You have to tax or ban products that use difficult-to-recycle packaging. Waste has a negative value and negative externality. You can't let the free market fix the problem.

Some countries have a $2 of CRV equivalent. That's enough for people to put in the effort to recycle. Alternatively, you can require manufacturers to buy back the waste.

Directly subsidizing building of factories that make highly recyclable or compostable packaging is another option.

Durable goods don't really need recycling rules. We don't use enough for it to matter. Only large objects like cars and buildings need special waste handling.

Touching your passenger has all sorts of potential legal risks, even if most drivers don't realize it.

Self-driving taxis can just build a vibration function into the passenger seats. Once the passenger takes more than 5 minutes to leave, they should flag the ride for a human to check what's going on through the cameras.

An LLM is highly accurate if you provide the relevant text directly in its context. So if you want a better search, you can do RAG, which is use the LLM to generate search terms, pull the relevant text from a database, then use the LLM again to massage the result.

You do realize it doesn't matter whether you like the ideology or not right? Only what the leadership in China thinks matters.

Unfortunately for them, the few examples of Communist dictatorships they can reference all failed, so as far as I can tell, they've gone back to what worked for the previous 2000 years.

That's for the people. For the government, it's about acting with moral virtue and taking care of the masses (so they're convinced to not revolt). You can contrast it with the main alternative government philosophy of the time, which is legalism (basically ruling with strict laws and crushing rebellions with force).

Except it's not a huge threat. If you look at historical Chinese peasant rebellions and coups, all of them stem from economic failure. Those that are purely ideologically motivated do not succeed.

Even the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, unlike what you'd learn from Western news media, is not primarily ideologically motivated. The leaders were calling for democracy, but they also had 18% inflation and 100 million people who had government jobs which didn't get raises to adjust for inflation. In fact if the protest succeeded, they might have ended up more socialist rather than capitalist.

No, hurting the US economy is antithetical to his goals. Remember that the main threat to his position is an internal uprising or coup, not the US fighting or winning a war against them. The more stable the international economy, the more stable the domestic one, and the less reason people have to rise up against him.

If you read up on Confucian government philosophy, it's very obvious what he wants is stability above all else.

How do you expect a tiny handful of billionaires to pay trillions? Do you understand a trillion is 1000 billion?

By the way, billionaires do not actually have billions in cash. They have billions of dollars worth of stocks at their current market valuation. But if they really tried to turn all their shares into dollars, the market would collapse, the valuation would fall, and they would not have billions worth of stocks.

The point is that there's no technology gap. If you want to make back trillions of dollars of investment on your data centers, you can't have a competitor that's almost as good, 40% cheaper and open source.

There are only 6 billion internet-connected people in the world. They invested $2.5 trillion. Just to make the investment back, they need everyone to pay roughly $400 each. By the way, in many parts of the world, $400 is twice their annual income.

Landing on the Moon is far easier than landing on Earth. You don't have the ocean rolling your landing platform, no wind to blow your booster over, and the gravity is 1/6th as strong.

20-40 turbines were destroyed from an unprecedented microburst event, out of more than 70,000 utility-scale wind turbines operating nationally. Fewer than 0.01% are lost to extreme weather each year.

You mean a Tesla Megapack? The new one is 5 MWH. If you do the math, it's $150 million for the batteries. No idea what the weight is or why that even matters. You're not supposed to move it around after installation.

So $150 million a lot right? Well, the cheapest nuclear plants built in China is that price for 50 MW. Unless you want Chinese construction firms and more importantly the Chinese state regulators in charge of your project, you're going to pay a lot more than what they pay. The most recently built US nuclear reactors are units 3 and 4 at Vogtle, with a construction cost of $16.5 million per MW, or $824 million for 50 MW.

That's almost doubling the cost of your $1 billion data center by the way.

Same number as before. You just use the ones in Arizona where the sun is shining. And just FYI, we invented this concept called a power grid, so power production and consumption don't have to be in the same location. It's pretty new so you might not have heard of it.

If you're close sourced and expect to make back trillions of investment in AI infrastructure by charging people usage fees, they're going to use your competitor's free and unencumbered product instead.

Yeah, a fishing pole with a magnet would be a better option at that point. The LEOs can stand behind tall shields or around the corner.

This year is El Nino, which actually generates excessive rainfall in California. Global warming makes the planet wetter on average.

We'll be getting a preview of that with the Strait of Hormuz shut down. That's only a 20% reduction.

How does that help? They'll end up wetting or scratching your face instead.