area, to achieve huge data bandwidth. That's also why GPUs do well in training and are able to handle evolving AI models better than ASICs.

Good points, but to be fair, ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones because it is safe to use it to do so.

Couldn't potential RAM manufacturers lock in long-term contracts, sort of like oil futures? That would be a win-win for phone companies and RAM makers. Even if the big RAM makers try to bust the future market with price dumps, the phone companies would still win due to market predictability, which is a huge thing.

No, the big difference between the Chinese car companies and Tesla, etc. is that there was a deliberate national policy intended to dump below-market priced vehicles in foreign countries. If China simply wanted to foster economic or technological development within China or to advantage a subset of Chinese companies to the detriment of other Chinese companies, no one outside of China would care. The problem is entirely that of a Chinese strategy to promote their companies at the intended detriment of non-Chinese companies.

This proposal doesn't look like a tax but rather like seizure via eminent domain. Taking 50% of someone's property is very close to seizing the property outright. If this were allowed, then the government could seize half of someone's real property without any compensation. I imagine that such a move would be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court.

Perhaps a tax against "income" from funds derived from borrowing against unrealized gains is a better and more fair alternative. It's real money derived from stock holdings, sort of like another form of dividends.

The super big problem with the proposed tax isn't the fairness question. The big problem is that it's a one-time windfall that might trigger recurring spending proposals. Locking in recurring spending based on one-time income is a super stupid financial decision.

definition of "socialism", which is: worker ownership of the means of production

Bzz, false. The dictionary definition of the term is:

a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies

See? No "worker ownership" — government ownership. Schools don't need to be owned by the teachers for public education to be socialist, they need to be owned by the government. And they are!

Same goes for retirement financing, and medicine for retires — with millions clamoring to expand it ("Medicare for all!!") — what GP enumerated. The "single-payer healthcare" — another euphemism — would be exactly that too.

Workers can own shares of their employers — indeed, Anthrophic employees do (and anticipate to profit handsomely). That's not socialism at all — not by the dictionary definition.

I blame the libertarians for making the definitions unclear

I blame you for pulling the definition from under your tail — and the morons upvoting you.

"anything the government does that benefits the people instead of corporations."

That's spelled "KKKorporation$". Make a note of it. Benefits the people, eh? The per-pupil spending nationwide went up (inflation-adjusted) from $9083 in 1989 to $13790 last year. And what did this expense buy us — the barely literate population unable to even define such terms as "socialism" correctly...

And they've adopted the word "democratic socialism"

The term (not "word"!!!) was adopted by "former" Communists, who've proudly elected a Senator some Congresswomen and, most recently, New York mayor. Who immediately proceeded to establish a government-owned supermarket.

some wondering if they were being picked on by President Trump

Seriously? "Some wondering" — and it is on front page... What a contrast to Trump's supporters accusations, his electoral win was stolen in 2020 — no, any time someone mentioned those, a bunch people would jump up to add: "unproven" and "without evidence".

I think the framing uses "work" (not described what that might be) as a proxy for some complex task. The article also mentions talking to his daughter and communicating remotely with the UCD researchers. Work is mentioned not to impute any inherent value to that work but to imply that the computer system can accomplish non-trivial, complex, useful tasks.

Some people derive fulfillment or other social or emotional benefits from their work, but many do not, instead deriving life-sustaining money from work.

There is essentially no agreement of significance. When the ships start sailing, then we can say some negotiating progress has been made. Even then, the nuclear issue and the sanctioned Iranian assets and compensation issues, which are the real issues, are still unlikely to be quickly settled. You can easily see how this will play out as both the Americans and Iranians are touting their own negotiating successes. Iran cannot seem weak in accepting all American demands without getting something in return, and Trump won't accept anything less than complete Iranian surrender across all issues. There may be a few electronic signatures on a pre-settlement agreement of something fuzzy, but all the key points of contention remain as before.

It's interesting that standardized tests recognize the importance of reading comprehension. However, due to logistical constraints, the reading passages in those tests run only a few paragraphs. Not surprisingly, we produce workers that are geared to reading short passages. Online resources, social media, texting, etc. further this propensity toward short-form reading. Yet, there are many professions that require long-form reading. Lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc. reading legal cases and contracts, research and project reports, etc. Long-form reading comprehension is not an instinctive ability but rather a skill that must be trained. However, our educational system not only structurally avoids this type of training, it has pivoted to allowing good grades and success while avoiding long-form reading. It used to be that reading textbooks helped in classes. Now, even reading assigned novels in literature classes is not needed because AI is a super-charged Cliff Notes that requires even less reading than Cliff Notes.

I'm not sure MAGA folks think that Trump is trustworthy, maybe, maybe not. What they think is that their lives are not what they expected. Income equality has hit them hard. They're frustrated. Trump comes along and tells them that it's not their fault. It's the fault of Democrats, Biden, immigrants, Africans, Latin Americans, Chinese, blue states, etc. The one thing MAGA folk have despite income equality is a sea of votes. A populist comes along and sweeps away all their problems by blaming their social enemies. The blame was never really reasonable, but reason is not needed because the blame is felt viscerally. This is why Trump without fear of retribution can murder someone in Times Square, or say that he loves inflation, or unilaterally start a new war after blaming Biden for starting wars, etc. The social blame is what endures. Outsiders might view that blame as hate, but MAGA sees it as liberation.

AKA: mass layoffs.

AKA: people doing stuff, that does not need doing, having to find something else to do.