Comment Legit defence against distillation attack (Score 1) 47
When you distil someone else's model, don't complain when they add some measures against you.
It's like robbers complaining about someone installing stronger door locks.
Comment How about nuclear? And why look at percentage? (Score 1) 144
Does it mean that the total power consumption actually increased, or is it nearly the same while nuclear decreased?
Global warming only cares about the absolute amount of fossil fuels. It does not care about the percentage.
Comment Common Sense? (Score 1) 175
If you rely on the drug alone without lifestyle changes, you lose the benefits when you get off the drug.
Comment Mod this up! (Score 1) 91
Canada is making a choice for the less of 2 evils. It should really diversify WAY beyond both the USA and China.
Comment Predictable (Score 1) 91
In a sense that trade will be predictably weaponized. Better than Trump's unpredictability, but I doubt the end result would be much better.
Comment Re: Crappy report. (Score 0) 39
Why are you anonymous coward bringing up "Americans" whenever someone talks about your country? Wumao distraction tactic and Whataboutism, I get it.
Comment 5000 years? (Score 0) 39
"China" as we know it is only about 80 years old. What you are referring to in those 4,920 years? Empires with their own country names, flags, currencies, some even different official languages. They just happened to occupy the same area.
Comment If Europe does not close the same loophole (Score 1) 83
They'll just be indirectly funding Russia's future Europe invasion.
Comment So (Score 1) 49
If 19.9% is retained by ByteDance and 30.1% is retained by "affiliates of existing investors", what's in the deal that resolves the national security concerns? In my opinion this deal is not working.
Comment Conclusion? (Score 1) 54
The tech was either transferred or leaked.
Comment Therefore (Score 1) 74
These people have much to lose and will carefully toe our line on these serious topics.
Comment Re:Rest of world should also target self-reliance (Score 1) 30
Addressing Climate change and being protectionist are not antagonistic to each other.
What's best? Doing both.
Comment Rest of world should also target self-reliance (Score 2) 30
- Rare earth elements
- Other minerals should be strategic assets too
- Clean tech - solar panels and battery tech
- Patent rules that favour local businesses
- Seafood - stop getting cheap frozen seafood harvested by China's fleet - who aims to flood the market with unsustainable seafood rather than to feed their own people
Comment and replace it with....Natural Gas?? (Score 1) 132
What difference does it make to global warming? Are they counting leaked methane?
Comment "90%" (Score 1) 38
Long term, it is what needs to change.
